CES Site News

[thincom2000]

[previewlength] takes a numerical value.

[blastup]

ah i got you.. won't that be hard to determine how much words are in plus the codes.. i mean if a image is inside that wont that be cut off? is there a way that could make it just wrap the things that will go in newsdisplay and show all in the shownews. becuase if its wrap the things that will show in newsdisplay you wont be likey to cut off any images or codes.. becuase you can place them correctly. let me know thanks man

[thincom2000]

Thanks for the input. I believe you are correct in that images or any codes would be cut off and broken on newsdisplay if a previewlength was applied. I will probably have to implement a regex to get around this unless someone knows a faster and not extremely convoluted way.

[blastup]

wow that would be so awesome if you could do that lol . im still a noobie coder so i cant realy do anything major... .. i think what you can do is something like a wordpress blogs. more button...just write and put that more button and the rest will be cut off on newsdisplay.. and everything will be showed on shownews.. ps. your script rocks man.. let me know asap when you got it done.. thanks man.

[blastup]

ps i have a question.. is there a way to edit the comments or something? i tried to but can't find it. is it just parsed from showthread? or you can also edit it? i want to take away the
Join Date:
Location:
Posts:
on the comments from users? im gonna go check again

[thincom2000]

There is a [more] bb-code included with this mode that does what you described two posts above.

The comments use the standard postbit you use in your forum. If you want to use a different postbit you would have to create it and make the appropriate modifications.

[thincom2000]

I believe you are correct in that images or any codes would be cut off and broken on newsdisplay if a previewlength was applied.

After some testing, I am impressed that this is not the case. I doubt it has anything to do with my coding but rather what PHP5 considers to be a word. BB-Codes, HTML, etc. are not corrupted if they span over the edge of the set preview length.

[blastup]

thanks for the answers..[more] the more bb.. cuts of the rest of the post to display it on shownews but the problem is that. it just displays the things inside the [more]bb.. can you make it that so it shows the whole thing thread on shownews?

[blastup]

The comments use the standard postbit you use in your forum. If you want to use a different postbit you would have to create it and make the appropriate modifications.
how do you moderate it?

[SnitchSeeker]

I can officially say that this is NOT compatible with vbseo.

I have just installed it on a test site and all links, posts and threads in the news forum are un-seo'd, as well as the news forum link. All other forums, threads and links are fine (still pretty urls). So it only ruins url's in the forum(s) you use for news.

Aside from the non-seo-ness it works great!

It will take some vbseo hacks to get it to work, but I'm sure it is possible for those who know how. I am not one of those. I am in contact with vbseo hoping to get help to get it to work. I'll post their reply here.

[thincom2000]

The only reason I can see that this wouldn't be compatible with vbSEO out-of-the-box so-to-speak is because vbSEO is not familiar with the URLs it uses. But it's an extremely simple modification of the forumdisplay and showthread vbSEO modules in order to make it work. I do not own or use vbSEO, so I cannot post any updated modules myself.

All you would have to do is add your news.php to the forumdisplay.php rules and shownews.php to the showthread.php rules, since essentially the URLs are the same and there is just a filename difference.

[SnitchSeeker]

UPDATE:

This is the reply from vbSEO:3rd part mods are not supported if they use non-standard vBulletin URLs.
You can either apply Custom Rewrite Rules to it or use vBSEO Functions for Extensibility (http://www.vbseo.com/f2/vbseo-functions-extensibility-1662/) to customize their code and display SEOed links.

[SnitchSeeker]

All you would have to do is add your news.php to the forumdisplay.php rules and shownews.php to the showthread.php rules, since essentially the URLs are the same and there is just a filename difference.
Thanks, I'll give that a shot and post back here when I get it to work.

Cheers! :)

[SnitchSeeker]

Can't figure it out. Posted on the vbseo forums to get help. We'll see what they say. It is much to complicated for me.

