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
---
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.

[Tim Wheatley]

You might want to make the re-saving your vb options BIGGER, I missed it too.

[ShutDown23]

Don't know if anyones had this problem, but i did all the steps, but I get:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: can_administer() in /home/afceyri/public_html/forums/article.php on line 17

When i go to it. Any ideas?

[John]

Originally Posted by ShutDown23

Don't know if anyones had this problem, but i did all the steps, but I get:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: can_administer() in /home/afceyri/public_html/forums/article.php on line 17

When i go to it. Any ideas?

Line 17 is:

'bbcodecache',

What version of vBulletin are you running? What modifications have you made to it?

[monstergamer]

there is a image that is not showing up on this page right beside the article http://www.monstergamer.net/vb/article.php?c=2

when i right click it show www.monstergamer.net/vb/

other then that i have customized mine real nice
http://www.monstergamer.net/vb/article.php?a=1
thanx John for another great hack
* monstergamer clicks install

[zetetic]

Originally Posted by monstergamer

there is a image that is not showing up on this page right beside the article http://www.monstergamer.net/vb/article.php?c=2

That's the same problem I'm having. I thought it was a post icon issue but I don't think it is.

[Logikos]

NICE! Will be installing and customizing to my newest site

And can we say HOTM?

[high]* Logikos clicks install[/high]

[Zachariah]

Bug:

I created 1 article w/ image attachment. (all is good)

I Deled the article:
Article count still says there is one article.

Looking @ the DB via phpmyadmin:

article table is empty
articleattachment table still has entry
articlepost table still has entry

Default posticon missing if none is selected. (red X)

If you [ Feature This Article ] you can not undo.

[dndog]

Definitely HOTM.

John, you are awesome.

[corsacrazy]

Originally Posted by HarryButt

Bug:

I created 1 article w/ image attachment. (all is good)

I Deled the article:
Article count still says there is one article.

Looking @ the DB via phpmyadmin:

article table is empty
articleattachment table still has entry
articlepost table still has entry


Default posticon missing if none is selected. (red X)

If you [ Feature This Article ] you can not undo.

i just manually edited count value via phpmyadmin

[Randall Rath]

I use the table prefix option with my vBulletin installation.
I mention that because while the admincp's article.php file uses TABLE_PREFIX for the new table queries, the installer doesn't, and the forum's article.php file uses a mix of both.
You can imagine what the end result is.