Personal Notepad

This hack will add a personal notepad for your members - a feature you may know from for example Invision Power Board, and which existed for vBulletin 2 as vBPad. For short, members will be able to edit the content of their notepad as they want, storing in it whatever they might feel like.

1 template edit
1 product to install

Time to install: 1-2 minutes, depending on how fast you can install one product, copy-paste and find something in a template after being tipped about where in the template it is


FEATURES

- Not much in the way of features for something like this... it's just a little personal notepad in the form of a textarea that people can type things into which is shown below all the information about new PMs/subscriptions/etc. in the User CP main page.


INSTALLATION

1. Import product-personal_notepad.xml through the Admin CP.
2. Make one template edit:

In template USERCP

FIND near the bottom of the template

<!-- ############## END NEW REPUTATION ##############  -->
</if>

BELOW it add

<form name="personalnotepad" method="post" action="usercp.php$session[sessionurl_q]">
<table class="tborder" width="100%" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" align="center">
<tr>
<td class="tcat" align="center">$vbphrase[personal_notepad]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="alt1" align="center">
<textarea name="notepad" rows="7" cols="45">{$vbulletin->userinfo['notepad']}</textarea>
<input type="hidden" name="do" value="savenotepad" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="alt2" align="center"><input type="submit" value="$vbphrase[save_notepad]" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

3. There is no 3. You're done. Go edit your personal notepad. And inform your members what this strange box that just appeared in their user CP is.


VERSION HISTORY

Version 1.1: Fixed small mistake that made the notepad get run twice through htmlspecialchars_uni (basically turning all HTML codes into a garble of < and > ).
Version 1.0: Initial release.

[rmxs]

Cool Installed..

[Atakan KOC]

Nice

[Boofo]

Please add the instructions from the first post into a text file and ZIP it up with the XML for those that may need to re-install sometime.

[antialiasis]

Zip file done and attached.

[username12]

Originally Posted by antialiasis

I didn't think I'd really need screens for this, since what it does is extremely straightforward, but I'll put one up if you want.

We need screens. And pictures of puppies.

[TTG]

Originally Posted by username12

We need screens. And pictures of puppies.

Puppies :-

[bubble-gum]

Thanks for the Plugin

[antialiasis]

Fine. :P

*adds screenshot*

I've got a kitty pic too, if you want to be really picky.

[Stop]

The members may not know what to do with this or how to get benefit, so maybe you can add a little description text to it appears when they hover on Personal Notepad.

[GrCh_Jeff]

Originally Posted by antialiasis

There doesn't appear to be any way to make a textarea match the width of the box around it exactly. width="100%" doesn't do anything. So I'm afraid that's not possible.

I found this:

<td class="alt1" align="center">
<textarea name="notepad" rows="7" cols="45">{$vbulletin->userinfo['notepad']}</textarea>
<input type="hidden" name="do" value="savenotepad" /></td>

And changed it to this:

<textarea name="notepad" rows="12" cols="80">{$vbulletin->userinfo['notepad']}</textarea>

Here is a screenshot and no the forum width isn't messed up :