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]

But you have edit own and other articles - which is the same thing.

[m0h2]

Yes, there is no option for moderating the articles.

[TheMusicMan]

Originally Posted by Host Directory

But you have edit own and other articles - which is the same thing.

Thanks for replying quickly here by the way... much appreciated

But my Super Moderators don't see the articles that have been added to the moderation queue... just admins...?? so they don't see any articles to edit!!!

Originally Posted by m0h2

Yes, there is no option for moderating the articles.

Surely this isn't correct?

If it is, how do you use the article system when you have loads of articles being submitted and the Moderators can't moderate??

[VB-Fanatiker]

Hi,

this hack dont work with vB 3.0.0, right? Always error at line 2 in articles.php. :disappointed: But I need this hack, it's a great one! Anybody ideas? At Johns side suport=0 ... :ermm:
thx

VB-F

[Rich]

Hello,
I have just taken the time to read the entire thread. I can't say that i applaud the author of this hack for his "support" on this hack.
I am running 3.0.3. I too was having the same problem with the thumbs as everyone else was. John should have answered that question seeing as it effected everyone that ran 3.0.3. That made it a serious bug.
This hack is great. I think the concept behind it was great as well. However, the support that the author agreed to is poor. I won't be clicking install until something better comes along and doesn't carry any bugs.
I would like to thank arpy for repairing the thumbnail problem with 3.0.3. It worked great.

***** A fairly quick way to remove a featured post is to create a "test" post. Make that the featured post, and then delete it. Once it is deleted, the featured post box will no longer be visible.*****

[MissKalunji]

anyone still not intrested on a hack that displays the article on a none vb page??

[spence2]

Originally Posted by iguanairs

Hello,
I have just taken the time to read the entire thread. I can't say that i applaud the author of this hack for his "support" on this hack.
I am running 3.0.3. I too was having the same problem with the thumbs as everyone else was. John should have answered that question seeing as it effected everyone that ran 3.0.3. That made it a serious bug.
This hack is great. I think the concept behind it was great as well. However, the support that the author agreed to is poor. I won't be clicking install until something better comes along and doesn't carry any bugs.
I would like to thank arpy for repairing the thumbnail problem with 3.0.3. It worked great.

***** A fairly quick way to remove a featured post is to create a "test" post. Make that the featured post, and then delete it. Once it is deleted, the featured post box will no longer be visible.*****

I think your criticism is fair ... but, perhaps the most annoying thing is that John did take the time to post that he had updated the hack ... stated he would post his update here ... and then did not follow through.

[SamirDarji]

Originally Posted by iguanairs

I would like to thank arpy for repairing the thumbnail problem with 3.0.3. It worked great.

Where is this? I read through everything, but never found it.

[welo]

Here, right? (which then leads you here)

[gfxhavenowner]

Not sure if this has been answered yet, but will Google spider the articles?