vBJournal Lite 1.1b

ATM, this hack would work with ALL versions of vB unless they renamed the 'user' table :speechless:


README.txt (can be found in the zip)


README.txt
New in 1.1b
- Edit journal.php (2 lines). New journal.php here, for 1.1a users

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=== vBJournal Lite version 1.1b =============================================
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This is an addon to vBulletin and acts as an online journal/diary. Users can add entries, either

making them private or public(for all to see). For the public entries, users can comment on them.

Thats about it. You should be able to get a better idea viewing a live demo at

http://sgstudents.com/forum/journal.php. The GUI was modeled after gamingforces journal at

http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/journal.php .
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=== This being my first hack, i am SURE that there are going to be =======
=== some bugs, and problems, so just to warn you first =======
=== :: BACKUP YOUR DATABASE ! =======
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Now thats over with lets start... I will list the steps of what needs to be done...
NOW :

1) Edit the images to suit your site.
2) Upload the images to the forum's /images folder.

3) Upload install_journal.php to your admin directory.
4) Run install_journal.php and follow instructions... shouldn't be a problem. but i only tested

it once .

5) Run this query (using phpmyadmin,or use this hack

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/show...&threadid=26272 , etc)

ALTER TABLE user ADD journal SMALLINT NOT NULL

[note this will add a column in your 'user' table, but i think that shouldnt be a problem ...]

6) Upload journal.php to your forum's root directory.
7) goto journal.php page and click on the button ... (should say "Get a journal" or "Unlock

Journal" Cant rem which
... bad memory. lol) this will enable the admin journal (userid=1) and show the first default

welcome msg.

8) Link to journal in postbit.
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- open admin/functions.php

FIND

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////

$datecut = time() - $cookietimeout;

if ($counter%2==0) {
$post[backcolor]="#13486D";
$post[bgclass] = "alt1";
} else {

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Add ABOVE THIS


/////////////////////////////////////////////////////

// vBJournal Hack by Ryangel
if($post[journal]==1){
$journal = '<a href="journal.php?s=&journalid='.$post[userid].'&action=view"><img

src="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/images/journal.gif" alt="View '.$post[username].'\'s Journal" border="0"/></a>';
}
else {
$journal = '';
}

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////


save and upload admin/functions.php.

9) open your postbit template and add $journal to where you want the link to show.


You are done ! The journal should be able to work now

FEW THINGS TO NOTE
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- private entries can only be viewed by the owner or admin.
- erm... did i say a few? ok thats the main thing to note.... I'll edit this as it comes to my

mind. lol :laugh:

IN WORKS FOR NEXT VERSION
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- incooperate moods
- better interface ( but that you can do now by editing the templates yourself )
- Admin interface -> from admin cp.
- New user option to choose whether buddies/admin can view private entries.
- anything else that might come up from discussions.


Version Update Log
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1.1a
- Fixed some table color code.
- Added template txt for manual install.

DEMO: http://sgstudents.com/forum/journal.php

[Shadow_NL]

08-20-03 at 08:35 PM memobug said this in Post #284
There is a link for [View All Entries]. It seems to work properly on some of the posters' forums.

Regards,

Matt

It didn't work on the journal, more posts showed up but still not all, any other ideas anyone?

[memobug]

Today at 09:44 AM Shadow_NL said this in Post #285
It didn't work on the journal, more posts showed up but still not all, any other ideas anyone?

It would be interesting to check the database and see if the posts are still there or if it is a display problem. Particularly "Pamela's Journal" which looks like it is supposed to have 59 entries but only 22 and one-half seem to be coming up.

I think the entries are in the Journal table. If you have php-my admin, you could look and see what's there.

Good luck,

Matt

[Shadow_NL]

It is a display problem, all entries are still in the database. Any way I can make them show?

[memobug]

Hi Shadow,

Looking at your journals, the problem seems consistent across all the users. After about 22 messages, it will only print the title. It's stopping right where it should be printing the Mood & Now Playing line.

Why don't you try archiving your journal.php and uploading the original one from this thread as a test. The one without the moods mod. The fact that it is dropping out when it should be printing a mood has me thinking that this may be part of the problem.

Regards,

Matt

[Sefiros]

Does anyone know how to make this work with vBulletin 3.0.0? It may already have been answered, but I'm too lazy / tired to look for it.

Thanks!

[Kaelon]

Sefiros - vBJournal Lite is not meant to work with anything other than vBulletin 2.x.

[memobug]

Greetings,

Can anyone think of a reason why inline images (created with IMG tags) are not being parsed correctly using this hack? I have seen two other posts here reporting the same problem, and I have been tearing my hair out over it.

1) Other BB code is fine: smiles, underline, bold, italic, font, color , 2) URLs are do not autolink but can be linked manually with URL /URL tags.

3) When I embedded IMG /IMG tags, with the required brackets, of course, it simply displays the unlinked URL surrounded by the IMG /IMG tags.

I have even tried hacking the post display procedure to make it ignore the forum's individual preferences on IMG display, but it doesn't work!!

Regards,

Matt

[NightWalk8r]

HELP!!!

ok, the journal.php is showing up as a blank page........what did i do wrong?? :/

here's the link if u wanna look at it http://www.anim3.com/forums/journal.php

TIA

[NightWalk8r]

nvm, i found out the problem..........templates didnt get created, had to do it manualy =/

[Harlequin]

You know, I was really thinking about this in the shower and I thought that this might be a start to solving the whole blog business.


Most people in the anime community really enjoy owning their own blog -- a journal style site that is customized entirely by them, but the majority of the time they don't want to bother with actually setting up the script that runs the blog's background -- that's where vBJournal comes in (excellent work on vBJournal Lite, btw.)


If an admin were to put two custom profile fields, hidden on profile view but editable by the user; one for 'Custom Journal Header' and one for 'Custom Journal Footer', and having journal.php call this custom header and custom footer that the user has defined, this would allow the journal system to work it's magic as a backbone for their site -but- not actually have your site keep their site's data and thus, saving on your bandwidth as a whole.


It's a tradeoff, but I think it'd work well if journal.php can skip around the default header/head inserts/style. It'd take a little work on FAQing for the user, but in general, I don't believe this would be too hard to implement.


Thanks for the great work guys.