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

[Jolten]

I realize support is limited.. but...

I want to include my vb header in the article system, not run a second header. I accomplished this on the article home page by just changing $home[header] to $header (same thing with the footer). But I can't seem to gt the header to appear on teh article pages. if I insert $header I get "Reference ID:8" displayed on the page. Any help woul dbe appreciated. The footer works fine.

[Jolten]

Nevermind. Got it sorted by changing the articles.php file. Also cut down on a lot of unneeded templates.

FYI... the html in the files is really not that great. The FONT tag is old and outdated and shouldn't be used for anything.

[zetetic]

Originally Posted by renderst

Hey, i installed the hack and everything.

But it says to upload a config.php file (which didnt come with the package) where do i get it?

I tried to copy and paste the confid from my includes folder, which made it work.. but how do i edit the template?

It was mentioned earlier in this thread that the config.php file is no longer included or required. The instructions.txt file simply hasn't been updated to reflect that you'll want to upload printer.php now and not config.php.

Unless I'm mistaken you can also open articles.php and comment out this line:

require("config.php");

[Pro]

any help with fixing this error?

[Tim Wheatley]

Just wanna say thanks... It worked perfect straight off for me (after removing the require config line). I've modified it a bit and removed 5 queries.... Thanks for this, very nice.

You can see it in action here:
http://forum.rscnet.org/articles.php...&topic=GPL1965

[Pro]

guess not?

[Marulatree]

any chance of posting your updated code and the dev re-attached the updated code in the first post?

Originally Posted by Tim Wheatley

Just wanna say thanks... It worked perfect straight off for me (after removing the require config line). I've modified it a bit and removed 5 queries.... Thanks for this, very nice.

You can see it in action here:
http://forum.rscnet.org/articles.php...&topic=GPL1965

[krohnathlonman]

Not going to release any updated code until it's ready.... It will be posted when it's ready and not a minute sooner

[The Dok]

krohnathlonman,

If I could make a suggestion or two...

If you aren't already, is there anyway you could allow for a 'teaser' of each article of say 25 characters (or perhaps admin adjustable) in the article list menu.

Also, add the Authors name and the date written under the article list menu.

Just suggestions. Once I got mine (it was all my fault that it didn't work, I'm not even going to say what I did - kinda embarrassing) working I really like it and it is going to work perfectly for me and these suggestions are merely that... suggestions.

[SmasherMaster]

Any progress updates? I'm very eager to try this.