Tutorial Hack
 

// Tutorial Hack - [high]1.3[/high]

// Coded By: assassingod

// Credits:

• Slynderdale - Catagory Dropdown help
• NTLDR/LeeCHeSS - LEFT JOIN help
• Me - Working from 8PM til 4AM
• a-drive - Original Hack idea

// Description:
The Tutorial hack 1.3 has much more features that you can possibly imagine!
User permissions, allow or disallow users (and usergroups!) to use the tutorial
section. Tutorial Moderation, want to give approval to tutorials before they appear live on the site? With this feature you can, you can either allow or delete tutorials!
Search feature, now you and your users can search for tutorials easily without the hassle of looking for them!
Add, Delete, Modify catagories to your liking! You have an easy-to-use catagory manager so you dont have to go through any trouble adding catagories.
Allow your users to vote on their favourite tutorials. Good tutorials will be regconized by others! Move, Hide, Edit and Delete - these are some of the tutorial features you as an administrator can do for tutorials. Move a tutorial to another catagory, Hide it temporarily, Edit it and even Delete!
Quick Stats! See which tutorials are hot, and which are not.
Add a whole new level to your site with the Tutorial Hack!

// Upcoming features:
- Favourite Tutorials, users can add tutorials to their favourites page and find
the tutorial quickly!
- Page Numbers
- Users tutorials in profile (Add-on only)

// Notices:
- Sorry for the delay of 1.3
- A vB3 port is being considered, work will only be done on RC2 though, no earlier version will be tested on
- 1.4 will contain the formentioned upcoming features
- As I mention in the instructions, there are 27 templates to add.


// Add-ons:
Random Tutorials on forumhome - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....9&postcount=45


// Screenshots:
http://www.assassingod.com/screenshots
(Screenshots also included in the ZIP)

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• Updates: 1/12/2003 8.20AM (GMT): [high]Updated query and tutorials.php - thanks kaotic[/high]
• Updates: 3/12/2003 7.39PM (GMT): [high]Random Tutorial on forumhome add-on[/high]
• Updates: 4/12/2003 6.12PM (GMT): [high]Fixed [IMG] tag problem[/high]
• Updates: 23/1/2004 9.03PM (GMT): [high]Updated to 1.3[/high]

How to Upgrade: Re-upload tutorials.php and tutadmin.php. Follow the instructions. Re-do ALL templates

very nice looking, this hack will look excellent given the right style set, great work :)

Nice work! I'll be looking into it a bit later :)

Suggestion: maybe making the tutorial content box a bit bigger?

Excellent hack. This has the potential to accomplish many great things. Good work.

Edit:
Is there some form of comments system? Or would it be possible to have a topic automatically opened upon the installtion of a new tutorial?

OMG mate been lookin 4 sumthin the same nice werk my friend :)

I've got it installed now, but I did find one problem. In your instructions, it says to run this query:

Instead, it should be:

With exception of that minor flaw, good hack, good instructions, good job!

thanks 4 query fix i had this problem too

One more thing that I updated to suit my needs. I added...

...after...

...so that tutorials.php would basically redirect to tutorials.php?action=home. That's just me, though.

ok, I installed it, but when i goto test it out on localhost, it comes as a white page, but I've imported the templates using the Template Backup System

I think I can help.

Unless you took my advice from my previous post, you must go to tutorials.php?action=home to open the page, instead of tutorials.php.

another god sugestion would be to tell members how many tutorials there are in each catagory like an extra coloumn next to the image with this number...

Nice hack Steve :D

Is there any moderation on user-submitted tutorials?

How is this different from my hack here ?

kaotic, I was thinking of a comment system and will add that in the next version. Thanks for the query update & the tutorials.php edit. Will add that soon.

corsacrazy, i'll add that in a future version

FleaBag, good idea. I'll add this as an add-on rather than a feature

cinq, Sorry I didn't even realize yours good be used for tutorials (I only looked at the vBArticles, and just thought it could've been for articles only)

Upgraded to 1.1
Follow the instructions in the first post and re-download the file (tutorial_install - 1.1)

Wee, I am now out of business...Hehe.. though the system I have is pretty advanced I might just have to cut the price =P [/shameless]

Spellin mistake spotted causing a stat to not show on tute home

instead of

it should be



:nervous:

Cool assasingod. You're doing well with your hacks - I'm quickly becoming a fan.

Nice steve ;)

This is brilliant, Nice one mate seeing as you've seriously been working hard on this. This would be nice to have on this site so people can add their own tutorials for like using things on vB or php advice etc.

im using it for car tutorials step by step guides etc :)

hehe maybe this wasn't a good choose as a first hack to accomplish?

I have installed it and I get this message "Your account has been disabled for posting tutorials." when I attempt to post a tutorial :(

Should this installation show my current style or is it just for the vb default style?

I guess I have missed something very stupid here, could some kind sole please enlighten me.

surfhog, I realized that when coding the templates that I hardcoded in the colours in so i'll change that soon

corsacrazy, cheers:)

Everyone else, thanks for the positive feedback:)

ops!! OK that assassingod really nice hack though ;) Brilliant idea :)

How would I overcome this message "Your account has been disabled for posting tutorials" Please!

Have I missed something silly?

Should I have like an option in the ACP to select Allow/Disallow or something, maybe?

Thanks again :)

I will stop with my hacking, yours seems promising.

When you edit a user, you should get an option to change whether they can post tutorials or not (It should be set to 'yes' anyway)

Ok and tahnks again assassingod

You are 100% correct :) I did find that bit, I am getting sql errors now :(

rofl ;) no problems I am enjoying myself anyway, considering this is my first attempt at hacking vb haha - "newbies" - you just don't need'em do you lol

Still a great hack ;)

Thanks

What are the SQL errors?:)

hey, great work as usual :)

I will use that to allow my users posting articles.
Will you port that to vB3 and will you continue working on that (ab to post comments etc.) ??

Thanks. I will port this to vB3 as well as all the upcoming features:)

Can't wait to try it! Thanks for sharing!!

Thanks for the feedback.

Thank you very much assassingod = all done and dusted - not 3 bad for a newbie :) but then again it's the brilliant coder that should take the credit for all the work and support ;)

Installed on vb2.3.3 = OK

Just one last issue if I may? - Says that the cat images should be 50x50pix

I have attached a 50x50 image which shows in the ACP "Current Catagories in the database" But the images do not appear to show in the Tutorials Catagory Listings page :( Have I missed something again please and thanks

Sorry assassingod

I thought I had solved it :( silly me - When I go into ACP and hit template modify = this QSL error and I can't quite figuare this one out, maybe getting to tired now :(

Database error in vBulletin Control Panel 2.3.3:

Invalid SQL: SELECT templatesetid,title FROM templateset
mysql error: Table **** .templateset' doesn't exist

mysql error number: 1146


:disappointed:

Right click on the broken image and tell me the URL of the image. As for the SQL error, i'm not too sure about that one. Have you installed anything else that may cause this problem.?

I'll wait for other people to confirm the SQL error if it's my hack.

Thanks for this hack, it work very good.
But what must i modify for display pics into [.img] [./img] ?
A good tutorial is a tutorial with displayed ilustrations :)

I thought it did (I've just tested and it doesn't work;))
I'll fix this tonight:)

thanks again assassingod ;)

Well all mysql went pear shaped last night :( So I have completely reinstalled vbb and I will try again :)

assassingod - is this or would it be, like a replacement for "Forums Arranged in Columns Addon: Forum Images"

Sorry to take up your valuable time :)

Thanks

I'm not the sure about your question. Mind explaining it a bit further?