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Lore
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Jul 2, 2002, 8:00 AM
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Article Manager Mod - Comments and Ratings?
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I would like to add viewer comments and a 5 star rating system to Article Manager. Has anyone done this or could make such a MOD?
Also, has anyone created a membership application that ties into Article Manager?
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Dave
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Jul 2, 2002, 12:19 PM
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Or did you mean a membership to access the content created by Article Manager?
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
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Lore
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Jul 2, 2002, 2:49 PM
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I thought about using a Fourm in fact I have a licensed copy of vBulletin which would work with an application called PhotoPost from www.techimo.com. They actually have features that lend themselves to posting pictures and comments, although the rating MOD has not been fully implemented yet.
The idea is to have a subscriber base that would be allowed to access as "writers" to the Admin area.
I thought about restricting comments and ratings as well, but I believe that a more open system would envolve a greater amount of participants.
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Luke
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Jul 3, 2002, 3:42 PM
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Here's a suggestion.
If you want to give your subscribers the ability to submit articles that wouldn't go live (that you could later approve) what you could do is create a single 'writer' that would be used by all subscribers.
Subscribers could then log in with this account and create articles.
Luke Holzken
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Thomas
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Jul 9, 2002, 5:27 PM
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Re: [simonlilly] Article Manager Mod - Comments and Ratings?
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This is an excellent idea, and I believe it would make article manager even more desirable... :)
The BBC site is a wonderful example of how simple and useful this feature would be and I would love to use that as a model.
There are a lot news products have some sort of feature like this....
Examples...
http://www.oxyshouse.com/oxynews/
http://www.tinews.net/index.php?do=comments&item=356
http://phpnuke.org/
http://nucleuscms.org/
Greymatter - example http://toonerama.dyndns.org/root/html/weblog/womblog.htm
I would like a choice of whether each article would allow comments or not and an admin approval feature would probably be necessary making user logins or forum integration not nescessary.
A rating feature such as stars would be great - I would also love a thumbs up and thumbs down for each article with an overall thumbs up or thumbs down. eg
http://download.com.com/3302-2299-906074.html?tag=mta
or even better a choice of stars or thumbs for each article.
If this was something that Interactive tools did and supported I would be prepared to pay extra as an upgrade or add on.
How about it??
PLEEEEASE! :D
Ps. If you need someone to beta test this and give further ideas let me know.
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George_h
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Jul 9, 2002, 11:51 PM
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Hi Luke
I have just got to poke my nose in too... I think the rate this article or leave a comment about this article feature would be an absolute diamond...
Amazon do it I think... Sort of like a personal review...
We must be able to view and approve posting though... Stop spammers
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George
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Lore
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Jul 13, 2002, 8:12 AM
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I'll have to tell you ... I've been round and round with this one... I have a site buring to go but still looking for these features. So far this is the 90% best solution. Just needs the other 10%.
I do think its a winner and could really break this application from the news manager pack. I'm certainly willing to vote with my $$$s.
One other thing... a yahoo type indexing feature would be a nice option to have with this... as the news posts could get way out of hand and a proper indexing feature would be needed.
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joewilson
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Jul 14, 2002, 3:44 PM
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Hi There!
I too am very interested in this. I'm looking to purchase the script and this addition is crucial for my site...
Thanks...
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Damon
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Jul 17, 2002, 6:00 PM
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Wow! A lot of interest in the idea of a Mod for Article Manager to allow visitors to post comments and ratings. I agree with TipKing that it would definitely need to have the option to allow an editor to approve and if necessary edit the visitor postings before they go live.
The site: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/talking_point mentioned by simonlilly is a good example. Visitors can click and read stories, then click a link to go to a form to send their comments. Quite nicely done. It looks like they could have used a simple email form for the visitor submissions and manually added comments to the articles. The yellow boxes with excerpts must have been manually added somehow.
I'm thinking that an interesting idea would be to customize the article detail template (templates/article/default.html) to include at the end of the article page a Mail Form for visitors to enter their name, email, comments, ratings, etc for that particular article. The form could also include some hidden fields such as the article's title and category. These comments then could be emailed to the editor who could then choose whether to approve and add them to the existing article. One place to look for Mail Form scripts is: http://cgi.resourceindex.com
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Damon Edis
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George_h
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Jul 18, 2002, 4:53 PM
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Re: [Chris] Article Manager Mod - Comments and Ratings?
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Hi Chris
I really like this idea...
"http://www.yoursite.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/admin.cgi?art_edit=$num$"
Adding the following as a hidden field makes it a breeze
<input type="hidden" name="Page_to_edit" value="http://www.tipking.com/cgi-bin/Tips/exec/admin.cgi?art_edit=$art_num$">
I am going to have to stop looking at this forum because everytime I come I pick up a great feature. Using this feature will give me great feedback and also I can get more sign ups for my newsetter.....
You guys are stars...
Kind Regards
George
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George_h
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Jul 18, 2002, 5:04 PM
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This is great Damon
I have had a fiddle and yes it is a great way of doing it. I had this vision of a more automatic way of doing it but this is really great.... Lets me approve the comment and decide whether or not to include
I can route the form through my mailing database (Picking the email address up on the way  ) And using the hidden code
<input type="hidden" name="Page_to_edit" value="http://www.tipking.com/cgi-bin/Tips/exec/admin.cgi?art_edit=$art_num$">
It is just one click to get to the relevant article to add the comment or rating.....
If I ever get my site finished I will show you it in action
George
http://www.tipking.com/Tips/publish/
Kind Regards
George
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Thomas
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Aug 4, 2002, 7:28 AM
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Hi
I have set up comments as suggested, and I am using one of the spare fields to store the comments. This is all working fine but I would like to make a request for a hack or feature in the next upgrade.
At the moment all the comments are stored in a 'text field', ie one long line of text. As the number of comments increases this will become harder to manage. Is it possible to have the option of a text box for a spare field, along with the text field and drop down menu?
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Damon
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Aug 27, 2002, 2:55 PM
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Hi Thomas,
Sorry for missing your post. With the latest version of Article Manager you are able to make any of the spare fields into either a textfield, text area, dropdown list, checkbox or a WYSIWYG field. This should make it a lot easier to add article comments.
Cheers
Damon Edis
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