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.

[SamirDarji]

I tried to too and got the same error. Yes, just tell them to enable GD. They should know what you are talking about.

[lanc3lot]

Also, from VBulletin official how do i forums...they gave me this web page: http://www.boutell.com/gd/

I already mailed the guys of my server, i just put the link here for anyone have same problem like me

Thanks all for the help, is 5.30 in the morning here..going to get some sleep at last

[SamirDarji]

Welcome. Get some sleep. It's only 11:30pm here. I've still got a few good hours left in me.

[lanc3lot]

Good morning to everyone ( hehe, maybe now its there night, not morning like here!)

Anyway, some more question, to the one can know them.


1) When a new major version of VB will be released, and if i have to change my current version to that one...what will i do with the articles? ( i am talking for Vb Articles)
Do i have to copy/paste it one by one or could they be in a file, which i only have to backup it?

2) Is any way, to include tables in the post - article? I mean,if we talk for gaming Reviews articles(like me), will be kewl to have tables with the "score" of the game, the "requirements", the "pros or the disadvantages' and others...Could that be easy to be done?

Thats all...i am waiting for my GD to be installed, and start upload some articles

[SamirDarji]

Good morning! Some answers:

1. This articles hack is like any other hack, and most other hacks need to be removed or re-installed after a major vB version change. At work, we're running 3.0.0 beta 7, and none of the hacks I've applied to my new board would work on that version. The tables will still exist in the database, so the problem will be in adapting the code of the original hack to the new version of vB.

2. Tables as well as any other HTML can easily be included. Just be sure "Allow HTML" is enabled for that category in the category manager.

[bugzy]

the attachments arent thumbnailed.

i get text instead of image for the attachments

[dieselpowered]

Hey everyone, alright so we are still awaiting the version that will work with 3.0.3 right. Sorry I think I have gone blind from 36 pages of threads.

Sorry for the ignorant post.

On a different note, John, excellent work...I look forward to using it!

Mike

[SamirDarji]

Originally Posted by xtremeoff-road

...36 pages of threads.

I have my profile set to display 100 posts per page and it's still 6 pages long, lol.

[tteal]

Will this now work with 3.0.3 or not?

[dieselpowered]

Originally Posted by SamirDarji

I have my profile set to display 100 posts per page and it's still 6 pages long, lol.

LOL I should have done that and then I would have only had to read 6 pages instead of 36!!

Good work, that would have saved me time...next time I will know

Mike