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.

[lanc3lot]

Paul M have u updated your Articles hack to 3.0.5 version of Vb? Is it still working?

I say this, as in the first install of this hack, it has some changes for the init.php file...

Anybody else knows if its combatible?

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by lanc3lot

Paul M have u updated your Articles hack to 3.0.5 version of Vb? Is it still working?

No, we are remaiing on 3.0.3 and just implementing the new init.php file (what I call 3.0.3+ ).

[lanc3lot]

Yep i will do the same as u, but the question is, if u do that...is the articles run ok?

As the new init.php file, will overwrite the old one and as u can see, the articles hack uses init.php file

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by lanc3lot

Yep i will do the same as u, but the question is, if u do that...is the articles run ok?

As the new init.php file, will overwrite the old one and as u can see, the articles hack uses init.php file

Well yes, obviously you have to re-add the permissions array to the new init.php, otherwise it won't work .... :glasses:

[SVTOA]

Works fine for me with the 3.0.5 init.php and Paul's update to article.php

[lanc3lot]

Thanks

[Paul M]

I bit the bullet and upgraded our forum to 3.0.5 tonight. The vB upgrade script nicely wiped out all the articles templates.

This is because they are installed as Master templates, and the upgrade script wipes and replaces all the master templates. Therefore i had to restore the templates from the backup I took (you do all backup before upgrading don't you ).

Alternatively, I believe the articles install script has the option to install the templates only. Now that the templates are restored it seems to be functioning okay.

[steven s]

After updating to 3.0.5 articles.php? showed be a blank page.
I ran the install script for templates only. That restored everything.
I didn't loose my articles.

[GoTTi]

happens when i run the arcade.php?do=challenges

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.0:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT user.avatarid, user.avatarrevision, avatarpath, NOT ISNULL(avatardata) AS hascustom, customavatar.dateline
FROM user AS user
LEFT JOIN avatar AS avatar ON avatar.avatarid = user.avatarid
LEFT JOIN customavatar AS customavatar ON customavatar.userid = user.userid
WHERE user.userid =
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 5

mysql error number: 1064

[Paul M]

Um, this is the articles hack thread, not arcade ??