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

[Scalemotorcars]

Anyone get notices to work. It only works when viewing an article. Not when viewing the articles.php

[JacquiiDesigns]

Originally Posted by Scalemotorcars

Anyone get notices to work. It only works when viewing an article. Not when viewing the articles.php

What do you mean by notices?
I have 2 unread PMs and the flashing notice works just fine on my forum when viewing http://jpicforum.info/forum/articles.php

[Scalemotorcars]

No I.m referring to forum notices. You know the area below the navbar that can post a message in a specific forum. Its not working on articles.php

[Alfa1]

For some reason I cant get articles.php to display right.
bb code displays parse and unparsed.
Images do not resize to one size.
Text preview length counts characters that are in bb codes and cuts off in the middle of words.

Do you have any idea how I can solve this?

I do not want my forumdisplay.php replaced, because I have a vbadvanced page for article overview and I want my moderators to be able to normally browse the forums.
I partially resolved this by disabling the following plugins: 'article forum' and 'links'. I tried the edit of show thread complete that you posted earlier in the thread, but that results in a error on showtread.
Could you please add a setting for this?

Is there any way to reduce the font size on articles.php ?

[SBlueman]

I like this modification and look forward to it improving. I know one feature I'd like is to be able to limit the time to show results in the "Most Read" And "Most Comments" modules. It would be handy to set this so it only went back to the last seven days for my site.

Also, some sort of tie-in with thread prefixes would help too.

[SBlueman]

Originally Posted by bananalive

Find in articles.php:

PHP Code:

ORDER BY $sqlsortfield $sqlsortorder 


Replace with:

PHP Code:

ORDER BY sticky DESC, $sqlsortfield $sqlsortorder 


I found this to display the stickies above all other articles. Is there a way to separate them? We use the stickies as the top 10 stories from the day.

[SBlueman]

Also, is there a way to have moderation check boxes included with this? And can articles that have been read have a way to show that? Maybe a different font style to the headline or a image overlay to "cloud" the image some if read?

[Alfa1]

When deleting posts, the posts are blanked out, but still visible.
When rating a post, the user gets a xml error.

I have uninstalled this for now. I hope this will be fixed.

Originally Posted by Alfa1

For some reason I cant get articles.php to display right.
bb code displays parse and unparsed.
Images do not resize to one size.
Text preview length counts characters that are in bb codes and cuts off in the middle of words.

Do you have any idea how I can solve this?

I do not want my forumdisplay.php replaced, because I have a vbadvanced page for article overview and I want my moderators to be able to normally browse the forums.
I partially resolved this by disabling the following plugins: 'article forum' and 'links'. I tried the edit of show thread complete that you posted earlier in the thread, but that results in a error on showtread.
Could you please add a setting for this?

Is there any way to reduce the font size on articles.php ?

[wraggster]

hi folks did anyone get this working on their index page

for example it works fine here --> http://gamingandgadgets.com/vbulletin/articles.php

but not here http://gamingandgadgets.com/articles.php

is there a way to rename it index.php and have it outside of the vbulletin dir ?

[uandhim2]

i keep getting this error:

Database error in vBulletin 4.1.2:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT thread.*,thread.title AS threadtitle, post.dateline AS postdateline, post.pagetext AS preview, attachment.thumbnail_filesize AS thumbsize, MIN(attachment.attachmentid) AS attachmentid

FROM thread as thread
LEFT JOIN post AS post
ON (post.postid = thread.firstpostid)
LEFT JOIN attachment AS attachment
ON (attachment.postid = thread.firstpostid AND attachment.extension IN('jpg', 'gif', 'png', 'jpeg', 'bmp'))
WHERE open != 10
AND thread.forumid IN( 4,12,25,26,27,28,14,21,22,33,29,30,31,32 )
AND thread.visible = 1
GROUP BY thread.threadid
ORDER BY thread.dateline DESC
LIMIT 5;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'attachment.thumbnail_filesize' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Thursday, April 7th 2011 @ 01:51:50 PM
Error Date : Thursday, April 7th 2011 @ 01:51:50 PM
Script : http://www.jetskisportfishing.com/forum/
Referrer : http://www.jetskisportfishing.com/fo...hp?24-Articles
IP Address : 24.43.70.2
Username : JSF
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.1.47-community-log

i'm running vbulletin4.1.2. Any help?