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.

[kanxue]

Good works!
Who can use AJAX when save the content in the personal notepad ?

[jambo_1969]

Installed and working on 3.5.3

Nice

[Kaelon]

Works great with 3.6.8. You may need to tinker with the template a bit, but otherwise, flawless.

[jgrakowski]

what ever happened to the fluid width/height?

[TosaInu]

Trying to save notepad in 3.7.1:

Your submission could not be processed because a security token was missing or mismatched.

If this occurred unexpectedly, please inform the administrator and describe the action you performed before you received this error.

[Mike-D]

Originally Posted by TosaInu

Trying to save notepad in 3.7.1:

Your submission could not be processed because a security token was missing or mismatched.

If this occurred unexpectedly, please inform the administrator and describe the action you performed before you received this error.

You're in the wrong Forum!!! As suggested in that Thread Personal Notepad for VB 3.67...

Find:

<input type="hidden" name="do" value="savenotepad" />

Add below:

<input type="hidden" name="securitytoken" value="$bbuserinfo[securitytoken]" />

That will fix the Security Token Error