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.