Forum Display Enhancements - Article Forums

Article Forums v4.x for vBulletin v4.x

Demo | Version History

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

[Bram H]

Originally Posted by bananalive

I missed out line.

Demo: http://www.bananalive.co.cc/portal.php?pageid=afexample

Wow thanks that you made this specially for us vBa users..

Unfortunately its not working correctly (yet) at our homepage. It lists all the recent articles alright but when you click on the title you get redirected to the portal again.

It points to a showthread while we use rewrited urls with vbseo... Also our cmps file is located on the www.domain.com and the forum is located at forum.domain.com

Nevertheless ace that you took the time to help out.

[Saviour]

Bug found...

When you untick Most Commented Articles from the new options in AdminCP...it removes the entire right column...including Most Read and Top Authors...

[bananalive]

Try attached file.

It should fix issue of url pointing to wrong directory when index_cmps.php is in different directory to forum.

Originally Posted by RetroDreams

That did work. However, I ran into something else. If you have bbcode parsing turned on, you do not get any thumbnails on the main articles index. You'll get your bbcoded image (if you had one in the article before the cutoff) but no thumbnail, even if you attached one to the article. Maybe the better option would be to strip bbcode on the articles index? Is that something that can be done?

Other Recommendations:

One last recommendation would be to give the user the ability to have the thumbnail on either the left or right side on the main articles index. Would imagine that would be fairly easy to implement.

Originally Posted by Bram H

Wow thanks that you made this specially for us vBa users..

Unfortunately its not working correctly (yet) at our homepage. It lists all the recent articles alright but when you click on the title you get redirected to the portal again.

It points to a showthread while we use rewrited urls with vbseo... Also our cmps file is located on the www.domain.com and the forum is located at forum.domain.com

Nevertheless ace that you took the time to help out.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Saviour

Bug found...

When you untick Most Commented Articles from the new options in AdminCP...it removes the entire right column...including Most Read and Top Authors...

Fixed in attached file

[rEd86]

Great add-on. I am not sure how extendable this is since it uses the vBulletin forums for posting and your leveraging most of what that provides, but here are a couple of feature requests:

1) It would be nice to be able to create an article that would appear in the future. That way I can create multiple articles and determine when they show up on the site.

2) It would also be nice to enable HTML postings for select authors. (this might be more of a vBulletin securiting setting/configuration) I'd like for a select group of trusted authors to be able to post an article that's HTML based so they have full formatting control but only allow "comments" to contain BB Code.

Thanks!

--Ed

[Bram H]

@Bananalive: when importing the module i get the following error:

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in [path]/admincp/vba_cmps_admin.php on line 3948

[dancue]

Originally Posted by bananalive

This is only occuring for one of your articles due to image: http://www.billsretroworld.com/RetroJoe_Louis.jpg being non-existent. look at page2 of your articles to confirm this.

Ok, thank you!

Are both the vba module, and article forums threads up to date with the latest of your modifications?

I saw you upload a few within the posts and I don't want to miss out on anything.

[dancue]

Originally Posted by Bram H

@Bananalive: when importing the module i get the following error:

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in [path]/admincp/vba_cmps_admin.php on line 3948

Same here.

[dancue]

Request:

Can we add an announcement between the letters and the main table? Would be nice to add the ability to have the newest articles scrolling through.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Bram H

@Bananalive: when importing the module i get the following error:

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in [path]/admincp/vba_cmps_admin.php on line 3948

Download latest version here: Article Forums Module for vBa CMPS

It has the issue mentioned fixed.