Integration with vBulletin - BlackBerry Native vBulletin App

BerryBlab is a Native vBulletin Application for your BlackBerry.

BerryBlab now on http://forums.CrackBerry.com

Tested on over 6000 BlackBerrys, tested on ALL OS's 4.5+

Multiple Language Support!

Native Storm and Storm 2 Support!

Native Keyboard Support!

Optimized connection to your forum for Quick and Seamless access! Don't waste your dataplan when you don't need too.

Android Beta coming February!

We test our product on REAL Blackberry Hardware - This app is Developed in Ontario, Canada, right down the street from RIM's head office in Waterloo! Don't risk losing your Blackberry Data on non-hardware tested software!





Features

* Inherits all security policies based on your vBulletin setup
* Multiple Forums
* User Login
* View Forums
* View Sub Forums
* Private Messaging - View, Reply, Reply All, New
* View Latest Threads
* View Subscribed Threads
* Reply to Threads
* Create New Threads
* View thumbnail images in thread

http://www.berryblab.com/

BlackBerry Development is typically difficult because of the amount of different operating systems / carriers / phones.

There are 2 aspects to this plugin

1) The vBulletin code
2) The BlackBerry App

If you have issues, you can provide this thread with the following:

1. Your Forum URL
2. Make and Model of your BlackBerry
3. Operating System Version (4.5+)
4. Your Provider
5. The problem you are having

This app has been tested on ALL simulators for BlackBerrys with OS 4.5+ Installed. (Pearl, Curve, Bold, Bold 2, Gemini, Storm, Storm 2etc.. )

vBulletin Install

- Download the attached vBulletin Code
- Unzip to your forum root directory.

- There will be one file in your root named mobiforum.php and a new directory called m_functions

- Find the config file in /m_functions/config.php and edit it to your needs
- Change the icon "forum_large_icon.png" to your forum icon.

BlackBerry Install

OS 4.5+ and OS 4.7 Storm / Storm 2

Use your BlackBerry browser to surf to:

http://www.BerryBlab.com/

If you can't see our mobile download page, surf to

http://www.BerryBlab.com/MobileDevice.aspx


Once installed:

- Open the software
- Press the "BlackBerry Key" and select "Add Forum"
- Type in the full http://address.com/ to your forum, (where you extracted your zip file), including backslash.

That should be it. Your forum should be listed and you can now surf using your blackberry, natively. Use the "options" menu when you are viewing your forum to sign in.

This software comes with an Update Check for your BlackBerry, so you should only need to install it once on your phone and it will check for Updates everytime you connect with it.

You will (as a forum administrator) have to keep up with the updates on the vBulletin side however.

Demo Forums using BerryBlab

http://www.BerryBlab.com/Network.aspx

Note: Your typical data usage charges apply when using this.

I will do my best to supply as much support as possible for all your phone types / forums.

Please make sure you post a LINK to your forum so that I can test it on my own BlackBerry as well as add it to the list above.


As requested! High res photo's.

Multiple Forum Access





View Forums





View Threads, New Posts, Subscribed Posts



Read Posts and Images in Posts



Read Private Messages



Make New Threads, Reply to Threads, Reply to PM's, Make new PM's



Release Notes
BerryBlab 0.01 / 0.84 - Nov 11th, 2009
- Beta Release.

BerryBlab 0.02 / 0.85 - Nov 12, 2009
- Fixed HTML in forum titles and descriptions causing SAX error
- Fixed "More" on Subscriptions not working
- Fixed Images not resizing properly, causing NULL error on the BlackBerry

BerryBlab 0.03 / 0.86 - Nov 17, 2009
- added error checking for adding forum - Don't have to put HTTP:// or trailing "/" anymore to add
- added user login info check
- added "b" and "t" (bottom and top) shortcuts for browsing posts / threads
- added table prefix - fix to vb plugin
- fixed master settings for connection not saving

BerryBlab .87 / 0.04 - Nov 19, 2009
- added images in threads
- added image options (compression, size, auto load) in forum settings
- added ability to "click 'on image to show full image in browser
- fixed URL links in threads
- fixed HTML Encoded display (& to & etc) in forum / thread / post display
- fixed Latest Threads not paging properly
- fixed "t" shortcut not going to top of posts in thread view
- changed the new post icons on main screen
- added a seperator line under the PM and Poster


BerryBlab .89 / 0.05 - Nov 30, 2009
- launched BerryBlab.com for registering your website on my network
- fixed busted images for GIF and PNG
- fixed some private message / posting problems

BerryBlab .92 / 0.06 - Dec 5th, 2009
- Applied 3 Retries for "Connection Timeout" errors
- Fixed "New posts" not showing in some descriptions
- Fixed some image problems

BerryBlab .93 / 0.09 - Dec 23rd, 2009
- Added Subscription
- Added unsubscription
- Fixed bug in "new posts" not showing for some forums
- Fixed the PM reply box not popping up on BerryBlab (BB)

