bitg - Age : 93 ??!! haha :D:D

Will consider your ideas, coding time is limited now so i'll take things slow :)

Glad it works for you ! :D

Strangeness. When I try to add an article to any category from the ACP, it does not add the article at all if there is a ' anywhere in any field. It does not give me any errors, it just does not add it.

Now, this is to be expected since this is tying in a database. If I change all the ' to \' it works. However, after I successfully add the article, if I edit it and remove all the \ from the fields, it accepts it just fine.

Another thing, when I add an article via the ACP, it strips all my html from the article field. Yet when I edit the article, I can add the html back in and it accepts it.

This is not mission critical, but I do have to add each article and then edit each article before it is fit to be viewed.

Ideas?

Anyone facing the same problem ?
Weird but i cannot seem to replicate most of the problems reported on my localhost.

Everything works peachy for me....

Try this fix:

find in vbArticlesadmin.php (around line 229):

change to this:

Dark Wizard, what will this change do?

It should fix your problem with the '.
If not I have something else that should work

Oh. Cool. Any ideas about the html problem?

I haven't looked at it and I cannot as I am involved with 3 other hacks right now but if cinq doesn't get to it before I'm done then I will look into it for you.

Perfect! What's about xHTML?

1) if a mod or admin adds and article no validation needed
2) when I press "Submit new Article" in one of the Categorys, for example a category called "Rock Music", it would be good that in the field "Choose category Bellow" would be selected on "Rock Music" (this code could be taken from add a new sub-forum form cp)
4) date could automaticly added, if user does not selects to add his own date
5) Photos could be adde in certain places and text woul go along them :ninja:

6.1) How it is going on with sub-categorys? :surprised:

any way to get this to use vbulletins vbcodes instead of using vbcodes.php ?

Also it seems if I use html in the content area it just removes it all together. HTML / XML in the descriptoin works correctly and just displays the code. Many of the tutorials I have will have XML and HTML code for readers to see and try. I figure if it just used vbulletins system it would display correctly.

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?

Interesting...I just posted an article with 1 word in the "content". Then, in the "Validate" box, I pasted in the actual text I wanted (complete with basic vBCode formatting). It accepted the text, but hosed the format. Check it out here:

http://forums.itpdiesel.com/articles...rticle&artid=5

LOL is well weird that

is one way of getting your text in though m8

I tested all of the vBCode formatting types I used in that article and they work fine when entered manually. I'm attempting to manually retype this article to see if it will take it with all of the formatting.

For some reason, it's treating "Pasted" text differently than "Typed" text?????

This is getting more frustrating by the minute. I just completely retyped that article, with all of the formatting, and it still won't appear in "Validate"...$%#* that was a lot of typing!!!

I just went through and removed ALL of the vBCode formatting and it still won't appear in "Validate"...this still has me wondering if there is a "Message Length" limitation or something that is screwing me up???

I think that I am having the same basic problem that you are having. When I go to the vbarticles category page and click submit new article it gives me the box to put in all the info. I put my article in there and click submit and it pops up saying:

The article you submitted will be reviewed and added to the database

Here is where I am a tad confused. It will not show up under the articles list. I am also confused when you guys say it wont appear in validate. Where is this because I have not seen a block or list that shows articles waiting to be validated. I have managed to get a couple other articles in there by putting test in the block and then going into the control panel and clicking edit. I can then paste all of my HTML and it will show up. Part of this might be that I am running VBPortal too. Everything seems to be working for the most part though...just a few hiccups.

In the Admin Control Panel, you will find a vB Articles section. Here you will find the ability to add/delete articles and categories, and validate and edit articles.

My problem is that these articles are not showing up in the Admin CP???

Dennis

Ya I have the VB Ariticles section but I do not have anything to do with validation. I have checked to make sure that the validation is turned on under vBulletin Options too. I have

View/Edit/Add Article
Add Category
View All articles

There is nothing regarding validation under any of those links.

The only way I have been able to get articles in is by going to the admin CP and adding a new article. I fill out all the information and then under the article content block I just put test. I submit it and then go back in and edit that article. I can then paste the HTML into the block and everythign works.

Well I fixed the validation block...it shows up in the Admin cp.

I am trying to figure out how to put thumbnail images infront of the reviews. Like the categories currently have. Any tips would be welcome. As it is right now I am going through duplicating the caticon information in a first attempt.

anyone have a working solution to the apostrophe problem?

I tried the one posted previously, and it didn't work.

I imagine it would just involve using Strip Slashes, I'm no guru, but I'll try and look into it tonight if I don't need to sleep for work in the morning.

Cinq, tell me how far is it with subcategorys?
Really waiting for the next version and want to help.

Does anyone know how to make the copy/paste work without everything not showing up? I like this a lot if I could copy/paste but I don't have time to re-type everything either. Looks nice though. :)

I determined that my copy/paste problems were with apostrophes in words like "don't". I had to strip out every apostrophe and it pasted just fine. Hope that helps.

thank you that did help. I must have missed that. Thanks so much for re-posting it for me. :)

It is in you vbulletin Options (the one on the top of the list of things in admin/index.php) When you click Options it will be at the end of those (after Time/Date Options, etc.) listed.

I don't know why this works but it does.

First go to your admin panel and click to add a new article.
then just put a few letters or something in the article field (no quotes) and submit in normally. This gives it an article number.

Then you just edit the article and put your real content in there including html or whatever. You can have as many quotes as you want. submit the Editted changes.

Click view all articles and walla it is there with no problems (quotes and all).

Goofy, eh? It is working for me though.

this don't work for me, is there any chance of an update coming out soon?

Who knows?!

We wait in hope...

Would it be possible to add a feature to insert images wherever you need them, so an article could turn out like this... http://paintball.com/features/story....89&Clickon=PGG