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.

[Symbian.info]

Originally Posted by Mickie D

i cant seem to find the 3.0.3 version has it been released yet?
and is there a fix to the no image's if the new vb articles ahs not been released yet ?

Nope, i am also still waiting (long time :cheeky I hope that John find some time to release it...

[spence2]

August:

Originally Posted by John

... there's going to be an update to this next week.

Originally Posted by spence2

That was posted on the 18th and today is the 27th; so, hopefully, that means any day now.

Originally Posted by John

It's done, I just haven't packaged it up yet.

September:

Originally Posted by spence2

Does anyone have an idea what is delaying this release?

September 15th <2004> ... were you possibly just having a little "fun" with us, John?

[TheMusicMan]

I have an issue with <img> tags not parsing the html on the featured article page.

I have just started using the v3Articles on my www site, and currently have only a few articles on there. I have an article I want to feature that has an image in the first few lines. When I select 'Feature this article' - the display on the featuerd article page does not parse the <img> html code correctly, and the URL for the image shows up instead of the image itself.

I understand that this might have been a design decision to keep the featured article page small, neat and tidy - and a sensible decision too. However, is there a way to overide this setting and allow the <img> code to be parsed thus showing the image not the anchor...?

Here's the link > http://www.themouthpiece.com/vb/article.php

Thanks

[Milorad]

I would like to display the author's profile picture instead of their avatar.

how would I go about that?

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Milorad

I would like to display the author's profile picture instead of their avatar.

how would I go about that?

Hope no one thinks im rocking the boat...

But I was interested in this mod until it struck me that you should be able to do virtually everything this mod does with a handful of template modifications couldnt you? You could simply insist on a particular forum using a particular style (one modified to this layout).
That way you could also get the search facility (the key reason I didnt install right away).

Like I said, correct me if I am wrong. I would be very interested in something like this... but it doesnt make sense for it to not come up in a search.

Thanks

[TheMusicMan]

Can someone please advise me how to enable SuperModerator Moderation of submitted articles. I am trying to find out how the submission engine works when I choose Moderate Articles.
At the moment, the only usergroup who can actually see submitted articles is Admin and I cannot find a setting anywhere that allows me to have the usergroup SuperModerators as Moderators of submitted articles.

Can anyone offer some advice here please.

And... is there soon to be a support forum for v3Articles at the authors site?

[Host Directory]

Originally Posted by TheMusicMan

Can someone please advise me how to enable SuperModerator Moderation of submitted articles. I am trying to find out how the submission engine works when I choose Moderate Articles.
At the moment, the only usergroup who can actually see submitted articles is Admin and I cannot find a setting anywhere that allows me to have the usergroup SuperModerators as Moderators of submitted articles.

Can anyone offer some advice here please.

And... is there soon to be a support forum for v3Articles at the authors site?

You just goto your usergroups and your find the usergroup for super moderators.. click on go and then scroll down. Your see a list of options for articles, enable the features you want that usergroup to use.

[TheMusicMan]

...but I don't see any options for actually giving permission for that usergroup to actually Moderate the Articles... there's no option for that there!!!

See screenshot!

Any advice?

[Host Directory]

Yes there is, its under general permissions and above forum viewing permissions.

If you can see those permissions and not article permissions you have done something wrong when installing the hack.

[TheMusicMan]

Yes, I agree there is a section for Articles, but no entry for 'Moderate Articles' in that section... see previous screenshot uploaded after you posted!