Geek Article System 3 - RC1

HowdA All.

The GAS3 system is a comprehensive article system that completely integrates into vB3.

History

Originally, I looked into other article systems to integrate with my forums but just got irritated over and over again as I found the other offering out there very limiting for my needs. I wanted to use my members usergroup permissions, the search facility (so when someone did a search for bob both articles AND threads appeared on one page), I also wanted wysiwyg editing and vBs attachment system. Well, I accomplished 99% of my needs with the Geek Article System 2.0
Why 3.0? While the 2.0 was fine for my needs, many users began asking for a far more complex system that took the beauty of 2.0 and added popular features in the other article systems.

Here are the features in a nutshell:

• Integrates 100% into vB. No importing forums or creating special groups. Simply mark forum as an 'Article' forum and instantly all threads become articles. Dont like it anymore? Simply remove the ID and the therads and forums go back to normal.
• Whatever you can do in a thread or post, you can do with the GAS3 system (uploading attachments, smiles, BBcode, various editors, yadayadayada)
• Create multiple pages in your post by simply putting [BREAK] anywhere in your post.
• The first thumbnail in an article substitutes the posters avatar (switchable via admincp)
• Integrated article byline.
• Article sidebar that shows the article rating, your rating, the rating form, article tools, and article attachments (all toggable via admincp)

Special thanks goes to rlamego and to peterska2 for private Beta testing this for me. Couldnt of happened without them!

Planned work:

• I have integrated an attachment description modification, but so far I dont have an interface for the newattachment.php yet. I will do this as an add on (though the backend work is already in place)

Known issues:

• none that I am currently aware of.

Demos: (note that I have a custom skin, so your results will be ever so slightly different)
http://www.thenailgeek.com/showthread.php?t=11287
http://www.thenailgeek.com/showthread.php?t=8801 - pages of comments


Difficulty - Medium
Time - about 15 minutes
File modifications? a few

Instructions

Click install. Especially as a beta, the package could get important updates that you need to be aware of. Also, as soon as it goes live, I may do the gold release outside of this thread as I dont want to bog down the gold release thread with any beta issues (if there are any). You will need to be aware of when that happens (so click install darnit!)
Download the package and unzip.
Follow the GAS3_README file to the letter!
There is an install script that does most of the work for you. There are several file edits that you will have to do yourself though.
When done, go into your admncp, open vBulletin settings, open Geek Articles 3 settings (in the big list where you turn your VB on and off).

Troubleshooting:

• No phrases after install? This happens a lot with many installers for some bizzare reason. All you have to do is do a phrase search for GAS_ , edit the phrase (dont change it), then save it. Bingo - all your phrases appear.
• Settings not taking? Your settings need to be saved in your adminco in order to take effect.

Also:

For the love of Pete - this is a BETA hack. I would therefore backup your DB, your styles, and any of the files the README asks you to change.

nJoy

[rlamego]

Ok, last report of the evening before I'm off to the couch for some serious Battlestar Galactica new series marathon =)

My apologies if I'm posting something you already said it's broken but I kinda lost track of the bugs status.
1 - BREAK tag is case sensitive.;
2 - "Edit Article" from the Article Tools pull-down menu "doesn't work" (because no changes were made to the postings.php page)
3 - "Show the article sidebar" setting is ignored by the other options, so if it's set to NO and any of the others is set to YES, sidebar appears on the article pages.

And finally, one for the "things to do before releasing" list, remove or hide the break tag from the printthread.php version of the article.

[TheComputerGuy]

PHP Code:

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.6:

Invalid SQL: INSERT INTO phrase (phraseid, languageid, varname, text, phrasetypeid) VALUES (NULL, '-1', 'geek_articles_article_tools', 'Article Tools', '582')
mysql error: Duplicate entry 'geek_articles_article_tools--1-582' for key 2

mysql error number: 1062

Date: Saturday 05th of February 2005 08:27:22 PM
Script: [url]http://www.runaked.com/forums/admincp/gas3_install.php?do=installphrases[/url]
Referer: [url]http://www.runaked.com/forums/admincp/gas3_install.php?do=installdb[/url]
Username: TheComputerGuy 


I get that when I try to install the phrases...

[Killean]

/forum/admincp/gas3_install.php

Line 74 there is a duplicate entry in the phrases array (entry number 18 is a duplicate of 2).
I removed the #18 line and decremented the array numbers.

If you have already gone through the process and got stopped by the error then do an uninstall and install again after you have made that correction in the file.

[TheComputerGuy]

Installed Successfully....

http://www.runaked.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5061

Only problems were fixed with help from others.

[The Geek]

Updated package to 2-04

• Fixed case sensitive pagebreak
• Fixed a couple of layout problems in mozilla sidebars
• Found a rogue phrase and fixed it
• Fixed duplicate phrase in install

I will sort printthread later (fingers crossed - today)
Im not sure what is wrong with the edit article function - can anyone else elaborate?

To upgrade from previous packages:
Replace your functions_geekarticles file with the new one.
Run the install and uninstall the phrases and the templates
Run the install and install the phrases and templates.
Edit your show thread and find:

PHP Code:

$GAS_page_array = explode($GAS_page_break_code, $post['pagetext']); 


Replace with

PHP Code:

$GAS_page_array = explode($GAS_page_break_code, prep_for_breaks(&$post['pagetext'])); 


nJoy (And thanks for everyones help!)

[The Geek]

Can everyone who has installed click INSTALL please? Otherwise you wont get notified of the updates.

Thanks

[The Geek]

update to 2.06

This version is to support printthread.
In the readme, there are printthread changes and there is a new template added 'GAS_printthreadbit'

To upgrade from 2-05:
Uninstall the templates, then re-install them
Do the canges in step 8 of the readme.

Only known issue to me at this stage is:

If comment count>0 but comment count<the preview count, the post number is a negative. This came up in private beta testing and I thought I had fixed it. Ill see if I can sort it this afternoon or tonight (its a pretty insignificant bug in the scheme of things)

Thanks

[rlamego]

Here's another issue with last package (which I believe is 6 but seems wrongly dubbed as 5).
In the vB options, setting "Show comments on last page?" to no, doesn't change a thing.
From what I can understand from the description (Do you want a 'preview' of comments on the last page of the articles?) this should remove all comments from the article's last page and put them in the comments page if set to "no", or show x number of comments in the last page of the article.

[rlamego]

As for the Edit Article bug, forget it. It was a template issue not related to GA.

[xmitchx]

Hi,

First off I'd like to tip my hat off to such a great hack Second, I found a typo

Step 8.6:

// === GEEK ARTICLES step 8.6 ===
if ($GAS_is_article){
$post['pagetext'] = remove_all_breaks($post['pagetext']);
$template="GAS_printthreadbit";
}else{
$tempalte="printthreadbit";
}
// === /GEEK ARTICLES ===

The bold part should be $template