Forum Display Enhancements - Article Forums

Article Forums v4.x for vBulletin v4.x

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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
• Follows forum permissions
• Can still rate thread, etc.
• Different postbits for article and replies (comments)
• Choose what to display in postbit for article and comments
• Choose what to display on articles in vBulletin Options

* Not compatible with 3.7.x forums *

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

Possible Future Additions:

• Make article collapsible
• Allow multiple article forums

Translations:

• German/ Deutsch: http://www.vbulletin-germany.org/showthread.php?t=6048
• Russian: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=643

[smirkley]

Interesting,...my issue a couple of posts up shows up while I am at work using IE6 (I dont have any choice but IE6)

But at home it shows up properly in IE7

Must be a browser compatabilty issue it appears.

[Uasuforos]

Any rule for vbseo???

[Uasuforos]

Sorry, and bug in thumbnails.

[Mark.B]

Originally Posted by Uasuforos

Sorry, and bug in thumbnails.

Please, don't just post "there's a bug", that's of no help at all. What's needed is precises details of what you think is wrong, exactly what is happening, under what circumstances, etc.

Nobody can be expected to investigate a bug based on "there's a bug". It's like taking a car to be repaired and when they ask what's wrong you say "it doesn't work".

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by smirkley

Interesting,...my issue a couple of posts up shows up while I am at work using IE6 (I dont have any choice but IE6)

But at home it shows up properly in IE7


Must be a browser compatabilty issue it appears.

ie6 is pain to code for

Edit template: af_articlebit

Find: (line 1)

<div style="padding:$stylevar[cellpadding]px 0px $stylevar[cellpadding]px 0px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; overflow: hidden;">

Replace

<div style="padding:$stylevar[cellpadding]px 0px $stylevar[cellpadding]px 0px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; overflow: hidden; clear: both;">

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by afgboy

first of all, my english is bad

i want to explain my problem. i installed this addon and it?s very god work!

when the last postings are first in the vbulletin, there are a problem. because the news are in a wrong place and the last commentare are in the place where the news have to be...

i hope someone understande me

i upload a screen from my vbulletin

I understand what you mean. Which setting/ modification is reversing the post order?

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by glowinggal

another thing I'd love to see is the article "rating" underneath the author's name or somewhere in that particular article.

The article postbit still needs tweaking.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by glowinggal

lookin good so far - the "show printable version" does not work - and when it's clicked it creates an error on the page (at the bottom of IE):


Message: Invalid argument.
vbulletin_menju.js


Line: 11
Char: 3356
Code: 0
URI: http://myurl/forum/clientscript/vbulletin_menu.js?v=382

I don't think any javascript should be included/called in print version of threads.

[dancue]

Originally Posted by dancue

It's saying "Cannot Open Page: Too many redirects occured."

That only happens when I click on one of those forums. All the other non-article forums work properly.

Originally Posted by bananalive

on which page?

Originally Posted by dancue

When I click on the forum to view the threads within.

Am I SOL on this one? I hope not, I like this mod.

[Mark.B]

Bananlive, I think there needs to be a better way of doing this "find and replace" thing with words like forum and thread.

My site is called "BC Forums" but when posting a new article this shows in the title in the browser as "BC Categorys". Also I have the word "BC Forums" manually in the header template, that became "BC Categorys" as well, I had to change the word forums in the template to Foru<i></i>ms to stop it happening, but this won't work in the title bar.