vbArticles v0.4 -- For your repository of Articles/Tutorials/FAQs etc.

UPDATES
version 0.4 is out

- Now allows for basic VBCODE input.
- Fixed somemore bugs.


Background
Required a section on my site to display articles/tutorials
No such hack in the Hacks Database
Decided to try my hand at it

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This hack uses a lot of code from Arunan Sridharan's vB Links Directory v2.0
I use that hack too and was inspired to code something around that
A big thank-you must go out to him for coding the Links Directory in the first place (I merely modified much of the code to suit my needs for this hack)

Appreciation also goes out to Kars10 for aiding me in this hack
He coded the portion in version 0.3 on number of articles count as well as article hits count
He also suggested several template changes which have been incoporated into version 0.3
A great big special shout out to TheComputerGuy, 97cobracpe, dontpanic for stamping out the bugs with your fixes. Thanks guys


WHATS IT DO ?
This hack allows you to have a database of articles/tutorials etc on your site/forums.

FEATURES

AdminCP
Installer script

Admin options

View Categories
Edit Categories
Add Categories ( category name, category icon, category order, category description )
Delete Categories
Add new article ( title, description, author, date, content )
Edit article
Delete article
View ALL articles in database
Option in vB options to turn validation of articles on/off
Fully template based as to how you wish to display the articles,categories and main article home page.
Addition of articles accepts basic VBcodes

Member options

View Categories
Browse Categories
View articles
Submit new article
Submission of articles accepts basic VBcodes


INSTALLATION & UPGRADING
This Hack should work on ALL 2.2.x versions and v2.3.0
Please read the install_readme.txt file in the package for fresh installation instructions
IMPT: If you installed a previous version pls read the upgrade_readme.txt file carefully for upgrade instructions

HACK DOWNLOAD

Version 0.4 of this hack can be downloaded here

ADD-ONS
i) Add-on for vbHome
ii) Add-on for ForumHome
iii) Add-on to enable only registered members to be able to view the article section


DEMO SITES
http://www.runaked.com/forums/articles.php ( running v0.4 ) - TheComputerGuy's site

http://www.mcseworld.com/forums/infocenter.php ( running v0.3 ) - dontpanic's site


Feel free to submit your sites if u installed this hack so it can be listed as another live demo site

SUPPORT
I cannot promise any support on this as i am pretty new to this but I will try my best.
If you are using this hack , pls click the INSTALL button
to be kept in the loop of any bug reports, add-ons and hack version updates.

Thanks everyone

[dontpanic]

Falkware...

I think you just need to make the fix I posted here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...989#post416989

Let me know if that fixes it or not.

[Falkware]

Yeah I actually did install all your excellent fixes and it did solve some issues as reported in this thread. This one however is still lingering though, weird...

Thanks for replying

[Asterik]

Ok, i wanna download this hack but its not lettin me lol can someone send me it? Email: webmaster@plugspark.com AIM: MrPr0Grmer MSN: Graalian_Warrior@MSN.com Yahoo: panzerultima THX! i really need it

[-God-iZ-iLLa-]

i get this error when clicking "view/edit/add article"

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: maketableheaderview() in /home/eternale/public_html/forum/admin/vbArticlesadmin.php on line 11

Anything Im Missing here?

[kaotic]

Use dontpanic's fixes.

[-God-iZ-iLLa-]

i did still dont work...can anyone who has it working attach there vbArticlesadmin.php File so i can replace the current one?

[cindyd]

cinq-very nice hack! *Clicking install.

[cindyd]

When trying to access my regular forum I am getting this fatal error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: adminlog() in /home/glassmav/public_html/forum/index.php on line 7

On line 7 is:

if ($action=="") {
adminlog(); -------> this is line 7
}

Can anyone help me out? My board is unaccessible right now. There wasn't a problem prior to this.

[cinq]

That's weird, because this hack doesnt amend anything in your forum index file at all.

Could it be another hack you just installed ?

[cindyd]

Everything was working fine until this install. They are telling me at Vbulletin to do this:

Reupload your original vB .php files. Make sure you upload them in ASCII and overwrite the ones on the server.

Good grief.