Major Additions - vbClubs by Mary

Today Dec 27th, 2007
MicroHellas has been acquirent
by a team of vB coders
so all MicroHellas's Modules
are temporary removed as per new owner's request.
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THIS IS BETA SOFTWARE!!!

Please DO NOT INSTALL this version in live sites.
All known bugs have been fixed
but maybe there are security holes in the code.

Demo at: http://www.madebymary.com/demoarea/vbclubsindex.php


- Known Bugs:

• Not all phrases have moved to phrase groups
• Templates are still uncached

- New in version 1.4.0:

• Every club can has its own templates
• Subcategory support added for clubs

- How it works

There are 3 ways that vbClubs can work in your community. Trying to explain with simple words what are Clubs, I can say that they're small communities inside your community. So, the 3 ways are:

• Admin decides to be the only one who can create clubs. In this case he setup categories/subcategories and then he creates clubs. Members are visiting the clubs and if they find them interest they're registering as members.
• Same as above but except admin other usergroups can create clubs.
• Everybody can create clubs

Please note that every section of the module needs an active club to be assign to it. eg Members (if they've permissions to do it) they can post blogs, articles etc only to clubs that they've registered before.

- User Highlights

• He can build one or more fun clubs, setting them as Public (everybody can participate) or Private (registration requests need his approval)
• He can setup his own questions per club, which are used as registration form to members who want to participate
• Each of his clubs has it's own forum for discussion with the other members of his club. On these forums he has full Moderator rights to "clean up" unwanted posts.
• No need to turn off the whole club or whole photo gallery if he wants to hide a photo. Every single part of the club (photo, video, blog etc) can be turn off.
• He can not only upload videoclips, but he can add his ready YouTUBE, Yahoo etc code.
• There is no need to mark his full club or gallery as "Adult" if he just wants to upload a sexy photo. He can mark only the specific photo as "Adult".
• He can not only post an Ad in classifieds section to sell something, but he can sell it in real as he can accept payments with PayPal (IPN istant notification is also available).
• He can not only post an event, but he can accept registrations and payments for the registrations, using his PayPal account (IPN istant notification is also available).
• He can not only post his blogs, but he can index them by setting categories.

- Admin Highlights (or how to get profits)

• By having 3 choices per module (eg can create clubs, how many clubs, unlimited clubs yes/no), he can setup an unlimited number of usergroups setting them free or paid.
• In every category of classifieds he can setup a fix amount that users must pay to post an Ad there. Using PayPal's IPN the Ad becomes active and visible only after a successfull payment.
• Even if your site is a free one, you can earn morey by turning Donations on.
• Google AdSense (and any type of Banner) ready. 11 different banners at the top of each part (Clubs, Blogs, Photos etc), plus a nearly unlimited number of banner places at the bottom of page, as you can add different advertising code per category. That's great if you someone wants to become sponsor of a specific category in a specific part of your site.
• vbClubs is vbSeo friendly

- Minors' (and Visitors') Protection

Unlike other scripts which don't take care to protect minors and visitors from unmonitoring posts (photos ot text), vbClubs has a build-in filter to show only posts marked as "non Adult" content. This switcher is avaliable in all pages and by default it's turn on (filtering on). So, it's up to your visitors to turn it off if they want to see all the content. Much more, to avoid repeating actions any time that he/she is visiting your site, this setting is storing in cookie. Also if a Member wants to participate in a Club that has adult content, he is getting a warning message about it and he must click "I Agree" to continue the registration procedure.

- Member Clubs

Clubs are the heart of vbClubs. Any single item from Blogs, For Sale, Galleries, Videos, Events and e-Cards belong to a Club. Depending on user's decision a Club can be Public (viewable from all Members) or Private where Members who want to participate to this club must register answering the questions that the club's owner maybe has setup and then await the authorization from the owner to be able to enter and use it. Also Club's owner must categorize his club as Adult or non Adult. Finally the owner has the ability to temporary hide his club or any sibgle part of it.

A great feature is that the owner can setup unlimited questions for his registration form using radio buttons, checkboxes, droplists, multiselect list, text and textarea. This way he can get usefull information for his decision to accept the member or not.
Each club has it's own forum where he has full Moderator rights. This is good to avoid spam posts or any post not interesting for others. Common features like Rating, Bookmarking etc are also available.

