Nice to hear about the editor, would be a neat feature....

Well ok, i agree with you about the editing, for some special cases. But in faxt, in VB itself you are able to edit posts even as admin, not as normal user, that's something nt really good.

EMail messages don't really work. But what about ( that was what i originally thought about, but forgot to write ) extending the link below a article and the permission system so that a usergroup that has the granted right may be able to approve articles without the need to be able to login the admincp.

If that would be given, hey, i'm the next one to buy. It's hard to manage everything alone, that's why this is a real important feature for us.....

That's easy as I've already done half the work, setting permissions for "mod". The only that lest is to add a link in member's menu "Approve Profiles" visible only to right usergroup. I wrote it down for next update.

Sounds promising, thanks. Any timeline yet? Think i should really buy the full version later the day when i'm at home.

I cannot get the link to show up in the navbar

This seems to have fixed the bug and resolved my biggest concern, thank you. :)

A couple things though...

1) In the AdminCP, under the vBArticles - Choose Editor does indeed show a blank page, not sure if it is still supposed to do this.

HOWEVER...

2) The editor choice does display when creating a new article, so that resolved the issue of non-paragraph formatting.

3) To prevent my users from selecting the editor mode that does not format the articles properly, I changed the 2 instances of :

$show['qr_require_click'] = 0;

to

$show['fe_require_click'] = 0;

And that removed the option for members to be able to select the non-operating editor.

Thanks again for the fix. I'll be purchasing the full version pretty soon. ;)


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New Questions

1) What about mass moderation? Let's say that you want to move several articles into a different category...or perhaps delete 20+ articles. There doesn't seem to be a way to do this efficiently. It looks like one has to go to each article and click the delete button.

Also, if someone puts their article into the wrong category (and the option to approve is turned off, or perhaps the admin/mod just spaced it and wasn't paying attention to the category), then the site is out of luck as there is no way to move someone ELSE's article. We have to instead ask the author to move his own article...this seems incredibly inefficient.

Any plans on resolving this?

Or is this supposed to be done via "Manage Articles" in the admincp? If so, my page is blank other than the field names at the top of the page. No articles are displayed despite having articles existing.

2) Currently, these areas of the vbarticles admincp are blank or have no data:

Choose Editor
Manage Articles
Editor's Choice

3) Currently, the Who's Online display says:

Unknown Location
/forums/vbarticles.php

Any plans on fixing that one?

I need help with a font color problem, not sure what it is?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...auron/help.jpg

The title is blanked out by the white. Anyway to fix this?

Thanks.

In AdminCP, There is nothing in Editor's choice.

Even after trying
Paragraph formatting doesn't work. Pasting into , Notepad, Word pad, Crimson Editor, Open office or Homesite does not resolve the problem either.

Everything else is awesome! If you can fix this I am sure I will buy the full version!

Have you any active article that has already been set as Editor's choice. At that list appear only articles that are already marked as Editor's choice, giving you the ability to unmark them.
If you want to mark an article as editor's choice you've 2 ...choices:-)

• When you approve articles choose Appr+EdCh instead only Approved
• While you're viewing an article (as Admin) there is a link at the bottom "Set as Editor's choice" or "Remove from Editor's choice" (if it's already).

Seems that you're the only one that you've left with this bug active. Everybody who has reported this problem, after changing 'qr' with 'fe' has no problem any more. Could you please search for 'qr too?
Also give a look at your editor? Does it appears at the top right side the editor switcher?

Hey Maria :)

A question, what is this file "vbarticles categories side.php" and how work ?

I found the problem. Apparently I am a freaking idiot.
When you edit the file, your SUPPOSED to upload it back to the server. If you do not do this, the changes will not take place. Sorry about that.

is there a block for that mod to be used on a main page ? it's not really much use to my site if it can only be displayed in vb

I've added a free block here and more there are at:
http://www.madebymary.com/index.php?page=vbavbarticles

See it in action at: http://www.madebymary.com/index.php?page=vbavbarticles

It's a module for vbAdvanced showing the categories in list mode

istalled the mod, but when I upload a article and pic, i get the following:
Warning: move_uploaded_file(./vbarticles/tmp/phprjDkQQ.jpg): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /vbarticles.php on line 783

Warning: move_uploaded_file(): Unable to move '/tmp/phprjDkQQ' to './vbarticles/tmp/phprjDkQQ.jpg' in /vbarticles.php on line 783

also, after you moderate the article in acp, the article shows up, but under "my articles"
it is totally blank as well.

please help.

Have you CMOD 777 the directories:

/photos
/tmp
/photos/thumbs


???

I didn't got it:( Can you add a screenshoot or a link?

Email me your product-vbarticles.xml file to remove my background and replace it with normal header as in boxes on the right.

This does not appear for me. The only admin option I get is "Delete". I used 2 different admin accounts to test this. Could the fact be that both accounts belong to sub-groups as secondary usergroups be affecting this?

Also...


New Questions

1) What about mass moderation? Let's say that you want to move several articles into a different category...or perhaps delete 20+ articles. There doesn't seem to be a way to do this efficiently. It looks like one has to go to each article and click the delete button.

Also, if someone puts their article into the wrong category (and the option to approve is turned off, or perhaps the admin/mod just spaced it and wasn't paying attention to the category), then the site is out of luck as there is no way to move someone ELSE's article. We have to instead ask the author to move his own article...this seems incredibly inefficient.

