v3 Articles 1.0.1 - [vB 3.0.1]

v3 Articles 1.0.1

By John Warwick, Web Development Freelancer (john@eovieinteractive.com)
Fully tested and working on vBulletin 3.0.1.
Part of www.v3arcade.com

Important Security Fix - Please download v3 Articles 1.0.2.zip
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If you are upgrading, please read Security Fix Upgrade.txt
If you are installing for the first time, read Instructions.txt

INTRODUCTION
v3 Articles was originally written for the fine people at www.DodgeTalk.com, for use with their vBulletin forum. The purpose of this add-on is to provide a place in vBulletin for articles (e.g. news, reviews, editorials) similar to that of the thread interface - but with a more content-oriented approach.

Features:
- Usergroup based permissions
- Full editing/deletion/moderation system
- Article attachments
- Article ratings
- Comments system
- "Featured Article" system, give great articles top exposure
- Introduction and category description text
- Smilies and icons
- Full BBCODE/WYSIWYG support
- Attachment captions
- Full page navigation for articles and comments
- Comment dupe checking
- Status icons
- View users' ratings in their comments

Alternatively, check the screenshots!

I've tried to make the installation as quick and painless as possible. Enjoy!


WORKING DEMO
You can see a working demo of v3 Articles at www.v3articles.com. (Part of the v3 Arcade website.)


MANY THANKS
- Ron Wilson, of DodgeTalk.com
- Everyone on v3Arcade.com who donated to keep the server running


SUPPORT
Support can be found in the v3 Articles thread on vBulletin.org, and shortly on v3arcade.com. (I'll set up a priority support system.) As always, I'll happily give support for real problems. However, a lot of the time people ask questions about things which have already been answered hundreds of times. If you have a problem caused by not reading through the instructions or checking through the support thread, I can't guarantee a response.


DONATIONS
v3 Articles is free, but my server isn't! Any donations are hugely appreciated in order to help me keep my v3 sites running. (PayPal: john@eovie.com). Many thanks to those who donate!
If you're looking for someone to install v3 Articles for you, email me at john@eovieinteractive.com.


PLEASE CLICK INSTALL
Needless to say, if you install this please click the "Install" button. Thanks.

[Littlebit]

I installed on 3.0.3 and have the same thumbnails issue...I also do have GD installed and enabled in vB and the server. I have a feeling you already know what the problem is, but wanted to mention for you.
Thank you for this hack John! I'm now able to tranfer all my html articles to the database.
If it's okay to put in a request, I'd like to be able to choose if the date, time and written by is shown or not with an option in admincp. Or even better if we can edit those in admincp.

[Kwak]

I had the article working on 3.0.1.
I upgraded to 3.0.3 and the article script did not work because I had uploaded the new files (from 3.0.3.)

I redid the hack, modified files and uploaded for 3.0.3.
The article still not show up. I did the install again and the Full Installation does not work because the tables exists. I did the Install Templates Only and I found out the articles showed up.

BUT..when I click on a category, I get

Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/ikwak/public_html/calpolyonline/forums/includes/functions.php
Line: 1730

Where do you suppose the problem lies in?

[Kwak]

Also, how do you remove the Article script complete as I want to redo the hack??

It uninstalls but there tells me

"The database changes made to this vBulletin installation have been undone.
However, tables containing content and category information still remain. For security reasons, these tables must be deleted manually."

[the Sandman]

Originally Posted by iKwak

I had the article working on 3.0.1.
I upgraded to 3.0.3 and the article script did not work because I had uploaded the new files (from 3.0.3.)

I redid the hack, modified files and uploaded for 3.0.3.
The article still not show up. I did the install again and the Full Installation does not work because the tables exists. I did the Install Templates Only and I found out the articles showed up.

BUT..when I click on a category, I get

Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/ikwak/public_html/calpolyonline/forums/includes/functions.php
Line: 1730

Where do you suppose the problem lies in?

Make sure there are no blank lines ("white space") below the final ?> tag.

[Kwak]

Originally Posted by the Sandman

Make sure there are no blank lines ("white space") below the final ?> tag.

For which file/template?

[the Sandman]

Originally Posted by iKwak

For which file/template?

Look in the error message

Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/ikwak/public_html/calpolyonline/forums/includes/functions.php
Line: 1730

[Kwak]

Originally Posted by the Sandman

Look in the error message

Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/ikwak/public_html/calpolyonline/forums/includes/functions.php
Line: 1730

I don't believe I have touched/hacked the functions.php file during or after the modifications. Should I really touch it (might get an error on the board)?

[MissKalunji]

Is there any addon to show the articles on a none vb page???

[Mike Gaidin]

For some reason on my article.php page it shows up as being in Debug Mode, but the rest of the pages on my site are not. Anyone see this before?

[Blam Forumz]

John i love your hacks, Thanks, this'll help me alot