- Blogs & Articles

Blogs section has nothing special but for sure nothing less that all other blogging mods. It's special point is that the owner, can setup his own categories and so to categorize his blogs. Also it supports outgoing RSS feeds for all blogs.

- For Sale (Classifieds)

Another common(??) section in Social Networking scripts? But if you check it you'll see that is not just a classifieds section. It's a real mini-cart. Members can post Ads for sale, setup the price and their PayPal address so they can accept real time payments thanks to PayPals IPN system. Need more deep features? They can setup different PayPal address for each item for sale. And if Admin setups a category "Donations" for free post of Ads, then they can accept even donations from their Club's members. Members can rate and bookmark items for sale.

- Meet Me (Dating like)

This is a clone of the well known MeetMe. It's a funny Dating like module (A real Dating module with powerfull features will be realize soon). The way that it works is: Jack is seeing Mary's photo and he likes her. Then he clikcs on "Meet Me". Mary gets a message that Jack likes her and she is seeing Jack's photo. If she likes him then she accepts the invatiation and a double mach has done. From now and then they can communicate with no restrictions.

- Photos & Videos

• Members can upload their fun/home Photos & Videos and put them to various categories
• Members can input external embed tags (such as YouTube, Yahoo! Videos)
• Members can organize their photos in Albums (Galleries)
• Other members can view Photos & Videos, vote for them and leave comments
• Ability to search for Photo & Video files
• Ability to browse Photos & Videos by category

- Events

With features that I didn't even found in expensive Calendar scripts, this section will become very popular in your community. Depending on his permissions, every member can cost events, accept registrations and ..payments for participation!! Yes, that's right. If the member has a Premium or Business account with PayPal, can accept online payments. PayPal's Instant Payment Notification auto adds the participant on the list after a successfull payment.

- e-Cards

• Ability to send eCards immediately or on date.
• Membrs can personalize the cards by uploading their own photos.
• Members can personalize the cards by using special fonts, colors using vbEditor.
• Receiver gets the full card in the email and not a link which nobody clicks.
• Other Members can vote on cards and leave comments for them.
• Members can choose the right card by browsing them by category.

- Donations (More than a simple Thank You)

To get donations especially for a website is something very difficult. Do you know why? Because none webmaster gives attention to show donors in public. Just a "Thank you" email is not enought if you want to get donations from your members. Everybody wants a special care in exchange for his donation. The Donation section (in case that you'll activate it) will helps you by giving a special place for your donors with many features like top donors, most active donors etc.

- User Control Panel

A well designed place full of power. Anything that a member wants to do is there. Create anything, editing anything. Following up his sales & event registrations. Adding, removing bookmarks. Reading latest post of Club's forums that he has subscribte. Making a donation, or checking his permissions for what he can do and what not in the community. In addition, most common vB's control panel actions are there. For example, changing his profile or signature, adding photo or avatar. You must see it and you'll love it.

*** Installation ***

Step 1

Unzip vbclubs.zip and upload all files and directories including at vbulletin directory to the directory where vBulletin is installed.

Step 2

CMOD following directories to 777

• photos (inside vbclubs directory)
• videos (inside vbclubs directory)
• tmp (inside vbclubs directory/photos)
• thumbs (inside vbclubs directory/photos)

Step 3

For security reasons backup your database AND turn your board off

Step 4

Check at your AdminCP->vBulletin Options->Plugin/Hook System that Plugin system is enabled.

Step 5

From your AdminCP->Plugin System->Manage Products choose Add/Import Product and import the product: product_vbclubs.xml

Step 6

If you want to add a link to your nav bar then you must edit the NAVBAR template:

Search For:

Code:
<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[calendar]</a></td>
Add Below:

Code:
<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="vbclubsindex.php$session[sessionurl_q]">MySpace</a></td>
....or use any other word you want

Step 7

By default none usergroup has permissions to use vbClubs, so you need to give permissions to any group. Goto AdminCP->Usergroups->Usergroup Manager and edit any usergroup you like to give permissions.

