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.

[JustAskJulie]

Originally Posted by inverted

also, i'm wondering how to change the name of the section in the main nav bar. it default says "Articles" (Forum Root > Articles > Main Category)

how do i change the name of the articles section?

I changed that on mine, I'm pretty sure it was in one of the actual PHP files.

[TheMusicMan]

Originally Posted by JustAskJulie

I changed that on mine, I'm pretty sure it was in one of the actual PHP files.

To do that you need to simply edit the navbar template. Find the line referring to the articles and amend te text to whatever you prefer.

[gibgib]

I can't get the bloody thing to work.

3.0.3 with v3 Articles 1.0.1, I am getting a blank (forum colours & fonts) template page at article.php.
See here

First installation gave no errors.

To fix it I have tried uninstalling, including manual database table dropping of the 5 articles, & the usergroup modify.

I have re-installed again resulting in the same problem, with the addition of no setting options viewable under "vBulletin Options" heading in the control panel.

What's the go anybody?

My board has many hacks & none of them were dramas to install.
It would be a good enhancement to our forum & in it's current non working state it is not causing any grief, however getting it to work was the aim of the game :squareeyed:

[nine45]

The install went without an hitch, excellent!

I do however have one problem that I've tried to resolve without much luck, I'm sure it's something dumb and staring me in the face

After posting an article with images all is fine except the images are not showing, just the horrible little red crosses, enlarging the image works fine so I know the images are being uploaded, I am using 3.0.3 with GD installed, any ideas where I'm going wrong, sorry if this has been asked before but I could not find anything about this, thanks in advance.

[welo]

Originally Posted by nine45

sorry if this has been asked before but I could not find anything about this

Most recent detailed list of issues and fixes.

[nine45]

Fantastic, that did the trick :up:

Originally Posted by welo

Most recent detailed list of issues and fixes.

[inverted]

thanks Paul M and bendigo-tech. got that "Articles" name changed, thanks for the help!

[SamirDarji]

Originally Posted by gibgib

I can't get the bloody thing to work.

3.0.3 with v3 Articles 1.0.1, I am getting a blank (forum colours & fonts) template page at article.php.
See here

First installation gave no errors.

To fix it I have tried uninstalling, including manual database table dropping of the 5 articles, & the usergroup modify.

I have re-installed again resulting in the same problem, with the addition of no setting options viewable under "vBulletin Options" heading in the control panel.

What's the go anybody?

My board has many hacks & none of them were dramas to install.
It would be a good enhancement to our forum & in it's current non working state it is not causing any grief, however getting it to work was the aim of the game :squareeyed:

Be sure to save the different user group options. That's the step I messed up on.

[LoOnEyToOnZ]

Thanks guys. Is there supposed to be an option for v3articles viewing permission in "Usergroup Manager". Cause i dont see any and have updated them quite a few times but still getting the cant view permission error

EDIT : I realised my problem, a forgotten file edit, so silly :speechless:

Anyway i had cleared my 5 article tables and the articlepermission in usergroup, and then tried to install again. Then did my forgotten file edit and here is back. However, under Admin CP >> vBulletin Options >> v3 Articles theres no option now, may i know where i should add/edit the database for them to appear ?

[inverted]

ok, i know this doesn't fall into this thread completely, but i was hoping someone here could help. i added the "printable version" addon to the articles, and i'm getting a database error on the printable version. everythign for the regular articles worked fine, but when i click printable version i get the following error:

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.3:

Invalid SQL: SELECT article.*, articlepost.*, articlecategory.options AS categoryoptions FROM article AS article
INNER JOIN articlepost AS articlepost ON(articlepost.postid = article.firstpostid)
INNER JOIN articlecategory AS articlecategory ON(articlecategory.categoryid = article.categoryid)
WHERE article.articleid = 1 AND articlepost.type=1

mysql error: Table 'database.article' doesn't exist

mysql error number: 1146

can anyone with more experience in php and SQL help me out here? thanks/

- inverted :ninja: