Forum Display Enhancements - Article Forums

Article Forums v4.x for vBulletin v4.x

Demo | Version History

Turn a forum into an article forum. Sub-forums are turned into categories.

• Posts/Articles show in searches & in new posts
• Create as many sub-forums/ categories as you need
• Follows forum permissions
• Can still rate thread, etc.
• Different postbits for article and replies (comments)
• Choose what to display in postbit for article and comments
• Choose what to display on articles in vBulletin Options

* Not compatible with 3.7.x forums *

Installation:

1. Upload articles.php
2. Import product file
3. Create a forum in admincp
4. Go to vBulletin Options->Article forum Options

Remember to click Mark as Installed to receive updates and support

Possible Future Additions:

• Make article collapsible
• Allow multiple article forums

Translations:

• German/ Deutsch: http://www.vbulletin-germany.org/showthread.php?t=6048
• Russian: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=643

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Bill from Cleve

This really is one of the best mods out there. Any way to make it work on multiple categories? It's perfect for our news section, but I think it would be fantastic for our red light district too.

Sub-Forums to the selected 'Article Forum' will be shown as categories.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by maidos

thanks alot for implementing my suggestions. bb code parsing looks great now and my users are happy with it so thanks yet again =)

was wondering can you add some pictures like thead.gif to seperate each articles instead ofthis
....................................

Edit Template: af_articlebit

PHP Code:

is it possible be able to disable/movethe category Search Articles, Display Options,Most Read Articles etc 


Not at the moment. I might look into disabling them.

for now Edit Template: af_articles

Removing one of the following line(s) to get rid of the left/ right column on articles.php:

<td nowrap="nowrap" style="vertical-align: top;">$a_left</td>

<td nowrap="nowrap" style="vertical-align: top;">$a_right</td>

since i renamed articles.php to soemthing else the links are still redirecting to articles.php any help?

Forum index? Renamed from articles.php ? subcategory

You could set up Style Replacement Variable

Add New Replacement Variable
Search for Text : yoursite.com/forum/articles.php
Replace with Text: yoursite.com/forum/newfilename.php

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by WxP

Where i go to first page on articles i see topic and all news in first page... What can i do to see only topic in first page on aticles main page?

I'm not sure what you mean, could you clarify it for me please.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by TheLastSuperman

WOOHOO! You won MOTM for May - CONGRATS! sorry just been busy or I would have posted this yesterday!

S-MAN

Thanks

Originally Posted by Bram H

You rock, this one is for you

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by maidos

ifpossible can you includeforum views for each article?

I am going to edit the article postbit more for next version.

[Digital Jedi]

Here's a minor little suggestion for the updated postbit. I was using (and in some place I still am) a plugin that lets me change the first post template to a custom one. One of the things I did was I kept the inline editing ability just by copying the edit code from the postbit templates. It's very handy when you have to make little quick edits to your article after you've posted it. It seems like no matter how much I proof read, I never notice all the spelling mistakes until I actually post.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Here's a minor little suggestion for the updated postbit. I was using (and in some place I still am) a plugin that lets me change the first post template to a custom one. One of the things I did was I kept the inline editing ability just by copying the edit code from the postbit templates. It's very handy when you have to make little quick edits to your article after you've posted it. It seems like no matter how much I proof read, I never notice all the spelling mistakes until I actually post.

I had to remove ajax quick edit as it over-flowed behind the author details on the right.

[s8glive]

i don't know what to do i think if found a bug what do i do?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by bananalive

I had to remove ajax quick edit as it over-flowed behind the author details on the right.

I had that problem too. I haven't looked too close at your template code to see if it was the same as mine, but I fixed that by removing the z-index of the author details area. The editing window should drop down below it if you remove that.

[Saviour]

Can we have the ability to disable comments for articles?