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.

[SamirDarji]

Originally Posted by indiamike

Has anyone made an attempt to port this over yet, although I know the author said he probably wouldn't, if anyone has a hacked up version that workds on 3.5.1 can they possibly send me copy at my email addy.

It was such a great script that become vital to my community and am stuck now since upgrading.

Any help would be appreciated.

Mike

You may want to look at the Geek Article System (GAS). It has an importer for v3 Articles and has a newer, albeit commercial, version for 3.5+. Good luck.

[indiamike]

Originally Posted by SamirDarji

You may want to look at the Geek Article System (GAS). It has an importer for v3 Articles and has a newer, albeit commercial, version for 3.5+. Good luck.

Thanks for the reply. I have looked at GAS but was unaware that there was an importer.

Thanks

[hotwheels]

I just purchased and uploaded the GARS system, and i didn't see an importer........damn

[MissKalunji]

Originally Posted by hotwheels

I just purchased and uploaded the GARS system, and i didn't see an importer........damn

you need to report that on www.thevbgeek.com dear

[hotwheels]

I did...........he said he will get some type of importer, but he doesn't think it will fix my current loss of vb3 articles. The importer won't convert the articles.

They are still safe in my mySQL, so hopefully someone can figure out how to upgrade this to the new version of vb3.5.2 and all will be good. This mod has over 350 install's, so we know it is popular.

hotwheels

[defcon_420]

Great job John, i've had this mod installed for ages now and its been working great.
Only thing is now i want to upgrade my forum to 3.5.X and i'd like to be able to retreive my articles from the database so i can import them into something that will support 3.5.X
Would much rather use this because its been great and working without problem. Have any idea if or when there will be a 3.5.X version?

[fishhub]

SInce this is posted here and still going strong.

Would like to know is this vb3 srticles FREE for all to use?

Can it work with v3.5.4 with cmps2.1?

Hopefully someone out there can advice. TIA.

:classic:

[Paul M]

It is free.

It will only work on vb 3.0.x - it is not compatible with 3.5 or 3.6.

[ep13]

will this be out for 3.6.x at anytime

[yahoooh]

is there upgrade version of this hack work on 3.6.4?