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.

[RichieBoy67]

Can someone please take a look and tell me if this is correct??

http://www.talkandmore.net/forums/article.php?


Also, is it possible to have this show in a VBAdvanced module??


Thanks

[jered]

I'm having problems with the "X" showing up instead of the thumbnail as well...

I've tried all the setting I have available in the admin panel... is it something that my site owner will have to update on the server?

It's so frusterating...

Thanks for help in advance... Jered Provoscooter.com/vbull

[RichieBoy67]

IT's probably not the correct way to do it but if you don't want to go in and change the settings then just right click to find the path of the image and put the image there....

[jered]

See https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=68495


oops I found the "X" problem answer in the thread already...

Thanks!

[Razor]

I have no option to add articles. Should it be under the "articles" category in the admin cp? All that shows up is:

Category Manager
Add New Category
Moderate Articles
Moderate Comments

[Paul M]

You add articles from the forum, not admincp.

[Razor]

There's no option to add an article from the forum, either.

[Paul M]

Have you actually gone to the articles page ?

( http://..... your forum ..... /article.php )

[johnbruce71]

If you have a different style installed on your site you'll have to upload the pictures of the new article button to that image dir.

Eg, I have the vbstyles Aria skin installed so have a folder called aria in my forum dir i had to upload the pics to the image dir within aria and not the default vbulletin image folder.

Does that make sense to anyone but me lol

[Zacharicus]

Works like a charm. Thanks heaps. This will be great for our tutorials