[inciarco]

Great Mod!! :up:

Works OK in vB 3.6.7 PL1!! :up:

Two Ideas for Future Updates:

Would be Good to See the Title of Redirection Threads instead of an Empty News!! :confused: :rolleyes:

Would be Good to See the Sticky Threads like in Normal Forums in all Pages and Avobe Normal Threads (News)!! :confused: :rolleyes:

My Best Regards!! ;)

:)

[thincom2000]

Would be Good to See the Title of Redirection Threads instead of an Empty News!! :confused: :rolleyes:

Would be Good to See the Sticky Threads like in Normal Forums in all Pages and Avobe Normal Threads (News)!! :confused: :rolleyes:

I was unaware of the Redirection Thread bug, thanks for mentioning it.
I actually removed Sticky Thread support in 1.4.0 for performance reasons, but I have considered adding it in again for the vBulletin 3.7.0-compatible version.

[inciarco]

One more Idea: I also noticed that the Titles of the Threads (her called Articles) aren't Displayed at all, only the Content of the First Message of the Thread!! :confused: :(

I saw that at the Top of that Content over a Line separator, and also Additionally at the Top of Each Box for Each Thread (in the same Cell the Collapse Button is Located), is the Icon of the Thread and a Space to Place that Title, but in my case isn't Displayed, perhaps is a Bug or a missing Code Line, or an Option I forgot to set; which one is it?? :confused: :(

My Best Regards!! ;)

:)

[thincom2000]

That's strange because I cannot reproduce what you are describing. The thread title should be displayed. Please provide a link to your news forum.

[inciarco]

That's strange because I cannot reproduce what you are describing. The thread title should be displayed. Please provide a link to your news forum.

I Appreciate Your Help!! :up:

Preguntas y Respuestas (http://inciarco.com/foros/forumdisplay.php?f=332)

My Best Regards!! ;)

:)

[inciarco]

One Bug: When Rating an Article, it allows to select the Rating, to press the Button, but then appears an Error Message in the Status Bar; the Rating appears after refreshing the Window, but the User don`t have Confirmation on the vote because of that Page Error!! :confused: :(

My Best Regards!! ;)

:)

[inciarco]

I Appreciate Your Help!! :up:

Preguntas y Respuestas (http://inciarco.com/foros/forumdisplay.php?f=332)

My Best Regards!! ;)

:)

Did you saw the missig Titles, thincom2000?? :confused: :(

http://inciarco.com/foros/forumdisplay.php?f=332

The News - Blog, system of this Mod is Great, but with those Missing Titles the Users could get Confused about the Content of the Articles!! :(

My Best Regards!! ;)

:)

[blastup]

hey is there a way on the forum make it not redirect to newsdisplay.php .. like keep it as showthread.php..but yea in newsdisplay.php you can still see it as a news. because i think i would like my visitors to see both styles.. in regular thread and news. because in regular thread you are more able to choose what topic you want to see! let me know thanks

[thincom2000]

Did you saw the missig Titles, thincom2000?? :confused: :(

Well you have so many mods installed that I can't really be sure. But try this...

In includes/ces_news_functions.php, find:
$thread['threadtitle'] = fetch_censored_text($thread['threadtitle']);

Add below:
$thread['title'] = $thread['threadtitle'];

[Chadi]

Replace goldbrick's postbit_attachment plugin file with this:

<?php
/**
* Enables attachments to use Goldbrick
*
* @active true
* @version $Revision: 87 $
* @modifiedby $LastChangedBy: digitallyepic_nix $
* @lastmodified $Date: 2007-10-21 22:21:30 -0700 (Sun, 21 Oct 2007) $
*/
global $vbulletin;
$forumid = $vbulletin->GPC['forumid'];

if ($vbulletin->forumcache[$forumid]['gb_enabled'])
{
if ($attachment['visible'] AND $vbulletin->options['gb_enabled'] AND $vbulletin->options['gb_attach'])
{

