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

[Attilitus]

dankreiner,

The problem is most likely due to a conflict between two javascript frameworks: jQuery and mootools. I use mootools, and it appears as though tinychat, which you have installed on your board, uses jQuery.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.phantank.com/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.phantank.com/tinychat.js"></script>

The problem arises because both jQuery and mootools use the name "$" as a global reference to the jQuery and document.id objects respectively. To fix the problem do the following:

Open the file vbstatus_javascript.js

Find every instance of "$(" and replace it with "document.id("

Check to see if this fixes your problem.

~Tim

[gamerzhut]

Thanks a lot...!

Works like a charm

Is it right that v5 doesn't use any more plugins and doesn't have any own templates?

v4 did have.

[sross]

anyone have a demo i can view? thnx

[RobbieZ]

Thanks - Great Mod

Because the Edit button is so close I changed it slightly.

In the code for postbit/legacy find

Edit</a>

and replace with

<img alt="Edit" src="images/buttons/edit_40b.png" title="Edit"></a>

Now you get the nice pen feature

[Front Range 4x4]

Thanks Attilitus, nice & easy! Just the way it's supposed to be.

Installed! Rated! Nominated!

[yospeck]

Worked a treat for me and I'm a complete vB/coder n00b. Very simple and does exactly what it says on the tin!

Great job!

[angeljs]

Originally Posted by Attilitus

dankreiner,

The problem is most likely due to a conflict between two javascript frameworks: jQuery and mootools. I use mootools, and it appears as though tinychat, which you have installed on your board, uses jQuery.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.phantank.com/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.phantank.com/tinychat.js"></script>

The problem arises because both jQuery and mootools use the name "$" as a global reference to the jQuery and document.id objects respectively. To fix the problem do the following:

Open the file vbstatus_javascript.js

Find every instance of "$(" and replace it with "document.id("

Check to see if this fixes your problem.

~Tim

This worked for me brilliantly, thank you!

[Fishing620]

Attilitus

Just what I was looking for, thanks for putting this together. This appears to have a little better functionality then the other mod out there.

I saw it asked a few times here about the ability to save past updates and have a roll out page. You mentioned how you would do such a thing. I was wondering if for a few bucks you would move forward with that next version. Basically updates would be saved in a user's profile and there would be one page where status updates from all users rolls out. I know doing this stuff takes work and am willing to pay some loot to help get this done. Any chance you're interested in making it happen?

Thanks

[ivanp]

Attilitus, is it possible to remove dependency on mootols.js? Every page is loading this file having 100 KB.