Personal Notepad

This hack will add a personal notepad for your members - a feature you may know from for example Invision Power Board, and which existed for vBulletin 2 as vBPad. For short, members will be able to edit the content of their notepad as they want, storing in it whatever they might feel like.

1 template edit
1 product to install

Time to install: 1-2 minutes, depending on how fast you can install one product, copy-paste and find something in a template after being tipped about where in the template it is


FEATURES

- Not much in the way of features for something like this... it's just a little personal notepad in the form of a textarea that people can type things into which is shown below all the information about new PMs/subscriptions/etc. in the User CP main page.


INSTALLATION

1. Import product-personal_notepad.xml through the Admin CP.
2. Make one template edit:

In template USERCP

FIND near the bottom of the template

<!-- ############## END NEW REPUTATION ##############  -->
</if>

BELOW it add

<form name="personalnotepad" method="post" action="usercp.php$session[sessionurl_q]">
<table class="tborder" width="100%" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" align="center">
<tr>
<td class="tcat" align="center">$vbphrase[personal_notepad]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="alt1" align="center">
<textarea name="notepad" rows="7" cols="45">{$vbulletin->userinfo['notepad']}</textarea>
<input type="hidden" name="do" value="savenotepad" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="alt2" align="center"><input type="submit" value="$vbphrase[save_notepad]" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

3. There is no 3. You're done. Go edit your personal notepad. And inform your members what this strange box that just appeared in their user CP is.


VERSION HISTORY

Version 1.1: Fixed small mistake that made the notepad get run twice through htmlspecialchars_uni (basically turning all HTML codes into a garble of < and > ).
Version 1.0: Initial release.

[antialiasis]

Admittedly I've never used AJAX before, but hey, I'm good at messing around and making stuff work and the reputation giving thing should be a good reference, so I could probably do it if you give me a little bit of time to get it right.

Where would you like the link to pop up the box to be if I were to do that? Just on every post?

(As a side note, I'm right now in the process of upgrading my own forums to 3.6.0, so the 3.5 version will most likely not be updated anymore and I may be unable to support you in the unlikely case that your problem is something 3.5-exclusive. However, I will be re-releasing the hack in the 3.6 forum soon with some of jgrakowski's changes.)

[ChopBam]

Originally Posted by apokphp

I realize they can have 2 pages open, but it would be much more efficient and aesthetically pleasing to have it be a pop up, perhaps with AJAX or something (like the Reputation Ratings).

Firefox --> Google Notebook.
'Nuff said.

[vBulletin THEN DAYLIGHT]

Hi,

I have put the notepad in a drop down box on the Nav Bar (see attachment) so it is more accessible, however, I would like it to work so that when the user saves the notepad from that drop down box, it just refreshes the page they were on and not redirect them to the User CP.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Regards,
Rob

[vBulletin THEN DAYLIGHT]

Please, can anybody help me with this?

[vBulletin THEN DAYLIGHT]

bump

[adwade]

Originally Posted by antialiasis

(As a side note, I'm right now in the process of upgrading my own forums to 3.6.0, so the 3.5 version will most likely not be updated anymore and I may be unable to support you in the unlikely case that your problem is something 3.5-exclusive. However, I will be re-releasing the hack in the 3.6 forum soon with some of jgrakowski's changes.)

Notice you're running vB v3.6.1 now, any word as to when you might be re-releasing the hack w/some of jgrakowski's changes incorporated into it?

[antialiasis]

I was going to, yes. I just got a bit stuck with the AJAX thing I was going to incorporate. (This one does work fine with 3.6, though, if you don't want to wait.)

[Eq4bits]

how about 3.6.4?

[antialiasis]

I use 3.6.4 myself and it works fine.

I should get around to updating this hack already, I know. I've been rather busy with other things.

[Snake]

No updates yet?