Major Additions - vbArticles by Mary

vbArticles
Article Publishing & Review System
by Mary
http://www.MadeByMary.com

Zipfile removed by the author.
Members who have installed it, can download
the updated php file at
http://www.microhellas.com/vbarticles.rar
(Sorry can'y upload .rar file here)

Future installations of vbArticles
even from Members who have downloaded it before
are prohibited.

[CCux]

Nice to hear about the editor, would be a neat feature....

Well ok, i agree with you about the editing, for some special cases. But in faxt, in VB itself you are able to edit posts even as admin, not as normal user, that's something nt really good.

EMail messages don't really work. But what about ( that was what i originally thought about, but forgot to write ) extending the link below a article and the permission system so that a usergroup that has the granted right may be able to approve articles without the need to be able to login the admincp.

If that would be given, hey, i'm the next one to buy. It's hard to manage everything alone, that's why this is a real important feature for us.....

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by CCux

EMail messages don't really work. But what about ( that was what i originally thought about, but forgot to write ) extending the link below a article and the permission system so that a usergroup that has the granted right may be able to approve articles without the need to be able to login the admincp.

If that would be given, hey, i'm the next one to buy. It's hard to manage everything alone, that's why this is a real important feature for us.....

That's easy as I've already done half the work, setting permissions for "mod". The only that lest is to add a link in member's menu "Approve Profiles" visible only to right usergroup. I wrote it down for next update.

[CCux]

Sounds promising, thanks. Any timeline yet? Think i should really buy the full version later the day when i'm at home.

[revmitchell]

I cannot get the link to show up in the navbar

[apokphp]

Originally Posted by MicroHellas

have you tried to change 'qr' with 'fe' as I wrote before?

This seems to have fixed the bug and resolved my biggest concern, thank you.

A couple things though...

1) In the AdminCP, under the vBArticles - Choose Editor does indeed show a blank page, not sure if it is still supposed to do this.

HOWEVER...

2) The editor choice does display when creating a new article, so that resolved the issue of non-paragraph formatting.

3) To prevent my users from selecting the editor mode that does not format the articles properly, I changed the 2 instances of :

$show['qr_require_click'] = 0;

to

$show['fe_require_click'] = 0;

And that removed the option for members to be able to select the non-operating editor.

Thanks again for the fix. I'll be purchasing the full version pretty soon.


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New Questions

1) What about mass moderation? Let's say that you want to move several articles into a different category...or perhaps delete 20+ articles. There doesn't seem to be a way to do this efficiently. It looks like one has to go to each article and click the delete button.

Also, if someone puts their article into the wrong category (and the option to approve is turned off, or perhaps the admin/mod just spaced it and wasn't paying attention to the category), then the site is out of luck as there is no way to move someone ELSE's article. We have to instead ask the author to move his own article...this seems incredibly inefficient.

Any plans on resolving this?

Or is this supposed to be done via "Manage Articles" in the admincp? If so, my page is blank other than the field names at the top of the page. No articles are displayed despite having articles existing.

2) Currently, these areas of the vbarticles admincp are blank or have no data:

Choose Editor
Manage Articles
Editor's Choice

3) Currently, the Who's Online display says:

Unknown Location
/forums/vbarticles.php

Any plans on fixing that one?

[murekhalir]

I need help with a font color problem, not sure what it is?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...auron/help.jpg

The title is blanked out by the white. Anyway to fix this?

Thanks.

[Jessi]

In AdminCP, There is nothing in Editor's choice.

Even after trying

have you tried to change 'qr' with 'fe' as I wrote before?

Paragraph formatting doesn't work. Pasting into , Notepad, Word pad, Crimson Editor, Open office or Homesite does not resolve the problem either.

Everything else is awesome! If you can fix this I am sure I will buy the full version!

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by Jessi

In AdminCP, There is nothing in Editor's choice.

Have you any active article that has already been set as Editor's choice. At that list appear only articles that are already marked as Editor's choice, giving you the ability to unmark them.
If you want to mark an article as editor's choice you've 2 ...choices:-)

• When you approve articles choose Appr+EdCh instead only Approved
• While you're viewing an article (as Admin) there is a link at the bottom "Set as Editor's choice" or "Remove from Editor's choice" (if it's already).

Originally Posted by Jessi

Pasting into , Notepad, Word pad, Crimson Editor, Open office or Homesite does not resolve the problem either.

Seems that you're the only one that you've left with this bug active. Everybody who has reported this problem, after changing 'qr' with 'fe' has no problem any more. Could you please search for 'qr too?
Also give a look at your editor? Does it appears at the top right side the editor switcher?

[Allan]

Hey Maria

A question, what is this file "vbarticles categories side.php" and how work ?

[Jessi]

Seems that you're the only one that you've left with this bug active. Everybody who has reported this problem, after changing 'qr' with 'fe' has no problem any more. Could you please search for 'qr too?
Also give a look at your editor? Does it appears at the top right side the editor switcher?

I found the problem. Apparently I am a freaking idiot.
When you edit the file, your SUPPOSED to upload it back to the server. If you do not do this, the changes will not take place. Sorry about that.