I am in america...

OK, I looked at the demo again. I still fail to see why this is better than the way the postbit is now. If I use this mod, it will imply that all articles that I post were written by me. This is not always the case.

Very true bitg. It is more of a cosmetic thing I suppose. Saying that, isnt there some hack around here that lets you post as another user? If so... there you go. Marry the two together and live happily ever after ;)

Have you tried vbarticles? Not sure but that may do what you are after.

vb3articles is the same problem. Yours is much better. I just want another field that a user has to fill out when posting an article. The field is "Article Author". That is it. Then your modification would be perfect for me.

Then when the article is displayed, it would say "Article contributor" (which is the person uploading it) and "Article Author" (which is the person who wrote it). Granted, I could add this manually to the top of each article, but it would be nice if it were part of the system.

It distinguishes the official articles/tutorials from the standard threads.
on my forum at least, the "written by" states the article author not me. :confused:

Ah, I see what you mean. I will look into it however off the top of my head it means either altering the threads table to add another column (ugly IMO) or adding another table with this info (much better and easier). It then means either selecting from that table or changing the SQL that pulls the posts to join and include this outside table.

The other thing of course would be that newpost.php would have to be tweaked to accomidate.

Its all doable... but I dont know when I would have the time to do it.

Just as a thought: could this do the trick? I just browsed through it and it looks like it adds a text field to a new thread. If thats the case, it should be super easy to simply use that as the text field your after.

Sorry it isnt as perfect of a solution. Let me know how you crack on with it.

eh? Im going to get a large dent in the centre of my forehead over this. The seesions.php error is in regards to the 'auto selecting language' hack I put on the other day. Are you certain it still isnt working?

What about if you look at Snows? http://www.aboho.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2433

(hope you dont mind me posting the URL Snow). Can you see that Lionel. If so, then it is that other hack I installed recently (going to have to find a way tofix it). However if you CANT see it and get the same error, then there is a veryvery freaky bug hanging about in vB3 as a whole!

My Maney is on the language hack I did ;)

Let me know Lionel.

Cheers

no prob. ;)

Hello,

Can somebody explain what this hack does? Thanks

It turns the threads of a chosen forum into articles...

Nailgeek: thanks a lot!! flawless install!! Great hack!!