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.

[Host Directory]

Does anyone know what i might do to make the article system do this.

I want to be able to add html on the main article template so that i can put a graphic saying ( Write articles for us ) and maybe a html text description next to it saying something like - Volunteer article writers needed.

The graphic would point to - http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/pro...editusergroups , so they could opt to join.

Obviously this html ( graphic and description ) would only show to members who did not have permission to write articles - otherwise the add an article graphic would show instead.

Should be easy to do this but i am not a coder.

Anyone have any suggestions?

[spence2]

Originally Posted by John

... there's going to be an update to this next week.

Originally Posted by spence2

That was posted on the 18th and today is the 27th; so, hopefully, that means any day now.

Originally Posted by John

It's done, I just haven't packaged it up yet.

Does anyone have an idea what is delaying this release?

[JustAskJulie]

Originally Posted by Nam

If you are using VbIndex is there a module to include your featured article??? PLEASE PLEASE HELP....THANKS SO MUCH!!!!

I believe there is one on the VbIndex site.

[SamirDarji]

Hey Julie, looks like I see you everywhere

[Goodspeed]

Great hack!

I've a question: Is it possible to move articles between categories?

[cclaerhout]

Originally Posted by Goodspeed

Great hack!

I've a question: Is it possible to move articles between categories?

No. May be in the next version that everybody's waiting for.

[blueuniverse]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that should be in the next version, as he mentioned it would be a lot more like the default posting, thread system.

Any update on the release?

[Ghostsuit]

Last I spoke to him (day or two ago) he still hadn't packaged it. Probably just busy.

[SamirDarji]

Anybody have an exact list of the issues that the new package will address?

[JamesFrost]

John,

another great hack. Is there any plan to allow users to give reputation to articles that they like?

James Frost