$vbulletin->input->clean_array_gpc('r', array(
'gb_options_on' => TYPE_BOOL,
'gb_title' => TYPE_NOHTML,
'gb_width' => TYPE_UINT,
'gb_height' => TYPE_UINT,
'gb_autoplay' => TYPE_BOOL,
'gb_loop' => TYPE_BOOL
));

if ($vbulletin->GPC['gb_options_on'])
{

$gb_options = array(
'use' => $vbulletin->GPC['gb_options_on'],
'title' => $vbulletin->GPC['gb_title'],
'width' => $vbulletin->GPC['gb_width'],
'height' => $vbulletin->GPC['gb_height'],
'autoplay' => $vbulletin->GPC['gb_autoplay'],
'loop' => $vbulletin->GPC['gb_loop']
);
}

require_once(DIR . '/goldbrick/includes/functions_public.php');

$find = addslashes('</td> </tr>');

$replace = addslashes('</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan=\"2\">$attachment[goldbrick]</td>
</tr>');

$vbulletin->templatecache['postbit_attachment'] = str_replace($find, $replace, $vbulletin->templatecache['postbit_attachment']);

$info = goldbrick_process_attachment(
$attachment['attachmentid'],
$vbulletin->userinfo['userid'],
$post['postid'],
$attachment['attachmentextension'],
$gb_options
);

eval('$attachment[goldbrick] = "' . fetch_template('gb_player') . '";');
}
}?>




Could you please confirm if this is still valid with Goldbrick 1.5? Thanks

[thincom2000]

Basically you just need to global $vbulletin and then replace all $this->registry with $vbulletin. This is because in the News module the process_attachments function is not inside a class if you have attachments enabled on Newsdisplay. If this becomes too much of an issue for you, you can always disable attachments on Newsdisplay from the mod's settings.

[inciarco]

Well you have so many mods installed that I can't really be sure. But try this...

In includes/ces_news_functions.php, find:
$thread['threadtitle'] = fetch_censored_text($thread['threadtitle']);

Add below:
$thread['title'] = $thread['threadtitle'];

I Just saw your message, thincom2000, and I confirm you that the Code Line you mention is missing in the File I Have of Version 1.5.1, so I guess that's the Problem; where should that Code Line be Located, for me to Include it?? (Under/Above what other Code Line??) :confused: :(

You should Check the Files in the Zip File and Confirm this!! ;)

Perhaps would be Good an Update with the Updated Files you're currently Managing in your Forums!! :rolleyes: ;)

My Best Regards!! ;)

:)

[maniguang]

what is the major difference between this mod and the VBAdvanced CMPS news module?

[thincom2000]

what is the major difference between this mod and the VBAdvanced CMPS news module?

I don't use VBAdvanced, so I don't really have an answer there. Maybe someone else can tackle this question?

[Chadi]

Right now I have Highslide installed and also Godlbrick Media module which has highslide integrated. What I wish to do is remove the original Highslide hack as GB applies its own HS to the entire forum, except CES. How do I adjust CES to use GB highslide from hereon?

Thanks for any tips

[thincom2000]

I'm not familiar with the GB Highslide. Highslide is a default feature in vBulletin 3.7 and as such will be a default feature in the next update of CES Site News. So I really don't feel I should recommend attempting to integrate yet another highslide.

I've just been a little backed up since I have a bunch of mods that needed updating and I'm trying to get each one bug free before moving on to the next mod.

[thincom2000]

I am wrapping up version 1.6.0, because it's pretty much ready for release.

This subversion is based on vBulletin 3.7 and the following features have been added:

- Lightbox in News Display
- AJAX Title Edit in News Display
- AJAX Article Open/Close in News Display
- AJAX Quick Edit in News Display (that's right)
- Stickies are back

The redirect bug has also been addressed.

If anyone has any feature requests and bugs to report, do it in the next few days so I can get it into this update.

