For my site I'm creating a seperate file/system for reviews. After the article one is finalized I'll duplicate it for reviews. so yes it's VERy easy. I believe cheating is wrong so you won't get any help from me to create a cheats page. You will have to use your head, it's very easy to create.

No lol not cheating as in real life, I meant video games. :)

Do you thin I will be able to make layout like This when its complete

Chet

Should be fine the most viewed extra are simple to code..

That is great news, we have created a load of articles for our NTLworld users and they are in need of a clean up, this article system should do the trick for us

Regards

Chet

Do the users have to register to post an article/review? If so, this is already installed on my forums. :)

Right now articles are added via AdminCP, so regular users can't even submit them.

User/Group checking doesn't appear to be in the article.php at the moment, but that's not hard to add. I will look into adding it after I get this WYSIWYG mess added.

That would be neat. If there was a user submission page that would just rock. :)

If you allow usergroups to contribute articles...could you have an "author's" page for each contributor to display their articles by title with a link to each article they have contributed?

And a master list of contributors as well that links to each author's page?

That would be a great addition.

This hack has wonderful potential. I can't wait to see it fully completed.

I don't like the user submitted articles "feature" Although it would be easy to add I believe all these features should remain in the admincp. Any article worth posting should go through the admin.

That is one feature I will not ever want added to the main release. It can be an addon.

I wholeheartedly agree with you on this one, the articles that our posted on our forums are posted in good faith and the best of our knowledge, the last thing we want is a users posting a fix that totally screws up somebody's PC and leave us with the blame

Any news on a release date yet

Ixian is working on some big new features and it'll be sometime next week before I have the time to really dig in and finish off some things that I'd like to do. So I can tell you for sure it'll be at least a week before anything can be polished up and released.

Well you could have the admin validate the aticle posting like when in vB3 you can moderate threads and approve or disapprove them. That's what i'm aiming at.

It can be an addon...good news.

ixian, might you consider doing this?

In many instances the articles specific to a board might not be technical or "how-to's" although they are site specific to yours.

For example, my board might be about politics and the nature of my members' articles opinion (not fact).
Or my board might be about sewing and the nature of member articles might be experiences with cotton or satin, etc.

I respect your caution in not publishing articles on a tech site that might contain harmful information.

However, the need for this limitation may not exist for many who love your hack and would benefit greatly from this amount of versatility in its application.

I'd do the add-on myself if I knew how.

I apologize for not really knowing what I'm talking about since I don't know how much (if at all) this hack is tied in to the standard forum code, but is it not possible to allow user-submitted articles and moderate them?

Yes it's possible.... Just not something the developer(ME) needs so it's extremely low priority. All of the features that I want are the first to be added. After everything I want is done then I'll begin looking into what other people want. After the next release I'm open to anybody adding this feature and sending it to me for inclusion.

Sounds fair to me. :)

just a question... i know this is more or less a VB thing - but when i go and add the teplates do i need to do each Style Set seperately? or is there a way to add the templates all at once? Because i've got 5 styles right now and it's alot of adding to do lol...

just curious if anyone knows how to do this all at once.

Also - for the feedback form - i dont have one...? I dont believe anyways... i can't seem to find it in the admincp... this is where it's supposed to be?

When might a more newbie friendly release be coming? I am dying to install this hack and like it so much I stopped other plans to accomplish something similar -

Also -- is it possible to have 2 columns of articles?

Working on it, as always. This and vb-bugs are eating a lot of time. Plus I never claimed to be the world's best coder:)

As for the two column thing, it's template-driven, so you can change the html output to whatever you want. I'll probably have a couple different examples by the time this whole shooting match is done.

Did you get the pagination down? Did what I sent help at all?

The pagination yes, the splitting not yet. Your method also involves altering the db structure and changing alot of code, so I haven't had a chance to test it yet:)

LOL.. change it now, or change it later ;) I'm curious to see how else you would do it.

This is already getting me very excited. Any estimate at all on how long this might take? :)

One other thing, would it be possible to display the articles/reviews on the vBadvanced homepage? And regarding the latest articles thing, is it possible to have 2 different "latest aticles" rows? I suppose this would be possible by installing 2 seperate instances of this hack. Like cheats.php and reviews.php. The reason for this is because I am running a video game cheat & review website. :)

I keep getting an SQL error everytime i try to edit my pages on this...?

1064 MySQL error... Can someone tell me how to fix this? Even on the pHpMyAdmin is says i have a SYNTAX error in the database... :(

Not familiar with SQL, please help!

oops ^ i quoted that cause i liked the idea although my reply to it didn't show up before my Help question.

I'm just wondering here why Htmlarea is being considered. VB 3 comes with a great WSIWYG entry system, why not just include that. It is already inbuilt, does some good stuff. In essence, why reinvent the wheel?

Hey, i installed the hack and everything.

But it says to upload a config.php file (which didnt come with the package) where do i get it?

I tried to copy and paste the confid from my includes folder, which made it work.. but how do i edit the template?

I realize support is limited.. but...

I want to include my vb header in the article system, not run a second header. I accomplished this on the article home page by just changing $home[header] to $header (same thing with the footer). But I can't seem to gt the header to appear on teh article pages. if I insert $header I get "Reference ID:8" displayed on the page. Any help woul dbe appreciated. The footer works fine.

Nevermind. Got it sorted by changing the articles.php file. Also cut down on a lot of unneeded templates.

FYI... the html in the files is really not that great. The FONT tag is old and outdated and shouldn't be used for anything.

It was mentioned earlier in this thread that the config.php file is no longer included or required. The instructions.txt file simply hasn't been updated to reflect that you'll want to upload printer.php now and not config.php.

Unless I'm mistaken you can also open articles.php and comment out this line:

any help with fixing this error?

Just wanna say thanks... It worked perfect straight off for me (after removing the require config line). I've modified it a bit and removed 5 queries.... Thanks for this, very nice. :)

You can see it in action here:
http://forum.rscnet.org/articles.php...&topic=GPL1965

guess not? :(

any chance of posting your updated code and the dev re-attached the updated code in the first post?

Not going to release any updated code until it's ready.... It will be posted when it's ready and not a minute sooner ;)

krohnathlonman,

If I could make a suggestion or two...

If you aren't already, is there anyway you could allow for a 'teaser' of each article of say 25 characters (or perhaps admin adjustable) in the article list menu.

Also, add the Authors name and the date written under the article list menu.

Just suggestions. Once I got mine (it was all my fault that it didn't work, I'm not even going to say what I did - kinda embarrassing) working I really like it and it is going to work perfectly for me and these suggestions are merely that... suggestions.

Any progress updates? I'm very eager to try this. :)