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.

[SamirDarji]

Originally Posted by xtremeoff-road

no I have the categories setup, however, I was referring to when you visit the articles.php page above all the categories it is name "Article Categories" I would rather change that to "Write-up Categories"

Can you help

Mike

Something like that usually is in a template somewhere. I have to run right now to cover a car event, but reply to this thread and it'll remind me to look it up for you. I'm curious on that myself. I think I'll change the name of my articles too.

[dieselpowered]

Hmmm ya you are probably right...it must be in a template somewhere

I will try to look for it some more as well!

[lanc3lot]

Samir u are a journalist?

[SamirDarji]

Originally Posted by lanc3lot

Samir u are a journalist?

In a sense, yes. See this link for more information: http://hsv.streetracing.org/About.htm. This is the site which I am revamping using vb as the back end. The new name of the site is www.huntsvillecarscene.com and should be 100% active in the next few days.

[dieselpowered]

Originally Posted by SamirDarji

In a sense, yes. See this link for more information: http://hsv.streetracing.org/About.htm. This is the site which I am revamping using vb as the back end. The new name of the site is www.huntsvillecarscene.com and should be 100% active in the next few days.

hey bud, looks really nice...Let me ask you this...On your index page I notice you have that "Site Navigation" was that a hack or pre-made module?

Thanks!

Mike

[SamirDarji]

The "Site Navigation" is just a module with some html in it. I plan to put conditionals in there so certain links will only appear to certain usergroups (or at least I'll be attempting it).

[BamaStangGuy]

Originally Posted by SamirDarji

The "Site Navigation" is just a module with some html in it. I plan to put conditionals in there so certain links will only appear to certain usergroups (or at least I'll be attempting it).

Wow small world, I live in Huntsville as well and run www.mustangevolution.com

[SamirDarji]

Very small world. I'll be at the Rocket City Mustang Club cruise-in on Wed. I'm sure we've probably already run into each other and didn't know it.

[spence2]

Originally Posted by zer026

In response to spence2...you whinning like a 4-year-old seriously bothers me.
And as for minding your own business(I believe thats how you stated it, see quote above), if you where minding your own business you would have whinned to yourself in the first place not bothered the rest of us with your nonsense!!! In your smallness you may be forgeting John has provided us with some fantastic hacks and people have other lives as well. Oh and by the way I did a search of this entire site and I don't exactly see any mod contributions by YOU, only complaints. Perhaps if none of these mods work for you you should "examine" who is installing them...Thank You So Much...!

I do not need to defend myself for asking if John no longer supported this hack or whether he intended to follow through with the upgrade he mentioned on August 17th. Those were/are legitimate questions. There is a big difference in this and in demanding support or upgrades. I merely asked for an update of his intentions.

I have thanked John for his work.

And I have been respectful to all who were respectful to me. Coders on vB.org are very generous people and very kind to share their work with the community.

If John had responded that he had no intention of supporting this hack or of following through with the upgrade that would have been fine ... no complaints ... lots of times people change their minds or life interferes with their plans. I was asking for information ... based on his own stated intentions--not my expectations.

I hope your 8th post in this community is more pleasant than your 7th.

Despite being called names like "moron" etc., I have no fight with anyone, so don't you think we could let this rest?

[GamerJunk.net]

Everything works fine with it until today, it says

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.3:

Invalid SQL: SELECT * FROM article
WHERE categoryid=2 AND (articleuserid=1 OR open IN (0,1)) ORDER BY dateline DESC LIMIT 0,
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 2

mysql error number: 1064