vbArticles by Mary
 

1.- Product Highlights

• Can be used as Article managment, Reviews system or New publishing
• Unlimited categories
• New HTML Editor in article body
• New Admin and Moderators can edit article
• Lot's of configurations per usergroup, so you can easily turn it in a paid subscription module.
• Rate & Review Article (one rating per user)
• Top Articles
• Related Articles
• Newest Articles
• Author's Top Article
• Print Article
• Email Article
• Report Article to Admin
• and many others.... check 'em out
• No Time Limit - Totally Free

2.- Lite to Commercial differencies

• No Top Authors
• No Editor Choices
• Lite uploads only images while Commercial uploads and play inline audio and video
• Advanced HTML Editor with Media uploads and YouTube code
• No Search

3.- Installation

• Step 1: Upload the entire /vbarticles directory to your webserver UNDER the folder where your vBulletin is installed. eg if your vb installation is located at:
  http://www.yourdomain.com/forums then /vbarticles directory must be under this (/forums).
• Step 2: Upload vbarticles.php at your forum directory (!!NOT!! in vbarticles directory).
• Step 3: Upload the file /admicp/vbarticles_admin.php to your /forum/admincp directory
• Step 4: Upload the files in /includes/xml/*.* to your /forum/includes/xml/
• Step 5: CMOD the following directories to 777
  /photos (inside vbarticles directory)
  /video (inside vbarticles directory)
  /audio (inside vbarticles directory)
  /tmp (inside vbarticles directory)
  /thumbs (inside vbarticles/photos directory)
• Step 6: For security reasons backup your database AND turn your board off
• Step 7: Check at your AdminCP->vBulletin Options->Plugin/Hook System that Plugin system is enabled.
• Step 8: From your AdminCP->Plugin System->Manage Products choose Add/Import Product and import the product: product_vbarticles.xml
• Step 9: If you want to add a link to your nav bar then you must edit the NAVBAR template:
  Search For:

Add Below:

• Step 10: By default none usergroup has permissions to use vbarticles, so you need to give permissions to any group. Goto AdminCP->Usergroups->Usergroup Manager and edit any usergroup you like to give permissions.
  *** IMPORTANT ***
  If you don't give to Guest at least "can use" authorities, then they must NOT be able to see the links (Tell a Friend function).
• Step 11: In your adminCP, under vbArticle, choose vbArticles options and configure it depending on your needs. If you can't see vbArticle's menu, then logout and login again to your admincp.

4.- 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. The sane applies for writting addons or integrading it with any other software or module (eg vbAdvanced).

Copyright removal, editing or replacement PROHIBITED !! My copyright text and link must remain visible. If your template has colors that makes my copyright invisible you're responsible to change the color of my copyright to be straight visible.

Hi I would like to use this for something else, Can zip files be uploaded to the article or is it just music and videos?

Sorry no. This version supports only photo uploading.

Ah thats a shame, ok thanks anyway :(

Will the commercial version handle FLV uploads and playing ? If so this would be perfect for displaying my videos.

works really great thanksss

Is there a way or separate mod available in where users will be able to tell if a new article has been posted, from the forum?

Try the commercial demo at:
http://www.madebymary.com/forums/vbarticles.php

The Editor for sure supports FLV, didn't remembered if I checked it uploading FLV via the form.

Sorry I didn't got your meaning. What for sure exist are different blocks for vBa in case that you use it. One of them is: Latest post Article

Well i uploaded via the form but it didn't show up the flv.

I was hoping to use this to host my videos.

This is a very nice program. A few things before I buy. I'm going to send you a PM.

I want to get the paid version
One question: Since this is not using vb tables, what happens if you drop this project? How will I be able to continue my site? How will I transfer this data to a new vb system?
I just want to assure continuity since I am making a site strictly based on articles

All my modules use seperate tables but to keep some compatibility all tables have the same prefix as your vb installation.
So you can easily backup and restore them among all other vb's tables.

How and where can I download the 3.5.x version on your site? Do you have to register in your site to purchase the paid version? Also when making the purchase is there are choice between the 3.5.x and 3.6.x version?

I am lovin this mod and was curious if there was a way to add to this mod a feature that the admin can turn on/off to email or PM defined staff members when a new article has been submited only if article moderation is enabled. Also when its aproved the article poster gets a pm/email that its been approved? Any thoughts...

Also I want to purchase the FULL version for my 3.5.x site because I want to use the vidio,audio features. Where on your site is the 3.5.x version....

Also ive noticed a block callled Newest Author on the right side on my articles screen that just wont go away and never gets updated.. Whats that? is that bug?

Is there a reason why this block never get updated ?

Hello my friends,

I just released version 1.5.5 of vbarticles with the following additions:

• I used a different query to show Newest Author, so now someone will be always appear there.
• I added article's thumb in category listing
• I added a new switch to admin, so he can now setup if unregistered or not logon users can see the body article or not. This is a good way to drive visitors to become memebrs.
• In full article view, the title in browser now shows the article's title for search engines.

Sorry, but I had in mind to add another feature in editor, to allow insertion of smilies, but finally it's author didn't gave me permission to add this feature in the free version.

To upgrade to latest version, just upload vbarticles.php and reimport product-vbarticles.xml

Cheers
Maria

Hello! :)

I just installed vbarticles on my forum, and looking to maybe purchase the full version, but i have a few (newbie) questions..

1: How can i translate the language/text of vbarticles ?
2: How can i add/delete/manage categories?

Thank you for a great piece of software! :)

Petter

Hello Petter,

There are 2 ways to translate a language file:

1. From your admincp->Languages & Phrases->Phrase Manager->vbArticles
2. Translating directly the product-vbarticles.xml and re-importing it.

In which language do you want it to translate? As I know there is already German, Dutch, Francais, Spanish, even Vietnamese.

You can manage categories from your admincp->vbArticles->Manage categories

Maria

Hello! :)

Thank you for a quick reply! I was to eager to start testing the product, so i bought the full version from your site (username: Petter ).

Im going to translate this version to Norwegian. I can email you the translated version if you want to after im finished :)

Im unable to find the "Manage Categories" in the free version. Im going to install the full version in a few minutes and see if i can find this menu in the full version. I got the admincp->vbarticles menu, but can only find general settings in this page.

- Petter

Hello! :-)

Im now finished with installing (and translating) vbArticles. Quick and easy :)
Im still unable to find the "Manage Articles" within "vbarticles" menu in the admincp. Could be that im either blind, or retarded (or even both) ;)

vbarticles menu should appear in your admin cp here buddy :

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/1662/cpanelxo9.gif

I have the full version installed and working 100% hope that helps...

Sometimes after installing a new product, even if it's options appear among other vB's options (top drop down), it dosen't appear at the left side. In this case you must logout and relogin or just press F5 to refresh the page.

Is there a version for the 3.6.5 version of vbulletin?