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.

[dieselpowered]

Alright, before I lose my mind...can someone please explain to me how I can delete this hack.

I ran the un-installer and I still have options showing in the AdminCP...I deleted those from the index.php file, however, still have options showing in the permissions???

If someone could be so kind to help me with this it would be appreciated...thanks!

[Paul M]

You have to reverse all the file edits.

[dieselpowered]

Ok so the permissions are not fed from Database edits but from actual file edits?

[dontpanic]

Also wondering how to "un"feature an article....

Thanks!

[Paul M]

http://www.yourdomain.com/...../article.php?do=feature&a=-1

[dontpanic]

OK, thanks, that was easy!

[bugzy]

is this test for the current version of VB?

or is there a newer article system?

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by bugzy

is this test for the current version of VB?

or is there a newer article system?

Not really sure what you mean - this runs on vB 3.0.7 if that's your question. There are at least two other article hacks if you search for them, both also run on 3.0.7.

[Milk Man]

I'm the owner of my site and admin and When I try and edit the permissions, I get an error but i followed the instructions. Any help? I still get "You don't have enough privillages".

I get this message when I hit Update:

[QUOTE]Database error in vBulletin 3.0.7:

Invalid SQL: UPDATE usergroup SET

### UPDATE QUERY GENERATED BY fetch_query_sql() ###
title = 'Administrators',
description = '',
usertitle = 'Administrator',
opentag = '',
closetag = '',
passwordexpires = '180',
passwordhistory = '360',
canviewarcade = '0',
canplayarcade = '0',
canmakecomments = '0',
caneditscores = '0',
candelscores = '0',
attachlimit = '0',
canpostvbookieevent = '0',
caneditothersvbookieevents = '0',
canbet = '0',
avatarmaxwidth = '300',
avatarmaxheight = '300',
avatarmaxsize = '20000',
profilepicmaxwidth = '100',
profilepicmaxheight = '100',
profilepicmaxsize = '65535',
pmquota = '50',
pmsendmax = '5',
uttstore_discount = '20',
forumpermissions = '393215',
pmpermissions = '3',
calendarpermissions = '31',
wolpermissions = '31',
adminpermissions = '3',
genericpermissions = '4194239',
genericoptions = '31',
articlepermissions = '4095'
WHERE usergroupid=6
mysql error: Unknown column 'canviewarcade' in 'field list'

mysql error number: 1054

Date: Thursday 21st of July 2005 05:54:58 PM
Script: http://tgimm.com/admincp/usergroup.php[QUOTE]

What have I done wrong?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

That error seems to come from an arcade hack, not the articles hack.