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.

[Shack Networks]

Not everyone wants thier forums cluttered up with article posts, I like to keep em seperated...

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[zetetic]

This mod really rocks, I like it a lot. Thanks John.

Another feature I think would be great (and I think someone mentioned something similar) would be if you could click the "split" button on a thread and then select one post to split into a new article with any other posts selected turning into comments.

[Michael2]

Installed! Awesome, thank you!

[DBC-DevNull]

Very Very nice hack!! My only question is how do i change the file upload size limit?

[Tim Wheatley]

John,

You need to change articlepost > postbody to MEDIUMTEXT (same type as the forum's own post > pagetext)

Large articles can't be posted otherwise.

Cheers,

Tim

ps: If you're getting a blank page after submitting new articles or saving edits then this is your problem.

[tHe Rk]

Another brilliant hack that was very well written and super easy to install and setup. Kudos my friend Kudos.

[Michael2]

I saw the question asked but didn't see an answer, how do we un-feature an article?

[Tim Wheatley]

Originally Posted by Michael2

I saw the question asked but didn't see an answer, how do we un-feature an article?

Feature a different one.

[Cole2026]

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.1:

Invalid SQL: SELECT * FROM vb3_article
WHERE categoryid=1 AND (articleuserid=1 OR open IN (0,1)) ORDER BY dateline DESC LIMIT 0,
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 2

mysql error number: 1064

I clicked the next button in install twice, and tried to uninstall and reinstall, but the uninstaller does not remove the sql stuff in vb3_usergroups and phpmyadmin wont remove that, then above is the error I get when trying to access a catagory. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

[Wolffman]

First of all this is a truly great hack, and very useful to my site.

I only have one small problem. When I designate a article to be featured, this is what happens to the preview-

[color=#000000]Blah blah blah

This (^) only happens to the second paragraph. Any thoughts?