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.

[ivanmcp]

Works great!

[jluerken]

Running the uninstaller brings up this:

The database changes made to this vBulletin installation have been undone.

However, tables containing content and category information still remain. For security reasons, these tables must be deleted manually.

My question is now which tables must be deleted and what about the templates and phrases?

WHAT exactly do I have to uninstall manually?

[Paul M]

Pretty much anything that starts with "article".

[MissKalunji]

Originally Posted by jluerken

Running the uninstaller brings up this:


My question is now which tables must be deleted and what about the templates and phrases?

WHAT exactly do I have to uninstall manually?

where did you get the uninstaller

[ThePapabear]

Hello!

First: Installed and works fine on 3.0.6! Thanks for that! *clicked install

I got a question, someone had on page 6 of this thread (no, didn´t read all 61 Pages, but most... :cross-eyed: ):

how can i change the way, the articles are ordered? I´d like them to be ordered alphabetically, not newest first...

Could´nt find an answer for that. Thanks a lot!

greets
ThePapabear

[Maximum Fu]

Hi. Everything seems to work fine with the install. Thanks for a great hack!

My only problem...

I don't see the area on the left-hand side of the AdminCP where I can manage my articles (specifically the categories, etc.). I have the option in my 'General VBulletin' options, but not along the left-hand side of the AdminCP.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

[Maximum Fu]

Originally Posted by Maximum Fu

Hi. Everything seems to work fine with the install. Thanks for a great hack!

My only problem...

I don't see the area on the left-hand side of the AdminCP where I can manage my articles (specifically the categories, etc.). I have the option in my 'General VBulletin' options, but not along the left-hand side of the AdminCP.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

Solved...sorry

[greenhybrid]

Thanks for the quick & easy hack. I'm having a problem displaying thumbnails. I set GD as 2.0+ in the settings, as showin phpinfo, but thumbnails won't come up. Any ideas, please?

[greenhybrid]

Also, is there a way to make article.php (the article section) use a different style that the main forums? Thanks in advance.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by greenhybrid

Also, is there a way to make article.php (the article section) use a different style that the main forums? Thanks in advance.

It uses all it's own templates, so you can change them as you want.