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.

[rjmjr69]

Couldnt get it to display with 3.6.4

[Black Widow]

Great hack.
installed...

[Maksa]

will it work on 3.6.5 ? i want to install please reply

[rjmjr69]

Works fine in 3.6.5

[Maksa]

let me try then

[Maksa]

wow it's working fine... beautiful hack

[ssandgirls]

Thankyou for such a useful addition , working perfectly on 3.6.7PLI

[theFAILURE]

For what we do on my forum, this is an excellent simple addition!

TY!

[dope15gd]

I had a question about using the notepad in a different template.

I have it running in my memberinfo template to run in tandem with Psionic Storms VS- Interactive Profiles Mod. It is installed and working fine. I got rid of the usercp redirect and it seems to be going well. the problem I have is this:
Whatever I type into the notepad is the same for every user. I am not sure if it is because I am using a different template or what. I looked around the code and didn't see anything obvious, but I really don't know what I'm doing.

could you perhaps point me in the right direction on this?

Thanks

[Roi Danton]

Maybe the Add-On could be updated to take advantage of the new hook in template USERCP:

 $template_hook[usercp_main_pos6]

I don't know how to write an AddOn which uses template hooks so I ask here if someone is capable of doing this.