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.

[JTMON]

Awesome hack John, I'm so glad you released this..

I seem to be having an issue when clicking the link on the navbar from my vbadvanced page...it loads a page with the message "No input file specified" If I click it from the forums it works fine...

EDIT: FIXED-used full path in href and it works fine now...

TIA

[zetetic]

Awesome hack, John. Thanks.

Minor issue: Getting a red X on the article index when I don't choose a post icon. :ermm:

[John]

Originally Posted by Dean C

When that happens to me its usually because PHP is not running as a process ^^

Ah, lol - I think that's probably it.

[Okiewan]

Everything seems to work... very cool, great installation.
Problem is when editing cats, adding, deleting, whatever.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: build_datastore() in /home/okiewan/public_html/forums3/admincp/article.php on line 224

It does however make the edit.. ie; edit cat, submit, error, but cat is edited.
Thoughts?

[John]

Originally Posted by JTMON

Awesome hack John, I'm so glad you released this..

I seem to be having an issue when clicking the link on the navbar from my vbadvanced page...it loads a page with the message "No input file specified" If I click it from the forums it works fine...

TIA

You could always use an absolute URL, e.g. $vboptions[bburl]/article.php.

[John]

Originally Posted by Okiewan

Everything seems to work... very cool, great installation.
Problem is when editing cats, adding, deleting, whatever.

It does however make the edit.. ie; edit cat, submit, error, but cat is edited.
Thoughts?

vBulletin version?

[John]

Originally Posted by tmhall

Awesome hack, John. Thanks.

Minor issue: Getting a red X on the article index when I don't choose a post icon. :ermm:

What, in the last article column?

[zetetic]

Originally Posted by John

What, in the last article column?

Article column, subcat index.

[Breaker]

fixed permissions problems (overriding of permissions appeared in wrong groups)

but now i get a database error when trying to view a category

[John]

Originally Posted by Breaker

fixed permissions problems (overriding of permissions appeared in wrong groups)

but now i get a database error when trying to view a category

Oh, a database error - that's plenty to go on. Care to elaborate?