Article system coming soon!

[krohnathlonman]

I've been working on porting my custom article system over to Vbulletin!

can be seen in action:
http://iamnotageek.com/articles.php

It's working great with style changing capabilities.

Basically just use something like VBindex for your news and use the system I'm making for articles....

The only other real article system I've found for Vbulletin I really don't like and its here: http://www.vbportal.com/
There's another at v3arcade, but again it just doesn't work for people like me.

after a couple months without updating you guys:

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[PAGEBREAK] now working for the add process which makes only 1 text box on submission process. I'll be integrating the HTMLArea editor into this box next. I'll get this working for the edit process at a later date. I'm considering the performance affects of using $textarray=split('\[PAGEBREAK]',$text); in the article display. This would eliminate the page limitation, BUT at a cost to performance. I'm not sure yet if I'm willing to do this for my site. Currently the system is limited to 10 pages. I'm thinking about increasing this limit to 20 if there's actually demand for it. I don't have anything over 9 pages on my site.

HTMLArea editor now in place as the image attatchment suggests. That means both of the lbig features I said I'd like to have are now in place.... Obviously I plan on tweaking the editor quite a bit to customize it towards the needs of this system. Currently it's the base example put into place and working.

Also considering security aspects of a delete process. Maybe something like only allowing certain userids access? I want to make sure that the delete process is secure. Currently I'm using phpmyadmin for deletions which is very protected on my system.

Also Considering Titles in the Page dropdown list. Not sure of the best way of doing this YET I may include them in the [Pagebreak] but I'll have to change the DB structure a bit. I'll wait on this till I decide about page support.

[Vivi Ornitier]

I like very much, can't wait

[SVTBlackLight01]

Originally Posted by krohnathlonman

Basically just use something like VBindex for your news and use the system I'm making for articles....

That is exactly what I need and have been trying to piece together. Do you have an expected time frame.


By "style changing capabilities" do you mean that it will be able to use it's own style separate from the forums. Will users be able to write articles?

[krohnathlonman]

Take a look here for the article system working integrated with VB

Look Here for the normal template

I decided to keep the header and footer related information seperate from the standard forum ones. I'm also going to make a custom sidebar for it.

There's currently 6 new templates. The add and edit processes are under the /admincp for password protection that way.

I have a seperate config.php file right this second because my admin tools and reports aren't integrated with Vbulletin. What I've done is on only page 1 I log the referring URL. Then you can see who your top referring URLs were

The first release is going to just be my article system completely compatible with the way VBulletin works and using Vbulletins templates. Later additions will be things like the printer friendly articles ONLY being available to logged in users OR subscribers.

So far I've managed to get away without having to modify additional files! you'll be able to upload the files, add the new DB sections and add the templates. This'll be a release with basically no hacking Later versions will , but not this one.

I'll let you know how it handles a decent load by posting some content on Monday to see how it handles ~60k pageviews in a day. I may need some help with optimizations. This first release will be a "working beta"

[White Knight]

Im looking forward to checking this out.. Nice work!

BTW: I agree with the vbportal software... it was great for 2.0.. but when down hill it looks like for 3.0

[krohnathlonman]

yeah, VBportal worked great in the 2.0 days but they took things in a direction that really doesn't work for me or my site.

[erikajune]

Ohhhh, this is EXACTLY what I need! I absolutely love it! Can't wait!

[krohnathlonman]

Currently I'm fighting with making the categories display properly. Trying to avoid making you guys modify much.

If somebody could give me a hand and help me make all of the templates compatible with the multi style system it would speed things up quite a bit! I've got that as the last thing on my list to do

BTW I'm getting some killer google placement with this system... Do searches on things relevant to any of my articles.....

[bob46802]

im really interested in this

I sent you a PM

[White Knight]

Originally Posted by krohnathlonman

Currently I'm fighting with making the categories display properly. Trying to avoid making you guys modify much.

If somebody could give me a hand and help me make all of the templates compatible with the multi style system it would speed things up quite a bit! I've got that as the last thing on my list to do

BTW I'm getting some killer google placement with this system... Do searches on things relevant to any of my articles.....

I just started to bite into PHP coding.. heck had to for some of the modules I was running with vbportal..

Modifications dont scare me .. not having a backup when i did it does.. lol

Google placement is always great to hear. Specially when web crawlers just love to skip over websites with php

But if you want me to take a peak at it I am sure I could do it.. but like I said I probebly wont be that good of use untill I learn this a bit more.