Any plans on resolving this?

Or is this supposed to be done via "Manage Articles" in the admincp? If so, my page is blank other than the field names at the top of the page. No articles are displayed despite having articles existing.

2) Currently, these areas of the vbarticles admincp are blank or have no data:

Choose Editor
Manage Articles
Editor's Choice

3) Currently, the Who's Online display says:

Unknown Location
/forums/vbarticles.php

Any plans on fixing that one?

once we get this figgured out, I need to know how to change the default text background for the posted articles from a black back ground, to a white back ground...
cant read the text unless i change the color of the font.
Check it out:
http://www.smokinchevy.com/vbarticle...le&articleid=1

Also..
one other thing...
why does a ADMIN have to moderate the entire article again after the user makes a change to it?
Thats way too gay!
but if the admin dont moderate it again, if you click on the link for the article it wont show up :)
http://www.smokinchevy.com/vbarticles.php


yup.
But photos /tmp / directorys were not already there.
only images and video where there by default.
I had to make directorys for /photos /tmp /photos/thumbs.
I did chmod 777 those newly created directorys.
here is the screen shot url hope it shows up enough:
http://www.smokinchevy.com/files/videos/screen07.bmp

I love this mod..
but there is no way to make the side column work for VB only and not vbadvanced?
dont wanna mess the board up without asking questions first... :)

vBulletin Message
Photo Upload Failed.

In your style's templates:

vbarticle Templates ---> vbarticles_articleviewbit

Find: $article_details[message]

Edit the "td" parameters that are right above it. By default, it appears to use either alt1 or alt2.

I added: bgcolor="#F5F5F5" to change the background to a light blue.

that worked great :) thanks!

Hey Mary,

the mod you made here is really awsome! I have some questions & suggestions for the future:

1) Is there a possibility to get a page like your index.php?page=vbavbarticles without having vbadvanced installed? I don't use it nor any other portal system. Others users don't use vbadvanced as well. Could you create a .php where all the boxes from your index.php?page=vbavbarticles show up in a similar way?

2) How can I add a "Articles posted: X" and a "Top Author-Award" to my postbit template? which variables do i need?

3) Is there a possibility to show a toplist of authors, articles and new articles in vbarticles? I miss that feature. There should be a link to such toplists at the "top authors", "top articles" and "new articles" titels on the vbarticle mainpage.

Thanks a lot for your support!

bye
Vic

i agree with VIC...
and we still need the photo posting problem addressed..
or am i the only one with that problem? Vic?

where is the php block? i don;t see it in your site. please note that i am not using vbadvanced

i really really really wish admin could edit the body of the articles, for one, its NOT illegal, if so vB itself would not exist, admins have the ability to edit any post

#2 example: a user spends the time to write a review and for whatever reason the user never comes back, and he has hotlinked to an image and the host of the image changes it to another image or the link goes dead, then admin can only move or delete a great review because he cannot edit the review

#3 example: same premise as above, a user posts a great review for a product with an external link to another website, that website changes ownership and now the link points to a porn site, instead of admin editing the review itself by simply taking the link out or changing it to a proper link, the admin is forced to delete a perfectly good review because the original user in no longer a member

I must agree the not having the ability to edit entries is a killer on this mod. I'm not about sit around and approve everything submitted by 3000 members. Not only would it severely delay the posting process it would be a real PITA. A few of my members are also allergic to spell checkers. Being able to edit something to make it readable is a necessity.

photo-posting works perfectly for me.


i agree to the fact that an admin is responsible for all text and grafic at a webpage so he has to have "edit"-permissions on articles. this fact should be published to everyone that wants to publish an article via vbarticles. the examples dsotmoon posted are perfect. as admin you can edit every single thread and post. why not add a forced "edited by [AdminName]"-tag when admin edits an article, instead of completely forbitting the edit-feature.

bye
Vic

ps: please excuse my bad english :rolleyes:

Easily ModOfTheMonth ;)

Installing / Nominating!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks - I really love this MOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

85 Installations - 0 Donations :p

i would buy pro version & donate if it had admin editing abilities, i think alot others would too, this hack would easily surpass the popularity of itrader or any other mod on my forums but i cant install it if I dont have admin control over editing it :(

...hahaha... You made my night (I'm ready to go dreaming:D ). I'll add this function and I don't want you to donate or to buy the full version. I never did in my life something in ..exchange:rolleyes: ;)

Hello and thanks for the help ;)

I want a thumbnail before or after the articel text

se my attach
Attachment 59247

I have a quick question, it is possible to disable the right column (latest reviews/related article/about author) when reader click to read? It'd be great to see a full clean page so the article is holding more chars.

Sorry if it's already included in the mod.

As I can't understand your language could you please tell me if that list is "My Articles" list, or the "Category list"?

You can do it modifying the template vbarticles_viewarticle removing the following code:

Thanks for helping out, also if I understand correctly, the limit number of pages in one article is unlimited? If there is a limit please let me know.

Hey Mary,

thanks for adding the editing option in the near future! Could you please take a look at my questions/suggestions above?

Is there a possibility to donate from Germany without paypal?

bye
Vic

Thank you!

Perfect. I was thinking the exact same thing. Thank you!