Owned Forums / Diaries for your members!

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/newdiary.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.

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.

This is only tested on 3.0.5, but I don't see why it wouldn't work on any 3.0.x install. If it doesn't work on 3.0.7 please tell me and I will update my post. Estimated install time is 5 minutes.

This hack will add one table (diary_queue.php), and you need to add 11 templates. You don't need to modify any vB files.

See readme.html for more info .

Version 1.0.1 released July 28, 2005 and Zip updated! Read below for details all who have installed this hack!

Version 1.0.1 should resolve all known bugs.

The following bugs should be fixed:

• All files will be uploaded to the forum directory, not to a separate directory within the forum directory.
• prefs.php is now known as diarycpprefs.php
• The diary index is now /forum/diarycp.php.
• The incorrect file paths (including image paths, navbar paths, etc.) have been resolved.
• All MySQL queries now have a table prefix.
• Minor template bugs have been corrected, including placing the title tags after $headinclude variable to go along with the XSS issue with Internet Explorer 6 that has been corrected in vBulletin 3.0.8. If you have already installed this hack, you will need to change the following templates to place the $headinclude value before the title tag:
  
  • DIARY
    
  • diary_editdiary_addowner
    
  • diary_editdiary_deleteowner
    
  • diary_editdiary_editdiary
    
  • diary_newdiary_main
    
  • diary_newdiary_ty
    
  • diary_queue_main
  
  
• To upgrade, correct the above templates and delete the /diarycp/ directory, then follow step 2 of the installation guide minus uploading install.php.

[Yorixz]

@Wayne Luke, any news on your view towards this yet?

[Andrew111888]

Originally Posted by Hoffi

It would be great if a new Diary is requested, the Admin gets a PN notification.

I considered doing that as well as an automatic PM whenever your diary is created but I was unsure of the "proper" way to insert a PM.

Also, a bit of a development update: I have almost no free time to code . I dunno when I'll have the time to port this to 3.5.0 -- school and work are murder.

[Hoffi]

Andrew gave me the permission to convert it fpr 3.5. Status: 75%
I just changed a bit:
Fully Phrased and integrated into vBulletin. No File-Edit neccesary for Forum-ID.
Usergroup-Permissions added.

I will release it next Week in english and german!

I have different Ideas for further Versions.

[Yorixz]

This is perfect news Hoffi! I'm very glad to hear this, I've already tried to port it myself but couldn't succeed and I was afraid that this hack was going into the doomed corner .

[Hoffi]

Got it: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...655#post827655