Geek Article System 3.5 RC2
 

Woohoo.

This is the RC for the next release of the Geek Article System.
I have decided to take it out of private beta as results from the private beta are taking yonks to come back in. I have fixed all known issues so we should be cooking on gas (hohohahaha).

Special thanks to gltdn for help with beta testing

Install instructions:
Read the readme in the package. Should be straight forward stuff.
It is important to note that THIS IS FOR A CLEAN INSTALL. I will devise an upgrade script when the package is final.

New features:

• Crap loads.
• New Article header image functions (global gallery, forum gallery and uploadable images)
• New forumdisplay/threadbit look and feel
• Synopsis box
• Post as user
• Autolink into the Geek Autolink system
• Turn on/off synopsis/byline
• Auto synopsis (if synopsis is off or left blank, it uses first x amount of posts from article)
• Synopsis uses BB code
• etc...etc...etc

A word about the installer.
This has taken me ages to do. The installer does everything for you (including all file changes). It will make backup copies of all files changed, make the file changes, and leave them in a folder for you to copy over when you are done. This may not work with PHP in safe mode. If you are using PHP in safe mode, you may have to do the changes manually (which you have the option to do anyway).

Click the install button if you install. Otherwise you may miss very important updates.

Demo: http://www.thenailgeek.com/forumdisplay.php?f=17

Missing phrases after install? Just search for a GAS phrase name... edit it, then click save. This will rebuild your phrases.

nJoy

To upgrade from 3.5 you CAN do this:

Run the uninstall for version 3 and replace the following files with clean copies:
showthread
editpost
newthread
printthread
includes/function_showthread

Then remove the GAS reference in admincp/index.php

Then follow the install instructions for this package.

Does upgrading using those instructions keep the old artitles or will the tables be overwritten?

Thanks

Hey, nice work! I've been watching this project with a keen eye for some time... And I like! I'm eventually going to move over to a new article system from vBarticles for various reasons. Nice to see an installer that modifies the files for you too!!! Haven't seen that since my days in UBB. :D

Hi The Geek,

first - thank you, for that wonderful hack.

I think I found the first little bugs:

1) Deletion of an article, doesn't delete the row in geek_articles table.
2) The file GAS_image_upload.php is not in the ZIP-Package
3) On showthread.php Templates 'GAS_article_pb' and 'GAS_showthread' needs to be cached.
4) On forumdisplay.php Template 'GAS_threadbit' needs to be cached.
5) When I edit an article, the article-image disappear.

Keep on the good work...

Looks cool! (maybe there could be an addon to get news off rss feeds :p)

Hey Juan - It will keep the articles as is. However It just occured to me that the DB will have to be manually altered as it only does a clean install if it doesnt already exists. In other words if the table exits 0 it ignores it and there are a couple of columns that need adding. Ill post an updated on that tonight.

Magic - Cheers for the info - Ill do an update later tonight

Updated package but....

1) Didnt address this as of yet. The only downside to the article header row not being deleted is that its a spare row floating about. Ill address this eventually but since I dont see it as ever being a problem - Ill make it low priority :)
2) The file was in the root of the folder... It goes in your root directory.
3) Done... thanks!
4) Done... thanks!
5) Cant reproduce. Maybe it was the missing GAS_image_upload file?

Let me know if that sorts it. Thanks again!

BTW: just updated package so that when upgrading, it will upgrade the geek_article Table too.

2) root dir of the forum or the server?