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

[krohnathlonman]

Originally Posted by Hibernated

can someone finish this and release it?

I Did release it.... If you're wanting "finished" code it'll never come. The version available on the first post is really quite good. There'll be a couple more steps taken to make the install process easier, but if you need to so bad it's right there

Everything I did yesterday had 0 effect on templates.

Currently the upgrade path doesn't look like it'll be anymore than template mods and overwriting some of my old files. This system isn't even using any of Vbulletin's templates I'm NOT even having you guys do any hacking of the VB files. Except that admincp/index.php but that's optional just to put the links in your admin panel.

[Pro]

i just downloaded it finally... just got free time.

i noticed:

First upload all of these files articles.php and config.php in your base forum directory.

You mean the Printer.php? or config... because i dont have a config file... :\

[Pro]

Originally Posted by 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.

so should i wait until you get that? or is that going to take a while?

just curious...

[krohnathlonman]

The integrated admin panel is done...

the missing config.php tells me you're using that version I was talking about.....

Hialls is working on the installer right now while I work on some additional features. He's also going to do some more admincp related stuff.

I still have to write a categories administration. This possibly won't be around until I hit a milestone with my categories handling.

I've just uploaded a templates.xml for you to be able to merge it with your current style to easily get the template part of the install done.

Don't expect to see another updated file until probably Monday. I have paying projects that I need to spend time on. Plus I take Sundays off. I have to finish writing a new article for my site IANAG as well.

Also an update on the WYSIWYG editor. If anybody knows a way to have something like a checkbox to go to the HTML view Let me know! I can't posibly integrate that editor without it.

[ixian]

Originally Posted by krohnathlonman

Also an update on the WYSIWYG editor. If anybody knows a way to have something like a checkbox to go to the HTML view Let me know! I can't posibly integrate that editor without it.

Could you clarify this? I'm not sure what you mean.

[krohnathlonman]

In the WYSIWYG editor.. HTMLArea Basically enable a Checkbox that switches to the HTML view. Instead of the WYSIWYG view. Say paste the stuff into the editor... Hit a box and you see all of the HTML. OR paste in HTML and check the box and go to the WYSIWYG environment.

Without that I will not do anymore work on integrating this editor. i did manage to make multiple instances of this load....

[ixian]

Originally Posted by krohnathlonman

In the WYSIWYG editor.. HTMLArea Basically enable a Checkbox that switches to the HTML view. Instead of the WYSIWYG view. Say paste the stuff into the editor... Hit a box and you see all of the HTML. OR paste in HTML and check the box and go to the WYSIWYG environment.

Without that I will not do anymore work on integrating this editor. i did manage to make multiple instances of this load....

Well, then, it's your lucky day, because that is already IN HTMLArea

Load up an instance of it. See that icon that looks like <> ? Click it, and you switch into raw html mode. Problem solved.

I don't doubt you got multiple instances of it going but - and I mean no offense, this is a really nice hack and you did better work on the output than I did - the way you do it (the add/edit articles) is really inefficent. Rather than load up ten text areas in one edit page - which looks cluttered already and is going to look really cluttered with HTMLArea loaded - you should really have a "next page" button that submits the first page and takes you to a new page to add. That's one of two ways I have usually seen multipage stuff done, as I explained in the PM, and this way wouldn't be too hard.

If you are too busy to do it I'll be happy to once you upload your next version with the fixes you mentioned a little earlier and the HTL installer is done (so there's no backtracking involved).

Also, there should really be at least an option to include the authors forum name automatically, along with having PHP automatically generate the date for you.

Like I said, don't get me wrong, I think you did a great job. I want to make this hack even better, just like the other one I am helping with, VB-Bugs.

[krohnathlonman]

Whats the best way to handle a multi page submission like that? just have say 2 pages at a time and post them into hidden form elements?

I wrote this completely with the display end speed in mind. I had to make sure it could handle 150k+ pageviews a day because my site spikes up there often enough that I have to worry about it. I don't want my server crawling from it. In the next release you'll see in the admin panel where it's real easy to turn features off. I'm also writing some global variables for you guys to define!

Thanks for point that <> out... I overlooked it! I'll start testing it after I get my feature list taken care of Something that big will be one of the last things I do! I want to make sure everythings stable and working great before I throw something as big as that into the mix.

[Pro]

one thing i dont get about the instructions...

Import the articles.sql file

Where do i import them from and to??? may sound stupid - but i just want to be safe!

[krohnathlonman]

it's a .sql file.... go into phpmyadmin or command line it...

Import that into your forums DB