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meissenation · #1 01-14-2009, 11:08 AM

Was curious which one most of you guys prefer. I'm leaning towards one myself, but I'd like to see what others think of them.

http://www.provb.org/vb_products.php...o&productid=11
http://www.thevbgeek.com/geekmart.ph...ayproduct&id=3

Which one do you guys think is the better purchase?

Marco van Herwaarden · #2 01-14-2009, 12:18 PM

Not sure but i don't think these are even similar.

meissenation · #3 01-14-2009, 12:21 PM

Well - the idea behind them is both the same. They both have the ability to have an Article system. Since no one will make a real article system for vb3.7+ it's down to these two folks and tweaking it to work as needed.

MrEyes · #4 01-14-2009, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by meissenation

and tweaking it to work as needed.

I admit that I have limited experience of Advanced Forums but "tweaking" is where I believe that GARS is a much better system, I run GARS on my sites for the following:

1) Classifieds System with paypal integration
2) Articles System
3) Reviews System

Each area has an entirely different template and also have a whole raft of sub sections each of which have their own custom fields and searches.

Out of the box GARS had 95% of what I wanted to do, the remainder was just template changes and configuration. I have not needed to touch any of the code base at all, every single time I have thought "it would be cool if I could do......" I have then discovered that GARS could do it and typically better than my original idea.

meissenation · #5 01-14-2009, 01:54 PM

Do you mind sharing a link to your articles system?

meissenation · #6 01-15-2009, 02:07 PM

Anyone else have any opinions on this? Seriously, only 3 votes including my own?

#7 01-15-2009, 02:21 PM

these are two different kind of scripts, not related... but personally, i would suggest Gio's engine is you do not need a complex script that have no more support and no more advanced upgrades... TheGeek's stuff is becoming outdated and will not be that much compatible with 3.8.0..

meissenation · #8 01-15-2009, 02:27 PM

Thanks! The main thing that I'm looking at is that they both give the ability for an "Articles" forum.

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