Geek Article System 2.0 (lite)

This hack is a simple and effective (but lighter) version of the very popular Geek Article System 3.0 .
This is actually the first Geek Article System which I still support as it offers people who dont need all the whistles and bells of the larger version (multipage, sidebar, bylines) in a far simpler nutshell.

The key reason for me crating GAS was that I wanted my articles (I also use them as tutorials) to be searchable and reside within the Froums. So I made this simple hack. It may not be all singing and dancing, but I think it can moonwalk with the best of them.

Difficulty to install: A cinch
Time to install: ~5 minutes (if that)
Installer: yup

UPDATE v.2c (17/01/2004)
Fixed rouge phrase that didnt install right.

UPDATE v.2 (04/01/2004)
Removed some left over html in geek_postbit_article that was for my style. The extra HTML that was in there may wack out your layout a touch.
Added a missing phrase (geek_articles_rate_this_article)
Installs either English or French phrases (thanks to cclaerhout)

UPDATE V. 2 (03/01/2004)
Added 2 more templates: showthread and forumdisplay variants (though these are much more subtle... mostly phrase changes
Added a couple of buttons (comments and new article)
Grouped phrases into their own lot

UPDATE V. 1.5 (14/12/2004)
Creted a Zip file with installer and ReadMe
Phrased the postbit.
Thats about it.


nJoy

[tormodg]

Originally Posted by the nail geek

Check that the GEEK_ARTICLE templates are about. For some funked out reason, upgrading seems to randomly throw out non vB templates.

Over the past couple of templates, I have had to reinstall several mod templates (always different).

I have reinstalled the templates but I'll try again.

But the most important distinction I see is that I am unable to use the output part in showthread.php because vBa CMPS uses the EVAL function before printint out the content.

I don't have access to my server from where I'm at right now so I'll try to be more specific later.

[The Geek]

Chis: Sorry about that... but the one on my site is the beta for the next version.
Can you send me a link to one of your articles with the avatar problem (though I do kind of like it!)

tormodg: Whenever an rmpty page is spat out, my experience tells me 100% of the time its becasue of a missing template. Depending on if the forum is set as an article forum, the eval will be GEEK_SHOWTHREAD_ARTICLE (I think that was the name off the top of my head). If not, then it uses SHOWTHREAD. This is seen at the very last couple lines of the showthread.php file.

Let me know how you get on.

[ChrisBaktis]

Originally Posted by the nail geek

Chis: Sorry about that... but the one on my site is the beta for the next version.
Can you send me a link to one of your articles with the avatar problem (though I do kind of like it!)

tormodg: Whenever an rmpty page is spat out, my experience tells me 100% of the time its becasue of a missing template. Depending on if the forum is set as an article forum, the eval will be GEEK_SHOWTHREAD_ARTICLE (I think that was the name off the top of my head). If not, then it uses SHOWTHREAD. This is seen at the very last couple lines of the showthread.php file.

Let me know how you get on.

here you go:

http://rustysoaptraders.com/forums/s...ead.php?t=5206

[rlamego]

Chris, run your page through the W3C Validator.
You have a lot of errors on the page, some of them pretty weird like "</font color>" but specially some TDs left open and other layout problems.

[ChrisBaktis]

Originally Posted by rlamego

Chris, run your page through the W3C Validator.
You have a lot of errors on the page, some of them pretty weird like "</font color>" but specially some TDs left open and other layout problems.

This page is created via the post - this isnt a template that I created so I have no idea of how to correct anything. All other posts outside of the Article forum show up just fine.

Chris

[The Geek]

Hey Chris - It looks like everything is fine. I am thinking that it is your gradient.

It looks like your pic spans 2 rows... but I am almost 100% positive it is because your background is two tone

After running MY page through the validator I thik I need to clean up a bunch of HTML for the next release

[tormodg]

Originally Posted by the nail geek

tormodg: Whenever an rmpty page is spat out, my experience tells me 100% of the time its becasue of a missing template. Depending on if the forum is set as an article forum, the eval will be GEEK_SHOWTHREAD_ARTICLE (I think that was the name off the top of my head). If not, then it uses SHOWTHREAD. This is seen at the very last couple lines of the showthread.php file.

Here is what I have in the last lines of my showthread.php. This does NOT work. The template is in my template list.

	if (in_array($forum['forumid'],$geek_article_forums)){
	    eval('$HTML = "' . fetch_template('GEEK_SHOWTHREAD_ARTICLE') . '");');
	}else{
	    eval('$HTML = "' . fetch_template('SHOWTHREAD') . '";');
	}


print_portal_output($home, $HTML);

[tormodg]

This is what I get when I view source:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"></HEAD>
<BODY></BODY></HTML>

[tormodg]

Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh.....there is an extra ) in there....

[tormodg]

Originally Posted by tormodg

Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh.....there is an extra ) in there....

Yup, that took care of it. One little parenthesis gone and a lot of articles came back. Big, wet, hairy kiss to you, Geek.