[blastup]

awesome let me know thanks bro

[blastup]

your product is awesome

[blastup]

i stil cant wait for it .. hurry lol

[thincom2000]

Well there you go, blastup. Version 1.6.0. This was updated with new vBulletin 3.7 features, but they should only work if you have 3.7 installed. The redirect bug has been addressed.

New in 1.6.0, on News Display we now have: AJAX title editing, AJAX open/close, AJAX Quick Edit, Sticky Articles.

[meenstreek]

I just tried to install 1.6.0 on my vB3.7.x and when I tried to import the xml install file I get this:


Installing Version 1.0.0...
Reading existing announcements...
Creating query-less announcements... Done.
Upgrading to Version 1.2.0...
Inserting 'previewlength' into BB-code table... Done.
Inserting 'preview' into BB-code table... Done.
Inserting 'more' into BB-code table... Done.
Rebuilding BB-code cache... Done.
Upgrading to Version 1.4.0...
Installation Complete!
:

<if condition="trim($GLOBALS[nuwiki_forum_header]) != '' OR $announcebits">


trim trim($GLOBALS[nuwiki_forum_header])


in_array() is_array() is_numeric() isset() empty() defined() array() can_moderate() can_moderate_calendar() exec_switch_bg() is_browser() is_member_of()

When I got to create a new forum, there is no option to make it a "News Forum". I'm guessing didn't finish installing? I do have vBadvanced installed, I was going to integrate these two.

[thincom2000]

Apparently vBulletin doesn't trust trim() in templates by default. You can either add it to your template_safe_functions and try again, or download the product file again. I have removed the trim() calls.

[blastup]

awesome you updated it thanks bro

[blastup]

ah ok i guess ill just wait for vb 3.7 gold to be stable.. then install this.. awesome thanks

[meenstreek]

Apparently vBulletin doesn't trust trim() in templates by default. You can either add it to your template_safe_functions and try again, or download the product file again. I have removed the trim() calls.
Thanx bro, works great :).
Now to get it to work with vBadvanced and AJAX Tabs heh.

Got any tips? :)

[meenstreek]

If I copy the news.php file and pass it the "f" variable ( http://www.domain.com/forums/news_copy?f=2) is there a way that I can just show the information between <!-- show threads --> and <!-- end show threads --> and not everything else? I'm trying to put that information in a AJAX tab for my front page in vbAdvanced.

[meenstreek]

Never mind :) I've figured it out ;).
I'll show you what I'm talking about later if you are wondering heh.

[meenstreek]

Having trouble with the "Limit News Preview to How Many Words?" option. I've set it to like 50 words but it doesn't cut off the article and display the "Read More" link. Here is what I'm talking about:
http://www.invictrum.com/news.php?f=2

[thincom2000]

Ah, thanks. That actually revealed a couple of bugs in news.php in 1.6.0. Still looking into a couple of things, but a new patch should be available shortly.

[thincom2000]

The fact that vB 3.7.0 is now stable and also includes CSRV protection (as does 3.6.10), and this mod doesn't currently have the appropriate form elements, means that pretty much every user of this mod is experiencing security token errors when attempting to use any of the AJAX features or inline moderation.

I guess this will force me to release a new patch earlier rather than later this week.

[Chadi]

I'm getting a blank screen when visiting my blog.

I have Goldbrick installed and followed this step again (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1440473&postcount=274)

I also have this set as filenames:

newsces / shownewsces (confirmed they match the file names)

I have VBSEO as well (mentioning this in case you needed to know).

I did notice that within the blog, although a blank page it shows the actual file extension where usually VBSEO does not do that.

http://www.talkjesus.com/ (click on Blog under Info menu)
It shows this link: http://www.talkjesus.com/newsces.php?f=72

However, the menu link (and forum link) is:
http://www.talkjesus.com/blog/

[thincom2000]

You need to edit your php.ini to show the errors to the browser, otherwise I don't know what is causing this.

