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.

[JustAskJulie]

Moderation doesn't appear to be working.

I have it turned on and initially all it did was show a little icon next to the title of the article signifying that it needed to be moderated (but even unregistered could see it). Now it doesn't even show the icon and registered or not you can view the article.

[JustAskJulie]

Nevermind. Evidently since I was posting them from an admin account they wouldn't get moderated.... at least that would make sense.

[SnowBot]

Get this error when trying to edit the usergroups

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.1:

Invalid SQL: UPDATE usergroup SET

### UPDATE QUERY GENERATED BY fetch_query_sql() ###
title = 'Users Awaiting Email Confirmation',
description = '',
usertitle = 'Awaiting Email',
opentag = '',
closetag = '',
passwordexpires = '0',
passwordhistory = '0',
arcademinposts = '0',
arcademintime = '0',
canviewarticles = '1',
canviewcomments = '0',
canpostarticles = '0',
cancomment = '0',
canedownart = '0',
canedothart = '0',
candelownart = '0',
candelothart = '0',
canfeature = '0',
cansearchart = '0',
canratearticles = '0',
canviewartmedia = '0',
attachlimit = '0',
avatarmaxwidth = '80',
avatarmaxheight = '80',
avatarmaxsize = '20000',
profilepicmaxwidth = '100',
profilepicmaxheight = '100',
profilepicmaxsize = '65535',
pmquota = '50',
pmsendmax = '0',
forumpermissions = '3',
pmpermissions = '0',
calendarpermissions = '0',
wolpermissions = '0',
adminpermissions = '0',
genericpermissions = '3',
genericoptions = '8',
linkspermissions = '67329',
arcadepermissions = '0'
WHERE usergroupid=3
mysql error: Unknown column 'canviewarticles' in 'field list'

mysql error number: 1054

Date: Tuesday 29th of June 2004 11:23:13 PM
Script: http://www.synergyforums.com/forum/a.../usergroup.php
Referer: http://www.synergyforums.com/forum/a...&usergroupid=3

[SnowBot]

nm I found the problem, i over written the includes init.php file by mistake and forgot to re-add the changes for this hack to that file.

[bgtking]

Thanks for another great hack John!

Anyways, I was wondering if anyone could do a mod for this system that would add a 'Favorite Article' button, similar to the install function on these forums. And, if possible, have your favorites displayed in your profile. if anyone could do this, that would be great.

[JustAskJulie]

Can someone tell me how I would move the "Featured Article" into a specific category rather than having it on the Category List page?

[Holidazed]

This hack is absolutely awesome John.

Is there a way we can have the Featured article pick a random article to feature?

[m0h2]

I had some problems while installing it so I uninstalled it to do a new fresh installation but when I tried to reinstall it I got an error, it looks like the installation script can't be used after uninstalling it!

I tried to follow the steps in the installation script (doing it manual) but I get the no permission error when I try to access the article page (I also did follow all the other instructions)

Any ideas?

[mixylplik3]

Originally Posted by JustAskJulie

Can someone tell me how I would move the "Featured Article" into a specific category rather than having it on the Category List page?

Along these lines, it would be nice to be able to remove a featured article so nothing is there. Once it's set, it's locked in.

[Ig@r]

Install, works great. Thanks a lot

It would be nice to have a possibility to post huge articles and books with many pages.