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 WNxWakko

I cant figure out why this article system doesn't acknowledge VB BB code? Are you planning to add this? Then I can turn off the html which is somewhat of a security risk.

There is always security risks, with or without HTML code my dear friend. Unfortunatelly net is not full of angels and you know it. For anything there is always a risk.
As for your question, no I dont plan to stop using HTML. It products beatiful to view articles, with lots of additionals that you can't do with simple BB code.
If you want to limit your risk, just give permissions to trusted usergroups to post articles.

[afterglow]

Maria, i posted a few weeks back about trying your vbarticles on my test site to see how it works with my portal. Let me quote that back for you again.

I installed this mod on my test forum to see how it looks and functions along with vbMates. It installed wonderfully so is the vbMates but i found just one problem with vbArticles. It doesn't wrap itself inside my portal. I'm using MKportal as frontend for my forum. I'm trying to figure out why vbMates wrapped itself beautifully inside MKPortal though. This is what happened: whilst vbMates inherited the header that my portal and forum shares, vbArticles still uses the already reverted vb header and refuses to wrap inside the portal. It opens outside.

I hope to buy the commercial version but i still want to know if it can display correctly inside the portal just like vbmates.

I downloaded your latest version after uninstalling and deleting all signs of the old vbarticles from my forum but the result is still the same. Choosing a different headers not yours won't help either. It still won't wrap inside my mkportal. It still opens in a different window not inside the portal and using the already reverted vb header. I see it has similar templating system with vbmates but how come vbmates wrapped beautifully inside the portal but vbarticle won't. There must be something in the code that prevent it from displaying inside the portal and using it's headers. I'm using the free version for a test but hope to buy the commercial one so long as i can make it display inside MKPortal.

regards,
afterglow

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by afterglow

Maria, i posted a few weeks back about trying your vbarticles on my test site to see how it works with my portal. Let me quote that back for you again.

I downloaded your latest version after uninstalling and deleting all signs of the old vbarticles from my forum but the result is still the same. Choosing a different headers not yours won't help either. It still won't wrap inside my mkportal. It still opens in a different window not inside the portal and using the already reverted vb header. I see it has similar templating system with vbmates but how come vbmates wrapped beautifully inside the portal but vbarticle won't. There must be something in the code that prevent it from displaying inside the portal and using it's headers. I'm using the free version for a test but hope to buy the commercial one so long as i can make it display inside MKPortal.

regards,
afterglow

Well let's try to make things simple. What exactly dosen't works well with MkPortal? I know that there is an issue with the popup windows which sometimes are not visible as there is the left side of mkPortal. I changed it for vbMates and now are visible.

But if you mean that you can't see correctly the main and the right side of vbArticles that's strange as I'm using relative width (%) for central blocks and actual for the right (something that is setting by you in admincp).

Can I've a link to your site?

Maria

[Allan]

Originally Posted by MicroHellas

I've sent this request to Editor's author (editor is a 3nd party editor) and I'm expecting his reply. Maybe I've deactivated it by mistake.

Humm, ok thank for your answer Maria, i will wait ^^

[afterglow]

Sorry, i've had it installed in my localhost for a test so you can't see it.

Here's the situation, i've installed mkportal as a frontend for my vb just like you did with vbadvanced. You have the choice to display your forum outside the portal or inside the portal. I chose to display inside the portal which means my vb forum uses my portal headers and main nav bar. I disabled both the left and right columns when viewing the forum so i'll have more space with it but let the main portal nav bar stays. When i installed vbmates, it showed up perfectly inside the portal with its headers and navbar visible. But with vbarticle, it doesn't show up inside the portal. It uses the old vb logo and the portal nav bar isn't there, just the regular vb navigation. Now that's the problem. I want it to use the portal header and navigation just like vbmates but it won't.

regards,
afterglow

[Bacon Butty]

Its essential for my news updates (articles) to go onto an RSS feed, would anyone be able to tell me if its possible how it would be done on 'vbArticles by Mary'?

Would be really appreciated if so.

Also, would it be possible to change the url of some of the categories so they link to forums?

[bada_bing]

Originally Posted by MicroHellas

Because there is no author with articles=1 ... An author with more than 1 stories can't be count as newest.

Maria,

Im a bit confuses on what you mean sorry? Can you explain.. also any updates to why I get a white page as my request above several post?

[Biek]

I've tried finding a previous post regarding this but was unable to find one so forgive me if this was asked/mentioned before.

When I was changing the names of my categories I ran into an error. If I for example make a category called Howto's and submit or edit a article in there I receive a database error telling me there's a MySql error regarding an [i]'s[/s] command.

At first I didn't know what the heck happened as I'm pretty good at reading the instructions but my php knowledge unfortunately is not that great, but once I changed the name of that category to Howtos (without the 's at the end) the error disappeared.

Is there a way to work around this?

Apart from that small inconvenience I think it's a great system, many thanks for sharing it. :up:

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Hello my friends,

I just released version 1.5.5 of vbarticles with the following additions:

• I used a different query to show Newest Author, so now someone will be always appear there.
• I added article's thumb in category listing
• I added a new switch to admin, so he can now setup if unregistered or not logon users can see the body article or not. This is a good way to drive visitors to become memebrs.
• In full article view, the title in browser now shows the article's title for search engines.

Sorry, but I had in mind to add another feature in editor, to allow insertion of smilies, but finally it's author didn't gave me permission to add this feature in the free version.

To upgrade to latest version, just upload vbarticles.php and reimport product-vbarticles.xml

Cheers
Maria

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by Biek

I've tried finding a previous post regarding this but was unable to find one so forgive me if this was asked/mentioned before.

When I was changing the names of my categories I ran into an error. If I for example make a category called Howto's and submit or edit a article in there I receive a database error telling me there's a MySql error regarding an [i]'s[/s] command.

At first I didn't know what the heck happened as I'm pretty good at reading the instructions but my php knowledge unfortunately is not that great, but once I changed the name of that category to Howtos (without the 's at the end) the error disappeared.

Is there a way to work around this?

Apart from that small inconvenience I think it's a great system, many thanks for sharing it. :up:

Unfortunatelly you can't add apostrophe in a category name. At least in this version.