Major Additions - vbArticles by Mary

vbArticles
Article Publishing & Review System
by Mary
http://www.MadeByMary.com

Zipfile removed by the author.
Members who have installed it, can download
the updated php file at
http://www.microhellas.com/vbarticles.rar
(Sorry can'y upload .rar file here)

Future installations of vbArticles
even from Members who have downloaded it before
are prohibited.

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by aacircle

Ok, I'm undecided now between this product and WebTemplates.

WebTemplates is free and been around longer, but Mary's product looks snazzier. Has anyone looked at both offerings? Are both SEO friendly?

I couldn't find the answer, but does this product allow replies to articles?

Thanks.

I think that there is no comparization, not in the meaning that mine is best or something like this, but because these are totally different modules. WebTemplates (as the name says) are mostly templates where you can add anything you want. vbArticles has specific scope which is Rating and Reviews, or Articles, which means that someone posts something for Rating.

No, current version of vbArticles is NOT vbSEO friendly, and there are only very FEW chances to add it in the future. The reason is simple. I can't add third party code in my code, when I'm not sure what this code is doing there. I admit that I'm totally novice in everything about search engine optimazition.

And why vbArticles isn't Free? Believe me the Free version contains nearly 85% of the commercial's version features.

[wrang]

Originally Posted by MicroHellas

I've an idea Send me your vbarticles.php file to modify it. I don't know why, but even if I'm using the normal vb function:

vbdate($vbulletin->options['dateformat'], $top10article['postdate'], '', '');

In some French installations and now in Swedish, appears this problem. My email is here (10/02/2006 is ok format for you?)

I have the same problem with the date format
I think this is better 2006/02/10
I haved send you a email

best regards from sweden

[Rickeo]

Sweet just what I have been looking for your a star thanks

~Rick~

[Bacon Butty]

Fantastic mod, will definitely use it if could somehow set up an RSS feed for it?

Would if be possible to create an RSS feed displaying all the articles? if so, how would I do it?

Thanks.

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by Bacon Butty

Fantastic mod, will definitely use it if could somehow set up an RSS feed for it?

Would if be possible to create an RSS feed displaying all the articles? if so, how would I do it?

Thanks.

I don't like to give promises on the air or to appear as the super coder, so it's not bad to admit that I'm totally novice on how RSS system is working, so no chance to include something like this at least in the near future.

[firstrebel]

I think Maria's priority would be to enhance this great product rather than sort out RSS. Remember that RSS is fairly new and a lot of people just don't know what it is. Only three browsers can read RSS at the moment anyway, otherwise you need a Feed Reader.

You would be better off creating your own. Something like this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0">
    <channel>
        <title>Volvo Articles</title>
        <description>Articles from our forum</description>
        <link>http://www.volvoclub.org.uk/forum/vbarticles.php</link>
        <docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs>
        <lastBuildDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 20:02:53 +0000</lastBuildDate>
        <managingEditor>robert.isaac@domain.com (Robert Isaac)</managingEditor>
        <pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 20:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
        <webMaster>robert.isaac@domain.com (Robert Isaac)</webMaster>
        <item>
            <title>Engine Oil Development From 1997-2005</title>
            <description>This article is by Gavin Scott who is technical sales manager of Delta Oil Ltd. This article addresses the development of motor oil between 1997 and 2005.</description>
            <link>http://www.volvoclub.org.uk/forum/vbarticles.php?do=article&amp;articleid=1</link>
            <author>robert.isaac@domain.com (Robert Isaac)</author>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">503932B9-0F2C-4353-BEBC-F35BA827FC1A</guid>
            <pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 20:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
        </item>
    </channel>
</rss>

Save it as articles.xml and put the link code in your header.

Just add more <item></item> as you need to. There are some nifty RSS feed generators around like FeedForAll

Bob

[Allan]

Hey Maria, some questions

This hack doesn't to BBcode and Smilies for Articles ?
The editor is your's, no vBulletin's ?

[Legende]

Originally Posted by MicroHellas

Could you please follow the steps:

1. Uninstall product vbarticles
2. Open product-vbarticles.xml
3. Search for <plugin active="1" executionorder="5">
4. Replace it with <plugin active="1">
5. Re-import product-vbarticles.xml

thank you very much it's working now .. but i'm wondering where the german translation file has gone?

greets

[WNxWakko]

I noticed that META Tags and title are not updated according to the article you are viewing. Is this active in the full version? It is important for search engines.

[sandrodz]

Originally Posted by WNxWakko

I noticed that META Tags and title are not updated according to the article you are viewing. Is this active in the full version? It is important for search engines.

I'm interested in this too, thx