This extension adds a space to every user's profile where any user can post a public comment. This is similar to the "Wall" feature on Facebook or the "Comments" feature on MySpace. It's a fun feature for communities.

Please note that this is in a beta stage. There may be bugs, and some planned features are not implemented yet. Use on a public forum is not yet recommended. See http://lussumo.com/community/discussion/4414/user-wall-give-your-users-a-facebookstyle-wall-guestbook/ for more information.

Is this still being developed?

Didn't work on my server first. Open Basedir Restriction stuff is getting on my nerves already :) Change your code to have the following, that prevents users like me from getting blank websites or PHP errors:
require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . '/PageListFixed.php');

This is how my UserWall looks like in IE7.



It's the same when i switch to Vanilla's default theme. I've tried to correct the code, but failed.
Could anyone please help me?

I think, the User wall Add-On is a great extension for Vanilla.

Would it be possible, to notify users via email, if there is a new entry on their user wall?
By the way, i didnt find any possibility for the users turning-off their wall.

best regards

this killed my vanilla. had to delete the extension dir to get the forum to load again. if i didn't, every page i tried to access was blank. any idea what's going on?

Fortunatelly I managed do fix it myself. But the CSS wasn't the only thing I changed. I've rewritten the HTML source. Now it looks fine in both Firefox and IE:



But thanks for your interest!

I'd gladly do that! I'll take a second look at my version tomorrow just to make it theme-proof and then post it here.

i dunno. if you cant get a hold of the Pol guy i guess you can just upload it somewhere. I'd really like to see if you got the friendly url problem fixed..

Right so i said i was going to post up some of the changes i've made and the fix for friendly-url.

Okay so i've figured out that with regards to friendly-urls, it's nothing to do with this extension. i've reported this to the author of friendly-url and hopefully a new release will happen.

However if you are confident to edit a .Htaccess file. here is what you need to add.
RewriteRule ^account/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)$ account.php?u=$1&page=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^account/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/$ account.php?u=$1&page=$2 [QSA,L]


And here my package of User Wall. I've changed the version to User Wall 1.0 Beta 10 (2008-04-30), i've removed a the pagelistfixed and simplifieddiscussion files, as far as i have checked they are not needed.


Download: User Wall 1.0 Beta 10 (2008-04-30)
Extension will upgrade automatically, however users who were using User Wall 1.0 Beta 6, please perform a clean install as mentioned in the readme.txt.
Please post back in this discussion on how i did and any recommendation for improvement, especially in the code.
Thanks and have fun.

Beta 10

• Added: Minor private message system, only wall owner and writer can view the message


• Fixed: PHP4 Friendly (should be anyway couldn't detect any other errors when tested)


• Changed: Made UserWall.css stylesheet more rigid and less compromising


• Changed: Removed pagedlistfixed.php and simplifieddiscussions.css


• Changed: Added another column to the table, extension will upgrade and add column automatically, shouldn't interfere with existing data, but backup anyway


• Minor: Cleaned up some internal codes


• Added: Minor debug function, displays actual errors for certain error traps

I forgot to mention the features added in Beta 9

• User wall public comment toggle via account preference, owner can still write independent of account pref *


• Wall comment editing. **


• Fixed: validation for deleting comments **


• Fixed: table creation


• Fixed: table prefix used for table creation, dependant on vanilla config, allows for easy cross custom vanilla install


• Modified: error trapping during extension installation


• Modified: Display IP of commenter based on vanilla role permission, no need for iphistory extension


• Modified/Fixed: Various other small stuff.


• Added: Shows user icon in post.


• Added: Master wall moderator role added (can delete/edit all walls).


• Fixed: Disabled wall feature for applicants

* Still based on role permissions.
** Owner of page can only delete, unless they own the post or is a master wall moderator (role).

I think that's about it.

@ Neverender, it's a role based permission, you need to go into to "Roles & Permissions" settings, and enable "Can comment on user walls" for the appropriate group, ie. member, administrator etc.

Ultimately the wall funnily as i modified has two levels of permission. There is a role based permission, and there is a personal wall permission. But ultimately writing on the wall still depends on the forum admin allowing the group to write.

So here are 2 examples.
#1, account1 has a role based permission to write, but account2 doesn't allow public to write on his wall. Therefore account1 can't write on account2.

#2, now account3 doesn't have a role based permission to write, but however allows the public to write on his wall, therefore account1 is able to write on account3's wall. account3 won't be able to write on his own wall either because he doesn't have the role permissions to write.

However for editing and deleting the comments, it is based on ownership of the wall and ownership of the comment itself.

