Diaries/Owned Forums

Hi There!
Original from Andrew111888
German Version avaiable her: http://www.vbhacks-germany.com/forum...ead.php?t=2357

What this hack does
This hack will allow your members to create 'diaries' (the term my site uses)--forums that are "owned" by a member or group of members. The owner(s) will be able to add and delete other owners to their diary, and modify the title/description of their diary.


How it works
When a user would like to create a diary, they will visit /forumdir/diarycp.php and submit their application (username and description of their desired diary). To prevent abuse, the application will be moved to /forumdir/queue.php. An administrator can either deny or confirm the application. If denied, the application is removed from the diary_queue table. If it is confirmed, it is removed from the diary_queue table and created as a new forum.
For nearly all of this functions I use the build-In Class System to prevent Errors and use the Internal Error-Handling.
The file located at /forumdir/diarycp.php will include the statistics of an owner's diary(s), including post count, thread count, latest post, forum name, as well as the 'Edit Diary', 'Add Owner', and 'Delete Owner' functions.

AdminCP
In this brand New Version you can modify the possible Settings for the New Forums and the Moderator-Settings in the ACP in the vBulletin Options.
Attention: This Settings has only effect for new created Forums and/or Moderators/Owners.

You can Give each Usergroup additional Rights to see the DiaryCP, to create/edit Diaries and to Administrate Diaries.

[Xtrato]

Originally Posted by Hoffi

Take a look in the old Thread. Andrew posted english Screenshots. In the ZIP-File (I just updated!) is a german and an english version.

Originally Posted by ReadOrDie

It's be much better if the screenshots weren't in german. :/

need to read the thread

[Kyderoy]

I just installed this mod and as the admin of the site I am getting this error when I try to create a new diary

Fixed....

[Xtrato]

it still wont let someone make a diary i just get sql errors

[Yorixz]

It seems to work nice, just one (quite big) bug appears:

When I confirm a request on my admin account it adds me as "owner" instead of the user who requested it so the forums are made practically useless.

Hopefully there will be a fix for this very soon (even though there hasn't been an update for about a month)

[cd1986]

Going to be using this mod on my forum soon, but was also find that when confirming a forum, the person who confirmed it would be set as the owner and not the true owner. To remedy this, open up queue.php

FIND

$moddata->set('username', htmlspecialchars_uni($vbulletin->userinfo['username']));

REPLACE WITH

$moddata->set('username', htmlspecialchars_uni($owner));

There was also a bug in the diary_main_modslist template:

REPLACE THE ENTIRE TEMPLATE WITH THE BELOW CODE

<a href="$vboptions[bburl]/member.php?u=$moderator[userid]">$moderator[username]</a>,

[board.trash]

Originally Posted by cd1986

Going to be using this mod on my forum soon, but was also find that when confirming a forum, the person who confirmed it would be set as the owner and not the true owner. To remedy this, open up queue.php

FIND

$moddata->set('username', htmlspecialchars_uni($vbulletin->userinfo['username']));

REPLACE WITH

$moddata->set('username', htmlspecialchars_uni($owner));

There was also a bug in the diary_main_modslist template:

REPLACE THE ENTIRE TEMPLATE WITH THE BELOW CODE

<a href="$vboptions[bburl]/member.php?u=$moderator[userid]">$moderator[username]</a>,

Thx a lot, it works!

[Nachtfalke]

@ cd1986 : Nice one, that worked!

@ all: Is it possible to send out a mail to the board admin(s), when a new forum is requested? This would be a perfect addon since I do not check my queue.php every day.

[Benj]

options in the drop down in diarycp produces a blank page for me ????!?!?!??!

[username12]

Buggy. But ultimately works.