[Chadi]

Actually, the logs show this when I attempt to visit the main blog page (newsces.php as I have it set up)

[Thu May 01 22:53:43 2008] [error] [client *****] PHP Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/*****/public_html/includes/functions_prefix.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/*****/public_html/newsces.php on line 83, referer: http://www.talkjesus.com/

[thincom2000]

Okay, sounds like I forgot to put a check there for 3.7

You would wrap line 83 in the following conditional:
if (FILE_VERSION >= '3.7.0')

[Chadi]

I'm using 3.6.1.0, not 3.7

[Chadi]

I also got a few of these email errors this morning:


Database error in vBulletin 3.6.10:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT
post.*, post.username AS postusername, post.ipaddress AS ip, IF(post.visible = 2, 1, 0) AS isdeleted,
user.*, userfield.*, usertextfield.*,
icon.title as icontitle, icon.iconpath,
avatar.avatarpath, NOT ISNULL(customavatar.userid) AS hascustomavatar, customavatar.dateline AS avatardateline,customavatar.width AS avwidth,customavatar.height AS avheight,


editlog.userid AS edit_userid, editlog.username AS edit_username, editlog.dateline AS edit_dateline,
editlog.reason AS edit_reason, editlog.hashistory,
postparsed.pagetext_html, postparsed.hasimages,
sigparsed.signatureparsed, sigparsed.hasimages AS sighasimages,
sigpic.userid AS sigpic, sigpic.dateline AS sigpicdateline, sigpic.width AS sigpicwidth, sigpic.height AS sigpicheight,
IF(user.displaygroupid=0, user.usergroupid, user.displaygroupid) AS displaygroupid, user.infractiongroupid
, '' AS field18
, journals.journaldesc, journals.journal_id
FROM post AS post
LEFT JOIN user AS user ON(user.userid = post.userid)
LEFT JOIN userfield AS userfield ON(userfield.userid = user.userid)
LEFT JOIN usertextfield AS usertextfield ON(usertextfield.userid = user.userid)
LEFT JOIN icon AS icon ON(icon.iconid = post.iconid)
LEFT JOIN avatar AS avatar ON(avatar.avatarid = user.avatarid) LEFT JOIN customavatar AS customavatar ON(customavatar.userid = user.userid)


LEFT JOIN editlog AS editlog ON(editlog.postid = post.postid)
LEFT JOIN postparsed AS postparsed ON(postparsed.postid = post.postid AND postparsed.styleid = 31 AND postparsed.languageid = 1)
LEFT JOIN sigparsed AS sigparsed ON(sigparsed.userid = user.userid AND sigparsed.styleid = 31 AND sigparsed.languageid = 1)
LEFT JOIN sigpic AS sigpic ON(sigpic.userid = post.userid)
LEFT JOIN journals AS journals ON (journals.journalist_id=post.userid)
WHERE post.postid IN (0,67504)
ORDER BY post.dateline;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'editlog.hashistory' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Date : Friday, May 2nd 2008 @ 07:09:17 AM
Script : http://www.talkjesus.com/shownewsces.php?t=11346
Referrer :
IP Address : 66.249.70.172
Username : Unregistered
Classname : vB_Database

[thincom2000]

Well hopefully this bug fix update covers all the backwards compatibility issues...

[Chadi]

Please see attached, it did not work.

[blastup]

hey i got an idea.. could you make news.php default to a news section? like newsdisplay.php?f=1 but you could just go to newsdisplay.php then it will appear! just by default! then it should also work if it is newsdisplay.php?f=2 or newsdisplay.php?f=3 !!! let me know thanks because i feel that using vbseo to put the file up in the homepage is a bad idea! it will be better if there is something at the index..

let me know thanks

also it seems like there is still bugs mentioned from a few people! let me know if its bug free again thanks

again awesome hack

[blastup]

i still have no idea on how to make the urls convert in vbseo! i am thinking of the best way is to use newsdisplay.php only and not shownews.php i think i am going to just going to make newsdisplay.php direct to the real thread! that way you can preserve the urls and have url free conflicts! I think im going to use if conditions to define the showpost.php so it will look like newsdisplays template on certain forum ids.

do you think this is a good idea? do you think this will be hard to do?

