Hey cing...feature request here! :chinese:

Would it be possible for you to add to the code during the validation process that wrote data to one more row in the vBarticles_content table?

Specially, I have added a field called "url" that is used by my search engine that contains the URL of the article. In my case, that would be something like http://www.mcseworld.com/forums/info...ticle&artid=19 for example.

Obviously the script knows the article number...or least the DB helps it by autoentering this value, so I am asking would it be possible to have the correct URL for the article written into the table during the validation process?

Make sense?

:beard:

Ok figured out how to make it use vbulletins vbcode. Also added a field authorid (so i can add an edit feature). author, authorid and date are all automaticly entered.

I'll post the changes I made for myself here after I'm done and its ok with the orignal author.

This looks very interesting. I've reviewed the screencaps and have a few questions. I am currently using another content management system with my forum that is not integrated in any way into vB other than appearing on my homepage. Here are some of the features I use there and a couple others that I would want to see in something that was vB friendly:

1) Is it possible to move an article from one category to another?
2) When a user performs a search, will it search the articles?
3) How about designating, or attaching a thumbnail image to serve as the article lead-in on the homepage
4) Order articles for display (arbitrary, chronologically or reverse chrono)
5) Designate whether an article or an entire category is visible (5a and perhaps even by user group)
6) Copy an entire article or category (this is very helpful for using articles or cats as templates for future articles, or perhaps archiving old ones.
7) Is it possible to select that a lead-in will link to an off-site article directly (by URL)
8) email article to a friend links
9) article stats (views, mostly)
10 XML RSS Feed output (well we can dream, can't we)

Summary

2, 5a would make it a nice integration to vB. Something I can't do now with stand alone software

1,3,4,5,6,7 are very typical and mostly essential features for publishing environments. If it did not have these features it would be of limited use to me, but I can expect it might serve others well.

8,9, 10 are nice-to-haves

Thanks,

Matt

Maybe I missed it somewhere, but has anyone found a limit to the number of characters that can be submitted in an article? I have an article in one of my forums that I'm trying to move into the "Articles" section as a test and it won't even show up in "Validate" unless I cut it down to less than 1/4 of it's original size???

Am I the only one who's articles go missing if you use an apostraphe in them?

LOL no u aint

also try doing one with cut and paste - it dont add em

is some weird stuff in this program

Maybe this is my problem. When I copy/paste a large article, it never shows up. If I cut the length down, and then copy/paste it, it shows up. All of the tests I've done where I actually typed the content showed up as well...but none as long as the one I want to copy?????

I hope there's a fix for this...I really don't want to have to retype this article!

Dennis

yeah is pain aint it

I suzzed this out straight away as im very lazy u see and i love my cut and paste so away i went pasted it all in and nothing showed so i did a simple one and it appeared straight away.

I'm nowhere near capable enough to figure this one out...hopefully someone will have an idea???

How hard would it be to make the "Submit New Article" link appear to ONLY the Administrator or Moderators?