If I understood well, you want to use the block(s) that I've for vBa to another than vBa page. What type is that page? If it's normal PHP (but not vB page) I'm planing soon to port these blocks for PHP pages.

Sorry, but both are included in commercial version and it's not a template change as I also removed the PHP code.

sorry its in the Category list

Not sure if this was reported earlier, but if you have articles in more than 1 pages and you try to go to Next page of articles in a category, it gives a Blank page and no articles. Can anyone confirm this.

thank you Mary, I look forward to the update

I'd need those blocks to create a similar page like your index.php?page=vbavbarticles as a subpage to the forum (vB page). But your idea to make it available to normal php pages is even better. It would be really awsome if top articles/top authors/etc could be read by php pages - similar to rss streams.

Sorry, didn't know that those features are integrated in your commercial version. To tell the truth, I didn't even know that there's a commercial version. But following your hint I visited your site and read about a "new vbarticles" which sounds really interesting to me. Will I be able to update to that new vbarticles if i buy the "normal" vbarticles that is in your shop right now? btw, your index.php?page=vbarticles seems to be broken.

bye
Vic

It's already fixed but didn't release it yet as I want to add some new features too.

eisai Prwth

thanks alot maria :) installed ;)

thank you very much. is there a way to display a user's articles in their profiles?

Hello and thanks for the help

I want a thumbnail before or after the articel text

se my attach
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...7&d=1169151972

Dear Friends,

I just released the new commercial version of vbArticles and in a couple of days I'll release the new freeware too. Some additions that will be in the new (Free) version are:

1.- Bug fixes

• Bug in Pagination Fixed

2.- Improvments

• Admin can setup if in the site will be shown user's photo or user's avatar.
• Admin can hide/unhide the right column in full article view.
• Admin can choose my style for headers in front page or he can turn them off and use default style.
• Admin can edit the article:rolleyes:
• User can edit his post just after the post without to wait admin's approval. That's saves time for admin to reaprove it.
• User can add, edit or delete his photo.
• In Member's menu there is a new option "Approve Articles" visible only to those who have permissions for it.

3.- Plans for the future

• None. This is my first and last upgrade of the free version. I think that it has lot of features for something that is given totally free. Should be other free modules but for this one don't expect anything more than bug fixes. Clear and straight words. With 0 donations there is no any reason to push me for new improvments.

4.- About Support

• I wrote it in the first line, I'm repeating it here again. NO SUPPORT will be given here, simple because I dont have time to move between all websites that I've post my module. If someone wants to ask something, here is my site.

Cheers
Maria

Well for a new mod it's making big progress. I bought it because it's exactly what i was long time searching for and a similar mod from vbviet never worked really. Just ask the questions in her forums and everything is fine. Where is the problem to do so if the author asks about it? tsss

I believe that some of it may be the fact that, based on her postings, she's not as well-versed in the English language as you or I. I would guess she is not from the USA (just a guess).

But beyond the personal aspect: I, too, have considered buying the commercial version, but there are just too_many_bugs in the free version to feel confident in paying for this mod.

I will say that, being that this is a BRAND NEW mod - and very buggy at that - her coming out and all but DEMANDING that you start sending your hard earned cash her way is, in fact, a bit pushy.

I mean, just in the last 10 minutes, I've found that:

1. When I DELETE an article, I get several php errors when it tries to unlink the attached image. No big deal, as the article does get deleted, but if she expects me to pay for this, it has to be without glaring bugs like this. (yes, all my directories are correctly chmod'd).

2. The missing paragraph thing STILL plagues many (yes, I have enabled the Enhanced Editor and even have selected it), but it doesn't always work. And ANY time I go back and EDIT a previous article, it looses all the paragraphs, too. No WAY I'm going to pay for software THIS buggy.

3. Look at the SQL for determining the "Newest Author":

// Newest Author
$newestauthor = $vbulletin->db->query_first("
SELECT *
FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "vbarticles_articles AS articles
LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user AS users ON (users.userid=articles.userid)
WHERE users.vbarticles_stories=1
ORDER BY articles.postdate DESC
LIMIT 1
");

Note the highlighted area. If I have 20 people who have added articles, and all of them have MORE than 1 article, this query will NEVER return a "Newest Author" - which means that block stays empty (no newest author). Get rid of the line and it always returns the most recent author (what I would call the "newest author").

When the bugs are worked out, I will purchase it. But when someone comes out RIGHT FROM THE START and expects everybody to start throwing money at her/him when the product does NOT work as it should, that's pushing it.

If/when she gets it bug-free, I will be purchasing it. Until then, I just can't send $$ in good faith, knowing that the product isn't working very well ...

FYI: The errors I get when trying to delete an article with an image attached is:

Warning: unlink(vbarticles/photos/) [function.unlink]: Is a directory in /vbarticles.php on line 1978
Warning: unlink(vbarticles/thumbs/) [function.unlink]: Is a directory in /vbarticles.php on line 1979

thanks Maria for the updates

Does anyone else have an issue with nothing showing on page 2,3,4 etc if you have more than one page worth under a category? I have 18 articles in one, and its set to show 10, then in page two it has nothing.,

Just noticed on mine page 2 link = vbarticles.php?do=category&page=2
When for this category it should be = vbarticles.php?do=category&categoryid=2&page=2

Yes, I'm coming from Greece. You can see it under my nick. Even my nickname says it: MicroHellas (even only few people knows that the official name of Greece is Hellas).


Too many? Can you name them? There are only 2. One in search form (not including in free version and the other in pagination). If you mean errors in editor, sorry but I dont count them as bugs. I followed the parammeters that are given at vb's API in function's section. Everything is depending on vb's configuration. eg in my demo was working, in some others also was working, others have problem only with smilies, others haven't problem with smilies but with paragraph breaks.

