Profile Enhancements - vBStatus - Facebook Style Status Updates (v5) (vB 3.x)

vBStatus has been released for vB 4.x.x

Compatible with 3.x

vBStatus allows your users to update their status to tell other members what they are doing/thinking at any given time. A user's status is displayed under their names in their postbit, in their User Profile, and anywhere else you choose!

User's can edit their status quickly and easily via AJAX.

Features and Configuration options include:

• Admin Option: Turn modification on/off
• Admin Option: Ban usergroups from updating their status.
• Admin Option: Set a max character count for status messages.
• Admin Option: Set the number of characters of a status message displayed per line. (Word wrapping will occur for status messages longer than this defined value.)
• Admin Option: Define a standard status prefix to be appended to the start of all status messages after the username. (i.e. Attilitus is doing something.)
• Admin Option: Define a default status for users with a blank status.
• Admin Option: Define the character set used for encoding status messages. (The default value of this option should work for most character sets.)

• Feature: Status messages may be updated in-line.
• Feature: All languages and character sets are supported. (Most, if not all, should work with the default encoding option. Others may require some configuration in the admin options.)
• Feature: Users may press the Enter key to confirm their status update.
• Temporarily Deactivated in v5: Admin Option: Allow defined usergroups to modify other user's status updates. (For moderation purposes)

There are 4 template edits for this hack. The installation readme file will guide you through the entire process.

Special Update Instructions for users of vBStatus v4
This version of vBStatus was mostly written from scratch. Please note that there are two features that are missing from v5 that were present in v4: the ability of members of certain usergroups to modify the status updates of other users, and the ability for users to edit their status in a popup window. If you need those features, don't upgrade yet.

The upgrade process that I suggest is:

• Import the new product xml file. Make sure that you check Allow Overwrite.
• Remove all template code in templates: postbit, postbit_legacy, memberinfo, and header that is between <!--BEGIN VBSTATUS--> <!--END VBSTATUS--> tags.
• Delete your current vbstatus folder and all of its contents.
• Install vBStatus v5 as instructed in the installation instructions text file included with the modification.

Version 5.1

• Support for non-english characters has been added.
• A small modification was made to the installation script to make it more robust.

Upgrade Instructions: Reupload all files (allow overwrite), and reimport the product (allow overwrite). No additional template edits are required to for the upgrade.


Version 5.2

• Users may press the Enter key to submit their status.

Upgrade Instructions: Reupload all files (allow overwrite). No additional template edits are required for this upgrade. You may reimport the included product, if you desire, to update the version number to 5.2

Version 5.3

• Important security update to fix a cross site scripting exploit.

Upgrade Instructions: Reupload all files in the upload folder to your forum root, and allow overwrite. It is not necessary to re-import the product xml file.

Note: The files available in this thread will always be for the most recent version of the modification.

If you previously used vBStatus in vB 3.x your member's old status messages will be preserved.

Please do not forget to click INSTALL

[viper357]

Before I install this, can you tell me if there is any possibility we could remove the word "edit" and replace it with a small icon instead?

[Attilitus]

Originally Posted by viper357

Before I install this, can you tell me if there is any possibility we could remove the word "edit" and replace it with a small icon instead?

Sure, just replace the text "edit" with the icon image.

~Tim

[Mark.B]

Have to say, I can't use this new version without an admin edit option.

Would it be possible to have a patch for the xss flaw in older versions?

[Attilitus]

Originally Posted by Mark.B

Have to say, I can't use this new version without an admin edit option.

Would it be possible to have a patch for the xss flaw in older versions?

There is no xss flaw in the older versions of vBStatus present in the vB 3.7 forum.

~Tim

[Mark.B]

Originally Posted by Attilitus

There is no xss flaw in the older versions of vBStatus present in the vB 3.7 forum.

~Tim

Thanks, I think that is what I am using, 3.0 I think.

My vote goes for an admin edit option though for this newer one...when/if you have time of course, I am quite ok using the older one. A very popular mod on my site this, thanks.

[ibsk8r]

Hey, I have installed the product, but why clicking edit does nothing for me?

[adreen]

same here
nothing happens when i clicked 'Edit'.
tested in chrome and opera.

[gorentals]

I will install this once the admin can edit status messages. Seems like a good mod exactly what I'm looking for, but I need that option before I will let it lose on my forum. I could see a lot of abuse and not being able to do anything about it well, kinda sux.

[Attilitus]

ibsk8r,

If you give me your forum url, then I will be able to diagnose your problem.

adreen,

It appears as though you have not downloaded any files from this thread. (I assume there is a reasonable explanation) In any case, if you give me your forum url, then I will be able to diagnose your problem.

~Tim

[mikey1991]

How would I get a 'Status Feed' like they have on http://www.manlystuff.com/forum/index.php ?