Forum Display Enhancements - Article Forums v4.x

Turn a forum into an article forum. Sub-forums are turned into categories.

• Posts/Articles show in searches & in new posts
• Create as many sub-forums/ categories as you need - categories display in navbar
• Follows forum permissions
• Can still rate thread, etc.
• Different postbits for article and replies (comments) - Optional
• Choose what to display in postbit for article and comments
• Choose what to display on articles in vBulletin Options

Installation:

1. Upload articles.php
2. Import product file
3. Create a forum in admincp
4. Go to vBulletin Options->Article forum Options

Remember to click Mark as Installed to receive updates and support

[tomshawk]

Shoot, Fresh install or this hack of a fresh 4.2.0 with CMS
Before installing this hack CMS worked fine

After CMS gives this

Fatal error: Cannot use object of type vB_Legacy_Thread as array in /home/gamerpit/public_html/packages/vbcms/content.php(1104) : eval()'d code on line 7

Any ideas. Disabling this hack fixes CMS

Commenting out that line in content.php seems to fix the issue

// ($hook = vBulletinHook::fetch_hook('showthread_query_postid s')) ? eval($hook) : false;

[mitch84]

Originally Posted by tomshawk

Shoot, Fresh install or this hack of a fresh 4.2.0 with CMS
Before installing this hack CMS worked fine

After CMS gives this



Any ideas. Disabling this hack fixes CMS

Commenting out that line in content.php seems to fix the issue

yes, me too! how fixed that please, thx

[jnmann]

Anyway to stop recent articles appearing in the centre and just put a message saying "Please choose a category on the left" or similar?

[AshenTemper]

I have "Parse BB Code on articles.php" set to "No" as recommended, but I notice it still shows custom BB. For example, I have some custom BB codes for image alignments and opening in the same window instead of a new one. But, my article shows up like:

http://raptr.com/badge/AshenTemper/fs_49316d8a5de21281b0f4fc8f0089006b.pngAs you can see to the side, I've played a few hours of Cryptic's new Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter which is published by Perfect World. Early access started on April 25th for "Heroes of the North" which looks to have cost about $199, April 27th for "Guardians of Neverwinter", and on April 30th for non-Founders. I am part of the latter category and didn't start until April 3rd. For a little conte...

The part where it is shows:

http://raptr.com/badge/AshenTemper/fs_49316d8a5de21281b0f4fc8f0089006b.pngAs

... is actually:

[URL="http://raptr.com/AshenTemper?src=em_game"][imgright]http://raptr.com/badge/AshenTemper/fs_49316d8a5de21281b0f4fc8f0089006b.png[/imgright][/URL]

...but, as you can see, its still showing the URL to the image. Pretty sure it's because it is Custom BB but is there any way to make that not happen?

[fxdigi-cash]

Originally Posted by jnmann

Anyway to stop recent articles appearing in the centre and just put a message saying "Please choose a category on the left" or similar?

I believe you need to modify the code in both following templates:

af_articlebit

and

af_articles

you can move the article slide to anywhere else if you like...

[fxdigi-cash]

Originally Posted by AshenTemper

I have "Parse BB Code on articles.php" set to "No" as recommended, but I notice it still shows custom BB. For example, I have some custom BB codes for image alignments and opening in the same window instead of a new one. But, my article shows up like:

http://raptr.com/badge/AshenTemper/fs_49316d8a5de21281b0f4fc8f0089006b.pngAs you can see to the side, I've played a few hours of Cryptic's new Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter which is published by Perfect World. Early access started on April 25th for "Heroes of the North" which looks to have cost about $199, April 27th for "Guardians of Neverwinter", and on April 30th for non-Founders. I am part of the latter category and didn't start until April 3rd. For a little conte...

The part where it is shows:

http://raptr.com/badge/AshenTemper/fs_49316d8a5de21281b0f4fc8f0089006b.pngAs

... is actually:

[URL="http://raptr.com/AshenTemper?src=em_game"][imgright]http://raptr.com/badge/AshenTemper/fs_49316d8a5de21281b0f4fc8f0089006b.png[/imgright][/URL]

...but, as you can see, its still showing the URL to the image. Pretty sure it's because it is Custom BB but is there any way to make that not happen?

Yes, you are right. I have the same issue so I'm still looking for a solution since then...

[fxdigi-cash]

Originally Posted by mitch84

yes, me too! how fixed that please, thx

This is strange a bit... I thought if you have the CMS there is no need for this hack since CMS as I understood before it contains all that in the package...!!!

correct me if I was wrong

[fxdigi-cash]

by the way, is it possible to re-create new mod of this with different name, say news.php instead of Article...!!

any idea???

[fxdigi-cash]

I believe I found some errors in some templates: i.e. af_left_alt

PHP Code:

<div style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;"><a href="search.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}f=<vb:if condition="$c">$c<vb:else />{vb:raw vboptions.nf_forumids}</vb:if>"
rel="nofollow">{vb:phrase advanced_search}</a></div></div> 


The conditional statement doesn't make any sense...

[fxdigi-cash]

any idea how to display the poster avatar in front of the article title in the main article page??

Thanks