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.

[Guy G]

Originally Posted by Paul M

I have added the ability to do both of these (via admincp only) to the version we run. I also fixed the very annoying edit/preview problem. I was going to release them all as an addon, but the events of the other day have put me off the idea for now. Maybe in the new year.

i dont see anything in the admincp... mind pointing to the exact location?

[lanc3lot]

Is there a way to dissapear the feature article?

I mean no article to feature any more

Also, Paul M, did u find a way, to upload more screenshots than one, per time?

Thanks in advance

[Guy G]

Originally Posted by lanc3lot

Is there a way to dissapear the feature article?

I mean no article to feature any more

Also, Paul M, did u find a way, to upload more screenshots than one, per time?

Thanks in advance

i guess u can cancel a featured article by going into mysql and doing it by hand...

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Zorobz

i guess u can cancel a featured article by going into mysql and doing it by hand...

Actually, if you applied my fixes from the other day I think you can use this link ;

http://<yourdomain>/<forumpath>/article.php?do=feature&a=-1

It was something I added to ours, but forgot about until now.

[Nick0r]

Originally Posted by Nick0r

It was this bit that seemed to have done the damage: In includes/init.php
====================


FIND:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// ----------------------------------------------------------
// ### END PLUGIN USERGROUP PERMISSIONS BITFIELDS HERE ###
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

ABOVE THIS, ADD:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
$_BITFIELD['usergroup']['articlepermissions'] = array(
'canviewarticles' => 1,
'canviewcomments' => 2,
'canpostarticles' => 4,
'cancomment' => 8,
'canedownart' => 16,
'canedothart' => 32,
'candelownart' => 64,
'candelothart' => 128,
'canfeature' => 256,
'cansearchart' => 512,
'canratearticles' => 1024,
'canviewartmedia' => 2048
);

Could this be because I have the v3arcade installed? should this code go above or below the arcade code in init.php?

[lanc3lot]

Yep did the trick about featured articles

Thanks a lot mate, if u had any luck to the other questio(about upload more than one shot per time), let me know

Thanks a lot, happy new year

[Guy G]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Actually, if you applied my fixes from the other day I think you can use this link ;

http://<yourdomain>/<forumpath>/article.php?do=feature&a=-1

It was something I added to ours, but forgot about until now.

cool.

any chance this method would work on reducing the count for Articles and Comments on the Category displaY?

[Deyth]

Very nice hack.

[Guy G]

bhaa im so stupid...

if anyone deleted comments \ articles from the database and still sees the text than he should remove those entries from the database as well, on the lastcommentby field and related to that...

everything is awesome now :]

[whitetigergrowl]

I thought there was a v3articles coming out for 3.0.3?! He said all he had to do was compress and upload the 3.0.3 version. That was quite awhile ago. What happened?!