Versions: VSNS 4

Contains information for a single article and methods required to display and manipulate it. Each time an article's data needs to be loaded, a new instance is created using either the article's ID or its data previously fetched from the database.

• const ERR_ARTICLE_DNE
• const ERR_INSERT
• const ERR_UPDATE
• public $all_comments
• public $article_password
• public $author
• public $category
• public $comments
• public $comment_action
• public $container_classes
• public $content
• public $day
• public $edit_time
• public $expires
• public $heading
• public $ID
• public $month
• public $need_password
• public $num_comments
• public $old_tags
• public $password
• public $pinned
• public $prefix
• public $pubDate
• public $queue
• public $show_edit
• public $tags
• public $tag_url
• public $type
• public $url
• public $year

This class contains several private methods which may only–and should only–be called from within another method of the class.

• __construct - Loads article data into properties when a new instance is created
• display - Outputs the formatted article data
• edit - Processes a new or edited article
• edit_form - Displays form for creating a new article or editing an article
• grab_tags - Fetches tags for the article
• grab_uri - Determines link to article
• insert - Inserts a new article into the database (private)
• preview - Generates a preview of the article prior to saving changes
• show_comments - Shows all comments for an article
• split_properties - Splits article properties into _news and _common data (private)
• sync - Overwites existing properties with edited data (private)
• update - Commits an article's edited data to the database (private)