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.

[Thug]

u mind translating to english in the images so we can see abit more

[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.

[Benj]

looks cool. so ya recon i could use this as a kinda groups thing. where some one sets up a group (diary) and others can post in it. but the group (diary) owner can change the name / description and even edit the posts / threads inside of his/her group (diary)

is that correct ??

[Yorixz]

Hoffi, I love you! I've been waiting from the day you posted you were porting it for the release


Edit:

It seems to be working perfectly, only thing I'm missing is a place for the admins to have a list of all hosted forums so they can remove them aswell; I guess hard-deleting them by using the AdminCP isn't the best options.

[Snake]

Man that is sweeeeeeeeeet!

Thanks.

[Vizionz]

theres a problem with the delete diary link i will fix it in a sec but ya might want to look into it when you delete a diary it leads you to the domain name not the forums

say you have forums like this

www.yoursite.com/Forums/diarycp.php
then delete diary it will redirect you to
www.yoursite.com/diarycp.php instead

[Vizionz]

theres actually more problems then that. i deleted the diary which gave me a blank page because of wrong linking. then tried to create a new diary and got a mysql error

Database error in vBulletin 3.5.1:

diary_queue error

MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 're a anime fan this is the group for you, whether you be old sc
Error Number : 1064
Date : Tuesday, November 22nd 2005 @ 09:57:31 AM
Script : newdiary.php?do=submit
Referrer : newdiary.php

i'll take a look myself...

btw, i prefer the diary creation(usercp) to be in the usercp, but i will handle this for my own.

... love the idea!

[Slave]

Just tried this on my test forum ..

While, as an admin, I can create a diary no problem .. as a normal user I get a database error after I've clicked the "Save" button on the newdiary.php file ..

Anyone with a solution to this problem?