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.

[murrtex]

Originally Posted by X Quiz

Thanks a lot!

Is it possible to set a limit for the contents of this Notepad?

Example: 1,000 words.

Because, someone may write lots of words which may damage the SQL!

yes , is it possible??

[X Quiz]

And is this hack work with vB 3.6 ?

[baby9x]

Wow! IPB has this mod! Now VBB too!

[antialiasis]

Dark Blade, you should be able to add class="smallfont" to the textarea in the template, yes.

As for limiting the content of the notepad, as far as I know the technical restrictions on the database field will simply lead to it being cut off if it's too long without causing anybody any harm - at least that's my experience with my adotables hack when entering an excessively long name for the adoptable. It can store some fairly gargantuan amounts of text, though, so I don't think it should be a problem.

As for 3.6... *installs on test forum* Yup, appears to work perfectly the way it is.

[jgrakowski]

I remade the download/installation file and attached it to this post.
I only changed the installation instructions, and heavily altered the template code.

• I added the code to make it in a collapsable box
• It now has + and - buttons to enlarge and shrink notepad veiwing area
• and the notepad is now fluid and resizes with window
• I also changed the position of the notepad, for better use.

THIS HACK WORKS IN 3.6 PERFECTLY

[Craigex]

Originally Posted by jgrakowski

I remade the download/installation file and attached it to this post.
I only changed the installation instructions, and heavily altered the template code.

• I added the code to make it in a collapsable box
• It now has + and - buttons to enlarge and shrink notepad veiwing area
• and the notepad is now fluid and resizes with window
• I also changed the position of the notepad, for better use.

THIS HACK WORKS IN 3.6 PERFECTLY

Looks good, I am installing this.

[Ipuck]

Note to myself:

Install Personal Notepad Mod -Done-

[ChopBam]

I was waiting for this update! Many thanks!

[hcmagix]

works fine in 3.6

[apokphp]

any way to make it a "pop up" from an existing thread? Most of my members would be using this to take notes on something they were reading in a thread or that they wanted to post in it. It's a debate site, so going to a separate usercp page to create the note, doesn't really do much goof for them.

I realize they can have 2 pages open, but it would be much more efficient and aesthetically pleasing to have it be a pop up, perhaps with AJAX or something (like the Reputation Ratings).