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.

[The Realist]

Thanks for a great hack. Installed and working 100% and also ticked instaled.

Thanks.

[ConqSoft]

Ok... What am I doing wrong. I did everything, then when I run the install.php, my screen looks like this:

[John]

Originally Posted by 7thgenCivic.Com

although this is excellent work, i just don't understand how it is really any different than using the forum for this type of thing? Which is what I am doing now for my DIY's.

Maybe a comparison matrix would help or something?

If you can't see the reason for it, you'll probably never need it.

[Giveit2u43]

Thanks a lot for releasing this John..

as for why this is better than a forum, it`s a more structured layout... for searcing, archiving purposes..

[Zachariah]

Thank you sir.

[John]

Originally Posted by ConqSoft

Ok... What am I doing wrong. I did everything, then when I run the install.php, my screen looks like this:

Very strange... is there anything special about your vB installation?

[ConqSoft]

Originally Posted by John

Very strange... is there anything special about your vB installation?

Not that I know of. It's still v3.0.0, and v3Arcade is installed.

[John]

Originally Posted by ConqSoft

Not that I know of. It's still v3.0.0, and v3Arcade is installed.

Hmm, something crazy is going on. I'll look into it.

(For some reason, it appears to be printing out some of the templates stored in the installation file. Is anyone else having this problem?)

[Dean C]

When that happens to me its usually because PHP is not running as a process ^^

[Breaker]

installed but i can't view the page, i've checked my usergroup permissions and all seems fine but it displays a permission denied screen....