Req: Tutorial Section Hack

[Mone']

I have seen this hack for invisionboard and i'd like to see it for vbulletin to.

here is a small description of the ib hack:

adds a tutorial section to the forums
Features :
- Fully Searchable
- Unlimited Sections
- Unlimited Categories
- User Submission
- Admin control Panel
- User Ratings
- HTML and IBCode Integration


to view a demo of the category listing http://www.ibhelpers.com/?do=tutorials

and to view a demo of the actual tutorial http://www.ibhelpers.com/?do=view-tutorial&id=7 (http://www.ibhelpers.com/?do=tutorials)


If someone has the time to look at the code and port it to vbb or write something similar vould be great ;)

PLease have a look at it.

Thank you

Mone'

[Mone']

anyone ? :banana:
( i attached the invisionboard hack if you want to have a look at the code fo it )

or can u suggest something similar ?

thank you

Mone'

[FlyingDutchman]

I think this is easier to do when you make a specific category the tutorial 'part' and the forums in there are the tutorial categories, where 'normal' posts contain the actual tutorials...
that's not very hard to do (1 or 2 file edit, maybe add some templates)

if i have some more time i'll look further into this...

[Mone']

thank you
i'll be waiting :)

[FlyingDutchman]

in forumdisplay.php, find:

if ($foruminfo['allowposting']==1) {
eval("\$newthreadlink = \"".gettemplate('forumdisplay_newthreadlink')."\";");
}

REPLACE that with:

if ($foruminfo['allowposting']==1 && $forumid!=5 && $forumid!=6) {
eval("\$newthreadlink = \"".gettemplate('forumdisplay_newthreadlink')."\";");
}
else {
eval("\$newthreadlink = \"".gettemplate('forumdisplay_tutoriallink')."\";");
}

where the forum id's of my toturial 'categories' are 5 and 6 (you can change them or add them like: && $forumid!=x where x is the forum id)

add a new template called 'forumdisplay_tutoriallink' with the following content:

<a href="newthread.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=newthread&forumid=$foruminfo[forumid]"><img src="{imagesfolder}/newtutorial.gif" border="0" alt="Post New Tutorial"></a>

finally upload the attached image to your imagesfolder...
i don't know if this is really what you want, and if you want other/more features, just ask me ;)

[Mone']

thank you
i was more looking to have the post showing in a different way
i might look into something different maybe virtuanews will do what i need
mmore like an article tutorial sectipn that uses same db as vbulletin and template but look different.
have a look at the first 2 links for see what i mean.

thank you anyway for the code i will give it a shot

Mone'