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.

[Milk Man]

ah, so i should have deleted the arcade stuff, been slow with that, I had to get rid of it when i installed vbookie and ucash. It screwed my site up. Thanks for that.

[Ig@r]

2 John

Are you going to update this hack for vb 3.5.0 :ermm:
Thanks in advance.

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

Originally Posted by Ig@r

2 John

Are you going to update this hack for vb 3.5.0 :ermm:
Thanks in advance.

what he said....

this hack rules.

[dieselpowered]

Ok I ran the uninstaller, dropped the tables that the installer created, and deleted the settinggroup using the debug mode. Is there anything else that I need to do...were there other changes in the DB that I need to take care of manually?

I see that the usergroup table was modified with with articlepermissions so I deleted the articlepermissions as well.

Looks like something was altered in the phrase table, however, I am not sure how to get rid of it.

Thanks everyone!

[commTRU]

I wonder if there was a way to allow usergroups to create articles in certain categories, but not others?

[Forumi Shqiptar]

is this hack going to be updated so it can work with vb 3.5.0 RC2 or not? Im desperate for an article hack to work with vb 3.5.0 RC2.

Many thanks in advance for the reply

[flstreetscene]

figured this problem out

[reteep]

Yea, it'd be very nice to know if there's gonna be a vb 3.5 Port?

[hotwheels]

lmao.....i just read 68 pages and never found the answer to my problem. The problem i am having is, i don't have the "article" in my admincp on the left hand side of my admin control page. I saw many thread's on people having this problem, but nobody showed the answer on how to resolve this issue. Any help on this unsupported hack would be greatly appreciated. hotwheels

[Paul M]

Did you actually do this section of the instructions ?

In admincp/index.php
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FIND:
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construct_nav_option($vbphrase['announcement_manager'], 'announcement.php?do=modify', '|');
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ABOVE THIS, ADD:
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construct_nav_option('Category Manager', 'article.php?do=modify');
construct_nav_option('Add New Category', 'article.php?do=add');
construct_nav_option('Moderate Articles', 'article.php?do=modarticles');
construct_nav_option('Moderate Comments', 'article.php?do=modcomments');
construct_nav_group("Articles", '<hr />');
construct_nav_spacer();
// *************************************************

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