New FREE Mod - Targetted Article

[inspireme]

Thought i would finish this work off ( i started it a while ago) and enter it into the competition.

This is a pre-release. I would appreciate people giving it a go, and giving me feedback.

I belive this mod is another needed feature for INDEXU. It gives you the ability to write category specific articles, you create an article in the admin panel and choose an unlimited number of categories to the article. When a user visits one of these categories this article is displayed in an "articles block"

It can be used for longer descriptions on the categories, or exchanged link pages, or 3-4 articles and a few links pages for each category if you wanted! great for Niche directories. I have deliberately made the front end "simple" on code so you can adjust templates and move it around to suit what you wish to do with this. The admin panel is comprehensive and detailed.

This, as mentioned, is a pre release. Only support will be given in this thread, and i will ignore PM's

Simple click to add and remove categories using an AJAX interface.

[inspireme]

Here is a practical example when i use it on my site

this page http://www.bigfreeguide.com/camping/...kent-18-1.html

would have an article block that would have :
1) Theme Parks in Kent
2) Links Page to Attractions in Kent
3) Historical Buildings In Kent Article
4) Camping Shops in this County

etc...

hope that makes it clearer.

[echo@]

do you have a working example inspireme?

Clicked on the link but could not see the block you where talking about?

Yes you are right, indexu really could do with an article system, separate to category submission. Giving the user the option to submit either article or link or both. Say if the user submits both, the article and link description are displayed in search results.

Maybe in the add_form area there could be the option for articles also, using FCKeditor (or something) for the articles.

Anyway this is just my thoughts, (it may well be hard to implement tho) but i am interested, I am working on the word press integration for this very problem. But wordpress is a separate system so article management would be more difficult, and i would like the users registered in indexu to have their links & articles together as one. If you know what i mean

does this MOD support the new SVN backend theme?

I will give this a try, I think an article management system (as well as a forum) should be some of the many things the next indexu release 6 should have.

Ok thnks

[inspireme]

not user submitted articles. just articles and content a webmaster wishes to add. Currently you have to use page.php and create a manual link on each category. With my mod you write the articles and click the categories you want it displayed on. It can be used for any content you like, articles is just a suggestion. I dont have a version online - most of the work is in the admin area so you just install it yourself. I have instructions included in the zip file.

That said, this mod has 95% of the work done for your application you just need to make a user submission page for articles - currently i just have one from admin. All you need to do is use the same code and add some error checking, PLUS, add a way to add categories on the same page (mine uses a separate page for adding categories)

[lewisw]

Thought i would finish this work off ( i started it a while ago) and enter it into the competition.

This is a pre-release. I would appreciate people giving it a go, and giving me feedback.

I belive this mod is another needed feature for INDEXU. It gives you the ability to write category specific articles, you create an article in the admin panel and choose an unlimited number of categories to the article. When a user visits one of these categories this article is displayed in an "articles block"

It can be used for longer descriptions on the categories, or exchanged link pages, or 3-4 articles and a few links pages for each category if you wanted! great for Niche directories. I have deliberately made the front end "simple" on code so you can adjust templates and move it around to suit what you wish to do with this. The admin panel is comprehensive and detailed.

This, as mentioned, is a pre release. Only support will be given in this thread, and i will ignore PM's

Simple click to add and remove categories using an AJAX interface.

Hi,
Just downloaded and I am going to try this out over the week-end but where exactly would the article appear ? I have hundreds of fitness articles posted on my blog at http://articles.atozfitness.com and I would love to port some of the better ones into the appropriate link directory.

Pretty cool idea I must say.
Lewis

[inspireme]

you paste the article into the article creator in the admin panel and its stored into the mysql database. Any formatting with html tags is kept but i havent added a html editor in this release.

Then you go to manage articles, here you can click on an article to edit it, delete it, or add categories to it. The category adder is ajax, you just choose them and they instantly get added, click the listed category and it removes it... you can add as many relevant categories as you need.

Thats it, you set up the front end to fit in with your site, this includes an article reader (reader.html) this is so you can layout the title and body and added date.

The other one is the block.article.html file where you can customise the article list, and add your own layout (just paste your layout code from another block) . Your idea with fitness articles is exactly what i had in mind, probably more useful for niche directories like that.

If you find any problems or questions post in this thread, i will probably make a few changes based on any comments people give me.

Im adding a bit of a to-do list in my head including
1) SEO - friendlier article link.
2) Ajax article preview

I wanted a bit of feedback and comments / problems (because im sure you'll find some) before i release a finished version. This is a pretty big mod, with about 20 new files.

[inspireme]

anybody set this up? using it? need help setting it up? comments?!

[Antony]

anybody set this up? using it? need help setting it up? comments?!

I just install the mod and i think it very nice.

Just maybe an option the possibility of user to leave a comment.....


Thank's Inspereme....
Antony

[inspireme]

that's a nice idea. any trouble installing it?

maybe i will add article comments

[Antony]

Inspereme i had no trouble to install it..
Just one problem i don't see the category adding for the article when a click on see article.

If not you can see a small test here
http://www.hotel-discount.com/travel-links/
aT THE END OF THE PAGE....

Antony

[inspireme]

ohh right - yes seems you have to add something before they show up. Ok thanks will make a few changes and release an update and a finished version this week sometime. also seems that the colour difference in the categories doesnt seem to work every time...

[Antony]

Did you do an update Inspereme ?
Antony

[inspireme]

I have fixed the bugs, i will post new one tomorrow.

Im doing a comment mod separate, it will have the ability to comment on any page you decide to add the block to. Basically you add <%block_comment%> if you want user to be able to add comments ont he current page, no matter what the page is (browse, detail, or more likely article pages, index etc)

[inspireme]

its here, with bugs fixed.

http://nicecoder.com/community/showt...9016#post29016

[doingitmyway]

Nice mod

Just downloaded it but discovered you cannot add an article to a subdirectory. Any plans of adding this ?