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.

[BarHopper]

And my question, ujusta simple error, witht ehr ebeing no Add button displayed, thats all.

[zerinS4]

Okay I upgraded to vB 3.0.3 today and now the articles page just displays a plain white page. What did I break?

[SVTOA]

Blank white pages usually means missing templates.

[lakers6473]

I try installing the article:

Log into the Admin Control Panel.
Expand "vBulletin Options", and click on the "vBulletin Options" link.
Scroll to the bottom, click v3 Articles - click "Edit Settings".
Click on "Save".

When i get to this part. and view the v3 Articles. its blank ( meaning i get no selections) when i click on save it says "NOTHING TO DO"

When i go to the article section and click on an article i get this

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.3:

Invalid SQL: SELECT * FROM article
WHERE categoryid=1 AND (articleuserid=1 OR open IN (0,1)) ORDER BY dateline DESC LIMIT 0,
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 2

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Friday 22nd of October 2004 09:54:45 PM
Script: http://www.stiffedagain.net/forums/article.php?c=1
Referer: http://www.stiffedagain.net/forums/article.php
Username: Lakers6473

what did i do wrong here and how would i go about fixing it?

[Kwak]

Wassup guys,

I've edited the admincp files and that worked out.
I've created a new Bot and assigned the User ID in the settings. But I have no idea what to fill out for:

Regex Search & Replace for Titles

and

Regex Search & Replace for Descriptions

search & replace boxes.

[fiber1]

Well, I finally found my last issue conflicting between this hack and the VB Journal hack.

In includes/init.php

Journal has this for UserGroup permmisions:

PHP Code:

'canviewcomments'    => 4, 


and

Articles has this for UserGroup permmisions:

PHP Code:

'canviewcomments'    => 2, 


So, If you go into AdminCp/Usergroup Manager/Edit Usergroup and look for these 2 permissions:

Articles/ Can View Comments

Journal Permissions/ Can View Comments

If you select YES on either one of these it automatically kicks the YES and/or NO radial selection out of the other selection.

Thought I would give a heads up on this for those that may incounter this issue.

I don't have a fix for it, nor do I know why its and issue, (I can assume why) for I am not qualified to know what to do.

If anyone else know how to fix the issue it would be greatly appreciated.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by fiber1

Well, I finally found my last issue conflicting between this hack and the VB Journal hack.

In includes/init.php

Journal has this for UserGroup permmisions:

PHP Code:

'canviewcomments'    => 4, 


and

Articles has this for UserGroup permmisions:

PHP Code:

'canviewcomments'    => 2, 


So, If you go into AdminCp/Usergroup Manager/Edit Usergroup and look for these 2 permissions:

Articles/ Can View Comments

Journal Permissions/ Can View Comments

If you select YES on either one of these it automatically kicks the YES and/or NO radial selection out of the other selection.

Thought I would give a heads up on this for those that may incounter this issue.

I don't have a fix for it, nor do I know why its and issue, (I can assume why) for I am not qualified to know what to do.

If anyone else know how to fix the issue it would be greatly appreciated.

The fix is already in the vB Journal thread, and has been for a while.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=114

[lovevn]

I have tried my best to install this hack but I still have some problem with the mysql . The install script can not insert setting group and phrase in to my database. I want to insert the mysql of article in to my database manually . Can any one write (convert the install.php) a mysql file for this hack ?

Thanks in advance!

[fiber1]

Originally Posted by Paul M

The fix is already in the vB Journal thread, and has been for a while.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=114

Thanks Paul.

Just one of those moments I guess.

[Kwak]

Originally Posted by iKwak

Wassup guys,

I've edited the admincp files and that worked out.
I've created a new Bot and assigned the User ID in the settings. But I have no idea what to fill out for:


Regex Search & Replace for Titles
&
Regex Search & Replace for Descriptions

search & replace boxes.

Bump.


I am getting e-mails of my cronjob:
Status: 404
Content-type: text/html
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.9
No input file specified.


Did I type in the wrong URL for cronjob?