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]

yep np on that, i just thought i had to mention that as i use this article system some months now and i m very thankfull for this

Do u know john any way, to uninstall the system? beside revert everything, if there is something to erase the tables and all that...

Thanks, keep up

[valentine]

Sorry if this has been covered before, I've had a quick look on the forums but cant find the answer, so...

I'm running vb 3.0.5, with CMPS, vbChat and VbArticles.

Following a recent install of "Articles", everything seems to work fine with one exception I discovered this morning: If I go into AdminCP and click on "Forum Manager" or "Add New Forum", I just get a blank page, with the rest of the admin panel still in place.

It only does it with these two options, everything else under the "Forums and Moderators" dropdown works fine, as do all the other options in AdminCP.

Have I missed editing a file somewhere? Or does my configuration with the other hacks screw it up somehow?

[valentine]

Well I've now read through this entire thread and found nothing related to this problem - if anyone can shed any light on why this might have happened I'd appreciate it. I've checked and double checked the installation process ,as far as I know the file that this uses - admincp/forum.php - isn't amended by vBArticles, but if its used in some way that is causing the problem I'd be glad of someone telling me. Otherwise I'll uninstall it.

Thanks.

Val

[MissKalunji]

how can i give access to co administrator to vbarticle (to give him permission to post?)?

[valentine]

Does anyone ever respond to simple, polite requests for help in here? :ermm:

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by rossored

Does anyone ever respond to simple, polite requests for help in here? :ermm:

Yes.

Has it occured to you that people may not know the answer to your question.

[valentine]

Of course! How silly of me to assume that someone who'd written a hack might be able to answer a simple question as to whether it utilised a particular file or not...

[paulz]

i'm prolly just too tired to find this, but where in the article.php is the code to ORDER BY that i can change to order the article listings by title instead of the order they were posted in? Thanks in advance!

[DjTaz]

I have a small problem with the attachments , i click Manage Attachmnt , and i get the popup box , i select the file , put in the caption , click on upload (yes the right file format .. just a .jpg ... and its only tiny in size ) and as soon as i click upload i get a white blank screen on the upload box ... have i missed something or could this be from a different hack clashing with it ??

Thanks For the hack John - its very good even if i dont figure out the Thumbnails

[Yelper]

Heh. I've got an installation problem. I lost my internet connectivity while running the installation file (admincp/install.php). Now, when I try to install, the first step yields an error (as expected) that says the table has already been added. Is there any way to skip to the step I want or to correct this problem?

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.6:

Invalid SQL: 
			CREATE TABLE `article` (
			`articleid` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
			`title` varchar(250) NOT NULL default '',
			`firstpostid` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
			`lastcommentid` int(10) unsigned default NULL,
			`lastcommentdateline` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
			`lastcommentposter` varchar(50) default NULL,
			`lastcommentposterid` int(10) unsigned default NULL,
			`categoryid` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
			`open` smallint(2) NOT NULL default '0',
			`commentcount` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
			`articleusername` varchar(50) NOT NULL default '',
			`articleuserid` int(4) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
			`dateline` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
			`views` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
			`iconid` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
			`votenum` smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
			`votetotal` smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
			`articlehash` varchar(32) NOT NULL default '',
			PRIMARY KEY  (`articleid`)
			) TYPE=MyISAM
		
mysql error: Table 'article' already exists

mysql error number: 1050

Date: Sunday 30th of January 2005 12:21:35 PM
Script: http://forums.foreverbeyond.net/admincp/install.php
Referer: http://forums.foreverbeyond.net/admincp/install.php

I tried running the query "DELETE FROM articles WHERE 1>0;" but to no result..

Thanks in advance. I appreciate the efforts of anyone who is helpful.