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.

[corsacrazy]

the bullet points bb code doesnt work on the featured articles

[kolorom]

Hi All i think when we make a category we glad to se different icon for example LAN or Video and futured article is not perfect i mean when all article would be futered and change when preload!

COOL mean SO can you helP?
Ii is might Be!

Sorry for incrise by language 8(

[John]

Ooh, we're up for vB.org Hack of the Month - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=66181

[John]

Originally Posted by corsacrazy

the bullet points bb code doesnt work on the featured articles

There's no bbcode in featured articles. (That is, the front page preview.) It stops the page from being deformed.

[007]

How do the comments work? Is the article an actual post just formatted differently or what? I'd want the comments to look the same as posts do.. Are they posts or are they totally different, something in a new table just for v3articles? Thanks

~006

[JTMON]

Originally Posted by 006

How do the comments work? Is the article an actual post just formatted differently or what? I'd want the comments to look the same as posts do.. Are they posts or are they totally different, something in a new table just for v3articles? Thanks

~006

Uhh, why not make a forum section, make it not visible, then just link to it as articles if you want it to look the same? :nervous:

[xQuEeNzNaZcHox]

Any plan to integrate this into the forum itself, so that articles automatically become threads and comments are replies?

[007]

Originally Posted by JTMON

Uhh, why not make a forum section, make it not visible, then just link to it as articles if you want it to look the same? :nervous:

What do you mean by that?

Originally Posted by xQuEeNzNaZcHox

Any plan to integrate this into the forum itself, so that articles automatically become threads and comments are replies?

This is a bit more of what I was asking if it's possible to do..

[Zachariah]

Originally Posted by 006

How do the comments work? Is the article an actual post just formatted differently or what? I'd want the comments to look the same as posts do.. Are they posts or are they totally different, something in a new table just for v3articles? Thanks

~006

4 new tables all data is in them.

[Kohhal]

Originally Posted by xQuEeNzNaZcHox

Any plan to integrate this into the forum itself, so that articles automatically become threads and comments are replies?

Why bother with the hack then, just use a new forum, just call it "Articles"?