vBulletin Blog - vBdiary & vBblog - Convert a forum into a diary or weblog (blog) forum.

Notice: This mod is no longer being developed by the original author. As of today (1-1-2008) it will be continued by Laura!

This mod will enable you to convert a forum into a diary of weblog (blog) forum. A diary or blog can be started by any user who has permissions to post in the forum and only the author of the diary is able to post entries.

The autor of the diary is able to protect the diary with a password so that only users (also guests) who know the password are able to view the diary or blog.

This mod may contain some bugs as I did not yet test it extensively. Please let me know if you find any bugs and I will work on it. Feature requests are also verry welcome!

Have Fun!
Jan Jaap

Updates:

• v1.1
  • Diary Forum Display
  • Diary Thumbnails (professional, using the vBulletin Avatar thumbnail management system)
  v1.2
  • vBBlog extension
  • Comments page (comments per diary/blog entry)
  • Customized Diary/Blog template wich shows the post date for diaries and entry title for blogs in a <h2> tag.

This mod makes use of the original vBulletin systems so it will perform on a big high traffic forum. Aprox. 30 hours have been invested in this mod so far. Ofcourse also a lot of study work to get to know the vBulletin systems like Postbit factory and datamanager.

No template edits are needed, all is managed via the plugin system, a onetime install and further configuration from the original vBulletin forum adminpanel.

Screenshots:

Forum Configuration Options


New Diary & Edit Diary Password Option


Password Screen if protected by a password, admins do not need to enter a password.


Diary Forum Display

[insolentmuse]

Originally Posted by Zia

fixing all the bugs at first step would be nice.

thnx

That seems a little pointless as he's going to start over from scratch?

I really liked this idea as it, but I'll hold out until the "new" version is released and see if it's what I need.

[danielschnarr]

Originally Posted by TLC

I have the date problem too:
31 December 1969 though! LOL

http://www.kicks-giggles.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17

SAME. Thanks for the hack though OP.

[LeeCHeSSS]

Adult SEO, I have sent you a PM regarding a security issue in this hack.

[Zia]

seemed time comes up to gave up this mod....
whats the meaning to relase a buggy mod n kept as it is for long

/clicks uninstalled

[ngocha85]

Error: POST COMMENT!!!!

clicks uninstalled!

[ginger22]

So many bugs...
Uninstalled

[STT]

How disappointing - I read this thread from start to finish and was getting excited at what looked like a great hack - until I got to the end when it seemed that people were uninstalling it due to bugs

Keep up the good work Jan, I have faith in you. What's the current state of play - are you indeed starting from scratch on a new system, or given up on this blog/diary idea for a while?

[tuslic]

Originally Posted by adonfun

How were your christmas days Jaap

I suddenly get the errer "no Datamanager" when posting a new blog...but the message is posted..raar

Also...when I post several blog entries all is fine and looking good. But when I delete all blogs and leave 1,..then it looks like a regular forum post. So when I try to add another blog it is just a forum post. It doesn't give me the possibility to enter a password or use an image for the blog. I checked the forum and it somehow jumped back to Forum type (default, diary or blog): Default Forum

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Oke, here a summary of the bugs that I encountered with the BLOG. Hoping that it might help you Jaap fixing these bugs one day if more people have these bugs

1. Error message "no datamanager" when posting a new blog with Weblog Thumnail
   BUT the post appears in the blogforum. Posting a blog with or without password is no problem.
2. Forum type (default, diary or blog) switches back to Default Forumwhen deleting a blogpost.
3. When posting a 'quick reply' in a existing blogpost I get the error:
   
   Fatal error: Class 'vB_DataManager_blog' not found in /home/eikwijt/domains/mijneikwijt.nl/public_html/forum/includes/functions_diarycomment.php on line 206
4. When I post an empty 'quick reply' in a blogpost then an empty popup popuppes. But when I post an empty 'reply' in a blogpost then the popup contains the reason why it popuppes.
5. When posting a 'reply' no error encounters
6. When I hide a blogpost, I can not tell which one I hided as admin. This blogpost isn't marked or anything, nothing says to me which blogpost is hided or soft deleted.

Am I the only one with these bugs?

i have the same problem

[tuslic]

damn looks like this mod is a lost cause

-unistalled

anyother blog mods?

[Flexo]

I have two questions:
Are the bugs going to be a problem if I'm not interested in comments? I just want threads that noone else can post in.

Secondly: what kind of database changes is this mod using? Will it create new tables or will it change existing ones?