vBa: Show GARS article image on article

I whipped this up for my forums, and it may be of use to some people.

GARS (Geek Article and Review System) - is a system by the geek (http://www.thevbgeek.com) that transforms a forum into a fully disguised articles, reviews, tutorial system ,and so on.

This, will display the article image icon that is included with the article you are using on the vBadvanced system.

Modifications needed (in #FORUM_DIR#/modules/news.php):

Find:

PHP Code:

$news['message'] = substr($news['message'], 0, strrpos(substr($news['message'], 0, $mod_options['portal_news_maxchars']), ' ')) . '...' . construct_phrase($vbphrase['read_more'], $vbulletin->options['bburl'], $news['threadid'], $session['sessionurl']);
                } 


Below Add:

PHP Code:

// GARS modification
$geek = $db->query_first("SELECT header_image FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "gars WHERE threadid=" .$news['threadid'] . "");
$db->free_result($geek);
// / GARS modification 


Then, in templates, you can insert in the vBA newsbit (adv_portal_newsbit)
this code anywhere where you want the image to appear for that article.

<if condition="$geek[header_image]"> <img align="$stylevar[left]" src="$geek[header_image]" alt="" style="padding:6px" alt="" border="0"/> <else /> <img align="$stylevar[left]" style="padding:6px" alt="" border="0" src="$news[avatarpath]" title="$news[postusername]'s $vbphrase[avatar]" /> </if>

Demo: http://www.digitalsupremacy.com

Enjoy.

[FleaBag]

Very nice! I'll play around with this tomorrow.

[pcoskat]

I'm unclear as to how this works. I looked at the demo link, but some 'stuff' seems missing.

(Nice design, however, inside the boards.)

[Shack Networks]

Does this still work ?

I have multiple Article Types and it seems to only pull from the main article forum.

[Shack Networks]

Anyone ?