Portal Software - Article Forums Module for vBa CMPS for vB4

Article Forums Module for vBa CMPS

Created by bananalive. Ported to vB4 by av8or1.

Tested on 4.1.3 only. It should work on other vB4 versions, but I make no guarantees. I will try to offer some support for those versions if necessary; also no guarantees.

History

My forum membership chose to purchase the non-CMS vB variant, so in doing some research to find something we could use as "the face" of our forum, I found vBadvanced. We now use vBa as our "splash page." We had plenty of material that could serve as an articles section however, so the articles mod was essential. After discovering that there was a vBa articles module for vB 3.8, I knew that our forum could really use it. Since no version was available for vB4 however this presented a problem. So being a software type I decided to just create one myself by modifying bananalive's 3.8 version (rather extensively). Afterwards I checked in with him regarding the successful port and he blessed the notion of sharing it with everyone else. Thus here it is with his full permission. Hope it helps you just as it has helped the appearance and content of our forum.

What does this modification do?

This allows a module to be placed onto vBa CMPS page with same look (including thread thumbnail) as Article Forums.

Demo
(I currently have it set to appear in the right column with maxthreads = 2)
Russian Cars Forum

Requires

• Article Forums
• vBadvanced CMPS (available from external site only)

Installation

• Import recentarticlesv1.5.xml into vBa CMPS

  vBa CMPS -> Download / Upload Module -> Upload Module

• Add Module to vBa page

  vBa CMPS -> Edit Pages

Please click Mark as INSTALLED in order to receive whatever support I have time to offer. All donations are greatly appreciated.

Upgrade

• Uninstall existing product and install this new one

Changelog
v1.5, released 18 Jun 2011
- Ported to vB4

v1.4, released 11 Jun 2009
- Initial release

[Finger78]

I know this is an old thread but I have one question that "should" be a simple fix for those of you that are more savvy than I with vB and vBa

The module is working great and is exactly what I need, there is only one small issue. The article title is being highlighted and looks pretty horrible on this dark colored site.

When I look at the source this is the offending item:

<div class="blockrow" style="padding:10pxpx 0px 10pxpx 0px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; overflow: hidden; clear: both;">


<div style=""><div class="highlight bigfont" style="padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;"><a href="http://www.example.com/showthread.php?t=7Thread_Title_Example" id="thread_title_7" style="font-weight:bolder">Thread_Title_Example2</a></div>
<div class="smallfont" style="padding:0px 0px 10pxpx 0px;"><span class="shade "><a href="member.php?u=1">Poster</a></span>  1 Day Ago 03:09 AM</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="390" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/videoAddY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>
 </div><br>
</div>
</div>

I have included a screenshot of the yellow highlight (within the red box), could someone please tell me how to remove the highlight, it's the only thing from keeping this perfect.

[MegaManSec]

Originally Posted by Finger78

I know this is an old thread but I have one question that "should" be a simple fix for those of you that are more savvy than I with vB and vBa

The module is working great and is exactly what I need, there is only one small issue. The article title is being highlighted and looks pretty horrible on this dark colored site.

When I look at the source this is the offending item:

<div class="blockrow" style="padding:10pxpx 0px 10pxpx 0px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; overflow: hidden; clear: both;">


<div style=""><div class="highlight bigfont" style="padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;"><a href="http://www.example.com/showthread.php?t=7Thread_Title_Example" id="thread_title_7" style="font-weight:bolder">Thread_Title_Example2</a></div>
<div class="smallfont" style="padding:0px 0px 10pxpx 0px;"><span class="shade "><a href="member.php?u=1">Poster</a></span>  1 Day Ago 03:09 AM</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="390" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/videoAddY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>
 </div><br>
</div>
</div>

I have included a screenshot of the yellow highlight (within the red box), could someone please tell me how to remove the highlight, it's the only thing from keeping this perfect.

If you want, edit the stylevar value 'highlight_background' (admincp ->Styles & Templates -> style manager ->your style -> stylevars) to something else. that should fix it. and will avoid any future problems.

[Finger78]

I actually fixed the issue by removing the highlight bigfont from the product XML and re-uploaded it and that has seemed to correct the highlighting issue.

Thanks for trying to help me however, I appreciate it.

[dizzynation]

No go on vbulletin 4.2

[garym]

I have this working well on my forum but would like it to have the same look as the article preview on the articles page, any idea where to get started on that?

[cdoyle]

This is exactly what I was looking for!
I have it working on my site, but for some reason I can't get it to display in the right column like the screenshot. Even though I have it set to display on the right, it displays in the center. Anyone know why?

I also noticed that even though I have it set to display the pageviews, it doesn't.