Geek Article and Review System (GARS) LITE

From the makers of disco and square dancing comes the LITE, GARS LITE. Released for those needing an article/tutorial/recipe/review/blahblahblah system for only 1 forum, GARS LITE will make your site sing.

To say that GARS is only for articles, tutorials and reviews is like saying spoons are only for eating cereal. GARS can radically transform your forums look and functionality by allowing you to create an unlimited amount of different configurations of phrases, template and modules that can be applied on a forum by forum basis.

Designed with its own module system, you can easily expand and customize your configurations like never before. Modules can be re-used and re-used each time with different settings.

GARS LITE Key Features

• Transform any forum instantly without importing or changing the underlying data.
• Since GARS sits in front of vB, Anything you can do in vB you can do in GARS (user permissions, WYSIWYG editor, BBcode, Subscriptions, attachments, etc...)
• Create an unlimited amount of configurations, template sets, etc...
• Upload default thread header images and create a gallery of images for users to choose from
• Create a standard set of Ratings for each configuration to use (perfect for reviews)
• Page break and navigation system for GARS that span multiple pages.
• GARS LITE comes with 9 pre installed modules.

What you cant do in the LITE version that you can in the PRO:

• GARS LITE limits you to using it on 1 forum.
• Users can not upload their own header images.
• Users may not rate in reviews only authors can.
• The module caching system is disabled

Please note that you MAY NOT remove the copyright at the bottom of the GARS enabled pages.

Check out the in depth on-line manual for information and admin screen shots

GARS requires vBulletin 3.5x and requires no file or template edits.

If you install, do me a please click the freaking install button.

nJoy

[jlaine]

/me clicks install

[Boinger]

can i use the vertical postbit legacy style

rather than the horizontal style with this hack ?

and how do i eliminate the picture from the post ?

[simsimt]

Hey Geek,

I think the box of 'Template changes' is ticked by mistake since you're saying the script does not require any file or template edits.

P.S. Any advances in producing RTL support issues?

[ffevo]

Im getting this error when people try and register now.

Fatal error: Existing data passed is not an array
Called set_existing in /home/squaresyndicate/public_html/forums/includes/functions_databuild.php on line 159
Called build_forum_counters in /home/squaresyndicate/public_html/forums/register.php(431) : eval()'d code on line 35
Called eval in /home/squaresyndicate/public_html/forums/register.php on line 431
in /includes/class_dm.php on line 235

[FLMom]

I have clicked "install" and will see if I can get it installed, I am not very good at this sort of thing LOL Wish me luck!

[tgreer]

I'm trying this, but so far can't really see what it's doing or meant to do. As nearly as I can tell, it simply changes the terminology use for a given forum, such that posts are "Articles" instead of Posts. Oh, and it adds a header image.

What am I missing? I would expect that an "Article" could be associated with another forum category, and would be "featured" there.

So, other than slightly altering the appearance and terminology of the threads/posts within a particular forum, what other features does this have? I have a suspicion that I'm missing the point...

In particular, I don't understand the "feature" settings, such as "Auto-Feature new threads". Feature them where? How? How does a featured article differ from an un-featured article?

[tgreer]

Actually, it just take some playing around. The admin is a bit... non-intuitive, to me, but through experimentation, I see how the forum is modified by the modules, and how you can have different modules for forumdisplay and showthread. Also, you have your own replacement templates, so one can customize even further.

I'm liking it. One small glitch... in forumdisplay, the article preview module doesn't float/wrap around the graphic. Thus if I replace the default header image with a banner-sized image, the preview text will be pushed all the way to the right, instead of flowing around the image, or showing underneath.

Which template would I edit to change this?

Also, your copyright statement apparently is missing a semicolon for the copyright entity. My link appears:

Article powered by GARS LITE 1.0 &copy2005-2006

Where would this be fixed?

[blacklancer]

*high fives the geek*

awesome man! any idea when your store is going to be back up? i'm thinking about getting the Pro version so i can use it in multiple forums, and allow users to upload their own header images.

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[tgreer]

I fixed the copyright tag, it's the GARS_powered_by phrase. The copyright entity is missing its terminal semi-colon.

Another question: in forumdisplay, my synopsis is being truncated. Since the synopsis doesn't show when the article is being viewed, the extra text is essentially lost.

I see the "Maximum character count for displaying synopsis in forumdisplay." setting in admincp, however, changing it doesn't appear to have any affect.

How can I force GARS to display the entire synopsis?

[defcon_420]

i have vb 3.0.x and want to upgrade to 3.5.x but am running v3articles. Is there anyway to import the data from my v3articles database so GARS can be my article management system without losing my data?