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Configuring the Max Article Submit System It's actually quite possible to setup the system with the default configuration. So it's suggested that you familiarize yourself with the Max Articles pages and reading about the Login system and the article display, before coming back to configure the system. System Configuration. The system configuration is straight-forward. Here’s how you configure the Max Articles system: The first few are all relatively straight-forward. Note the field called Your Article Submit System URL. It is significant because it is used to create URL's that are used by the system. For example, consider the email message that gets sent to the person who signs up to submit an article. In that email is a link that must be clicked to verify the sign-up. That verification URL is formed from this parameter. Important: Please note that an ending slash MUST NOT BE present. Then comes "How many articles per page when displayed in Articles Manager?" On the Articles Manager page, where all your articles that you've entered are being displayed, this number represents how many articles will appear per page. For example, if you have 60 articles, you probably don't want all 60 articles to appear on the page display. Thus, you can set this to a lower number (such as 20) and you'll only see 20 articles per page. Each page will have a Next and Back "button" so you can view all the articles. Next is "How many characters allowed in an article?" This figure represents the maximum number of characters allowed in a submitted article. If it is left blank or zero, that means the articles can be any length. Next is "Text to put on the login/sign-up page AND the article submit page?" This is an optional field. You can enter a paragraph or two (or as many as you want) of text that goes on the Login/Sign-Up page AND the article submit page (i.e., index.php and submit_article.php) which you can use to introduce your Article Submit system. See the help page for an example. Next is "Text to put at bottom of the main Articles Display page?" This is an optional field. You can enter a paragraph or two (or as many as you want) of text that goes on the main article display page (i.e., articles.php) See the help page for an example. Next on the Configuration page is Header HTML for article pages. And Footer HTML for article pages. This is the HTML code for the header on each page of the system. It’s how you get the articles pages to match the appearance of the other pages on your website. Each of the system pages will have this header and a footer. In these two fields, you may enter the HTML code for the header and the footer. Note that all href= and all src= html tags must use absolute addressing, i.e., http://something/ Also note the fields called Take Header HTML from this page. And Take Footer HTML from this page. You can use header and footer html from pages that already exist (for example, FrontPage top and bottom borders.) If used, these page must use absolute addressing. Configuring Categories The Max Articles system is designed for submitting articles to categories of articles. For example, you could have article categories, such as:
or as many categories as you wish. By pressing the Configure Article Categories button on the Configuration page, you come to a screen where you can define the categories. The categories that you define will appear in a drop-down box on the Article Submit page, so that an article must be submitted as belonging to one of your defined categories. Next, let's look at Starting the Max Articles System.... |
