Social Network Marketing Tycoon

**greenhams** · 12-05-2006, 03:16 PM

While brainstorming last night and came up with a great idea for a site, and believe discussions to be a big part of it's success. Normally I would go with Drupal for everything but I am waiting for version 5 to come out before using it again (though version 4.7 is not completely left out).

But my old vBulletin [owned] license is not being used, which expired when version 3.6.x versions were out. So I can use the latest vBulletin features but I have not paid any attention to the mod scene (I have been using Drupal for a while). Would vBulletin have mods available for articles? I looked in vbulletin.org and came up with no such mod (!). Has anyone found any good ones? How many advise against using vBulletin at all? Thanks.

**imported_Luke** · 12-05-2006, 04:30 PM

I dont have any experience with this but I am sure some of the VB sites will have information, you been trying the search feature?

**Toad** · 12-05-2006, 04:38 PM

http://www.thevbgeek.com/geekmart.ph...ayproduct&id=3 Does what you want, and costs about $40

**jessecooper** · 12-06-2006, 03:44 PM

i think you got a good idea but it needs to formed where the article looks different from the comments

**External 89** · 12-06-2006, 08:30 PM

The best portal system I've used has been CMPS. Its got a **** ton of customization.

vbadvanced.com/products.php?do=productinfo&p=4

**jessecooper** · 12-07-2006, 01:33 AM

i like joomla too very dedicated users

**reteep** · 12-07-2006, 02:52 AM

I'd also suggest vB Advanced for vBulletin.

**rose.water** · 12-07-2006, 02:17 PM

Textpattern seems pretty nice. From wikipedia:

Quote:

it is often listed among blogging tools, but its aim is to be a high-quality general-purpose CMS suitable for deployment in many contexts.

It has it's own code format, much like bbcode, called textile.
Here is an example:

Quote:

"(classname)link text(title tooltip)":link_address

It outputs valid xhtml transitional and valid css.

Plus it's free and open-source.

**GeorgeB** · 12-07-2006, 03:49 PM

FYI everyone - CMPS only displays the articles on the homepage in a certain format. When you link to the article itself it's just a plain old forum thread.

That's why I recommend a combination CMPS and GeekArtices (linked above). Very effective.

**Moelman** · 12-09-2006, 12:38 PM

I like the GARS (geek article & review system) as well, it works great in a vB forum for articles or reviews or whatever.

**KW802** · 12-13-2006, 07:51 PM

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Originally Posted by GeorgeB

FYI everyone - CMPS only displays the articles on the homepage in a certain format. When you link to the article itself it's just a plain old forum thread.

That's why I recommend a combination CMPS and GeekArtices (linked above). Very effective.

Exactly. Make a nice looking module in vBa CMPS to highlight your article index but then use something like GARS to make your article look like an 'article' versus a forum thread.

**wyrmblight** · 03-13-2007, 08:30 PM

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Originally Posted by KW802

Exactly. Make a nice looking module in vBa CMPS to highlight your article index but then use something like GARS to make your article look like an 'article' versus a forum thread.

You can try vbarticles by madebymary.com. I'm currently using it on one of my sites. Has some good features. The only thing I do not like so far, is the a certain usergroup permission. If you want a usergroup to be able to add an article the setting is add/edit/delete article. I would prefer that the user be unable to delete their article. But that is just me. I'm thinking of switching a few other forums I own over to it. Also there is no "SEO friendly" urls yet.