[blastup]

vbulletin.org did the same thing for the mods and styles section so i think it might just work!

[thincom2000]

hey i got an idea.. could you make news.php default to a news section? like newsdisplay.php?f=1 but you could just go to newsdisplay.php then it will appear! just by default! then it should also work if it is newsdisplay.php?f=2 or newsdisplay.php?f=3 !!! let me know thanks because i feel that using vbseo to put the file up in the homepage is a bad idea! it will be better if there is something at the index..

let me know thanks

also it seems like there is still bugs mentioned from a few people! let me know if its bug free again thanks

again awesome hack

You can accomplish this using .htaccess. Also if you add the do=main to the URL it is slightly different.

For example on my site I have:
RewriteRule ^main.php$ news.php?do=main&f=2 [L,QSA]

This makes forumid 2 display without extra forumdisplay stuff like subforums on the page main.php, which doesn't physically exist.

[thincom2000]

Please see attached, it did not work.

Hm... that's surprising. I actually fixed that for the last release, so I'm not sure why I had to do it again. Again, I took the trim() calls out of the product file, so you should just redownload it.

[Chadi]

Thanks, but still a few bugs.

See attached.

In IE7, it buries the bottom part of the post as you can barely see the icons/buttons.

In Firefox and Opera, it shows grey color on the right side for some reason.

[thincom2000]

Ah, I think those are related to the fact that you use postbit_legacy on your forum, and the mod doesn't have legacy versions. I will look into this.

[Chadi]

I even get this error when attempting to post a blog post.


Database error in vBulletin 3.6.10:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT
post.*, post.username AS postusername, post.ipaddress AS ip, IF(post.visible = 2, 1, 0) AS isdeleted,
user.*, userfield.*, usertextfield.*,
icon.title as icontitle, icon.iconpath,
avatar.avatarpath, NOT ISNULL(customavatar.userid) AS hascustomavatar, customavatar.dateline AS avatardateline,customavatar.width AS avwidth,customavatar.height AS avheight,
spamlog.postid AS spamlog_postid,
deletionlog.userid AS del_userid, deletionlog.username AS del_username, deletionlog.reason AS del_reason,
editlog.userid AS edit_userid, editlog.username AS edit_username, editlog.dateline AS edit_dateline,
editlog.reason AS edit_reason,

postparsed.pagetext_html, postparsed.hasimages,
sigparsed.signatureparsed, sigparsed.hasimages AS sighasimages,
sigpic.userid AS sigpic, sigpic.dateline AS sigpicdateline, sigpic.width AS sigpicwidth, sigpic.height AS sigpicheight,
IF(user.displaygroupid=0, user.usergroupid, user.displaygroupid) AS displaygroupid, user.infractiongroupid

, journals.journaldesc, journals.journal_id
FROM post AS post
LEFT JOIN user AS user ON(user.userid = post.userid)
LEFT JOIN userfield AS userfield ON(userfield.userid = user.userid)
LEFT JOIN usertextfield AS usertextfield ON(usertextfield.userid = user.userid)
LEFT JOIN icon AS icon ON(icon.iconid = post.iconid)
LEFT JOIN avatar AS avatar ON(avatar.avatarid = user.avatarid) LEFT JOIN customavatar AS customavatar ON(customavatar.userid = user.userid)
LEFT JOIN spamlog AS spamlog ON(spamlog.postid = post.postid)
LEFT JOIN deletionlog AS deletionlog ON(post.postid = deletionlog.primaryid AND deletionlog.type = 'post')
LEFT JOIN editlog AS editlog ON(editlog.postid = post.postid)
LEFT JOIN postparsed AS postparsed ON(postparsed.postid = post.postid AND postparsed.styleid = 31 AND postparsed.languageid = 1)
LEFT JOIN sigparsed AS sigparsed ON(sigparsed.userid = user.userid AND sigparsed.styleid = 31 AND sigparsed.languageid = 1)
LEFT JOIN sigpic AS sigpic ON(sigpic.userid = post.userid)
LEFT JOIN journals AS journals ON (journals.journalist_id=post.userid)
WHERE post.postid IN (0,107494)
ORDER BY post.dateline;

