Major Additions - VBNow: twitter.com equivalent for vbulletin

ABOUT

This product is in beta

VBNow is a twitter.com like application for vbulletin communities.

It allows members of the community to send updates about moments in their lives just by telling what they actually are doing or planning. It also allows people to add friends and directly access their entries. Friends that are tracked by others are also visible.
The core is formed by the public timeline.

If activated on your forum it includes automated image verification and flood control.

SPECIAL

- image verification is driven by the vbulletin one make sure it's activated in your options
- don't forget to set the usergroup permissions
- don't forget to set the options of VBNow to your liking

INSTALLATION

Installation instructions are included in a pdf in the zip file

CLICK INSTALL

LIVE DEMO

Special Xbox Live version http://www.xboxlivenation.com/community/vbnow.php

CHANGELOG

V 1.0.0. August 22 2007
Initial Release

V 1.0.1. August 22 2007
Fixed broken table

V 1.0.2 August 22 2007
Fixed $pagenav security issue

V 1.0.3 August 22 2007
Imagecheck now an option, different check for availability


CREDITS

This has taken quite some work and still will take a lot more. Please give credit where credit is due. You cannot remove any copyright notice without prior written permission. Instructions are included in the pdf file.

You cannot translate, reproduce or duplicate without prior written permission from the author.

Abuse will be reported

FAQ

The FAQ and configuration instructions are included in the pdf file.

Support for people that have clicked install


Feel free to support this mod and make a paypal donation to admin@stonyarc.com



CLICK INSTALL

(c) 2007 StonyArc

[Endurer]

Great, Installed, rated and nominated for motm. Does this use vbulletin's buddy list for friend tracking? Also, any chance for widgets like the ones twitter has?

[themajor]

I have a stupid question. how do i find the forum root? i am very new to adding stuff like this to my forum as i just had a tech guy (my one and only) quit.

i know how to do the XML, just not the upload.

[FleaBag]

Thanks!

[stonyarc]

Originally Posted by themajor

I have a stupid question. how do i find the forum root? i am very new to adding stuff like this to my forum as i just had a tech guy (my one and only) quit.

i know how to do the XML, just not the upload.

The forum root is actually just the directory where you installed your forum.

[stonyarc]

Originally Posted by Endurer

Great, Installed, rated and nominated for motm. Does this use vbulletin's buddy list for friend tracking? Also, any chance for widgets like the ones twitter has?

This uses a separate friends system to make it snappy.

The rss feeds should allow me to add a number of widgets. I think there are sites where you can create them yourself using the rss

[stonyarc]

The live demo should be online soon again. We're moving the site to a dedicated server.

[stonyarc]

Don't forget to drop in your feature requests for the new version !

[Endurer]

Originally Posted by stonyarc

This uses a separate friends system to make it snappy.

The rss feeds should allow me to add a number of widgets. I think there are sites where you can create them yourself using the rss

Fantastic. I think the easiest method would be to use feedburner and a more customizable one would be achieved by using this.

Thanks for the product. I am really loving it.

[stonyarc]

Originally Posted by Endurer

Fantastic. I think the easiest method would be to use feedburner and a more customizable one would be achieved by using this.

Thanks for the product. I am really loving it.

I know the dynamicdrive ones. Maybe a flash one could be nice.

[Endurer]

I am getting an SQL error:

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.7:
Invalid SQL:
SELECT count(id) AS ecounter FROM vbnow;
MySQL Error : Table '*****_vbulletin.vbnow' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146

I ran the installer but it didn't create the table. Should I reimport the product?

Edit: reimport didn't work.