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

[Budweiser]

I have a suggestion on the layout of the articles themselves.

On the right under the posters name how about having an invisible border so that space directly beneath can be used for advertising space.

Any way to integrate a word wrap around the photo's too?

Thnx, Kev

PS: Bananalive has got to be overwhelmed with all of the requests and suggestions...

[smirkley]

No requests,...

just a simple thanks.

[Omar Al-Ansari]

Hi,

I am back again

just a quick question .. is there a way to show the categories list in a dropdown menu rather than how it is showing now?

thanks again

[Bounce]

Hi,

nice mod, any way to change the "article" wording to your own custom one?

thanks

[Omar Al-Ansari]

Hello,

Ok so I have no experience in coding and I have copied a code that posts threads in to a specific forum and played with it to use it as a forum jump dropdown menu.

Now the only issue I am facing is to get it showing for unregistered users. I would appreciate the help if someone could explain it to me and remove anything that is not needed in it

<form action="{$vbulletin->options[bburl]}/forumdisplay.php" method="get">
<input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]" />
<input type="hidden" name="do" value="showforum" />
<div style="width: 100px; height: 1px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"></div>
<div align="right" style="padding:$stylevar[cellpadding]px 0px $stylevar[cellpadding]px 0px;"><fieldset class="fieldset">
<legend>$vbphrase[go]</legend>
<div style="padding: 0px 0px $stylevar[cellpadding]px 0px;">				
<div><label for="sel_f">$vbphrase[category]</label></div>
				<select name="f" id="sel_f">
					$f_options
				</select></div>
<div style="text-align:center;"><input type="submit" class="button" value="$vbphrase[go]" /></div>

</fieldset></div>
</form>

Regards,

[Omar Al-Ansari]

Originally Posted by Omar Al-Ansari

Hello,

Ok so I have no experience in coding and I have copied a code that posts threads in to a specific forum and played with it to use it as a forum jump dropdown menu.

Now the only issue I am facing is to get it showing for unregistered users. I would appreciate the help if someone could explain it to me and remove anything that is not needed in it

<form action="{$vbulletin->options[bburl]}/forumdisplay.php" method="get">
<input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]" />
<input type="hidden" name="do" value="showforum" />
<div style="width: 100px; height: 1px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"></div>
<div align="right" style="padding:$stylevar[cellpadding]px 0px $stylevar[cellpadding]px 0px;"><fieldset class="fieldset">
<legend>$vbphrase[go]</legend>
<div style="padding: 0px 0px $stylevar[cellpadding]px 0px;">				
<div><label for="sel_f">$vbphrase[category]</label></div>
				<select name="f" id="sel_f">
					$f_options
				</select></div>
<div style="text-align:center;"><input type="submit" class="button" value="$vbphrase[go]" /></div>

</fieldset></div>
</form>

Regards,

That would be nice or at least to show only the forum and if you click on it

you go to the forum and it shows the sub-forums

Example

- Articles forum
- - Computers
- - Internet
- - Cellphones
- - - Nokia
- - - Samsung
- - - iPhones

When you are in the "Articles Forum" you can only see

- - Computers
- - Internet
- - Cellphones

Then you click on "Cellphones" you would only see

- - - Nokia
- - - Samsung
- - - iPhones

That would be very nice

[snoopy5]

Hi

could you please post in the description of your mod, what you did change with the latest release in June and why?

Is it necessary to upgrade?

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by skooby

Thanks for the response. This seems to work in both Firefox and IE, but only Firefox is it showing the increased thumbnail size, not IE (using IE 8). The first attachment is Firefox, the second is IE.

Also, in the CMPS (I posted this in the other thread but not sure if you are checking), the CMPS is only showing 25 words even though I made the changes to show 200 words (even went as high as 1000). It takes affect in articles.php, but not in CMPS. This is happening in both browsers. Also tried to go to "edit module" and make the switch there, but same thing.

Thanks again.. I owe you a beer.

In the same template: af_articlebit
Find

width: expression(this.width > 100 ? 100: true);

Replace with

width: expression(this.width > 120 ? 120: true);

I had a quick look into the word limit in cmps but couldn't work out why it wasn't working, i'll have to have another look.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by nohuhu

bananalive,

any news regarding my feature requests? sorry for bugging you but i really think these would be very beneficial and also i'd like to know what you think about them.

I think what you are requesting is a different modification really.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Budweiser

I have a suggestion on the layout of the articles themselves.

On the right under the posters name how about having an invisible border so that space directly beneath can be used for advertising space.

Any way to integrate a word wrap around the photo's too?

Thnx, Kev

PS: Bananalive has got to be overwhelmed with all of the requests and suggestions...

You could use custom bbcode to do image/text wrap.

Edit template af_firstpost to add advertising space.