MySQL Error : Table 'admincd_vbulletin.spamlog' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Date : Sunday, May 4th 2008 @ 12:23:01 PM
Script : http://www.talkjesus.com/shownewsces.php?t=20886
Referrer : http://www.talkjesus.com/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=72
IP Address : xxxxx
Username : Chad
Classname : vB_Database

[thincom2000]

Just curious, did you have 1.6.0 installed before upgrading to 1.6.1? (1.6.0 was released about 3 weeks ago)

[Chadi]

Honestly do not remember what the version was, but it was the latest at the time.

[thincom2000]

I cannot duplicate the gray color template bug you posted above. You mentioned it occurs in Firefox and Opera... Firefox is my main browser and I haven't found a combination of options to create this effect. What versions by chance are you using?

Regarding the IE7 button cutoff, that I have reproduced and am currently working on...

[Chadi]

Was using Firefox 2 (latest) at the time. Also tried in FF 3 Beta 5. Same results.

[thincom2000]

Ah, I see it in FF 3. Okay, well now that all of that is fixed, I'm uploading 1.6.2. Hopefully those were all the quirks...

[Chadi]

Thanks, but still one more issue :x

When I submit a new news post, it redirects me to the home page (yet successfully posting the new thread). However, when your on the home page or inside the CES News area and click on the post title, it redirects back to the home page again.

VBSEO related or not? Thanks again.

[thincom2000]

I would say it's vbSEO, because I have never encountered anything like that. And I just posted a new news item on my live site the other day...

[Chadi]

Problem persists with vbseo disabled too

[thincom2000]

Please check your server error logs and make sure you don't have an error 404 happening. Every time a link is clicked to read shownew.php on your site, it redirects to the forum home page. Make sure that in the options your Shownews Filename is set to "shownew"

[Chadi]

I ended up upgrading to 3.7.0 VB today and re-uploaded the CES files.

IE shows page not found/error, while FF shows loop error

The logs:

- - [08/May/2008:19:59:20 -0500] "GET /shownews.php?t=20961 HTTP/1.1" 301 - "http://www.talkjesus.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b5) G

I still get a blank page now when going directly to the "blog" forum.

[thincom2000]

I would expect that the infinite redirect is probably a conflict with vbSEO. The two products must be fighting over who gets to change the thread URL... vbSEO is a paid-on, so I cannot offer support for this issue.

I would recommend making sure that any vbSEO showthread_start or forumdisplay_start plugins, if it has any, have an Execution Order HIGHER than 5. If this doesn't help, I would need admin access to see what your setup is like.

[thincom2000]

Recently found a bug where sometimes the AJAX Quick Edit on newsdisplay uses the shownews postbit and vice verse. Fixed in demo.

[thincom2000]

Found a few other bugs recently. Mainly that since adding support for news.php aliases, the preview, previewlength, and more BB-Codes stopped functioning properly.

@chadi, I suspect the solution to the BB-Code issue may also solve your vbSEO issue. Try out the new patch and let me know.

[tpearl5]

This is a great idea. I wish there was a way to mark any thread from any forum as 'news' and then have it display a list of those 'news' threads. That was really what I was looking for.

