Article module? Single thread instead of fourm?

[hpwilhelm]

Hi!

I want to display some articles on the eminent vbaCMPS. The only way I have found to do this now is by making a new forum, and placing the article there, and then setting that forums as newsfeed for the article page. But many sub-forums with single threads clutter up my site...

So i need a module where I can enter a thread-id, instead of a forum-id...
The news display is excelent for articledisplay! :)

Anyone understand what I mean?

Thanks!

[zeechan]

Well I am also looking for an compelet Article system for vbaCMPS. Anyone......

[The Dok]

Well I am also looking for an compelet Article system for vbaCMPS. Anyone......

Me, too...

[TexasOutdoors]

Here's an article system if someone can port it over: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?p=520181#post520181

[Bryant]

I've got vBadvanced CMPS and v3 Articles 1.0 installed. Setting up a module to display the featured article on the front page should be relatively easy. Just a matter of putting a .php together with the featured article functionality that calls the right templates -- but it's well beyond my capacity. Tried this a couple ways today, and while I had it create the content cell on the index page, it didn't properly pull in the data for the article.

Looking forward to someone putting this together.

Worth pointing out that the arcade news (also by John) has already been set up as a module, maybe some variation of that would suffice for articles?

--edit--

The 'perfect' vBadvanced module for this would give the admin the choice of including a truncated "teaser" of the feature article (like what's on the main v3Articles page), or the entire thing.

[Bryant]

I've had no luck whatsoever putting this together. Is anyone with a php/mysql clue willing to take a look at tossing this together, even as an act of charity? Lol.

Doesn't seem like it should be too hard. Yes, that's a commentary on my capacity. ;)

[Shack Networks]

I tried and tried last night and got no where, someone must be able to do this as the Articles intergrated into this fine bit of software would rock da place.

H

[hpwilhelm]

I'm not sure if I will use the v3 articles... Because it will be almost the same as using the forums with template modifications.

What I'm asking for, in this tread is a module - just like the news module, but instead of pulling the first post in all the treads in a forums, it would pull the first post in a specified thread. (Not forums as with the newsblock) :)

Anyone understand what I mean?

Admin interface would be nice, but a bunch of hardcoded blocks will do the trick also.

For my site, the main page, is mostly intended for non-forums users. Because I want the articles also be present in the forums, and in the forums search.

[Bryant]

Sounds like two different desires in a single thread, I'll split the v3Articles request off into a new thread.

re: v3A, I think the truest thing that can be said about it is that if you don't see the point in it, then you probably don't need it. But it definitely serves a very real purpose for some of us.

I'm not sure if I will use the v3 articles... Because it will be almost the same as using the forums with template modifications.

[The Dok]

I'm currently using this beta version (HERE (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=63941)). It does what I need but it would be cool to have it, or something very similar, within vba CMPS. The coder locked the thread because it was in beta but he has a link to where he uses it. The problem is he went from just working on the article hack to coming up with a complete portal with his article hack included. Don't care to switch portals so I'll just use his beta until I find something better.

TD

[irishfreakout2]

Anyone figured out how to do this?

I too would like ot be able to display only the posts from one thread

[hpwilhelm]

I'm still hoping... :p

Anyone know how to exchange forum-id with thread-id in the newsblock?

[pdatotaal]

v3 articles... is not a option for us.. We want the picture IN the articles! And not some where else on the place.. hacking the news display would be something..
So still waiting..

[Swanny231]

I'm currently using this beta version (HERE). It does what I need but it would be cool to have it, or something very similar, within vba CMPS. The coder locked the thread because it was in beta but he has a link to where he uses it. The problem is he went from just working on the article hack to coming up with a complete portal with his article hack included. Don't care to switch portals so I'll just use his beta until I find something better.

TD

OMG I got all excited, read this entire post and come to find out it's not even coming out or the beta can't be found. :( plz if anyone has this beta, plz pm me :(

[Fargo]

v3 articles... is not a option for us.. We want the picture IN the articles! And not some where else on the place.. hacking the news display would be something..
So still waiting..

You can use images within the articles - simply use the '' tag.

[Rids]

... except the images have to have already been uploaded via FTP in order for them to be linked and granting everybody FTP access ain't gonna happen on my site ;)

[gonik]

I have allready built a simple article system for my client on vbadvanced. It's rather easy if you have any php programming background :) The difficult part (at least for the site i am working on) is the paging for the articles.
Since my client has a hardware-like reviewing and news portal, the articles posted there are rather big so the paging is unavoidable.

