Profile Enhancements - vBStatus - Facebook Style Status Updates (v5)

Compatible with 4.x.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.

Features and Configuration options include:

• Admin Option: Turn modification on/off
• Admin Option: Ban usergroups from updating their status.
• Admin Option: Set a max character count for status messages.
• Admin Option: Set the number of characters of a status message displayed per line. (Word wrapping will occur for status messages longer than this defined value.)
• Admin Option: Define a standard status prefix to be appended to the start of all status messages after the username. (i.e. Attilitus is doing something.)
• Admin Option: Define a default status for users with a blank status.
• Admin Option: Define the character set used for encoding status messages. (The default value of this option should work for most character sets.)

• Feature: Status messages may be updated in-line.
• Feature: All languages and character sets are supported. (Most, if not all, should work with the default encoding option. Others may require some configuration in the admin options.)
• Feature: Users may press the Enter key to confirm their status update.
• Temporarily Deactivated in v5: Admin Option: Allow defined usergroups to modify other user's status updates. (For moderation purposes)

There are 4 template edits for this hack. The installation readme file will guide you through the entire process.

Version 5.1

• Support for non-english characters has been added.
• A small modification was made to the installation script to make it more robust.

Upgrade Instructions: Reupload all files (allow overwrite), and reimport the product (allow overwrite). No additional template edits are required to for the upgrade.


Version 5.2

• Users may press the Enter key to submit their status.

Upgrade Instructions: Reupload all files (allow overwrite). No additional template edits are required for this upgrade. You may reimport the included product, if you desire, to update the version number to 5.2

Version 5.2.1

• Extra white space will no longer appear in the status update input field.

Version 5.3

• Important security update to fix a cross site scripting exploit.

Upgrade Instructions: Reupload all files in the upload folder to your forum root, and allow overwrite. It is not necessary to re-import the product xml file.


Note: The files available in this thread will always be for the most recent version of the modification.

If you previously used vBStatus in vB 3.x your member's old status messages will be preserved.

Please do not forget to click INSTALL

[fluidswork]

Awesome .................

[betts02]

Great mod and working fine

I see the other post for the bold but how would i place the bold and a different colour ?

Cheers

[Attilitus]

betts02,

To make the status related text bold I edited the style attribute of a div tag. You can learn more about the style attribute of document elements at w3schools.com. Here is a link to the specific page that will help you: http://w3schools.com/html/html_styles.asp

By perusing w3schools.com you should be able to learn how to make any basic template change that you want, so it is worthwhile to spend a few hours going through their HTML section chapter by chapter: http://w3schools.com/html/default.asp

~Tim

[lucybb]

There is an option, for administartors or mods (basically any entered usergroups) been able to edit status of any user, It doesn't seem to work, also if I have a look into your code to be placed into a template I see only condition for usernames to be equal, nothing about usergroups. Did I missed something??

There is missing the condition "is admin??"
Regards
lucybb

[Attilitus]

lucybb,

You missed the part of the modification thread in which I stated that this option is temporarily unavailable in v5.

~Tim

[lucybb]

I'm sorry my apologies, thanks for your reply, I will be waiting for your updates.

[Sports Investor]

Nice Mod. Installed and working fine!

[fire999]

Great mod, except that I am unable to change the STATUS via the Postbit.

Apparently, this is a Javascript error.

Am on 4.0.0, any idea on how to resolve this?

[Attilitus]

fire999,

Make sure that you have followed the instructions in the included text file and made all of the required template modifications. If that does not work, give me your URL and I will diagnose the problem.

~Tim

[dankreiner]

Originally Posted by fire999

Great mod, except that I am unable to change the STATUS via the Postbit.

Apparently, this is a Javascript error.

Am on 4.0.0, any idea on how to resolve this?

i am having the same problem... it was working for a bit then stopped...

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