Major Additions - vbF Journal by vbFreelancers

Removed by the Author
due to luck of free time to support it.
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vbF Journal
Article Publishing Module
by

1.- Credit goes to:

1. MicroHellas, as this module has developed by her.
2. Olympic, for his corrections to secure this module according to vB's standards.

2.- General information

• This module is mainly for use for Article posting with 1 photo. Unlike vbNews and vbArticles which are using 3nd party HTML editor, vbJurnal uses vB's Editor.
• Editors choice Articles
• Breaking Articles
• Important Articles
• RSS per category
• Newest Articles by category
• Most Active Authors (according to the number of post Articles)
• All these blocks can be turn off in case that you don't need them, by setting 0 as the number of appearing articles
• All these blocks are following the active category. eg Breaking news in main page shows articles from all categories. Breaking news while you're in X category shows breaking news from X category only.

3.- Installation

1. Open vbjournal.php file with a text editor like notepad. At line 9 you'll find a variable: $mydateformat = 'm/d/Y'; This is set to default US date format. You can change it according to your country's setting eg. for UK d/m/Y or for other European countries to d.m.Y or d-m-Y. You can also add the time if you want. eg 'd/m/Y H:ia' this will give 20/8/2007 14:15pm. The reason that I didn't used the internal vbdate function is because that some users from Scandinavian countries, Spain and France had problems with vbdate().
2. Upload the contains of /forum directory to the same directory where you've installed vBulletin. Please note that if you've another vbF module already installed, you'll get a message for file "loading.gif" that already exists. Don't worry. You can skip or overwrite it as it's the same image.
3. CMOD following directories to 777
   1. /photos (inside vbjournal directory)
   2. /tmp (inside vbjournal directory)
   3. /thumbs (inside vbjournal/photos directory)
4. For security reasons backup your database AND turn your board off
5. Check at your AdminCP->vBulletin Options->Plugin/Hook System that Plugin system is enabled.
6. From your AdminCP->Plugin System->Manage Products choose Add/Import Product and import the product: product_vbjournal.xml
7. If you want to add a link to your nav bar then you must edit the NAVBAR template:
   1. Search For:

      <td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[calendar]</a></td>

   2. Add Below:

      <td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="vbjournal.php$session[sessionurl_q]">Journal</a></td>

      ....or use any other word you want.
8. By default none usergroup has permissions to use vbjournal, so you need to give permissions to any group. Goto AdminCP->Usergroups->Usergroup Manager and edit any usergroup you like to give permissions.
9. In your adminCP, under vbJournal, choose vbJournal options and configure it depending on your needs. If you can't see vbJournal's menu, press F5 to refresh the page, or logout and login again to your admincp.
10. Now, you can access vbJournal at: www.youdomain.com/vb_installation/vbjournal.php

4.- Copyright

The script cannot be redistributed, reproduced, or published in any way. Modifying this
script and sharing or publishing your modification A-N-Y-W-H-E-R-E (including here)without the author's written permission is not allowed, but you can modify it as you want but just for your own use.

In addition to above restrictions you can't develop and share addons for 3nd party scripts (eg for vBadvanced).

Greetings
vBulletin Freelancers

[douffle]

OK,... everything seems to be working fine but I do have one question.
So far I have set up 3 categories and they are listed under the Categories block when I go to the main page. If I go into one of the categories to read an article, the Categories block does not list any of the Categories any more. If I want to go to another category after I have read the article, I have to use the breadcrumb to back up to the main page so that I can select a different category. Is this normal?

You can see what I mean if you go to http://www.nextel-nascar.com and select Race Schedule.

Thanks

[Soljah]

I want to change the RSS feeds for the Journal. Is there a way to do this? I have looked everywhere.

[bluecat]

Thank you for this, very appreciative. However, I can't figure out how to change the category titles. This is probably something simple, but when I search for the phrase (or word) in this case, I get no results.

[bluecat]

Ok, I feel stupid, didn't see it in the options to left. Thanks again.

[morrow]

Nice mod but I have 1 issue. See the attachement.

How do you allow for the full article box to display.

[morrow]

Any support for this one or is it abandoned?