a bug with GAS (geek article system)

Well first of all posting this cos gas usually has almost the same kind of format as the vbulletin stock so i don't think this should be a majot bug to fix.

Anyway i will leave the developers to decide how major or minor it is.


Basically in a article if you have say 15 comments to main article then you will have comments spanning multiple pages.
in this case 2 pages.

Now giving the bug from my site.. from main page i see this article

Code:

http://www.techenclave.com/forums/techenclave-exclusive-epox-ep-9npa-motherboard-8996-new-post.html

now for the first time.. it shows the correct url.
But if you view all comments (thats goto view comments and see page 1 and page 2 of comments) then go back to main page and try coming back to same article you end up going to this page

Code:

http://www.techenclave.com/forums/techenclave-exclusive-epox-ep-9npa-motherboard-8996-2.html#post72870

Notice that page number has become 2.
Now for a normal thread this was ok. You have 15 posts and the page has to go to 2 as your new posts will begin from page 2. But in the article hack this will be a mess up as you get a blank page cos that URL is not recognized. you can see this by pasting the abobe url and seeing where you go to.

the comments url is like

Code:

http://www.techenclave.com/forums/techenclave-exclusive-epox-ep-9npa-motherboard-8996-2.html?conly=1

Now thats the url for page 2 comments.

Ideally in the case of the geek article the new post should always go to the 1st page as thats the page where last 5 lastest comments are shown. In case of normal Vbulletin install this problem is not there.


Anyway i hope you guys got the hang of the problem.
I am hoping you guys support the articles hack as top priority as many people have major forum contents in the article hacks and the small probs and bugs can hurt.
There two major hacks on VB.org.
Cings article (which is now fully supported.. and has URL support also with VBSEO)
and GAS(geek article system) in which case you get this error.

Incidentally i have both hacks on my forums

and for a view of what this article format is live without VBSEo here are the links

http://www.thenailgeek.com/forums.php?
scroll to bottom and see articles...
the article links are of type

article forum -> http://www.thenailgeek.com/forumdisplay.php?f=21
(same as normal VBulettin.. no prob s here)

article page from forum display
http://www.thenailgeek.com/showthread.php?t=15482
again no prob above.. Vbseo handles this

view comments.. here it starts to go bad

Code:

http://www.thenailgeek.com/showthread.php?t=14950&conly=1

conly is not supported

multipage comments

Code:

http://www.thenailgeek.com/showthread.php?t=8801&page=2&pp=&conly=1

and so on..
basically all this is not a prob...
what is a prob is just this

1) last post
in gas its like

Code:

http://www.thenailgeek.com/showthread.php?goto=lastpost&t=6245

which takes you to the last comment.
in present form with Vbseo it takes me to a blank page.
(test on my site)

and

2) in gas new post is

Code:

http://www.thenailgeek.com/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=15482

which takes you to comments.. but with vbseo you go to blank.

I hope this all helps in debugging.

Ajay, thanks so much for your input regarding GAS - It has now been made compatible in vBSEO 2.0 Final.