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.

[School-Help]

I have set up v3articles and thumbnails is on , why are all the images appear broken at the bottom of the page? :surprised:

[j_86]

Look through the thread to find out for yourself

[welo]

(Posted Here)

Originally Posted by welo

I can probably do this without too much trauma. I just installed it a couple of days ago, actually did read through this entire thread and took a few notes. I'll catch it later today.

Sorry for the delay on this, guys. Things have been nuts. I'll work up something today and post it so all the fixes are in the same place.

[SamirDarji]

Originally Posted by welo

(Posted Here)


Sorry for the delay on this, guys. Things have been nuts. I'll work up something today and post it so all the fixes are in the same place.

Do what you can. I'm still up to do it once I hit working on the articles section of my site (still months away).

[Cent]

Hi! Help me please!

Forgive for my English. I from Russia and I only started to learn English language.

I have installed "v3 Articles 1.0.1" on my forum. I have a little altered your script. But I have not achieved that result which was necessary for me. I need the following. On the main page v3 Articles there are many sections. I have made so, that under each section the reference to last news was deduced. I should make, so that three references to the last of 3 themes were deduced. As I should make so, that before references to news time of its publication has been written. E.g.: [20:18 | 18.10.04] - " Why not? "

Help to make it. Beforehand I thank you.

P.s. Forgive for my English. I from Russia and only started to learn English language.

My site is: http://www.lectro.ru/forum/article.php

[welo]

Well, I started writing a bugfix document for this by starting at the beginning of this thread and going all the way through, and most of the problems I see people having are not due to the fault of the script. I won't be recompiling the documentation like I originally thought, but for the newcomers (who probably won't read this post anyway once it drifts back one page), here are the relevant issues:

• No input file specified.
• Red X on the article index when no post icon chosen. Cause: Not using default names for post icons.
• "mysql error number: 1064". Fix - Save VB options as per instructions.
• Wrong article count: No fix yet
• Custom BB codes don't work: Intended
• SQL problem in article.php
• Who's online: Install this hack (or use this)
• Add on: Printable versions of V3Articles
• Searchable articles
• Alphabetically sort articles
• "Last comment by" doesn't link to user profile.
• Thumbnails problem fixed

I think that's about it.

[SamirDarji]

Excellent stuff welo. Thank you for doing this. I'm sure you've saved a lot of people a lot of time, including myself.

[lanc3lot]

Xmm, there is a prob - bug, with the moderation of the Articles!!!...Does in your board works well?

[Cent]

And to me will help with my question?

Forgive for my English. I from Russia and I only started to learn English language.

[Chadi]

Pardon me but how do I add the image box area in a featured article like shown in your screenshots?

I can't seem to find this.