Well, I've been playing with the module for a few days, and I am, to be honest, failing to get the hang of it. I'm not sure that I like the way the front end displays 'out of the box', in as much as when you click on a top level category, the contents are displayed in the following order:
Category name and description:
Articles in Category:
Sub Categories:
It'd make more sense to me to have the articles listed below the sub categories... This doesn't seem editable through the preferences. Maybe it's hackable, and maybe it's just my way of looking at it.
The number of controlpanels is overwhelming. Maybe it's just the variety of places where the same options are offered. I can't tell.
The admin>modules>article>preferences area seems to imply that forums should be linkable to articles for discussions. Can't make that work.
In the same area of admin, the Theme sets don't seem to be editable, or at least I don't know where to find them.
Also, I've succeeded in producing various errors, namely:
1.
Fatal error: Call to a member function getVar() on a non-object in /home/xxxxx/public_html/modules/article/view.article.php on line 63
When I click on the top level but empty category (which has sub categories with content articles in them).
2.
Warning: Insert Failed - theobject 'Article' is not dirty in file /class/model/write.php line 180
Not sure what I did here...
3.
Notice: Undefined property: Xcategory::$table in file /modules/article/include/functions.parse.php(108) : eval()'d code line 150
When I try to delete a category. Category remains undeleted.
4.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/xxxxx/public_html/modules/article/cp.trackback.php on line 56
when clicking on the 'Trackback' tab in the admin>article>index area.
I'm hopeful that this module can reach the standards necessary for a public release. It's not there yet.
Never let a man who does not believe something can be done, talk to a man that is doing it.