Forum Display Enhancements - Article Forums

Article Forums v4.x for vBulletin v4.x

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Turn a forum into an article forum. Sub-forums are turned into categories.

• Posts/Articles show in searches & in new posts
• Create as many sub-forums/ categories as you need
• Follows forum permissions
• Can still rate thread, etc.
• Different postbits for article and replies (comments)
• Choose what to display in postbit for article and comments
• Choose what to display on articles in vBulletin Options

* Not compatible with 3.7.x forums *

Installation:

1. Upload articles.php
2. Import product file
3. Create a forum in admincp
4. Go to vBulletin Options->Article forum Options

Remember to click Mark as Installed to receive updates and support

Possible Future Additions:

• Make article collapsible
• Allow multiple article forums

Translations:

• German/ Deutsch: http://www.vbulletin-germany.org/showthread.php?t=6048
• Russian: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=643

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Scamorz

Installed, but if you move (with redirection) a thread into another forum, the topic is still visible into articles section...

Can you set the option to select and edit 1 or more threads from index page of articles?

There is no inline moderation on articles.php

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Indeed, but your modification is not so far from GARS or reviewpost. All it needs is an advanced rating function added to it...

Would be nice. Will you consider adding this?

possibly in future...

[SwollenCranium]

OK..

Forgive me if this is uber simple but how are you getting the pictures to show up next to your article titles ?

[Mark.B]

Originally Posted by SwollenCranium

OK..

Forgive me if this is uber simple but how are you getting the pictures to show up next to your article titles ?

I think they are thumbnails of any attachment that is in the article.

[SwollenCranium]

Originally Posted by Mark.B

I think they are thumbnails of any attachment that is in the article.

Indeed.

Thanks.

It was a simple answer then.

I never use attachments and this is why I missed it.

[SwollenCranium]

Misspelled breadcrumb .. ??

[BlueNinjaGo]

Anyone get this working 100% in 3.7.x?

[Mark.B]

This is an excellent modification, thank you.

I have done a little playing around with the layout as I have never been a big fan of fieldsets, you don't get enough control over how they appear in different browsers.

So I did mine like this with a little mucking about with the code.

Apologies for breaking vb.org's table layout with this image:

[SwollenCranium]

Originally Posted by Mark.B

This is an excellent modification, thank you.

I have done a little playing around with the layout as I have never been a big fan of fieldsets, you don;t get enough control over how they appear in different browsers.

So I did mine like this with a little mucking about with the code.

Apologies for breaking vb.org's table layout with this image:

Ok?

I agree the original layout looks like ass.


So, are you just gonna show off or are you going to tell us how you did it.

[Mark.B]

I'm not trying to show off...

I will try and post the templates tomorrow...because they will certainly need to be cleaned up, I'm not very neat at this sort of thing. I can get the results I need but the chances are it will fail all sorts of validators. This is why I never, ever release anything formally and never will.

The avatars in that screenshot require a couple of changes to one of the plugins. And I had to create a second version of $thread[preview] because I just couldn't make the normal one parse anything....I am sure a better coder than me could sort that in a more efficient way.