Geek Article System 3 - RC1
 

HowdA All.

The GAS3 system is a comprehensive article system that completely integrates into vB3.

History

Originally, I looked into other article systems to integrate with my forums but just got irritated over and over again as I found the other offering out there very limiting for my needs. I wanted to use my members usergroup permissions, the search facility (so when someone did a search for bob both articles AND threads appeared on one page), I also wanted wysiwyg editing and vBs attachment system. Well, I accomplished 99% of my needs with the Geek Article System 2.0
Why 3.0? While the 2.0 was fine for my needs, many users began asking for a far more complex system that took the beauty of 2.0 and added popular features in the other article systems.

Here are the features in a nutshell:

• Integrates 100% into vB. No importing forums or creating special groups. Simply mark forum as an 'Article' forum and instantly all threads become articles. Dont like it anymore? Simply remove the ID and the therads and forums go back to normal.
• Whatever you can do in a thread or post, you can do with the GAS3 system (uploading attachments, smiles, BBcode, various editors, yadayadayada)
• Create multiple pages in your post by simply putting [BREAK] anywhere in your post.
• The first thumbnail in an article substitutes the posters avatar (switchable via admincp)
• Integrated article byline.
• Article sidebar that shows the article rating, your rating, the rating form, article tools, and article attachments (all toggable via admincp)

Special thanks goes to rlamego and to peterska2 for private Beta testing this for me. Couldnt of happened without them!

Planned work:

• I have integrated an attachment description modification, but so far I dont have an interface for the newattachment.php yet. I will do this as an add on (though the backend work is already in place)

Known issues:

• none that I am currently aware of.

Demos: (note that I have a custom skin, so your results will be ever so slightly different)
http://www.thenailgeek.com/showthread.php?t=11287
http://www.thenailgeek.com/showthread.php?t=8801 - pages of comments


Difficulty - Medium
Time - about 15 minutes
File modifications? a few

Instructions

Click install. Especially as a beta, the package could get important updates that you need to be aware of. Also, as soon as it goes live, I may do the gold release outside of this thread as I dont want to bog down the gold release thread with any beta issues (if there are any). You will need to be aware of when that happens (so click install darnit!)
Download the package and unzip.
Follow the GAS3_README file to the letter!
There is an install script that does most of the work for you. There are several file edits that you will have to do yourself though.
When done, go into your admncp, open vBulletin settings, open Geek Articles 3 settings (in the big list where you turn your VB on and off).

Troubleshooting:

• No phrases after install? This happens a lot with many installers for some bizzare reason. All you have to do is do a phrase search for GAS_ , edit the phrase (dont change it), then save it. Bingo - all your phrases appear.
• Settings not taking? Your settings need to be saved in your adminco in order to take effect.

Also:

For the love of Pete - this is a BETA hack. I would therefore backup your DB, your styles, and any of the files the README asks you to change.

nJoy

I would appreciate feedback on the installation process ASAP I am sure it is fine, but I have only been able to test on my system.

Thanks

Sweeeeeeeeeeet. I'll give this a run ASAP. I am *still* waiting to try out your Gallery plugin because I'm going through a serious work overload recovery...but my dev team will love to try out this little RC thingy.

Cool! I still have yet to find the magic mozilla pastehtml command for it though!

Anyway - let me know how you get on with the install.


Note:

I have just updated the readme as instruction 5.18 said Below, add and it needed to be Replace with. Package is updated.

wooooow thankyou for released it fast i was waiting for this MOD iwill install it right away :)

Just updated the package to 2-02 to address the following:


1- the instruction in 5.18 (as was mentioned in eariler post)
2- Incorrect addition in phrasegroup in instruction 4.2 (included the geek_popup phrasegroup which is for another mod of mine!) - so I removed that from the readme
3- updated teh functions_geekarticles.php as the threadrate select statement was missing some table prefixes which was causing an error with prefixed boards.

Thanks again goed to rlamego for spotting those!

your bug regarding the phrases not showing in some situation is related to your phrases included...

in function insert_phrase, you add the phrases in the languageid #0 ... put them in -1 if you want them to work, because #0 is a unknown language... -1 is the default . and your build_language(-1) tells it... ;)

...always add your phrases in the languageid #-1 ... to make them defaults.. like the templates...

from just looking at the links, it looks like it works on Mac OS X Safari, and Firefox 1.0 for OS X.

this is in response to your post that you made in the other thread that you closed ^^

more coders need to get Mac people to look at things before they release them -_- it annoys me to no end when a site looks like crap on my computer

hum... i myself usually comment when a script look bad on a Mac, i'm a Mac coder... but it's rare to see that kind of script look odd...!!

appears you're missing a table start in the GAS_forumdisplay template which shows up on my site with a sidebar since the table is malformed.

my fix was to;

FIND

$announcebits

ABOVE, ADD

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%" align="center">