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

[kauka]

thanks i uninstalled it

[chatzworld]

how is this system coming on as i am very interested in it

[Dark Cynicus!]


Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: vb_datamanager_blog in /home/theverba/public_html/forum/includes/functions_diarycomment.php on line 206

[scan-pa]

Originally Posted by Dark Cynicus!


Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: vb_datamanager_blog in /home/theverba/public_html/forum/includes/functions_diarycomment.php on line 206

That is the error that has yet to be worked on or fixed in this beta.

[RVM]

How do I instal this? There is no read me file or instructions. Can you tell i'm new lol.

Thanks in advance!

[RVM]

Ok I figured out most of it! I have a few questions though!

I need to know if the stuff in the includes folder gets uploaded into the includes folder already on my site? (I did this just guessing lol)

I got everything working except that when I click on my blog to view it, I get a database error message "database has encountered a problem." and I cannot view my blog.

I see no difference between the blog feature and the diary except the name?

I do not see the features I wanted that I saw on another vbulletin site (this blog setup is the actually only reason why I bought a vbulletin). I want this drop down menu & features. This is how it looks:



And it also has an option to make it a photo blog:



Thanks in advance!

[TuRKMeN]

installed thanks

[ktaylor]

Everything seems to work fine except for this:

2) on upload image "no datamanager" error (vb 3.6.7)

Has anyone found a fix to this?

[0tolerance]

any news of when you are going to finish this off and bring it out of beta stage?

[periphrastic]

great idea

status of un-beta-ing this?