Making my own article submission system

[mahz]

From my root, I'm going to have submit_article.php where logged in users can write articles and submit them to a table.

I'm using a login for non-vB pages script (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=132996) currently and I'm wondering what the best way to do this is. I'm not a fan of templates and this should only require snippets of query.

I suppose I'd want to make a user submitted article table that's separate from vBulletin's db, correct? I will be using this system to submit my own articles as well.

From the front page, I then want to be able to display things like "Newest Articles" "Most Popular Articles" (most page views) and such.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

[stryka]

Save yourself alot of hassel... why don't you use GARS at http://www.thevbgeek.com/

His app works perfect... and you can still integrate it into your Non-VB pages that use global.php

[salata]

check out http://www.madebymary.com/forums/vbarticles.php she has exactly what you need.

[mahz]

Hmm. I've been looking into them both and am going to install them both to play around with. I'll start with vbArticles since it has a free version.

Can anyone point out their GARS vs. vbArticles opinion? Anyone use either one?

[hitboy]

VBArticles is good except it has no seo work at all the titles nor the links so its worthless for getting your articles indexed or seo'd