Syn-Journal development thread.

[Brad]

Hello all ,

Scence the release of vBjournal lite there has been a big demand for modifications to that hack, because it lacked some fetures (like paging).
However it is one of the mosted used hacks out there because there is such a big demand for the script.

I was going to try and upgrade vBjournal when the author was no where to be found, but he has posted back and said he will countine development (last I heard),
so ive decided to code my own from scrath.

Here is the feture list thus far, idea's are welcomed

User functions::

Posting entry's

- Smilie box
- vBcode box
- Emotion icons
- Mood's (with images in drop down)
- Now Playing
- Notifiy me - Get a email when someone makes a comment to your entry
- Buddy Entry's - Allow only members on your buddy list to read and comment on journal entry
- Private entry's - Only journal owner can read entry
- Important entry's - Act like sticky threads.

Journal 'home page'
- Most Actvie Journal Today
- MyJournal - Quick display of your journal's info
- Journal listing (Show's all journals in a table sorted by pages and username)

Viewing Journal

- Summary box with some info about the member
- Entry listing (include sort and paging functions)

Viewing Entry's and comment's

- This page will mostly act like threads, except the Journal entry will apper at the top of all pages and have a differnt layout then comment's.

Admin/Mod Functions

- All user actions/perrmissions controled in usergroups
- Can Delete/Edit all comments and entry's (perrmissions based on usergroups)
- Can Delete/Edit all journals (perrmissions based on usergroups)

- Flood Check (Option): specify how long members must wait after posting comment/entry before posting again
- Easy View's (Option): Delay view counters on journals/entrys to save server load
- Close Journal (option): Only admins may access journal when this is on

This is what I came up with, I am sure alot more is wanted.

[Koutaru]

Looking good! Can't wait to see it

Suggestions:
- Customizable templates (journal user can customize colors on (a) preset template(s))
- Automatically link user buddy's journals on the side when visitors are viewing entries

That's about all I have right now

[JulianD]

Looks good! I didn't want to use vBJournal because something was missing on it... Maybe a more cleaner journal would be simply perfect!

[Harlequin]

As I've posted an example in the beta hack forum of an all-around custom journal [ https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...6&page=1&pp=15 ], I hope something like this is recoded and made fairly stable. The major custom blog issue is a pretty large one that really needs some work with a decent thought process, but it's certainly high on my list of priorities.


But other than that, the vBulletin buddy list could also be used for "journal friends". If x friend is on your buddy list and x friend has a journal, then display x's most recent entry on your journal's friend page using a version of the Alpha[Generator] template I provided in the addon (see the addon link above for screenshots if any of you haven't already).


And I was going to recode all of those setups I had added to the old journal.php into a menu from the admin panel, but yet again since you're going to redo everything I'll have to wait and see what's in store. :P

[sabret00the]

+ link from profile with journal entry name
+ buddies view private entries
+ search for journal
+ search through journal
+ display all journals
+ display all entries on multiple pages
+ attachments
+ HTML allowed in entries
+ journal catergories
+ only certain usergroups can create entries
+ user has ability to disable comments
+ currently playing music
+ emoticon legend on add reply and add comment
+ flood checker
+ ability to personalise/customize journal colours, fonts and background
+ New journal entires and comments appear in new posts and searches
+ admin override that you can edit, delete, or lock
+ It must have an archive by year / month
+ A mini calendar with a link to every day posted
+ If several posts in one day, than than they are united under one date, not repeating it several times.
+ A WYSIWG panel (as HiveMail)
+ Download as txt file hack integration and Vb code in titles
+ Can have multiple attachments and place them where you want $attachment01 $attachment02 style
+ Zodiac and Age hack integration
+ Notify me when someone replies to this journal


[high]ported this over from the other thread, so sorry if you've already done em in your initial post[/high]

i'm very curious over whether or not you've actually started coding or not?

[Brad]

yes coding has begun, hopfully I will have something to show soon.

[sabret00the]

sounds great, i've been waiting on this for ages

[KuraFire]

Funny how the journal system described above is almost exactly what I already have made for vB2....

Mine contains 90% of those initial functions / features, and a fair amount of other functions not listed above...

I don't yet have most of the stuff that sabretoothe listed, mostly cos some of it is really difficult and takes a ton of file edits (and thus I decided against 'm), and others just cos I've been preparing those for my Journal System for vB3 only, not for my vB2 one.....

You can see mine here, btw..

[sabret00the]

yours is a great script Kura, altho not sure i like the thread view journal and comments, i prefer it how it is, where you click to see the comments, and have all the journal entries on one page. i also have a few concerns about layout but bar that it's awesome.

basically just means that he'll have to implement a bunch of my requests/suggestions in order to move away from the couch journal look and feel ^_^

[TheComputerGuy]

I like the idea of the new journal type system suggested by Anime-Loo. I think it will be a lot better for users.

Kura Fires is nice as well, althought I thought it could be laided out a bit better, overall it looks fabulous.

I would suggest the following options:
Web Cam of the person(hyper link to their camera or where their pic is)
Gender Notification. (Maybe a way to link the gender, flag, and zodiac stuff with vBulletin and post in the postbit and in the journal bit.)

hmm I just forgot the other two i had, but let me know what you think so far!

Great job!!!!