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.

[MikeeX]

I figured it out thanks. Didn't work for the template I was using, upload the images to my themedir. All fixed up.

[zerinS4]

Okay I must be an idiot because I've followed the instructions to the T and this is what I get when I go into my AdminCP...

If I click on Save, it redirects to a page that says "Nothing To Do"


Help!

[WreckRman2]

Does HTML in articles work for anyone else? I have allow HTML checked as yes but all it does is print out the code on the page.

http://www.rcflying.net/forums/article.php?a=5

It appears to take all my HTML hyperlinks and adds another set of <A HREF> links around them.

<CENTER><TABLE><TR> <TD><A HREF="<a href="http://www.rcflying.net/caextra27/kit1.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.rcflying.net/caextra27/kit1.jpg</a>" TARGET="_blank"><IMG SRC="<a href="http://www.rcflying.net/caextra27/sm_kit1.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.rcflying.net/caextra27/sm_kit1.jpg</a>" HEIGHT="100" WIDTH="125"></A></TD> <TD><A HREF="<a href="http://www.rcflying.net/caextra27/kit2.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.rcflying.net/caextra27/kit2.jpg</a>" TARGET="_blank"><IMG SRC="<a href="http://www.rcflying.net/caextra27/sm_kit2.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.rcflying.net/caextra27/sm_kit2.jpg</a>" HEIGHT="99" WIDTH="150"></A></TD> <TD><A HREF="<a href="http://www.rcflying.net/caextra27/kit3.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.rcflying.net/caextra27/kit3.jpg</a>" TARGET="_blank"><IMG SRC="<a href="http://www.rcflying.net/caextra27/sm_kit3.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.rcflying.net/caextra27/sm_kit3.jpg</a>" HEIGHT="99" WIDTH="150"></A></TD></TR></TABLE></CENTER><br />

[WreckRman2]

OK, if I remove the http://www.rcflying.net from my links it works fine... so this means you can't link to stuff outside your own domain I guess.

[Rids]

Good addition to vB but I need to display images within the text and not at the end of the document so I guess my search goes on ... and on ... and on ...

[esnecca]

Originally Posted by Rids

Good addition to vB but I need to display images within the text and not at the end of the document so I guess my search goes on ... and on ... and on ...

Well, you can use the [img] code to embed an image in the usual fashion, but I'm guessing you're looking for a way to display saved images rather than hosted ones?

[Rids]

Thats right, because of the nature of the documents (graphics tutorials) they will need multiple in-line graphics and I can't take the chance of the images disappearing off other people's web-space.

[JustAskJulie]

Originally Posted by 7thgenCivic.Com

I did have a need, but i just used the forum for it. I would just like to see what makes it different other than the layout. If u can convince me why I should use it over the forum for articles, I may install it.

I see this being more useful for articles and such where it's not about discussions but about focusing on one initial post (the article). At the same time you can allow for commenting and rating of the articles, but if they want to actually discuss it they'd have to do it elsehwere. At least that's how I see it.

[JustAskJulie]

Originally Posted by bitg

[*]A "Byline" field to be displayed next to the article. Too often I will upload an article but it was actually written by somebody else.[/list]

I need something like this too, or at least the normal "unregistered" options, where I can type in a name/email address for a submitter rather than it strictly being posted as "Unregistered".

I'm convering old stuff from my site to try to integrate everything with vb, and I have 4 years worth of articles posted by various people and right now there is no way to post those without them either showing up as written by me or Unregistered.

[zerinS4]

Any ideas?? Dying to get this working right...

Originally Posted by zerinS4

Okay I must be an idiot because I've followed the instructions to the T and this is what I get when I go into my AdminCP...

If I click on Save, it redirects to a page that says "Nothing To Do"


Help!