vbArticles v0.4 -- For your repository of Articles/Tutorials/FAQs etc.

UPDATES
version 0.4 is out

- Now allows for basic VBCODE input.
- Fixed somemore bugs.


Background
Required a section on my site to display articles/tutorials
No such hack in the Hacks Database
Decided to try my hand at it

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This hack uses a lot of code from Arunan Sridharan's vB Links Directory v2.0
I use that hack too and was inspired to code something around that
A big thank-you must go out to him for coding the Links Directory in the first place (I merely modified much of the code to suit my needs for this hack)

Appreciation also goes out to Kars10 for aiding me in this hack
He coded the portion in version 0.3 on number of articles count as well as article hits count
He also suggested several template changes which have been incoporated into version 0.3
A great big special shout out to TheComputerGuy, 97cobracpe, dontpanic for stamping out the bugs with your fixes. Thanks guys


WHATS IT DO ?
This hack allows you to have a database of articles/tutorials etc on your site/forums.

FEATURES

AdminCP
Installer script

Admin options

View Categories
Edit Categories
Add Categories ( category name, category icon, category order, category description )
Delete Categories
Add new article ( title, description, author, date, content )
Edit article
Delete article
View ALL articles in database
Option in vB options to turn validation of articles on/off
Fully template based as to how you wish to display the articles,categories and main article home page.
Addition of articles accepts basic VBcodes

Member options

View Categories
Browse Categories
View articles
Submit new article
Submission of articles accepts basic VBcodes


INSTALLATION & UPGRADING
This Hack should work on ALL 2.2.x versions and v2.3.0
Please read the install_readme.txt file in the package for fresh installation instructions
IMPT: If you installed a previous version pls read the upgrade_readme.txt file carefully for upgrade instructions

HACK DOWNLOAD

Version 0.4 of this hack can be downloaded here

ADD-ONS
i) Add-on for vbHome
ii) Add-on for ForumHome
iii) Add-on to enable only registered members to be able to view the article section


DEMO SITES
http://www.runaked.com/forums/articles.php ( running v0.4 ) - TheComputerGuy's site

http://www.mcseworld.com/forums/infocenter.php ( running v0.3 ) - dontpanic's site


Feel free to submit your sites if u installed this hack so it can be listed as another live demo site

SUPPORT
I cannot promise any support on this as i am pretty new to this but I will try my best.
If you are using this hack , pls click the INSTALL button
to be kept in the loop of any bug reports, add-ons and hack version updates.

Thanks everyone

[cinq]

I may work on this after Christmas, but cannot promise anything as time is really limited and don't wish to get others' hopes up.

After i finally finish up on all the features i promised, i will release it as a Full version and not beta.
cheers folks and thanks for the encouragement, you're a great bunch.

[memobug]

Originally Posted by cinq

Discontinuing this hack.

assassingod is doing something similiar, you can get it here

Is that why there's no longer any installation attachment in the Download Here post

???

Regards,

Matt

[Giveit2u43]

Cinq, I hope you do decide to continue work, it`s a great hack already and has the potential to be awesome.. I think the vBulletin World is big enough for two tutorial/article hacks

Anyways if you do decide to come back to this after christmas then I`d be happy to help, if not I`d be happy to take over the project as I originally said.

Cheers.

[FleaBag]

It would be nice if you would put the original file back, so I can at least fully un-install this hack.

[cinq]

Remove articles.php , vbarticlesadmin.php from your forum root and forum admin dir respectively.

Remove all templates that has vbarticles_ prefixes.
In your database, remove vbarticles_content and vbarticles_cat

Happy uninstalling.

[FleaBag]

Thanks mate, I couldn't remember if I'd made any changes to functions.php e.t.c. Sorry to see this hack go, thanks for the support and work in the past. Good luck in future projects.

[cinq]

In admin/adminfunctions.php

Remove the code

PHP Code:

// ###################### Start maketableheaderview #######################
function maketableheaderview ($title,$anchor="",$htmlise=1,$colspan=6) {
// makes a two-cell spanning bar with a named <A> and a title
// then reinitialises the bgcolor counter.
    global $bgcounter;
    echo "<tr class='tblhead'><td colspan='$colspan'><a name=\"$anchor\"><font size='1'><center><span class='tblhead'>".iif($htmlise,htmlspecialchars($title),$title)."</span></center></font></a></td></tr>";
    $bgcounter = 0;
} 


In admin/index.php
Remove the code

PHP Code:

makenavoption("View/Edit/Add article","vbArticlesadmin.php?","<br>");
makenavoption("Add Category","vbArticlesadmin.php?action=addnewcat","<br>");
makenavoption("View all articles","vbArticlesadmin.php?action=viewbulk","<br>");
if ($valid == '1'){
makenavoption("Validate New","vbArticlesadmin.php?action=validate");
}
makenavselect("vbArticles"); 


In admin/template.php
Remove the code

PHP Code:

$only['vbArticles'] = 'vbArticles'; 


That would make it a clean uninstall

[FleaBag]

Cheers for the tip on adminfunctions. Found that the only way I could delete the templates was via phpMyAdmin as they had been inserted into the default template set.

[VPREATR]

Question, out the two available solutions (this) and the Tutorial Hack - which offers the most?

Thanks!

[memobug]

Originally Posted by VPREATR

Question, out the two available solutions (this) and the Tutorial Hack - which offers the most?

Thanks!

Yours may be a moot question since there doesn't appear to be any way to download this hack any longer. However, this hack looks better to me, from the installations I've seen.

Regards,

Matt