md3sign
10-27-2007, 03:23 PM
Regarding the article module system in VBD, I have a few questions.
1) Is it data stored in the VB database or are they separate tables?
2) Regarding image uploading/linking within articles, how is this done? Via attachments or is there some FTP option with linking?
3) Is there a way to avoid/customize the article page layout so it doesn't look like the default VBD, i.e. so it's "cleaner". For example, could you set up an article like this:
page 1: aaa + images within the article body
page 2: bbb + images within the article body
(last page) page 3: ccc + images within the article body + user comments
??
EDIT: the information below might help.
This a post I made over at VB.org for paid services:
Hello everyone,
I need a script that will take posts made in a specific forum, format them based on some “hidden” code (for example invisible [page=title] tags in the forum post would create multiple pages on the main site once it’s formatted), and display them at a predefined URL on the main site. The predefined URL would have to use apache’s mod_rewrite function to have a specific title based on user input.
This site does exactly what I need: http://www.techpowerup.com
All of their news and reviews are simply posts created in their forum that are formatted using a custom script and displayed on the main site.
For example, this review is just a single post in a “review” forum: http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=39521
Which is then automatically formatted and appears on the main page: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Matrox/TripleHead2Go_Analog
Here's a screen capture of the script form used to format/create this review on the main page once it's been posted in the forum:
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j213/mikhailtech/Capture1101.gif
I briefly spoke with the developer (who declined an offer for paid services) and he showed me roughly how it works. There's a review page form that asks you for some custom information (review title - which will become part of the URL, item manufacturer, etc - basically any custom info you want stored in extra database tables) as well as the threadid from which to fetch the content. It only takes the first post of the thread and converts it to a formatted review. Any modifications that need to be made to said review can be done directly in the forum where the content was initially posted and it would be updated on the main site in real time.
Users in a predefined usergroup will have access to create new posts and edit them within this particular forum - these will be the reviewers.
Does VBD allow something similar to this? I'm still trying to understand the product more thoroughly.
1) Is it data stored in the VB database or are they separate tables?
2) Regarding image uploading/linking within articles, how is this done? Via attachments or is there some FTP option with linking?
3) Is there a way to avoid/customize the article page layout so it doesn't look like the default VBD, i.e. so it's "cleaner". For example, could you set up an article like this:
page 1: aaa + images within the article body
page 2: bbb + images within the article body
(last page) page 3: ccc + images within the article body + user comments
??
EDIT: the information below might help.
This a post I made over at VB.org for paid services:
Hello everyone,
I need a script that will take posts made in a specific forum, format them based on some “hidden” code (for example invisible [page=title] tags in the forum post would create multiple pages on the main site once it’s formatted), and display them at a predefined URL on the main site. The predefined URL would have to use apache’s mod_rewrite function to have a specific title based on user input.
This site does exactly what I need: http://www.techpowerup.com
All of their news and reviews are simply posts created in their forum that are formatted using a custom script and displayed on the main site.
For example, this review is just a single post in a “review” forum: http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=39521
Which is then automatically formatted and appears on the main page: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Matrox/TripleHead2Go_Analog
Here's a screen capture of the script form used to format/create this review on the main page once it's been posted in the forum:
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j213/mikhailtech/Capture1101.gif
I briefly spoke with the developer (who declined an offer for paid services) and he showed me roughly how it works. There's a review page form that asks you for some custom information (review title - which will become part of the URL, item manufacturer, etc - basically any custom info you want stored in extra database tables) as well as the threadid from which to fetch the content. It only takes the first post of the thread and converts it to a formatted review. Any modifications that need to be made to said review can be done directly in the forum where the content was initially posted and it would be updated on the main site in real time.
Users in a predefined usergroup will have access to create new posts and edit them within this particular forum - these will be the reviewers.
Does VBD allow something similar to this? I'm still trying to understand the product more thoroughly.