Forum Display Enhancements - Article Forums

Article Forums v4.x for vBulletin v4.x

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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

[urdu]

Originally Posted by 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

same here !

[CLSSY56]

This works great.

Is there a way to get a thread building template so there is a standard on how every article looks?

How can you change the post originator information to go across the top instead of down the right side? There is a text wrap there and looks funny if you center a few pics to start off the thread.

[skooby]

2 Questions:

1) Is it possible to have all of the images that are grabbed from the post and displayed in the articles.php file to be the same size. Basically, no matter the dimensions, it will resize all the images to the same size, say 200 x 200, so that they all align correctly?

2) A little off topic, but I LOVE your postbit. Is there anyway I could apply this postbit to another forum on my board, as well as the forum I use with the articles.php?

Thanks again

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Omar Al-Ansari

an example of the <option> would be great

examples for dummies

<option value="$forumid">$spacing <if condition="$vbulletin->options[af_altdisplay]">$symbol</if> $foruminfo[title_clean]</option

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by 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

vBulletin might limit the preview length above a certain number.

The bbcode option was requested - for some it is useful but for most it is not.

Edit template af_articlebit and add text/link after $thread[preview]

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by 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

What did you click to get this javascript error?

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by CLSSY56

This works great.

Is there a way to get a thread building template so there is a standard on how every article looks?

How can you change the post originator information to go across the top instead of down the right side? There is a text wrap there and looks funny if you center a few pics to start off the thread.

No.

Edit template: af_firstpost

The bit on the right is the userinfo and is between the following tags

<!-- user info -->
<!-- / user info -->

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by skooby

2 Questions:

1) Is it possible to have all of the images that are grabbed from the post and displayed in the articles.php file to be the same size. Basically, no matter the dimensions, it will resize all the images to the same size, say 200 x 200, so that they all align correctly?

2) A little off topic, but I LOVE your postbit. Is there anyway I could apply this postbit to another forum on my board, as well as the forum I use with the articles.php?

Thanks again

Not really. Try enabling Fixed Thumbnail Width in Vbulletin Options -> Article forum Options

Not that i am aware of. You could try searching for another modification which alters postbit template per forum and then use the template af_firstpost.

[valendono]

@banana
its not work with vs-hide thanks button. can u help me ? thanks

[rabidkevin]

Originally Posted by bananalive

What did you click to get this javascript error?

on any article page aka showthread

the main article page doesn't have this javascript error.

it also appears to only happen to users who are logged in. no error when logged out.