Forum Display Enhancements - Article Forums v4.x

Turn a forum into an article forum. Sub-forums are turned into categories.

• Posts/Articles show in searches & in new posts
• Create as many sub-forums/ categories as you need - categories display in navbar
• Follows forum permissions
• Can still rate thread, etc.
• Different postbits for article and replies (comments) - Optional
• Choose what to display in postbit for article and comments
• Choose what to display on articles in vBulletin Options

Installation:

1. Upload articles.php
2. Import product file
3. Create a forum in admincp
4. Go to vBulletin Options->Article forum Options

Remember to click Mark as Installed to receive updates and support

[av8or1]

Ok, this might be a silly question, but I'll ask anyway; I did a search and nothing turned up.

Within my forum we have articles, however my userbase decided to only purchase the forums license and not the forums+CMS variant. So a mod like this would be great for us! The only thing is that we want to keep the majority of the forum as-is, with only the "articles forum" if-you-will formatted as shown in this add-on description.

So the question is: can you install this mod and have it apply to only one forum within your overall forum?

Thanks!

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by av8or1

So the question is: can you install this mod and have it apply to only one forum within your overall forum?

Yes.

Install product then go to

Settings -> vBulletin Options -> Article Forum Options

and this will allow you to select the forum.

[Mr_Running]

Okay tried to uninstall but still there? How can I remove?

[av8or1]

Originally Posted by bananalive

Yes.

Install product then go to

Settings -> vBulletin Options -> Article Forum Options

and this will allow you to select the forum.

Thank you! This appears to work ok at 4.1.3. Great mod!

I noticed that you have a mod that will allow a vBadvanced module to do this same thing, but it is only for 3.x - is there one for 4.x?

Marked as installed/MOTM!

Thanks!

Jerry

ps-I noticed that the navigation menu that appears horizontally just below the navbar buttons disappears when you go to the articles forum ... whereas on other forums it remains. The menu for 4.1.3 was:

New Posts Private Messages FAQ Calendar Community Forum Actions Quick Links

Can this be added back? Just curious. Great mod regardless!

[WendM]

I noticed that you have a mod that will allow a vBadvanced module to do this same thing, but it is only for 3.x - is there one for 4.x?

many have asked the author, but no answers...hopefully one day he'll respond as it's a great hack!

[av8or1]

Originally Posted by WendM

many have asked the author, but no answers...hopefully one day he'll respond as it's a great hack!

WendM-

Yeah I agree, this is a great module to add to one's vBadvanced CMS page. I use vBa for my "splash page" and really wanted this module. However I am running 4.1.3 and so it obviously wouldn't work as-is/as-was.

In doing some poking around on vB.org, bananalive has been around for a while and generates some great mods. I can understand being busy, I'm there practically everyday myself! I can only presume that they're just too friggin busy to get around to this "upgrade" work, if you will. It's kinda like homework that never ends...been there, done that, got the shirt.

Anyway, as a software type I decided to take a stab at porting this to 4.1.3, mostly because - as I mentioned - we could genuinely use it on our forum's splash page. And I was successful. I have a working version of bananalive's vBadvanced Recent Articles module. Attached are a few screen captures. Naturally then came the notion of helping others, mostly bananalive.

Still being new to the vB world, I'm not sure how to proceed about sharing it though. I want to tread lightly, don't want to offend, and don't want to hack anyone off (pardon the pun). The obvious direction would seem to be to create a 4.x mod page and put it there, giving full credit to bananalive.

But I don't know how they'd feel about that. So bananalive, any input? You made a great mod, thanks, and I hope you don't mind that I ported to 4.1.3. I did it for myself only at this point, I haven't shared it with anyone. So let me know how you'd like to proceed and I will do that. (or even if you'd like to proceed at all)

Many thanks,

Jerry

[av8or1]

Originally Posted by av8or1

ps-I noticed that the navigation menu that appears horizontally just below the navbar buttons disappears when you go to the articles forum ... whereas on other forums it remains. The menu for 4.1.3 was:

New Posts Private Messages FAQ Calendar Community Forum Actions Quick Links

Can this be added back? Just curious. Great mod regardless!

FYI: I got this working. Somehow I just preferred the idea of keeping the navbar as-is from the forums section into the articles section. Attached are screen captures that illustrate the difference. To each his own, I suppose.

Thanks,

Jerry

[av8or1]

If you are interested in the changes I made, I am posting my version (as 4.1.3) with full permission from bananalive.

Thanks,

Jerry

[maikju]

Hmm, works with 4.1.4.... Is there a way to make the recent articles widget work with this?

[av8or1]

Don't understand the question. Are you referring to the recent articles vBa module that I ported to 4.1.3? And what is meant by "work with this"?