Article System

Alright, here's my Beta... Do not even touch this unless you know what you're doing! To upgrade to future versions you WILL have to have a fair amount of knowledge about templates and other things.

I need help with an installer and any feedback and suggestions on things to add/do

An example of it can be found running here.

All code made and testing on VB 3.0.0 and shouldn't have any issues with 3.0.1 or any future releases. This doesn't relay on any Vbulletin templates. The only vbulletin functions it uses is basic template and DB connectivity.

The support on this will be VERY limited. I only need people that know enough to be helpful in tracking down bugs that they may find. I'm very busy during the week. You'll want to edit index.php and add links to any of the admin functions you want.

I covered alot here

NEW STUFF:
Hialls is helping me with the installer and helping add some things that will help you guys use and install this alot easier.

Go ahead and check this system out and tell me what needs to be added and I'll see about adding it to my additions list

[chet]

Hi all hope you are well

I cant wait for this to be a full release, when do you think it will move out of beta

Regards

Chet

[krohnathlonman]

well, some people will have to test the installer when it's completed and I have to finish making the admin side of things fully VB integrated.

This thing will be a BETA until I finish with all the functions I'm planning on adding. After I have all the functions completed I'll port everything over to having a NEWS page too! It's rather easy to grab data from a specified news forum.

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We are all very appreciative to you for all of your work and for sharing it with us.

[krohnathlonman]

I've nearly eliminated the need for a seperate config.php file I nearly have all of the admin panel integrated with VB enough to grab the DB info.

I've got somebody else working on a new way of handling the categories.

[ixian]

Darnit! You beat me to it! Mine's in private beta.

I like your layout better. However, I have integrated the excellent open-source HTMLArea WYSIWYG editor into mine. I've fixed it up so it supports the Word document import (so you can paste in Word for Windows docs while having all the useless Word formatting crap stripped out and replaced with XHTML formatting code) a pretty good image upload/insert system, and a Spell Checker.

Would you be interested in working this into your hack? I only have very basic templates and such done; as I said, yours is better. But I can give you the code to make HTMLArea work. That would solve your article entry issues; writers won't need to input raw HTML now.

Email/PM me if you are interested.

[krohnathlonman]

yeah I'm interested.... You can help develop parts of this system If you're interested in helping out. If you can think of an easy way of putting the WYSIWYG editor into my system let me know! I'm certainly interested in it. I've currenly been sticking with plain HTML since I format everything properly in HTML anyway. I write my articles in Dreamweaver

How on earth would a person go about handling multiple pages with a WYSIWYG editor like that? If nothing else I could do something like Iframe that editor in and just tell people to view the source and paste it into the forum field. I know it'll be a PITA to get 10 instances of that editor working together properly.

It looks like hialls will be handling mainly the installer part while I'm writing most of the core stuff.

I'm about to upload some of the updates to the first post here.

As to when this thing exits Beta, It may never by time I am satisfied enough with the article system code to no longer classify it as beta then I'll be adding the news system in The first official release MAY be a true portal. The current hacks called portals aren't really what I would call a portal.

[ixian]

Krohnathlonman, check your PM's.

[krohnathlonman]

I don't see anything

[Aleksey]

can someone finish this and release it?

[chet]

Like I said in previous posts "I really can not wait for this release", if I was to install this now in beta, how much of a change to you think there will be in the RC version, the reason I ask is because I totally no good at modifications at all so would like to keep is as minimal as possible.

Regards

Chet