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.

[renderst]

hi, is there anyway to have the articles arranged in alphabetical order rather in the order they are posted?

thanks!

[Bush Music]

Hi,
Is there a way form the article's that I upload into the article hack to be read by RSS news readers? In other words I would like for people to be able to pull down my daily articles as RSS. If this is possable, please share with me how to set up the hack so that this can happen.
Thanks in advance!

[Craigr]

Originally Posted by Tim Wheatley

Feature a different one.

What if you don't want to display one?

I've searched through the database to see if there is an on or off option for this, but couldn't find one.

Craig

[Wolffman]

Originally Posted by Wolffman

First of all this is a truly great hack, and very useful to my site.

I only have one small problem. When I designate a article to be featured, this is what happens to the preview-



This (^) only happens to the second paragraph. Any thoughts?

Nevermind I figured it out. You can't have any text formatting or the codes will show up.

[mixylplik3]

FANTASTIC. Thank you!

[PolishPanda]

I got my problem fixed.

I have a question though. Could I change article.php to articles.php and still have the hack run correctly?

-Conrad

[ethics]

Anyone hacked it to be workable with the uttstore hack? I'd like to reward people who write articles.

[Acido]

Please Jhon, can you tell me how i can change the Character limit for the caption of the thumbnails?

Thanx in advance

[Mijae]

Anyone?

[MikeeX]

This may be a stupid question. But I don't have the option to add articles. And yes, I have updated the usergroups

Thanks for any suggestions.