Forum Display Enhancements - Article Forums

Article Forums v4.x for vBulletin v4.x

Demo | Version History

Turn a forum into an article forum. Sub-forums are turned into categories.

• Posts/Articles show in searches & in new posts
• Create as many sub-forums/ categories as you need
• Follows forum permissions
• Can still rate thread, etc.
• Different postbits for article and replies (comments)
• Choose what to display in postbit for article and comments
• Choose what to display on articles in vBulletin Options

* Not compatible with 3.7.x forums *

Installation:

1. Upload articles.php
2. Import product file
3. Create a forum in admincp
4. Go to vBulletin Options->Article forum Options

Remember to click Mark as Installed to receive updates and support

Possible Future Additions:

• Make article collapsible
• Allow multiple article forums

Translations:

• German/ Deutsch: http://www.vbulletin-germany.org/showthread.php?t=6048
• Russian: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=643

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Omar Al-Ansari

Hi,

I am back again

just a quick question .. is there a way to show the categories list in a dropdown menu rather than how it is showing now?

thanks again

No

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by hIBEES

Hi,

nice mod, any way to change the "article" wording to your own custom one?

thanks

Yes, use the AdminCP phrase manager to change the phrases which contain articles

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Omar Al-Ansari

Hello,

Ok so I have no experience in coding and I have copied a code that posts threads in to a specific forum and played with it to use it as a forum jump dropdown menu.

Now the only issue I am facing is to get it showing for unregistered users. I would appreciate the help if someone could explain it to me and remove anything that is not needed in it

<form action="{$vbulletin->options[bburl]}/forumdisplay.php" method="get">
<input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]" />
<input type="hidden" name="do" value="showforum" />
<div style="width: 100px; height: 1px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"></div>
<div align="right" style="padding:$stylevar[cellpadding]px 0px $stylevar[cellpadding]px 0px;"><fieldset class="fieldset">
<legend>$vbphrase[go]</legend>
<div style="padding: 0px 0px $stylevar[cellpadding]px 0px;">				
<div><label for="sel_f">$vbphrase[category]</label></div>
				<select name="f" id="sel_f">
					$f_options
				</select></div>
<div style="text-align:center;"><input type="submit" class="button" value="$vbphrase[go]" /></div>

</fieldset></div>
</form>

Regards,

It will display for those with permission to post. so check their usergroup forum permission to post new threads in article forum.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by snoopy5

Hi

could you please post in the description of your mod, what you did change with the latest release in June and why?

Is it necessary to upgrade?

In the first post at the top there is a link to the version history.

If you are happy with your current version then there is no need to upgrade.

[Omar Al-Ansari]

Originally Posted by bananalive

It will display for those with permission to post. so check their usergroup forum permission to post new threads in article forum.

Is there a way to have them to use this code to jump from one forum to another?

I wouldn't like to have unregistered users able to post in the Article.

sorry I am just trying to figure something out to sort this thing as I am using the Mod to be the main forum which could have over 50 forums and subforums and it does not look good with the list being that long. I have plans to extend this list to be a lot more than that number of forums.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Omar Al-Ansari

Is there a way to have them to use this code to jump from one forum to another?

I wouldn't like to have unregistered users able to post in the Article.

sorry I am just trying to figure something out to sort this thing as I am using the Mod to be the main forum which could have over 50 forums and subforums and it does not look good with the list being that long. I have plans to extend this list to be a lot more than that number of forums.

You'll need to edit template: af_catbit making each category an <option> and then use your above code.

[Omar Al-Ansari]

Originally Posted by bananalive

You'll need to edit template: af_catbit making each category an <option> and then use your above code.

an example of the <option> would be great

examples for dummies

[skooby]

Originally Posted by bananalive

In the same template: af_articlebit
Find

width: expression(this.width > 100 ? 100: true);

Replace with

width: expression(this.width > 120 ? 120: true);

I had a quick look into the word limit in cmps but couldn't work out why it wasn't working, i'll have to have another look.

Thank You! I'm still having the CMPS issue but everything else is working wonderfully!

[Merjawy]

I too having problems with size of preview.. If I set it to 0 the it will post all of it without attachment. any other numbers (1- / 1 to 100000) will only show around 25 words or so with attachment..

Also, enabling BBCode option makes the page go all over the place

I know you'll have to click the article title to read more.. can you add [Read Mode] to it please?

Thanks

[rabidkevin]

I am getting a javascript error when I view an article. This doesn't happen on any other page of my forum or vb advanced or the 5 other major addons I have.

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Timestamp: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 19:41:04 UTC

Message: 'this.controlobj' is null or not an object
Line: 11
Char: 1384
Code: 0
URI: http://www.eternalbeats.net/forums/c..._menu.js?v=382