Profile Enhancements - vBStatus - Facebook Style Status Display (v4)

vBStatus has been released for vB 4.x.x

vBStatus v5 for vB 3.8 has been released.

This modification thread will not be upgraded, since it is possible that some users may prefer v4.

Compatible with 3.6.x and 3.5.x

vBStatus allows your users to update their status to tell other members what they are doing/thinking at any given time. A user's status is displayed under their names in their postbit, in their User Profile, and anywhere else you choose!

User's can edit their status quickly and easily via AJAX.

Administrative options include:

• Banning a list of usergroups from using the hack.
• Allowing a list of usergroups to change other users' status.
• Limit the # of characters used in Status Messages
• Word wrap status messages to prevent broken templates.
• Turning the hack on/off.
• Option of In-Line editting or a popup. (Defined in the admincp)
• Default status for users with a blank status. (Defined in the admincp)
• Status prefix to append an admin-customizable forum standard. (Attilitus is doing something)

There are 3 template edits for this hack. The installation readme file will guide you through the entire process.
Update 2.0:
Please reinstall the product xml file, and re-edit your templates following the new instructions in the readme file. This is to correct a small cosmetic bug that displays non-functional links to guests and non-admins.

Update 3.0:
A number of bugs were fixed, and a few new admin options were added. Please uninstall the previous product and reinstall this one. Please re-edit your templates and reupload all files. Sorry for the inconvenience (but at least we are getting this handled in the first 12 hours of release.)

Update 4.0:
This is a fairly comprehensive update. You must remove all previous template edits and add the new template code. You must also "Allow Overwrite" when importing the new product. The DB structure hasn't changed.

New features include:

• In-Line Editting (This is on by default, but you can return to the previous popup style by changing an option in the admincp)
• Default Status: If a user doesn't have any status message it will be set to a default status which you can define in the admincp
• Visual improvements: Various small visual improvements were made, including a change in the location of the small "edit" link.

Update 4.01
I added status prefixes. If your updating from version 4 just reimport the product (with overwrite set to yes), and reupload all the files. No template edits necessary when upgrading from v4 to v4.01. (And I'm not going to change the file version because this update came so quickly on the heals of v4.)


Please do not forget to click INSTALL

[Attilitus]

Check your vBulletin options for vBStatus. Is there an option for turning vBStatus on/off? Also are you sure that you are editting the template that your site is currently using?

Also, I have reuploaded the files to fix the bug which causes all users to be banned when no banned usergroup is specified. To fix just reupload the files, there is no need to reupload the product or update any templates.

[hastyhost]

Ok I found my problem

What I did was I coded in "postbit_legacy" instead of "postbit" .

So for anyone else that may have this issue, just try either or if one doesn't work for you GREAT MOD

[Attilitus]

Glad everything worked out. I would suggest reuploading the product and reuploading all the files now though. As I've fixed a few bugs in the past 15-20 minutes.

I'll release a v3 version once I'm satisfied all bugs have been squashed.

[hastyhost]

Also, another thing I noticed in your instructions is you say: Upload all files in the Upload folder to your forum root.

lol At first like I said a minute ago, I uploaded all the actuall "files" in the vbstatus folder to the "root". But in order for this mod to work, you need to only upload "the folder" in the upload "folder" to the root of your forum.

So I think to save confusion, you should reword it like this: Upload all folders in the Upload folder to your forum root.

I may be wrong who knows as I am still a newb at this forum, but just trying to help if I did AGAIN GREAT MOD

edit-Yeah I reuploaded it

[StuntFactoryX]

looks cool... any feedback on how it looks in postbit legacy? is there a text limit and can users break the style?

[Attilitus]

It will look perfectly fine in postbit_legacy.

There might be some potential for users to break the style. I will add a word_wrap and a character limit. (Right now the practical character limit is 200 characters by virtue of the db table size).

[dirtycrow]

v2 kills the header links in firefox.

[hastyhost]

I'm getting database errors now after uploading the new files. You can view my forum at "forums.hastyhost.com"

hope it's ok to post links like that

[kambiz]

first of all thanks a lot.
It seems there is issue with positioning in the code we have to add to headinclude. it made lmost half of header unclickable (did I use it right?). I mean the logo and some of links in the navbar are not in links style unless you click on Edit Status once.).
I checked the code and seems it's because of positioning. I tried to change it to fixed, relative and static. they solved that issue but made another one: extra height in header.
for now I solved my problem by removing the height from the code which I know is not a good solution.
anyone can help me?

[dirtycrow]

Originally Posted by kambiz

first of all thanks a lot.
It seems there is issue with positioning in the code we have to add to headinclude. it made lmost half of header unclickable (did I use it right?). I mean the logo and some of links in the navbar are not in links style unless you click on Edit Status once.).
I checked the code and seems it's because of positioning. I tried to change it to fixed, relative and static. they solved that issue but made another one: extra height in header.
for now I solved my problem by removing the height from the code which I know is not a good solution.
anyone can help me?

i followed your advice, works. thanks.