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.

[Kwak]

Monstergamer, that did the trick. Thanks.
I don't quite remember seeing that part on the instruction sheet. Oh well.

[obiwan8472]

I'm using mouse over effects on my forum, and when a user goes to the Articles, if they click the box on the Article Categories.. it goes to one of the forums instead.. whereas if you click the name,it goes to the Article.

http://www.scifichat.net/vbforums/article.php?

Any suggestions?

[monstergamer]

Originally Posted by obiwan8472

I'm using mouse over effects on my forum, and when a user goes to the Articles, if they click the box on the Article Categories.. it goes to one of the forums instead.. whereas if you click the name,it goes to the Article.

http://www.scifichat.net/vbforums/article.php?

Any suggestions?

it worked for me
"An article.. just to test!! Who knows! yay!" is what the article said
plus the roll over worked

[SVTOA]

Great job John! I have installed this on 3.0 as well as 3.0.1 and it works great.

VBA users- I'll try to put something together for us for the VBA homepage.

[Tim Wheatley]

Originally Posted by SVTOA

Great job John! I have installed this on 3.0 as well as 3.0.1 and it works great.

VBA users- I'll try to put something together for us for the VBA homepage.

VBA users- I'll try to put something together for us for the VBA homepage.

That's be cool, thanks.

[TheComputerGuy]

This is a kick ass hack! Many thanks John!

and the addon for vBAdvance would be cool!

[ixian]

I liked this hack so much I ditched a similar system I was playing around with. I also donated 20 bucks to you (from ix@maximumgamer.com) in thanks.

When do you plan to open the discussion forums on your site? I see the article categories but no one can post in them.

[wcbryant]

There's one basic vbAdvanced CMPS module available at vbadvanced.com, and a couple others with more features following shortly behind. A search over there for 'v3articles' would probably do the trick.

[ChurchMedia]

First of all -- very cool hack. Installed perfectly. I'll be sending some $$ your way.

After I completed the hack, my admincp isn't building the frame set. I just get the left nav frame, which opens a new window when I click anything. It's still usable -- but not working the way it's supposed to. I've retraced my steps and can't figure out where I messed that up.

Any ideas?

Thanks for the great hack!

[Kohhal]

Originally Posted by TheMasterG

... Is there an option to allow an article to span several pages?

I don't think there was an answer on this yet?