Owned Forums / Diaries for your members!

What this hack does
This hack will allow your members to create 'diaries' (the term my site uses)--forums that are "owned" by a member or group of members. The owner(s) will be able to add and delete other owners to their diary, and modify the title/description of their diary.

How it works
When a user would like to create a diary, they will visit /forumdir/newdiary.php and submit their application (username and description of their desired diary). To prevent abuse, the application will be moved to /forumdir/queue.php. An administrator can either deny or confirm the application. If denied, the application is removed from the diary_queue table. If it is confirmed, it is removed from the diary_queue table and created as a new forum.

The file located at /forumdir/diarycp.php will include the statistics of an owner's diary(s), including post count, thread count, latest post, forum name, as well as the 'Edit Diary', 'Add Owner', and 'Delete Owner' functions.

This is only tested on 3.0.5, but I don't see why it wouldn't work on any 3.0.x install. If it doesn't work on 3.0.7 please tell me and I will update my post. Estimated install time is 5 minutes.

This hack will add one table (diary_queue.php), and you need to add 11 templates. You don't need to modify any vB files.

See readme.html for more info .

Version 1.0.1 released July 28, 2005 and Zip updated! Read below for details all who have installed this hack!

Version 1.0.1 should resolve all known bugs.

The following bugs should be fixed:

• All files will be uploaded to the forum directory, not to a separate directory within the forum directory.
• prefs.php is now known as diarycpprefs.php
• The diary index is now /forum/diarycp.php.
• The incorrect file paths (including image paths, navbar paths, etc.) have been resolved.
• All MySQL queries now have a table prefix.
• Minor template bugs have been corrected, including placing the title tags after $headinclude variable to go along with the XSS issue with Internet Explorer 6 that has been corrected in vBulletin 3.0.8. If you have already installed this hack, you will need to change the following templates to place the $headinclude value before the title tag:
  
  • DIARY
    
  • diary_editdiary_addowner
    
  • diary_editdiary_deleteowner
    
  • diary_editdiary_editdiary
    
  • diary_newdiary_main
    
  • diary_newdiary_ty
    
  • diary_queue_main
  
  
• To upgrade, correct the above templates and delete the /diarycp/ directory, then follow step 2 of the installation guide minus uploading install.php.

[Andrew111888]

When I finish it (I am extremely busy lately due to school and other things...) it will be a code modification as it requires file uploads.

I just downloaded the zip and neither of those files has parse errors.

Are you sure all files are completely uploaded and you have created all templates?

[Yorixz]

[high]* Yorixz hopes Andrew111888 has found some time already [/high]

[stan111]

any new update or bug fix for this ?

[Andrew111888]

What bugs are there in the vB3.0 version that are not fixed in the zip?

[Borgs8472]

Doesn't a hack like this violate Jelsoft's TOS? You're not allowed to make user made fora because that counts as subletting your fora or something...

[Andrew111888]

No, it doesn't.

All this does is allow a user to create a forum for themselves on an existing one and moderate it as well as edit it.

[Wayne Luke]

Originally Posted by Andrew111888

No, it doesn't.

All this does is allow a user to create a forum for themselves on an existing one and moderate it as well as edit it.

Couple of questions:

1) Can Users only create one forum and through moderation of online staff?

2) Can the Users modify the style in any way to distinguish their forum as a separate site?

3) What are "Owners" allowed to do in terms of owning a diary?

[Yorixz]

Originally Posted by Wayne Luke

Couple of questions:

1) Can Users only create one forum and through moderation of online staff?

2) Can the Users modify the style in any way to distinguish their forum as a separate site?

3) What are "Owners" allowed to do in terms of owning a diary?

- Removed it as Andrews' answer is a lot better -

I hope I've helped you some.
Yours,

[Andrew111888]

1) You can request an infinite amount of forums. However, a forum is not created unless it is approved by an administrator.

2) No, they cannot.

3) The current permission system only allows an owner to edit the title, description, and moderators of their forum.

[Hoffi]

It would be great if a new Diary is requested, the Admin gets a PN notification.