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.

[smdani]

Really really thanks Pit!!!
You looks like the creator of V3Article!!
Thanks again!

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Pitman

As for the guests to be able to post comments, there are permissions for that, but they don't work. I never noticed that, but if I get time to figure it out, I'll let you know.

The bug/problem is the same for all permission tests in arcade.php - he uses a NOT ("!") and "&" test - but does not enclose the test in brackets - for example ;

if (!$permissions['articlepermissions'] & CANFEATURE)

which should be

if (!($permissions['articlepermissions'] & CANFEATURE))

to work properly (anyone can make an article featured atm).

I just spent an hour or so fixing all these permission holes

:tired:

[Pitman]

Originally Posted by Paul M

The bug/problem is the same for all permission tests in arcade.php - he uses a NOT ("!") and "&" test - but does not enclose the test in brackets - for example ;

if (!$permissions['articlepermissions'] & CANFEATURE)

which should be

if (!($permissions['articlepermissions'] & CANFEATURE))

to work properly (anyone can make an article featured atm).

I just spent an hour or so fixing all these permission holes

:tired:

Yeah Paul, I noticed that most of them are like if (!$permissions['articlepermissions'] & CANFEATURE)

There are a few in there that are right though, hopefully he will release a new version soon.

[Qwest]

OK for all those who answered my question (or tried to) No you cannot simply insert the Adsense code into the article because:

#1 It's Javascript, so for obvious reasons you don't want users able to submit JavaScript in the article body.

#2 It would also take some HTML tweaking that not all users would be familiar with trying to get the articles to show where they want them.

Soooo...

Since revenue sharing (IMO) will become the new "it" thing for webmasters I decided to allow my members to make money off of articles they write for my site.

See an example of how the articles look here

Basically what I've done is modified v3articles to insert members' Google Adsense ID into the google code displayed along with their article. Whenever a user writes an article their Adsense ID (an optional custom profile field) is inserted along with their channel ID in case they want to track the performance of their adds on my site. I don't do the 50/50 thing. They make ALL of teh money generated by clicks from their article. I make money with ads on other parts of the site and my own articles.

So what do you think?

[Qwest]

Suggestion: Will someone please recompile this download with the bug fixes in place?
I'd do it but I'm busy securing other parts of my site as well.

Oh yeah and I'm wondering why I never got an email alert from the AUTHOR notifying me of such a huge vulnerablity?

Because of all the bugs that are suddenly popping up I'm thinking of recoding this thing from the ground up using the code for snippets only.

[flstreetscene]

How do I remove this last part from the vBulletin Options page in the Admin CP after uninstallation;

http://www.floridastreetscene.com/up...zeno/trace.gif

It's all the way in the bottom.

Thanks.

[deathemperor]

Originally Posted by Qwest

Suggestion: Will someone please recompile this download with the bug fixes in place?
I'd do it but I'm busy securing other parts of my site as well.

Oh yeah and I'm wondering why I never got an email alert from the AUTHOR notifying me of such a huge vulnerablity?

Because of all the bugs that are suddenly popping up I'm thinking of recoding this thing from the ground up using the code for snippets only.

well why don't you just edit it like the instrucstion ? isn't it very simple ?

I don't think John knows this already, if yes he should have given a official fix.

or maybe we should email him.

[Guy G]

Will thos work on 3.0.3?

[pingme]

Originally Posted by Zorobz

Will thos work on 3.0.3?

Yes, I am using it with 303

[Guy G]

thanks pingme
any side notes? fixes i would need for it?