Add-On Releases - vBulletin-Glossary

What is vBulletin-Glossary:

A professional glossary with features like :

• crosslinking
• attachments in entries
• edit-history
• synonyms
• optional entryfields
• vb-SEO compatible
• etc.

Installation:

- Upload all files in 'upload' to your server

- set 777-permission for the following directories:

• /vbglossar
• /vbglossar/backup
• /vbglossar/temp

- Import 'product-vbglossar.xml' in AdminCP as Add-On.

Right after the import of the productfile, go and set the usergroups. Afterwards edit the setting in AdminCP (Settings and Crosslinking). Now go to 'manage categories' and create the wanted cats.

Now the glossary should be configured and ready to use.

Update from version 1.0.0 to version 1.0.1/version 1.0.1 to version 1.1.x:

Follow the instruction of a new installation, also check the file permissions. After importing the product (overwrite: yes), check the grouprights and the settings of the glossary as there are some new features. In case the entries won't show up, please rebuild the datastore in the tools-section of the glossarin in admincp.

General:

This addon has been developed by the follwing people (a-z): Andreas, Captainslater, G?rome, Surviver and me. We spent every free minute for this project (coding, translation, tests, etc). Also MrD and Ragtek have tested during the time when this addon got developed.

In directory '/tools' you might find a usefull Script by G?rome. User of vBCMS will find a module for their portal in directory 'vbcms' which shows a random entry of the glossary.

History:

• 1.0.0 - First version
• 1.0.0 PL 1 - Fixed Version by G?rome, users can't write unwnated entries anymore.
• 1.0.1 - overwork of the code, now working with datastore and datamanager. Also we included some small new features into the addon (e. g. revert entries, inlinemod, etc).
• 1.0.2 - overwork of the code, bugs removed, a lot of new features
• 1.0.3 - fixed more small bugs and added new functions (create threads for discussions, more options for crosslinking, better options for mods/admins, etc).
• 1.0.4 - bugfix-release.
• 1.1.0 - added more main-features (synonyms can be used now, optional use of entryfields within categories, PDF-functions included, vB-SEO kompatible, TOC-list, etc)

Languages:

By default you will find the complete germany and english phrases in the product (look at ZIP-file), done by Captainslater. The turkish translation has been done by t?rkg?rc?.

More translations are welcome and it would be nice if those will be published here.

[Keyser Soze]

The next bug:
If you choose a certain letter from the "alphabet-table" within a certain category, the pagination is wrong. You are displaying the pagination for the whole category and not for a certain letter.

[dreads]

gonna install when i get home

thanks

[Keyser Soze]

Next bug:
This addon is incompatible with the following addon: vBaffiliate Links (see attached image)

[Vossi]

That doesnt have anything to with this addon being incompatible to vBaffiliate Links but is a logical thought when you know about the fact, that vBaffiliate Links forces his replace-routine on the global_start-hook. In this way the routines breaks everything coming along.

Using the global_start-hook for such a routine ain't good at all, actually we actually use the parser-hooks where those linking-routines belong to. We are not responsible for other peoples fault.

[Keyser Soze]

Yes, you are right. I also noticed this a few minutes ago. I fixed the problem by removing all "vBaffilialized" words from glossary descriptions.

Another question:
Why are you replacing the letters from A to Z with their html-entities in the link-texts (function "cb" in functions_vbglossar.php)?

[Keyser Soze]

The last part of the navbar-breadcrumb seems to be a little bit confusing. Currently it looks like this in the category-view:

-- Forum Title -> Lexikon -> Kategorie-Name
 '-> Kategorie anzeigen

but I would suggest to change it to

-- Forum Title -> Lexikon 
 '-> Kategorie-Name

...and likewise for the showentry-view (removing "Eintrag anzeigen")

[G?rome]

Originally Posted by Keyser Soze

Why are you replacing the letters from A to Z with their html-entities in the link-texts (function "cb" in functions_vbglossar.php)?

It was the most easy way to avoid recursions while retaining the speed of the crosslinking-module. This approach ensures that already patched text will not be patched again.


G?rome

[Keyser Soze]

Important Security Issue: Googlebot is able to create glossary-entries!
I have noticed that "unregistered" users with the IPs 66.249.71.26 and 66.249.71.25 have been able to create numerous new Glossary entries. These entries don't have a name and no description, but they do exist in my database.
No I am asking myself:
1.) Why is it possible that unregisterd users are able to create new entries and insert data into mysql, even if I disallowed the guest-usergroup to create new entries?
2.) Why is it possible to create new entries with an empty title and description, no matter if we are talking about registered or unregistered users?

As long as these questions are not answered, I would advise everyone who is reading this to disable this addon immediately and to no longer make it avaible for download here as long as this security issue is not fixed.

[Keyser Soze]

Originally Posted by G?rome

It was the most easy way to avoid recursions while retaining the speed of the crosslinking-module. This approach ensures that already patched text will not be patched again.

Ok. I just thought that these html-entitities might not be the best solution for SEO purposes.

[G?rome]

Originally Posted by Keyser Soze

Ok. I just thought that these html-entitities might not be the best solution for SEO purposes.

Why? Bots do translate them back as well as browsers do.