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

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Overbr

Error !!! :erm:

Upload attached file, i'll update first post in a sec

Edit: updated first post.

[Senja]

The problem with displaying news on the home when the hack.

[Overbr]

Originally Posted by bananalive

Upload attached file, i'll update first post in a sec

Edit: updated first post.

Hello, bananalive, I first want to thank you for your attention.
Your file attached file is now 100% correct and operational under the platform VB 4.0.2 Congratulations was very good.:up:

Fully functional and all right, thanks for sharing with us.
If you want to give an emphasis on your mod running, follow the link!

http://www.overbr.com.br/forum/articles.php

thanks bananalive

[Senja]

I wanted to see in the editor, these functions

[RedHacker]

Screenshots please....

[MrEyes]

Just installed into my 4.0.1 test site and this is almost perfect for my needs, fantastic mod.

I do have some suggestions though

• Make the word Articles/Article configurable, I intend to use this mod for a something that would be better titles as "Listing/Listings". As an example rather than a Reply to Article button, it would read Reply to <whatever the config is>.
• Add option to disable/hide the Most Read / Most Commented / Top Authors boxes on the article homepage.
• It would be great if it was possible to configure the location of some of the Article homepage boxes, for example I would like to Search and Categories on the left hand side, and Post New and Display options on the right.

Also found a couple of minor quirks

• When you click on an article to view it, the navbar highlight switches to "Forum" rather than staying on "Article"
• The mod seems to ignore thread prefixes and does not display these anywhere.
  

[mitch84]

Hi, with the hack I've a error message when I edit a article on the front pack(cms)

Fatal error: Cannot use object of type vB_Legacy_Thread as array in /XXX/packages/vbcms/content.php(985) : eval()'d code on line 1

, so when the hack is desactivated or uninstalled my cms work fine, thx

[MrEyes]

A fix to one of the quirks I mentioned above:

Originally Posted by MrEyes

The mod seems to ignore thread prefixes and does not display these anywhere.

To fix this, open articles.php and find (approx line 372)

$threads = 	$threads = $db->query_read("
		SELECT thread.*,thread.title AS threadtitle,thread.forumid AS forumid, post.dateline AS postdateline, post.pagetext AS preview, MIN(attachment.attachmentid) AS attachmentid, fd.extension AS extension

Change this to:

$threads = 	$threads = $db->query_read("
		SELECT thread.*,thread.title AS threadtitle,thread.forumid AS forumid, post.dateline AS postdateline, post.pagetext AS preview, MIN(attachment.attachmentid) AS attachmentid, fd.extension AS extension, thread.prefixid

Notice the addition of ', thread.prefixid ' at the end

At approx line 390 find:

$foruminfo['allowicons'] = 1;
while($thread = $db->fetch_array($threads))
{

Immediately after this paste in:

if ($thread['prefixid'])
{
	$thread['prefix_rich'] = $vbphrase["prefix_$thread[prefixid]_title_rich"];
}

You should end up with

$foruminfo['allowicons'] = 1;
while($thread = $db->fetch_array($threads))
{
	if ($thread['prefixid'])
	{
		$thread['prefix_rich'] = $vbphrase["prefix_$thread[prefixid]_title_rich"];
	}

	$thread['pagetext'] = $thread['preview'];

Then, via ACP Style Manager open the 'af_articlebit' template, and find:

<h3 style="font: normal normal bold 14px/normal Tahoma, Calibri, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 5px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;">

Immediately after paste in:

{vb:var thread.prefix_rich}

Save template and that is that

[MrEyes]

A really nasty hack to resolve another of the quirks:

Originally Posted by MrEyes

When you click on an article to view it, the navbar highlight switches to "Forum" rather than staying on "Article"

To do this you need to add an additional option to ACP - Settings - Article Forum Options, where you specify a comma delimited list of all forum ids that are articles forums (i.e. 7,11,15). Call this af_allarticleforums

Then change the Easy Forms - Forms Tab (Process Templates Complete) hook code to read:

if ($vbulletin->options['af_navbar'])
{
	if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'articles')
	{
		$vbulletin->options['selectednavtab'] = 'articles'; 
	}
	else if (($vbulletin->GPC['forumid']) && (in_array($vbulletin->GPC['forumid'], explode(',', $vbulletin->options['af_allarticleforums']))))
	{
		$vbulletin->options['selectednavtab'] = 'articles'; 
	}
	
	$templater = vB_Template::create('af_navbar');
	$template_hook['navtab_middle'] .= $templater->render();
}

A very nasty hacky way of doing it, but I am trying to avoid rewriting the core of the mod

[Jabong82]

Originally Posted by mitch84

Hi, with the hack I've a error message when I edit a article on the front pack(cms), so when the hack is desactivated or uninstalled my cms work fine, thx

I have the same problem when I click to try to read the article. When I turn off the hack as you say everything works fine.

Interesting mod, is there a fix for this? Installed.