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.

[lovevn]

Originally Posted by Giveit2u43

Thanks a lot for releasing this John..

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

Wel, I have realized one thing. That is we can not use search funtion of the forum to search in the article. Does any one know the way to sovle this problem?

[SamirDarji]

I'm thinking that if there is a way to get the articles indexed similarly to threads and the search routine re-written to include article indexes, it might work. I'm thinking of a solution to the same lack-of-a-search problem for the calendar. But there is no quick solution to this issue and is one drawback to having this hack vs using a forum for article posts (which would be searchable).

[nelto]

Working on 3.0.3.
Me clicks install

Btw is this possible to integrate with VBA?
Like showing on the main page just like the thread system it has?
If so can some one please tell me how?

[cosmin]

Originally Posted by SamirDarji

Strange. I'm running it on 3.0.3 and the installer worked fine. What version of MySQL are you running?

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currently the server is running: MYSQL Version 4.0.20-standard-log

..could that be the issue? seems like most people can install and it works fine... mine i installed and all works except for viewing the articles when i click on the SUB-CATEGORY

[SamirDarji]

Originally Posted by cosmin

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currently the server is running: MYSQL Version 4.0.20-standard-log

..could that be the issue? seems like most people can install and it works fine... mine i installed and all works except for viewing the articles when i click on the SUB-CATEGORY

That's probably not it since I'm running 3.23.54-max-debug. But I have run into a problem with seeing my main forums with no one logged in on certain computers. It's weird.

My test setup runs off an external usb drive, so I can take it anywhere with me and work. Well, on my home 98se system as a server, the forums don't show up to someone not logged in, and they should. But on a win2k or xp system they show up fine. And it's the same stuff running off the same drive. I'm dumbfounded and pretty mad at the same time.

[cosmin]

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thanks for your input and help SamirDarji,

our site is hosted on a server that runs LINUX. anyone else have any ideas why this error occurs?

has anyone else installed it on a LINUX server and had this mySQL issue?

[SamirDarji]

Since it was pointing to a problem with line 2 of articles.php, did you look at line 2 and see what might be going on?

[rex_b]

how can we add the stars to like the showthread lookalike part.

[cosmin]

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for everyones FYI... i did this from the INSTALL notes ... and it now works.

Originally Posted by cosmin

2. Log into the Admin Control Panel.
Expand "vBulletin Options", and click on the "vBulletin Options" link.
Scroll to the bottom, click v3 Articles - click "Edit Settings".
Click on "Save".

Expand "Usergroups" on the left. Click "Usergroup Manager".
Edit the settings for any usergroup, and click "Update".

[SamirDarji]

I'm glad you found the problem. I'm surprised you could even see the main category. Did you do this when you initially installed or just now?

I intially had problems seeing my forums until I did that too, but I still have that goofy problem where I can't see them when running on the 98se server. I've even tried doing the save settings again with no luck.