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.

[bendigo-tech]

Originally Posted by tteal

Does this work with VBulletin 3.0.3 now?

I have read through the last couple of pages looking for the answer to this and I can't findanything.

It likes like a great hack and I wouldn't mind getting it up and running myself, providing it works with vB 3.0.3

Thanks

[Paul M]

We have it running on 3.0.3

There are a couple of bugs to fix, but I don't think they are related to the version of vB.

[SamirDarji]

Originally Posted by Paul M

There are a couple of bugs to fix, but I don't think they are related to the version of vB.

Actually, there is at least one bug I know of that is version related. I'd go through all the posts (I know, huge job), and read up on it before installing.

Someone needs to compile all the information required to run this on 3.0.3 and put it in one post. If no one has done it by the time I get around to extensively working on articles, I'll do it.

[welo]

Originally Posted by SamirDarji

Someone needs to compile all the information required to run this on 3.0.3 and put it in one post. If no one has done it by the time I get around to extensively working on articles, I'll do it.

I can probably do this without too much trauma. I just installed it a couple of days ago, actually did read through this entire thread and took a few notes. I'll catch it later today.

[Tenny]

Originally Posted by Tenny

Installed correctly and all, great mod... one problem

I'm missing the create new article link? (the image is in the correct directory, just no text / link?)

I figured it out. Basically the images are directed to each "style's" directory. So basically I had all the images in the /images/ directory, while the style I was using was in the /images_grey/ directory. Just uploading to the correct directory fixed it.

Awesome MOD!

[gnawph]

I'm getting a query error:

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.3:

Invalid SQL: SELECT * FROM article
WHERE categoryid=2 AND (articleuserid=1 OR open IN (0,1)) ORDER BY dateline DESC LIMIT 0,
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 2

mysql error number: 1064

[SamirDarji]

I'd double check to make sure you didn't miss anything when doing the changes required by the hack. I've run across this once and I was missing a comma.

[Parmstig]

Thanks John, this is a great addition to the forums, many nice game/movie review are often lost by other posts, may i asked what your plans for the upgrades are?

if you have a humungusfantastico upgrade plan is it better to wait or will the upgrading be easy?

:ninja: i don't know why there's a ninja in my post

[Benj]

would it be possible to call the feature article from another Vb powered page if so how

[SamirDarji]

I'm sure it is because there's a module for vbadvanced cmps that can do it. I'd look at that and see if you can adapt the code.