Article System

Alright, here's my Beta... Do not even touch this unless you know what you're doing! To upgrade to future versions you WILL have to have a fair amount of knowledge about templates and other things.

I need help with an installer and any feedback and suggestions on things to add/do

An example of it can be found running here.

All code made and testing on VB 3.0.0 and shouldn't have any issues with 3.0.1 or any future releases. This doesn't relay on any Vbulletin templates. The only vbulletin functions it uses is basic template and DB connectivity.

The support on this will be VERY limited. I only need people that know enough to be helpful in tracking down bugs that they may find. I'm very busy during the week. You'll want to edit index.php and add links to any of the admin functions you want.

I covered alot here

NEW STUFF:
Hialls is helping me with the installer and helping add some things that will help you guys use and install this alot easier.

Go ahead and check this system out and tell me what needs to be added and I'll see about adding it to my additions list

[Pro]

nevermind... got phpmyadmin now... gotta figure out the rest!

[Pro]

Warning: main(config.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/illicitr/public_html/board/articles.php on line 12

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'config.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/illicitr/public_html/board/articles.php on line 12

i keep getting this... any clues what im doing wrong now?

[krohnathlonman]

Thanks for everybodies help on this! I'm learning alot as I go along... I never knew about the spliti function at processing time. I'm also getting a bit of help on the categories system. If would be great to get this thing to be able to handle an unlimited number of pages. Currently I have a number of hardcoded number related things that I'm going to need some help overcoming.

My next release will have some options in the admin panel to easily turn a number of things on/off. It's been alot of work getting this thing working just right in VB Yesterday I spent most of my development time making as many queries as possible optional. I still have to do some more with things like $unset and clean alot of things up. The next time I upload anything will be a while. I'm going to hold out for most of the features to be completed.

The table prefix issues will happen anywhere it calls for a VB table. I don't use a special prefix on any of my DBs so this was something that I overlooked. I'll make sure that I add that extra case in for that. Currently the only thing it's grabbing from the forum DB is the latest topics. not too far down in articles.php you'll see a line called $rec look inside the query and put in your table prefix if you want this to work right.

[The Dok]

Originally Posted by Pro

i keep getting this... any clues what im doing wrong now?

Me too

[ixian]

Originally Posted by The Dok

Me too

Guys, that's a leftover bit from his previous version. Just open Articles.php with an editor, go to line 7 where the call to config.php is made, and comment it out by putting // in front of the line.

I am sure he will correct this in his next version.

[The Dok]

Originally Posted by ixian

Guys, that's a leftover bit from his previous version. Just open Articles.php with an editor, go to line 7 where the call to config.php is made, and comment it out by putting // in front of the line.

I am sure he will correct this in his next version.

Thanks...

I don't get the errors but I get a plain white screen. I'm pretty familiar with some things. For instance I have vbadvanced and have done several other mods to my forum.

Not sure were to go from here... perhaps I should wait until the next version, but if this one works (and it seem to for everyone else - which points the problem to me ) it is something I actually need pretty badly. Anyway, if anyone knows where I need to look or what I need to do please let me know, if not - no problem.

Thanks in advance.

n8

[Pro]

alright! works now... just gotta figure out how to take these ad's off of here now lol...

also - how can i change the RECENT topics from showing? ehhh ill try to figure it out... i'd like some tips for the ad's tho

thanks IXIAN! and krohnathlonman for a great hack! well - more than a hack lol...

[zennifer]

So I have run into a problem. If your article has a single quote in it ' you can add it with no problems but when you go back to edit it you get an error. Any suggestions on how to fix this?
-Jenn

[ixian]

Originally Posted by Pro

alright! works now... just gotta figure out how to take these ad's off of here now lol...

also - how can i change the RECENT topics from showing? ehhh ill try to figure it out... i'd like some tips for the ad's tho

thanks IXIAN! and krohnathlonman for a great hack! well - more than a hack lol...

Sounds like you have the "old" version still dude. He updated the download in his first post but forgot to edit said post to reflect the recent change. Download the hack again.

Originally Posted by zennifer

So I have run into a problem. If your article has a single quote in it ' you can add it with no problems but when you go back to edit it you get an error. Any suggestions on how to fix this?
-Jenn

Post the error. Sounds like your standard PHP not seeing escape character issue, but you need to post the error message so we know what line it's happening on.

[Pro]

Sounds like you have the "old" version still dude. He updated the download in his first post but forgot to edit said post to reflect the recent change. Download the hack again.

Odd... i downloaded it last night... this will be the third time lol...

thanks