Article system coming soon!

[krohnathlonman]

read the post, I said that I don't have the old package anymore.... You're just gonna have to wait like everybody else.

[Jolten]

Okay. thanks anyway.

[krohnathlonman]

For anybody looking for an update I've decided to build something that basically builds completely static pages and updates itself twice a day for all of my articles.

On a site like mine it will greatly decrease the load and make my system capable of serving a LOT more pages. This affectively broke the current Vbulletin integration since I'm no longer using session handling in any form for the articles. I'm currently looking at simple ways of tapping into the sessions while using as few resources as possible!

I also plan on building a news and article list "caching" system. I might release addons to some of the portal systems out there currently to help your news pages load alot faster.

If there's a developer here that wants the build of my article system right before my static file version I can give you the DB structure and the .php file, but it's FAR from anything normal users can use. I will have absolutely zero support, you'll have to know a LOT of PHP and have released at least 2 hacks for me to send it to you. Hopefully somebody will be able to pickup where I left off with the system and create something releasable to you guys. I believe that my system is the best thing out there for articles. It even holds up to massive amounts of traffic!

[Jolten]

Too bad. I haven't released 2 hack. but I did hack yoru beta version quite a bit to a decent tutorial system. I was hoping to get some additional features you'd worked out since I haven't had all the time to put into that one module.

[krohnathlonman]

I did get the WYSIWYG and [PAGEBREAK] tags working just right basically if somebody will polish it up it could be a great hack, I just haven't been able to find the time to do the polishing that it needs. Also for my personal projects I'm starting to drift away from the complete VB integration. My current method for finding where they are is through a little iframe'd in page that does the most basic VB access possible. The static pages load incredibly fast! In this build I'm using right now my templates are still in VB, but I'm going to take it out pretty soon. There's some issues with VB's cron system not letting the file access VB templates!

[infiniterb]

Any hopes on this article system ever seeing the light of day?

[Jolten]

Read the thread infiniterb.. it was abandoned unfortunately.

[krohnathlonman]

The Vbulletin integrated route was far too server intensive for my needs so I switched to developing a static page articles system and its a good thing I did because even my worst days I'm serving well above 200k pages a day now. the classic DB driven site takes a ton of power to serve properly so by putting various static pagefile systems in place I can cache any section I want and only do the queries every so often.

Currently I'm using a dual Xeon 2.8 with 2Gb RAM and the loads are so nice and low that it might be months before I have to upgrade again.