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.

[lanc3lot]

For the attachments bug and the articles..there is a fix...some pages before...i was referring more, to the bug that u can make it..have more than one "upload procedures" in the manage attachment page

[SamirDarji]

But that's still not a bad place to start. If vb did change the attachment method, the who's online and other parts that are having problems may also fall under the same category. The way to discover this is to see if the same problems occur on 3.0.1. Anyone with 3.0.1 willing to help do some functionality tests?

[Lionel]

I've got 3.01 and no problems except for being unable to change articles categories after posting. If you make a mistake and need to switch category you must do so in the db

[GamerJunk.net]

I still don't have v3articles in my vbulletin options...

[GamerJunk.net]

I've checked everything, what part of the install puts the V3 Articles into the VBulletin Options section?

[GamerJunk.net]

Ok I believe I need to manually add this to my database..

What would be the proper query strings for this?

PHP Code:

// Add v3 Article settings
    if ($_REQUEST['caction'] == 2)
    {
        
        $DB_site->query("INSERT INTO " . TABLE_PREFIX . "settinggroup (grouptitle, displayorder, volatile) VALUES ('v3_articles', '2000', '0')");
        $DB_site->query("INSERT INTO " . TABLE_PREFIX . "phrase (phraseid, languageid, varname, text, phrasetypeid) VALUES (NULL, '0',  'settinggroup_v3_articles', 'v3 Articles', '5000')");
        
        setting_add('v3 Articles Introduction', 'This introduction text will appear at the top of the main v3 Articles page. Use it to describe the purpose of the Articles section.', 'articleintroduction', '', '', 'textarea', '1');
        setting_add('Comments Per Page', 'The number of comments to display on each page.', 'commentsperpage', '10', '10', '', '20');
        setting_add('Comment Character Limit', 'The maximum character length of a user\'s comment.', 'commentlimit', '500', '500', '', '30');
        setting_add('Articles Per Page', 'The number of articles to display on each page.', 'articlesperpage', '10', '10', '', '40');
        setting_add('Article Attachment Limit', 'The maximum number of files which can be attached to an article.', 'maxarticleattachments', '10', '10', '', '50');        
        setting_add('Thumbnails Per Row', 'The number of "thumbnails", or media items to display per row.', 'artthumbsperrow', '4', '4', '', '60');
        setting_add('Featured Article Preview Length', 'The number of characters to display before the preview text is truncated.', 'featuredlength', '550', '550', '', '70'); 


[GamerJunk.net]

All I need to do is fix teh articles and I can open up my new site...someone please help me

[Amavisca]

Umm anybody here know how to make a small modification like "top x" for article in the same page?? Like Most recent artcile. most view article , and most rating article?? It would be really great.

[FleaBag]

Excellent hack!

[Tenny]

Installed correctly and all, great mod... one problem

I'm missing the create new article link? (the image is in the correct directory, just no text / link?)