Hi all,

I'm having a heck of a time finding a free or lost cost article management script for a hobby site. I've checked Hotscripts, CGI-Resources, done a search, etc. I don't think I am searching or looking under the right terms or something.

I'm looking for a way to add "writers" to my site through an admin panel, assign them permission levels, and allow them to login in anytime they want and write an article. The article then gets approval or disapproval by me before it is actually posted. I need categorized articles (with the category links added automatically on the side or wherever), an introduction and heading for each article on the front page of each category page, and a "read more" link to the rest of the full page article. I also would like to assign writers to only write for certain categories.

Anyone know where something like this may be? I've looked at PHPNuke, but it's way overboard for what I want, some others are the same. News posting scripts aren't really enough. I did find one that was almost perfect here (http://www.interactivetools.com/products/articlemanager/), but it costs way over what I want to pay. Before I learn PHP and write it myself, I thought I'd ask here.

Anyone?

PHPWebThings is coming along pretty well, it does not have the categorization you need, but if you have some skill with PHP, you might be able to add that in:
http://www.phpdbform.com

We've been using WMNews. It does not allow multiple users, but again, that is something you could probably add into it with a little bit of PHP/MySQL tweaking:

http://wartamikael.org/PHPScripts/?product=WMNews

I would recommend mArticle (http://www.esuitetoday.com/marticle.php), but it looks like Ed's site is down righ now.... It uses the same template system as vB, well close to it......

yup i use mArticle at http://i4net.tv/marticle/

added the left news columnn myself :)

I've been trying to get to the mArticle site for the last couple of days and it's always been down. Does anyone have a copy of the script or know of a mirror site?

eva2000, thanks for the example, looks pretty good :) Might I borrow your copy for testing?

Originally posted by ginakra
I've been trying to get to the mArticle site for the last couple of days and it's always been down. Does anyone have a copy of the script or know of a mirror site?

eva2000, thanks for the example, looks pretty good :) Might I borrow your copy for testing?



I have a copy at home, but not here, if someone hasn't given you a link by then, I'll upload it for you....

I got down to some gritty dectective work and grabbed version 1.5 from a vBulletin forum search ;-) Is that the latest version? Had no clue Mike/Ed Sullivan was a vBulletin developer.

Hm, how about Moveable Type (http://www.moveabletype.org), or cafelog (http://www.cafelog.com) (php/mySQL)? These are advanced weblogging scripts that meets your needs. I use MT and it allows me to add users and edit their permissions, etc. I also post at a log that uses cafelog (formerly b2) and it does the same thing.