Pre-Sale: Will GARS Work for us?

[Bluestrike2]

Hi, I'm in charge on The MLG PwnCast. Anyhow, right now I'm trying to see what we can do to improve. As you can tell we're using the vBadvanced CMPS software.

http://www.mlgpwncast.com/?page=articles Here is an example. Its using the 'news' module powered by inactive forums (so they don't showup on as sub-forums thus making everything very messy IMHO). Can GARS improve upon our current setup? Will I still be able to use the vBadvanced CMPS software and pull it from there? Honestly I'm mostly interested in the different pages you can have (sort of like chapters) and the cleaner interface. Everything else GARS has seems like icing on the cake. If GARS works I'll be buying it alongside GAL (which I'm already planning on doing so).

Thanks for the help!

P.S. - Can GAL use two words like 'Midship CTF' or does it have to be one word only?

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[The Geek]

Thats a creative approach to an article system

In a nutshell, yes - GARS will greatly improve on your setup. You could use the news module to pull from GARS - however thats a bit of a workaround and not really the best way forward.
I hired a guy to create some vbaCMPS modules for this sort of thing, however he seems to have let me down? Ill go chase him up and find out whats up.

As far as GAL goes, yes, it can link 2 words. Where you get into troble is if you have Midship CTF setup and CTF. Technically speaking, if you have CTF as a lower ordinal, you should be fine, however it could double link if midship ctf gets linked first.

HTHs

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[Bluestrike2]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Thats a creative approach to an article system

In a nutshell, yes - GARS will greatly improve on your setup. You could use the news module to pull from GARS - however thats a bit of a workaround and not really the best way forward.
I hired a guy to create some vbaCMPS modules for this sort of thing, however he seems to have let me down? Ill go chase him up and find out whats up.

As far as GAL goes, yes, it can link 2 words. Where you get into troble is if you have Midship CTF setup and CTF. Technically speaking, if you have CTF as a lower ordinal, you should be fine, however it could double link if midship ctf gets linked first.

HTHs

I'm pretty excited at what this can do playing around a bit more. Whenever you get those vbaCMPS modules you better watch out because I'll have grabbed it really, really fast .

Am I able to customize it to make my left column appear on the GARS pages (there is a hack for that somewhere at vbadvanced - just have to find it). If I can do that then by all means I'll be excited because it would create a completely integrated site with zero change between pages .

Thanks! Also, to to avoid the double linking should I just not setup things like 'CTF.' Oh yeah - can I make it so that I have different words that will all show the same one (since it seems a lot of gamers don't know how to spell Midship so they use abbreviations like 'Middy.') Basically - can it take into account abbreviations if I enter them?

*Starts pulling out wallet*

Edit - is the one year thing like a lease (ala vBulletin's 1 year lease) or is it just support? Either way I think I'm sold.

Edit 2 - Out of curiousity I know that you can use GAL with a work around (I have the link up in one of my tabs) - but can that also be done if the VBA page is not in the same directory (its in root, forums are /forums/)

Edit 3 - Found out how to integrate my side module to GARS (if GARS supports it which I'd assume it does). Takes care of the workaround. Sad thing is I've searched high and low to find a little snippet of code in that dang functions.php file. Here's the link to the thing if you want it for future reference - http://www.vbadvanced.com/membersare...tid=4&pageid=6

Thanks (I'm done editing)

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[The Geek]

Im not sure what you mean by your CTF question - regardless, its not much of an issue anyway

As far as customizing columns goes, GARS has its own module system that will do that for you. Then again if you want the same columns across all pages, the vba route is the better way to go.

nJoy

[The Geek]

O yea, forgot to answer your license question.

The 1 year thing is for access to the download area for 1 year. Buying a license gives you a lifetime access and 1 year free updates.

Support isn't really promised - just delivered

[Bluestrike2]

Ordered. It seems like the vB community (Jelsoft, CinVin, vBa, and VB Geek) have some of the best service and help I've ever seen. Its amazing.

Can't wait to get this up and running . I'll update in this thread to show off to ya .

[acers]

actually i am using that kinda approach on my site. did a bit of custom hacking though on vba modules do get the desired results.
now it works pretty well using gars

http://www.techenclave.com/

i am using gars fields and some custom fields and templates to get the news on homepage

[Bluestrike2]

Originally Posted by acers

actually i am using that kinda approach on my site. did a bit of custom hacking though on vba modules do get the desired results.
now it works pretty well using gars

http://www.techenclave.com/

i am using gars fields and some custom fields and templates to get the news on homepage

Wow. Awesome work there! The kind of site/integration we're striving for .

You wouldn't be willing to share how you manage to integrate GARS and vBa so well would you by any chance?

On another note:
Adding the sidebars: I've had to open a ticket/thread over at vbadvanced.com because of this little rascal

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: print_portal_output() in /hsphere/local/home/bluestri/mlgpwncast.com/forums/includes/functions.php on line 2561

Once thats sorted out I can't wait. Thank you SO much.

[acers]

Originally Posted by Bluestrike2

Wow. Awesome work there! The kind of site/integration we're striving for .

You wouldn't be willing to share how you manage to integrate GARS and vBa so well would you by any chance?

On another note:
Adding the sidebars: I've had to open a ticket/thread over at vbadvanced.com because of this little rascal

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: print_portal_output() in /hsphere/local/home/bluestri/mlgpwncast.com/forums/includes/functions.php on line 2561

Once thats sorted out I can't wait. Thank you SO much.

hehe

i would be actually.. i am hoping that geek here comes with some module contest and gives gal free

btw am releasing a shacker module very soon i hope you guys like that.. just adding final features

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[Bluestrike2]

That's cool. By 'shacker' what exactly do you mean?

Here's to hoping he does have one and you win . Good luck with your site - hope it grows even more . By the way, I PM'ed you with a question I had.