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

[Saulie]

Wondeful I have been waiting for something like this for ages.

Thanks *Clicks Install*

[FleaBag]

It's a great hack, although I think I am going to use it for private threads rather than a diary. Great work Adult SEO - your vBulletin hacks are the best!

[Veer]

Originally Posted by Adult SEO

Hi!

Thanks for the feedback!

My Pleasure sir
Please take a look at the following attachment:
Attachment 57942

What exactly is GARS? Could you please provide a link to an example GARS diary and their main site?

Visit GARS by The vBGeek : http://www.thevbgeek.com/forumdisplay.php?f=41

Thanks

[Adult SEO]

Originally Posted by Pehchaan

My Pleasure sir
Please take a look at the following attachment:
Attachment 57942



Visit GARS by The vBGeek : http://www.thevbgeek.com/forumdisplay.php?f=41

Thanks

Hi!

Thanks for the screenshot! I will add this! I've already extended the mod not to show the reply links etc. to visitors and only the edit and replylink for authors.

I will try to have it completed by tonight!

Best Regards,
Jan Jaap

[Adult SEO]

It will be ready tomorow, I've spend some hours untill now but it's not yet ready.

[Mudvayne]

Nice hack. I 'll try it on my local server tonight.

[Veer]

Originally Posted by Adult SEO

Hi!

Thanks for the screenshot! I will add this! I've already extended the mod not to show the reply links etc. to visitors and only the edit and replylink for authors.

I will try to have it completed by tonight!

Best Regards,
Jan Jaap

All The Best

[Adult SEO]

Hi!

I've updated the mod. I've spend almost 5 hours on setting up a diary thumbnail manager based on the original vBulletin Avatar manager wich will cache the avatars for example and store them in the database or on your server based on your vBulletin settings.

I've tested with the default vBulletin Database Avatar storage setting and not yet the filestorage option aldough I did add support for it.

If you want to use the vBulletin Filestorage option you will need to create a directory named diarythumbs in your forum root and chmod it 775.

The Diary now also has a custom forum view as requested by Pehchaan.

I will also add comment support but do not yet know how to do it. If you have any suggestions let me know!

Best Regards,
Jan Jaap

[Veer]

Thanks for the update

old version was un-installed.
But when i imported the new product, got database error:

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.4:

Invalid SQL:
ALTER TABLE `vb_forum` ADD `is_diary` INT( 5 ) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0';;

MySQL Error : Duplicate column name 'is_diary'
Error Number : 1060
Date : Friday, December 22nd 2006 @ 10:17:31 AM
Script : http://www.domain.com/testvb/admincp...=productimport
Referrer : http://www.domain.com/testvb/admincp...?do=productadd
IP Address :
Username :
Classname : vb_database

[soulface]

I am just trying to update over 1.0 & getting this error...

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.4:

Invalid SQL:
ALTER TABLE `forum` ADD `is_diary` INT( 5 ) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0';;

MySQL Error : Duplicate column name 'is_diary'
Error Number : 1060
Date : Friday, December 22nd 2006 @ 09:47:43 PM
Script : http://127.0.0.1/admincp/plugin.php?do=productimport
Referrer : http://127.0.0.1/admincp/plugin.php?do=productadd
IP Address : 127.0.0.1
Username : Eros
Classname : vb_database