This is the way i did it. You must write the article as forum post in a specific forum which will be used for articles only. Then you right a fetch query that will retrieve all the topics in the specific forum and lists them (create a new page in vbadv. which will only display the specific module in the center.). I refer to that page as index.php?page=article.

After that i have created a file article.php and placed it in the root folder (where cmps_index.php is stored) and modified so that it will show as a vba page, according to the manual.
I have also created a new module that will read the argument passed in that page (eg. article.php?articleid=1) and fetch the topic with the id passed in articleid var.

For all the above 3 new custom templates have been used. One for the table listing, one for the individual bits and one for the actual article display.

As soon as i finish the work for my client and have some spare time, i'll modify the modules and the pages i used so they can be released to public :)

[Kesomir]

... except the images have to have already been uploaded via FTP in order for them to be linked and granting everybody FTP access ain't gonna happen on my site ;)

Do what I do and install an image gallery. Coppermine if you can't pay, Photopost if you can (or wait for the vbAdvanced Gallery)

[AlexSFBay]

I have allready built a simple article system for my client on vbadvanced. It's rather easy if you have any php programming background :) The difficult part (at least for the site i am working on) is the paging for the articles.
Since my client has a hardware-like reviewing and news portal, the articles posted there are rather big so the paging is unavoidable.

This is the way i did it. You must write the article as forum post in a specific forum which will be used for articles only. Then you right a fetch query that will retrieve all the topics in the specific forum and lists them (create a new page in vbadv. which will only display the specific module in the center.). I refer to that page as index.php?page=article.

After that i have created a file article.php and placed it in the root folder (where cmps_index.php is stored) and modified so that it will show as a vba page, according to the manual.
I have also created a new module that will read the argument passed in that page (eg. article.php?articleid=1) and fetch the topic with the id passed in articleid var.

For all the above 3 new custom templates have been used. One for the table listing, one for the individual bits and one for the actual article display.

As soon as i finish the work for my client and have some spare time, i'll modify the modules and the pages i used so they can be released to public :)


Gonik,

Will your solution be able to make use of XML/RSS for syndication that will link to the article pages (NOT the forum threads -- maybe a tweak to the external.php code is all that would be needed), and will it have an archive system seperate from the vBulletin forum (i.e. -- http://davesipaq.com/archive.php?type=n -- something like this would be GREAT)?

Cheers,

Alex

[gonik]

The external.php that vbulletin uses is fully compatible with my article system, since all the articles are stored as forum posts in specific forums. No need for extra coding at least for the RSS part of it ;)

It will be released very soon. As soon as i finish writing the documentation also :)

[AlexSFBay]

Gonik,

Don't you think the it would be more practical for the RSS feed to link back to the articles? The whole idea of making the article module is to differentiate the posts from the forum.

Just my opinion... does anyone else have any thoughts?

[hpwilhelm]

Thanks Gonik! Really looking forward to the release! :)

About the rss, I see no reason why it shouldn't link to the forums, afterall the site is a forumsite, and the article can be found both in the forums and in the articlessection.

So I see this as an alternative to "Stickies" in a forum, for new users, and for guests. Much easier to browse an article section then to browse through several forums to read the stickies... ;)

If i want to keep the articles seperated from the forums, then I rather choose a full CMS... :p

[Samir]

... except the images have to have already been uploaded via FTP in order for them to be linked and granting everybody FTP access ain't gonna happen on my site ;)

A way around this is to upload the files as attachements somewhere in your site and then use that url for the files. I did this on our vb at work to include images into the category titles. :D

[Samir]

It will be released very soon. As soon as i finish writing the documentation also :)

Do you see this happenning by the end of the week? I'm setting up a test site and have got to the next add-on which is an article system. I can shuffle things around and work on something else if your system will be available soon. How similar will it be to v3? I need a system where users can submit articles that are moderated, so they have to be validated before they're posted.

[gonik]

Samir, no unfortunatelly not.. It will not be avaliable 'till the next of the month. This is mostly because of the exams i have in my univercity and some site problems. Sorry for this people! Additionaly, since it will be based on the forums, you can easily make the forums that will store the article to be moderated. Until you approve them, nothing will be displayed off course.

Also, AlexSFBay, i think hpwillhelm is just right over there. No need for any extra code. I'm trying to make it as light as possible.

[Samir]

Thank you very much for the prompt reply. I look forward to your release! I've installed v3 and it works pretty well, but I can't get the cmps module to work properly, so that's one strike against it. :D