[Sworm]

Hi all,
i have a problem in the CES Last Thread Title Maximum Displayed Characters.
Ive forget to modify the XML file
<thead>
<tr align="center">
<td class="thead">&nbsp;</td>
<td class="thead" width="100%" align="$stylevar[left]">$vbphrase[forum]</td>
<td class="thead" width="175" nowrap="nowrap">$vbphrase[last_post]</td>
<td class="thead">$vbphrase[threads]</td>
<td class="thead">$vbphrase[posts]</td>
<if condition="$vboptions[showmoderatorcolumn]">
<td class="thead">$vbphrase[moderator]</td>
</if>
</tr>
</thead>

replacig with this (like the rests of all my forums):

<tr align="center">
<td class="thead">&nbsp;</td>
<td class="thead" width="70%" align="$stylevar[left]">$vbphrase[forum]</td>
<td class="thead" width="20%">$vbphrase[last_post]</td>
<td class="thead" width="5%">$vbphrase[threads]</td>
<td class="thead" width="5%">$vbphrase[posts]</td>
<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">
<td class="thead" width="0%">$vbphrase[moderator]</td>
</if>
</tr>

Without this replacement in the forum home, the space on the title of post is to small of the others forum, and is not great to look.

Can i reupload the XML without lost the articles that i have already added?
Or i will lost all the articles?

Can i reupload in the plugin system with the "yes" check?

AnyOne can help me?

Sorry for my bad english.

[thincom2000]

You can edit the template in vBulletin's Style Manager. I'm sure there's a tutorial on this somewhere, but you don't need to be editing any XML files for something like this.

[Sworm]

You can edit the template in vBulletin's Style Manager. I'm sure there's a tutorial on this somewhere, but you don't need to be editing any XML files for something like this.


Thanks for the reply thincom, i have alreadu edit my vb teplate for all others forum, only the ces forum is not alineated with the others....
Can you explain me how can i do without edit the xml?

[thincom2000]

The name of the template is ces_newsdisplay

[Sworm]

The name of the template is ces_newsdisplay

TX i will try to do this.

[Sworm]

The name of the template is ces_newsdisplay


Changing the impostations from "ces_newsdisplay"
in:
<tr align="center">
<td class="thead">&nbsp;</td>
<td class="thead" width="70%" align="$stylevar[left]">$vbphrase[forum]</td>
<td class="thead" width="20%">$vbphrase[last_post]</td>
<td class="thead" width="5%">$vbphrase[threads]</td>
<td class="thead" width="5%">$vbphrase[posts]</td>
<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">
<td class="thead" width="0%">$vbphrase[moderator]</td>
</if>
</tr>

like all others forum, don't work again :(

There's any other impostation/template to change?

[Sworm]

Thanks, but still one more issue :x

When I submit a new news post, it redirects me to the home page (yet successfully posting the new thread). However, when your on the home page or inside the CES News area and click on the post title, it redirects back to the home page again.

VBSEO related or not? Thanks again.

I have solved this problem changing in my shownews.php script :

In shownews.php search:
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'showthread');

and replace with:

define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'showthread2');

Is it a Seo + Ces News conflict, VbSeo assumes that this is showthread page and redirects it to corresponding SEOed URL.

After this, i have added in my SeoCp Custom Rewrite Rule (CRR) the ces news pages that now are showed in html , and all work proprely for now :)

[thincom2000]

I'm a bit unsure what the problem is that you're having with the news version of forum display. Can you explain this again and provide a link to your news forum?

[thincom2000]

For everyone's information, this is an integral part of our site. Unless blogs have quite an overhaul when vBulletin 4 goes gold, expect an updated version of this.

[thincom2000]

In case no one has realized this yet, I've discontinued development on this mod with the release of vB4 Publishing Suite. The CMS has been an acceptable replacement on our site, so we have no need to continue this. As a result, neither I nor anyone from my sites will be able to support any issues users who install this may have.