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.

[GamerJunk.net]

It happens when I click an article forum

[GamerJunk.net]

I saved VBulletin Options and Usergroups and I still get the error.

[GamerJunk.net]

Ok I just realized, in my Vbulletin Options I do not have a V3Articles Settings to modify.

I click VBulletin Options and then Vbulletin Options again and there is no V3articles

How can I fix this?

[GamerJunk.net]

Any help?

[SamirDarji]

Seems like something isn't installed correctly. Double check everything carefully. What version of vb do you have?

[GamerJunk.net]

3.0.3

[GamerJunk.net]

I've checked through the steps, it's all done but it's not there...

What inserts it there?

[lanc3lot]

Samir a question, in case u know

In the new Vb, u can modify the options, and when u upload lets say an attachement,have there in the "manage attachments" page, more than one upload button(til 10 i think)

If u modify that, strangely it doesnt change the procedure to the upload of images to the articles!

Is it a specif php i must change,for exampe, copy the one from the vb forum(if i find it!) or do u think, it will make everything not work?

Thanks in advance

Ps

Also, is there a way, to fix the Who's online bug? I mean, if u press to see the profile, of a user who is in your articles page...its doesnt show it there, and say that there is an error!

Ps2

Also, i noticed another bug...When u say to moderate the articles, the "editors" could submit an article, and it will be shown in the column that says: which article is the latest...so if u press it from there...u can see it!! If u go in the forum..u dont see it!!!

Bug huh?

Any solution to all?

[SamirDarji]

Wow, good discovery of bugs. Definitely will make me think twice now of putting this on my production server.

As far as the bug for the attachments, John must have wrote his own routine for attachments. (That explains why the thumbnails have the problems and also this problem.) I don't know where to look yet since I haven't run across the bug, but when I do in the next month or so, I'll be looking for a solution too. My suggestion would be to do a view source on the "manage attachements" box and see if you can trace it to a particular template or php file. Then see how the default vb one is and see if there is a way to modify the default vb one to work or how to re-write the articles one to use the vb variable to determine how many file can be simultaneously uploaded.

The who's online code must also be completely custom. Again, do a view source and see if you can determine where the source code is. Then from there, see if you can modify the stock vb code to work, or if there is a way to change the articles code.

I think the last one may not exactly be a bug. I haven't tested that functionality yet, but when articles are moderated, they won't appear in certain places until validated. The function you have described, if a bug, will be kinda difficult to track down, but seems pretty easy to fix once found.

Keep finding the bugs and post the pieces of code if you find them. I'll try to help you fix them, and if I can't, I know someone else will try. Once I start seriously playing with this system for use on my production server, I'll work on the bugs myself if there are no fixes by then.

[Lionel]

Originally Posted by SamirDarji

Wow, good discovery of bugs. Definitely will make me think twice now of putting this on my production server.
As far as the bug for the attachments, John must have wrote his own routine for attachments. (That explains why the thumbnails have the problems and also this problem.) I don't know where to look yet since I haven't run across the bug, but when I do in the next month or so, I'll be looking for a solution too.

Start by looking in the forums. Someone explained that Vbulletin had changed the way they handled attachments and posted a fix which worked for me.