Geek Article and Review System (GARS) LITE

From the makers of disco and square dancing comes the LITE, GARS LITE. Released for those needing an article/tutorial/recipe/review/blahblahblah system for only 1 forum, GARS LITE will make your site sing.

To say that GARS is only for articles, tutorials and reviews is like saying spoons are only for eating cereal. GARS can radically transform your forums look and functionality by allowing you to create an unlimited amount of different configurations of phrases, template and modules that can be applied on a forum by forum basis.

Designed with its own module system, you can easily expand and customize your configurations like never before. Modules can be re-used and re-used each time with different settings.

GARS LITE Key Features

• Transform any forum instantly without importing or changing the underlying data.
• Since GARS sits in front of vB, Anything you can do in vB you can do in GARS (user permissions, WYSIWYG editor, BBcode, Subscriptions, attachments, etc...)
• Create an unlimited amount of configurations, template sets, etc...
• Upload default thread header images and create a gallery of images for users to choose from
• Create a standard set of Ratings for each configuration to use (perfect for reviews)
• Page break and navigation system for GARS that span multiple pages.
• GARS LITE comes with 9 pre installed modules.

What you cant do in the LITE version that you can in the PRO:

• GARS LITE limits you to using it on 1 forum.
• Users can not upload their own header images.
• Users may not rate in reviews only authors can.
• The module caching system is disabled

Please note that you MAY NOT remove the copyright at the bottom of the GARS enabled pages.

Check out the in depth on-line manual for information and admin screen shots

GARS requires vBulletin 3.5x and requires no file or template edits.

If you install, do me a please click the freaking install button.

nJoy

[menoutdoors]

Originally Posted by DRJ

I am having trouble posting a new article. I just get a message:

"Please complete both the subject and message fields."

Everything is filled out. It seems to have something to do with the length. If I make a smaller message it will work. The text I have is about 4000 characters, well under the 100k limit for a post that I have set.

Is there another option I need to look at somewhere?

Thanks

I am having the same issues. I have disabled max post size, enabled max post size and set it to 100k characters... nothing seems to work.

It will let me create a new article if i just type a few words in the initial create thread area, then I have to go back and edit the article and put the actual content in.

[menoutdoors]

I have found if I cut and paste any text into the Post New article window it will error out.

If I type the same text into the window it will process fine....

[tgreer]

This is a fix to the synopsis issue:

Currently, it is hard-coded to only show the first 250 characters, even though there is an admincp setting to override this.

To fix, open the gars_underscore_class.php file and replace the snip_and_parse function with this version:

PHP Code:

function snip_and_parse(&$text, $readmore = 0)
{
   $text = $this->parse_bbcode($this->prep_for_broken_tags(fetch_trimmed_title($text, intval($this->settings['maxsynopsischars']))));
   $readmore ? strlen($text)  > 240 ? $text . "... <a href='showthread.php?t=$readmore'><strong>More</strong></a>" : "" : "";
   return $text;
} 


You can adjust the hard-coded 240 if you like, though I chose to leave it on my site because I want all synopses to contain the "read more" link.

I've posted this fix at Geek's request.

[InsaneContender]

Is there a way I could possibly show the latest articles on say a navbar that is static within vBulletin? (On all vBulletin enabled pages)

[slim cutty]

I keep receiving this error..

You did not specify a username for your post.

How can I fix this?
and Yes... I have a user name in that place

thanks

[FLMom]

Hey, I installed this weeks ago and its working great! I am just getting around though to asking this question....

My post new article and comment buttons are not working, is there something I can do to fix this? All it shows is a red x in a box.

Other than this, I LOVE this!!! :banana:

[defcon_420]

they dont supply the buttons as there is many themes for vbulletin.. try google image search for article.gif and comment.gif

[defcon_420]

Dear Mr Geek,
I'm very sorry to inform you that i must click Uninstall as liked GARS lite so much i went and bought the Full Version
So ummm anywhere to click for preimum installs? lol

just 1 little thing, the instructions to upgrade from GARS lite to the full version were not very clear and i got a error when i imported the product (even thou i allowed overwrite), but i just uninstalled GARS lite and installed GARS and away it went... didnt even loose a single article!

I really dont mind paying what i consider a very small amount for what i can see is a great product. Excellent work!

[slim cutty]

^^^ I upgraded also... and very happy aside from some incompatibility with a few other hacks...

I don't know but some times I get a blank white page for now reason ... this happend after I upgraded... perhaps its another plugin... at anyrate upgrade is recommended

thanks:banana:

[magnus]

Originally Posted by slim cutty

I keep receiving this error..

You did not specify a username for your post.

How can I fix this?
and Yes... I have a user name in that place

thanks

I'm having this same problem.