That's the difference between commercial and free version. Not really the added features but support. If you check my forums you'll see that from the first day I've solved it and post report in my forums. Go there to check that I'm saying the true. Sorry, but I've no time to post exactly the same in all forums where I've post my module. Last but not least, i gave warning about this: NO SUPPORT HERE.

That's your opinion. I respect it even if I dont agree with it.

Even if you're breaking the licence now (have you read it?), what I can say is:
That's correct on my side. Better to get an empty block than to add more complicated queries. From the other side, I can't count someone who has more than 1 articles as newest.

Thanks for making my day:) I've never laught so much early in the morning. While big companies can't deliver a bug free software, for which you paid more than $100, are you expecting it from something that costs only $24.90???

If you see my post before about new features, you'll see that there was a bug in pagination which has been fixed.

Can everyone please remember that saying If you haven't got something nice to say, then don't say anything at all and apply it. Thank you.

Mary, thanks alot... i am using your vbarticles and followed your solutions to fix the bugs and it is wokring fine for me.. good job .... waiting for the updated version..

Maria, I love ya and your mod here and will definitely purchase it soon when some of the bugs are worked out (I'm confident they will be :) ), but the statement that vbArticles is working fine, is not true (unless you have resolved the issue recently).

It was I who posted the test article on your board: http://www.madebymary.com/forums/vba...e&articleid=14

The "bug" or problem, exists even on your board (I had pointed that out once or twice in this thread and on your site).

So while it may work from time to time, it doesn't always work. I think that is a more accurate statement.

Keep up the great work though. I know you get a lot of flak, but it is obvious that this mod will be one of the more popular here at vb.org. ;)

I resolved the problem on the ...Greek way. I just replaced it with a commercial editor that I bought to include it in my mod.

Maria

Is it possible for the author of the article to add another page to the article? I mean for really long articles or tutorials. For example you could have an x amount of chracters/words one the first page and so on one page, then 15,000 more on the next and so on.

Till now I haven't deal with pagination on article. It's on my plans for future release but not in free version.

Well when its out in the commercial version, I will be sure to purchase a copy! Thanks for the speedy reply. ^_^

-Zachery

I installed this hack, not doing much right now since the site is just open to public since 24 hours...
I do think it is time to stop ranting here.
It is FREE software you download here. It is indeed promising a lot of features and let's be honest, did it crash your database/server ? Is it absolutely not working ? Is it THAT bad, common, those that code... this is not just rubbish, it is a nice template that with some time and POSITIVE help/feedback from us all be debugged and made good.
And like she said... how many bugs has Vista ???? You dear to speak like this to Bill Gates ... we all know the richest man with the poorest product but the best marketing machine...

This is not the way you help make some code better, think you just achieved MicroHellas to quit making hacks...

And this is what can be worst in a community like this one... instead encouraging people, you destroy good will... how in gods name will a beginning coder react if he reads this... thanks folks but to be shouted at like this byebye

Have some decency and respect for those that spend time for you creating software..

And I'm sure some will shout back ... just because they can't avoid doing so...

Well I'm ready to purchase the commercial version of this but I have one question first and asked it at Maria's forum, as requested. I have yet to receive a response from it but since she's answering questions here I'll ask it here...

Is this mod php5.x and MySQL 5 compatible?

I have the free version on PHP 5 installed and it is ok, can't tell for Mysql though since my production servers are still on 4 (not to keen on being a test case ;) )

Strange. I found your question here and not in my forums?:confused: Yes, it's compatible simple because in everything around database I'm using vB's internal functions.

Thanks for the response.

My question is the last one in the pic.

How hard is it to upgrade the installation of vbarticles lite to the commercial version at a later date?

From the new version and then I think that it will be difficult. In my new commercial version I've replaced vB editor with a commercial HTML web editor which has no any problem and much more features than vB's (eg upload flash, audio, video, build in shared gallery etc).

The problem is that as this editor is a commercial one, I can't include it in the Free version according to author's licence. And that's logic. I can't add in a free software something that costs around $100. I've asked the author if he can product for me a lite version of it to include it in the next free upgrade just to keep compatiblity for those who will want tu upgrade. But till now I've no any reply from them.

Also keep in mind that the commercial version will be $34.90 instead of $24.90 for the same reason menthioned above.

Maria

To solve the paragraph issue you need to edit the vbArticles.php file

Search for the following two lines

*removed due to copyright infringement by myself*

Comment them out with //'s and paste below the following;

*removed due to copyright infringement by myself*

NB: There are two instances of this to change, one in the New Article section and one in the update article section

Do you know to read my dear???

5.- Copyright

This script cannot be redistributed, reproduced, or published in any way. Modifying this script and sharing or publishing your modification A-N-Y-W-H-E-R-E (including here) without the author's written permission is strictly prohibited.

I understand, it solves a bug in the software, I've edited my post to address it, I'll not help out again if it's a copyright infringement.

What I really don't understand is, while you haven't installed it, why are you modifying the code?

The mod has not been installed live, it was on a test server, however the paragraph issue was a show stopper for myself and as such the 5 lines of code solved the problem.

I understand now that I am not allowed to edit the code even to fix issues so have decided to find another module to suit my needs.

Still you're wrong. You can do ANYTHING YOU LIKE with the code with 2 exceptions:

• You can't remove my copyright
• You can't publish or share your modification. You can use them just for your own use.

Ok, I miss read the copyright.

I'm used to working under GPL so I apologise for the code posted.