Step 8

Still in your admincp select Scheduled Tasks/Add New Scheduled task. Fill in:

• Varname = sendcards
• Title = Send eCards
• Minute (0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50)
• Script path = ./mysocialspaceecardssender.php
• and press Save.

Step 9
If you've installed vbSEO, Login into vbSEO Control Panel, click "Custom Rewrite Rules", insert rewrite rules (vbseorules.txt) and save settings.

*** Copyright ***

The script cannot be redistributed, reproduced, or published in any way. Modifying this
script and sharing or publishing your modification A-N-Y-W-H-E-R-E (including here)without the author's written permission is not allowed, but you can modify it as you want but just for your own use.

In addition to above restrictions you can't develop and share addons for 3nd party scripts (eg for vBadvanced).

And of course copyright removal is not permited.

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by lovevn

Dirty action! This is the real reason why all of your modes are dropped to the Graveyard! I think you should not share anything here, where there are still some dirty moderators!:down:

This time I started posting them to vbHackers too. And if anybody knows any other related site, please let me know.

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by lovevn

Dirty action! This is the real reason why all of your modes are dropped to the Graveyard! I think you should not share anything here, where there are still some dirty moderators!:down:

And for proof, here is a part of her email, dated Nov 22th, 2007

I'd need to review all the MySocialSpace files before I could state a price, but as
an estimate it might be something like $200 to $400 per file depending on how long it took me. At quick glance, there looks to be 22 PHP files and 1 XML file that would need work.

and to close the story. The same person who dropped my mods in Graveyard as having security holes, 2 days later, sent me the following email:

Hi Maria,

If you are interested in selling all rights to your scripts, I might be interested in buying the rights. If you would like to discuss further, please email me.

Thanks,
calorie

No more comments by me.

[calorie]

MicroHellas, I do not appreciate you making our private conversations public, but as you have done so, I feel I should set the record straight, so just for the record, yes, I inquired to purchase the rights to MicroHellas' scripts, but it was too expensive. She then countered with an offer to have me and someone else partner with her, to which I said no. She then wanted to know much it would be to have me check MySocialSpace for vB syntax and security risks, and I answered $200 to $400 per file. I did not ask her if she wanted to pay for me to fix her scripts. She made that inquiry!

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by calorie

MicroHellas, I do not appreciate you making our private conversations public, but as you have done so, I feel I should set the record straight, so just for the record, yes, I inquired to purchase the rights to MicroHellas' scripts, but it was too expensive. She then countered with an offer to have me and someone else partner with her, to which I said no. She then wanted to know much it would be to have me check MySocialSpace for vB syntax and security risks, and I answered $200 to $400 per file. I did not ask her if she wanted to pay for me to fix her scripts. She made that inquiry!

I can post anything that it was emailed to me. I didn't post an email which was sent to someone else. As for the rest, let the readers to have their own opinion. And please get out the ungry faces. You're too young for them, and not the one who must be ungry with the whole situation. I've paid 3 licenses for vB, so I've the right to post in forums anything as long as they're true. And you know very well, that what I wrote is true.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Originally Posted by MicroHellas

In addition to what I replied before, I've to say that I tried my best to find some support on fixing any security flaws. But Calorie, who is the one that dropped it to Graveyard the first time (it was with the name MySocialSpace), asked me $200-$400 per file to check and correct them.
Sorry, but is out of any logic to pay min 24X200=$4,800 to max 24X400=$9,600 for something that I'll give it out for free and the only possible income for me will be from those who will buy the Brande Free version.

Maria,

I am really getting a bit tired of having to react to all your attempts to blame anyone but yourself. Our staff and myself are getting tired of having to spend many hours on handling your mood changes and endless discussions. Either release your work to the vB.org members (you are releasing things for our members, not to please our staff) according to our rules and policies or not. Even if you mark your work as Beta, it will still be removed if it there are verified security issues.

You are insinuating that our staff has personal financial motives to quarantine your modifications, please get a life. Modifications are placed in quarantine if a security issue is reported (99% of the times by a regular member) and confirmed by a staff member. The staff member who quarantines a modification has no benefit from this at all. On the contrary, some staff members prefer not to handle reports on your modifications anymore as the result will most likely be that they have to go into endless discussions with you if a vulnerability is serious enough to warrant quarantine (there is no discusion on this, if there is a security issue it will be handled according to our policy), or you will start to blame the individual staff member and threaten to remove all your work.