BerryBlab .93 / 0.10 - Dec 27th, 2009
- Security Fix

BerryBlab .99 / 0.11 - Jan 07, 2010
- removed signature from berryblab listings, no need to see it was posted from berryblab if you are alreadying using it
- added check to see if user is logged in or not, if not,given the option to login
- added "friendly" failure messages
- added automatic log in if the user was logged out for whatever reason
- added "post check" when posting a new thread / reply, to tell the user if the post made it to the board or not
- fixed a bug on line 133 of utilities
- changed berryblab to work with PHP 4+ instead of PHP 5
- seperated "login infO" and "forum options" inside of the app
- changed the "more" button for easier use
- added "add forum" button if there are no forums listed when you start berryblab
- allowed you to save your login credientials even if they don't log you in (incase you change your password)
- added a "verify credentials" button to make sure your login works
- this is a "release canadidate"
- LANGAUGE Support fixed the encoding bug, now Supports all Languages (encoding types) include Arabic! (Thanks to "Log on" for the fix)
Updated the plugin:

BerryBlab .99 / .991 (storm) / 0.12 - Jan 15, 2010
- Fixed error on forums with completely marked as private
- Fixed encoding issues for Arabic langauge / login
- Some other minor code changes
- Added install instructions in the readme.txt file
- Added a Icon Template in PSD format


BerryBlab .992 / .992 (storm) / 0.13 - Jan 18, 2010

- BIS-B SUPPORT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <This one is HUGE!>
- Modified a more friendly login screen
- Fixed a bug when saving multiple forums and deleting forums
- Allow user to sort topics by ascending / descending order
- Added error checking for login's
- Minor fixes for Arabic language
- Fixed "Stream Closed" error on 9700 (Bold 2)
- Fixed user being logged in more than once in one session
- Note: Arabic Replys and Login are still being worked on.

BerryBlab 1.0 / 1.0 (storm) / 0.14 - Feb 9th, 2010

- Fixed Subscribed threads with "&" symbols not showing properly
- Added vbAdvanced support / fix

Please when posting an error message, post the entire message and a LINK to your forum so that i can test it!

Cheers.

[messengermatt]

Originally Posted by footose

Most definitely coding it for vb4.

I have not tried on Pearl hardware yet, so it may or may not work.

On the simulator, it's hard to really tell how great it will be. The screen on the Pearl is fairly small, so it pushes a lot of text to 3 or even 5 lines.

You may also end up with "Bad DNS" error with the pearl - The Reason is because you have a "space" in the URL - sometimes after you put ".com" with the auto fill feature it puts a space after it - not sure why. i will add that to my list of stuff to debug.

Well you asked for testing so testing i shall do :-) - i am aware the pearl screen is a little small but its worth a try even if the result is that it wont work i can at least give you a valuable contribution and when this mod is finished try and get forum members with the right phones to install it :-)

[footose]

Awesome!

Actually, I just ran it on the Simulator right now and it doesn't look that bad to be honest. I forgot the screen is smaller, but the resolution is also smaller..making the text actually "bigger"

Check it out.. from my forum ..

[Quantnet]

The subforums only go 1 level deep?

[mandingo]

got this error when trying to add my own forum,tried to add different forum,got same error.
blackberry pearl 8130

java.lang.RuntimeException: blocking operation not permitted on event dispatch thread

[footose]

The subforums only go 1 level deep?

They should go as far as you need to go .. I'm sure you've tried but... just keep clicking?

[Kingdombuilder]

I have installed this mod to my site...

Site: http://www.BlackBerrySpot.com/forum/
Device: BB 8350i Curve
Carrier: Boost - iden network same as Nextel
OS: 4.6.1.204

I notice that is works pretty good out of the gate. I do not get any errors, but I do notice that My images on my forum do not show up. Instead the code to the images are seen. my site has free themes, ringtones, and so on. 40% of my traffic in done from members BB in order to D/L OTA's. Seeing that my device is iden there is no APN setting, well according to the information provided in this thread. I have my mods and other admins trying it out as well and i gave strict instructions to give feedback base on the format above. This way i can relate correct info back to you.

If nothing else i would like for you to use my site as a sample url for demo. Especially since you can grab free themes through OTA.

[Eric Anderson]

Originally Posted by Kingdombuilder

I have a 8350i BB and of course i'm on the iden network. It seems to be working fine out of the gate. The only problem I'm having so far is that the images on my site do not show. Instead i see the code to the images...

That is in the add later as the developer is trying to get a stable Mod then will start to tweak it all.
Eric

[footose]

I actually have coded the "images" part of the App already, just haven't released it.

The issue I have with it right now is two fold:

1) It adds loading time to the threads - which I don't really know how to deal with it can potentially make a small 10kb thread over 100kb's (depending on the amount of pictures), which we all know, in Mobile-Universe, it isn't the greatest to have large datastreams.

2) I'm not sure if I should load the images when you are highlighting a post, or before the entire thread loads.

Any suggestions would be appreciated, and I will gladly enable this feature.

[footose]

Here's an example of what the Images would look like in threads.

Obviously I would make them "clickable" so that you could view the full image if desired.

I can probably release this in the next version if you guys want to test it out.

Tonight?

How I have it setup right now is that it puts an "image" icon in the post, and when your scroll over it, it automatically loads the image, so it doesn't actually load all the images when you load the threads. I guess I could also make an "option" that makes loading when scrolling over the images turned off / on ?

This only works for images with the [IMG] tags at the moment, but I also am working on the Attachments as well.

[footose]

I had to reboot my server there for a moment, which may give you a NullPointer exception right now (when checking for a new version)

I will have to code in so that if my server goes down it doesn't throw this.

Give it a moment and it will be back up.