@Neverender, you should get the pagination links, UserWall is set to show 5 comments per page, so try having 6 comments. Another thing is are you using friendly-urls, if so you need to make a modification to the .htaccess file as mentioned previously for the links to work properly.

I've been using my own version and what i've uploaded is the same copy so things should work, hopefully the brainstorm have helped. However if not, i'm actually going through my exams currently and will probably be free again in about 3 weeks. And i will pick up where i left off again and see if any other modifications can be made using input from people, i have further modifications i'd like to make but i won't list them yet at this time. Plus i've already made more modifications than mentioned previously so :) hehe.

So yeah hopefully i'll see more input and you guys in a coupla weeks. Thanks Neverender for doing some testing :). And i might steal your hyperlink to check it out if it is still not working properly when i come back.

hehe well what do you know... i came on to check one last time before forgetting about this website and i see a definite problem. And i went back and checked my code... yup it was my fault. i forgot to include 1 line in the package i uploaded. Hehe well i've uploaded the fixed package to the previous post.
Thanks sokabs and you can list the wanted modifications you were thinking off, chances are i've got them on the drawing board for when i'm free again in a coupla weeks.

this one does not work with multiple databases

T_T

can u fix it?

you're da man

umm hmm
i had a problem like that too
but then i got a link to the newest version of it
and it got solved

Should be a different release number, to be proper and have good karma and all that!

haha... It is a different release number, i edited the previous original post from beta 8 to beta 9 :) And are you getting the error like mis-one as well wanderer?

Unlike the wall, whisper notification uses the commenting system which implements a 2 layer scheme, the first layer list the titles, while the second layer list the guts (comments etc). Now how that notification works is when you access the second layer, it registers in the database that the topic has been now read by you.

With the User Wall however, because it is a single layer system, the definitive of a comment being read is difficult to achieve as all the guts are displayed on the account page. There is a way however if a new table is made which stores the viewing of the accounts page retrospective to the time of the latest wall post to the time that an account is active.

However as i am not sure exactly how the last active time of a user is actually determined i can at this time not figure out how to implement the notification system properly. Another thing i can't figure out at this stage is how to be able to allow html or bbcode text formatting to occur. If anybody has any ideas please inform me :)

Yes you are correct Vaz about the user wall preferences for all by default. However i would not recommend it as that would allow unauthorized roles, people who are not members to be able to comment on user walls. Therefore i would recommend changing the role permissions using the roles & permissions manager.

As for the friends extension, i have tried to replicate the error you have received, however i could not, therefore it might be a php version problem. In that case... you can replace line 180 with
header("Location: ". str_replace("&", "&", $Url ));

I hope that answers your problems.
Furthermore please post the information in their relevant discussion headings.

Thanks
In lieu of the recent errors observed from Redirect(), i will revert the extentions to using header() once more. Uploaded packages will contain the same extension version with a different packaged date.

@Vaz, okay as i've mentioned before, User Wall has a 2 level system, the first level being if the admin of the forum has given each role the ability to comment on a wall. The other level is at a more personal level where the user themselves allow someone else who already has been granted "commenting ability" by the admin to write on the users wall.

So by changing 0 to 1, you have granted everybody including unauthorized (not logged on people) to comment on any users wall, so the next step is to set the personal permissions of a user to allow others to write on their wall.
And as i have mentioned in my previous post, i still recommend changing the individual roles to allow them to comment than changing the permission in the source code to 1. If however you still feel inclined to do so, if you examine the line above the permission line, you will see there is a duplicate code with slight differences, uncomment that line and comment the line that is = to 0, I'm not sure how this exactly works, but when i was testing it tentatively, somehow unauthorized roles can't comment.

Okay now next step is to set all user accounts to automatically allow other people to comment on their wall to do this,
find line 94 or

$PreferencesForm->AddPreference('UserWall', 'Pref_TurnOnUserWall_Text', 'TurnOnUserWall', 0);

And replace with

$PreferencesForm->AddPreference('UserWall', 'Pref_TurnOnUserWall_Text', 'TurnOnUserWall', 1);

This method however still allow a person to turn off their wall so others can't write on them.

And as for Hide set role permissions for wall reminder is, well i'd thought that would be self explanatory. Well that is a toggle for a person who has the ability to change roles and manage extensions and all it does is it removes a reminder showing on the index page reminding them to set the role permissions for commenting on a user wall.

i have a new idea for this wall
if anyone could do it
it would be SUPER AWESOME

can we have whisper comments on the wall
something like that
it would be cool

Anyone have a site running this (and friends) I'd like to see it in action before I commit.

can we have whisper comments on the wall
something like that
it would be cool

Dude!! that would be so awesome of you, if you could do that
so coool
i love whispers
if you decide to add this on,
when do you think it would be available?

thanks a bunch