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.

[Paul M]

Do you use a table prefix ? I suspect the prefix may be missing from the hack query.

[inverted]

uh, yea, i chose a prefix on the original install of vb, i forget exactly what it was, blah, i think it was the default prefix vb_ or something

how could i find out what the exact prefix is and then how would i add it to the hack?

thanks for the help
- inverted

[gibgib]

Originally Posted by SamirDarji

Be sure to save the different user group options. That's the step I messed up on.

Did that :disappointed:

Does this mean my install is knackered forever?

I can't fully remove the install & start again because of the additions to the templates. If I do the remove step it leaves more than just the database table behind, which is apparent when I re-install unsuccessfully.

I have no options in the control panel, & the content of article.php doesn't show, only the editted template with upper level "article" heading.
Bugger :disappointed:

[LoOnEyToOnZ]

Hi

How and what can i add the needed phrases for v3 articles ? I think i removed them all during the uninstallation and couldnt get them back, getting "phrase xxx not found". Thanks

[silentshadow204]

I've looked throughout my admin cp and I'm just not seeing a place where I can adjust the file size limit. Does it not exist, or am I just insane?

Thanks!

[benFF]

Well i installed it, and whilst it *can* be great, there are two main things stopping me from releasing it to my users yet:

1) If you delete an article it doesn't delete the images from the database
2) Once you have uploaded an image, you cannot edit the text under it nor change its order. So if you want to add a photo inthe middle at a later time, you need to delete all the attachments and then re add them....

Has anyone done any work on either of these issues?

[SamirDarji]

It's under "Attachments"-->Extensions & Sizes if you're talking about attachments.

[silentshadow204]

Originally Posted by SamirDarji

It's under "Attachments"-->Extensions & Sizes if you're talking about attachments.

Thanks! That would be exactly what I am looking for.

[restless]

can someone help me?

i would really like to know if it's possible to have the attachment thumbnail show up in the list of articles. if it can show up in the featured article, i don't see why it can't show up where i need it.

i attached a thumbnail of what i'm looking for.

if someone can help me out, i'd really appreciate it.

[TheMusicMan]

Originally Posted by john

- Full editing/deletion/moderation system

Can I ask what this means as I had to modify the code to allow Moderators to be able to Moderate Articles and any comments submitted about them...? Did I get it wrong?

I thought only Admins could moderate submitted articles in the stock vBarticles code.