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.

[corsacrazy]

Originally Posted by Pitman

Is there anyway to remove an article from being featured without deleting the article?

just over right it with a new one u want featured or i think there is an acp option to disable ...

[Tim Wheatley]

Is it possible for me to show just the featured article box on another vb page? Or on vbadvanced?

[Pitman]

Originally Posted by corsacrazy

just over right it with a new one u want featured or i think there is an acp option to disable ...

Thanks man!


Here are a few suggestions for later releases... I'm sure everyone can find a good use for all of them:

1. Printable Version for Articles
2. Send Article to Friend
3. New Articles Shown in Bold
4. Permissions per Category
5. Ability to Specify Moderation per Usergroup
6. Article Moderators per Category
7. Ability to Move Articles to Different Categories
8. Latest X Articles on Forum Home
9. Featured Article on Forum Home
10. Integrated with vBulletin Search
11. Listing in Who's Online
    • Viewing Article
    • Article Title (with link to specific article)

[Randall Rath]

Howdy John, Great work on the update but there is still one small SQL problem in the forum's article.php file,

$comment = $DB_site->query_first("SELECT articlepost.*, article.categoryid FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "articlepost

should be

$comment = $DB_site->query_first("SELECT articlepost.*, article.categoryid FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "articlepost As articlepost

That's line 660 in my editor.

By the way, this is a great system, I'm popping over to your site to drop you a *little* something.

[insanctus]

/me kicks install

I will try this out seems interesting.

[RaZor Edge]

Wow!!

I've been waiting for this for a while! Awesome job!

Click Install!!!!

[KevinLe]

Hi John, can you fix the who online, cuz when my member go to Articles and I saw on who online was Unknown Location (show on the pic bellow) . Hope you can fix this one. Thank a lot

[yl88]

hi,

John, r u going to develop the system with the forum post count?
because i think members will not like to post news since it doesn count their posts.

[oly51]

Easy install. No problems!
Thanks, John.
/me clicks install, visits Paypal next.

[Lionel]

very nice. I wish someone does a hack to display article titles on front page.