Our staff is here to ensure that vBulletin.org runs smooth, they are not here to repair your (at that time commercial) modifications. If you ask someone to partner with you, then he/she will have their own motivations, not connected to their staff status on vb.org, to accept or decline that. If someone wants to accept commercial requests, then they are free to accept such a request at their own price, it is up to you to accept or decline such an offer.

If you are unable to ensure that your work has no known security issues, then maybe you should have a look at our articles section, or post in the coders forum for advise.

[Lionel]

Sir Adrian pointed out in one of the mods that was removed how some kid could easily destroy the user table in database. This is very scary, and under those circumstances every one who installed the mod should be alerted immediately.

vb.org responsibility is to protect all vb users and they do an excellent job at it.

Things could have been so simple when there is a problem and someone points it out to just say "Thank you" and most important, learn from it.

[TheProphet]

Thanks Mary... *installed

[Lea Verou]

Originally Posted by MicroHellas

And for proof, here is a part of her email, dated Nov 22th, 2007



and to close the story. The same person who dropped my mods in Graveyard as having security holes, 2 days later, sent me the following email:



No more comments by me.

Originally Posted by calorie

MicroHellas, I do not appreciate you making our private conversations public, but as you have done so, I feel I should set the record straight, so just for the record, yes, I inquired to purchase the rights to MicroHellas' scripts, but it was too expensive. She then countered with an offer to have me and someone else partner with her, to which I said no. She then wanted to know much it would be to have me check MySocialSpace for vB syntax and security risks, and I answered $200 to $400 per file. I did not ask her if she wanted to pay for me to fix her scripts. She made that inquiry!

Originally Posted by MicroHellas

I can post anything that it was emailed to me. I didn't post an email which was sent to someone else. As for the rest, let the readers to have their own opinion. And please get out the ungry faces. You're too young for them, and not the one who must be ungry with the whole situation. I've paid 3 licenses for vB, so I've the right to post in forums anything as long as they're true. And you know very well, that what I wrote is true.

Originally Posted by Marco van Herwaarden

Maria,

I am really getting a bit tired of having to react to all your attempts to blame anyone but yourself. Our staff and myself are getting tired of having to spend many hours on handling your mood changes and endless discussions. Either release your work to the vB.org members (you are releasing things for our members, not to please our staff) according to our rules and policies or not. Even if you mark your work as Beta, it will still be removed if it there are verified security issues.

You are insinuating that our staff has personal financial motives to quarantine your modifications, please get a life. Modifications are placed in quarantine if a security issue is reported (99% of the times by a regular member) and confirmed by a staff member. The staff member who quarantines a modification has no benefit from this at all. On the contrary, some staff members prefer not to handle reports on your modifications anymore as the result will most likely be that they have to go into endless discussions with you if a vulnerability is serious enough to warrant quarantine (there is no discusion on this, if there is a security issue it will be handled according to our policy), or you will start to blame the individual staff member and threaten to remove all your work.

Our staff is here to ensure that vBulletin.org runs smooth, they are not here to repair your (at that time commercial) modifications. If you ask someone to partner with you, then he/she will have their own motivations, not connected to their staff status on vb.org, to accept or decline that. If someone wants to accept commercial requests, then they are free to accept such a request at their own price, it is up to you to accept or decline such an offer.

If you are unable to ensure that your work has no known security issues, then maybe you should have a look at our articles section, or post in the coders forum for advise.

Oh Mary, you're so ...greek :/
(sorry, couldn't resist, *** Non-english removed*** )

[lovevn]

I do not know about code and never use Mary's modes. However, the fact that you moved here modes to grave yard and then privately ask her for sell the rights to you is unfair! If it is not security why do you still want to buy?

Mary, you should stop talking here and try to fix your codes

[TheBlackPoet]

i love your scripts.. i'm a big fan... but for some reason, when i install your clubs... i very meticulously ensure i do everything right..... i click the active radio buttons.. i ensure my permissions are right... and when i go to the site.. its there, but when i try to add a new.... it says i dont have permission...