FA Latest News

[farooqaaa]

Hello,

***** This HACK is brought to you by Betlik.com *****



* Description:
Show latest news on FORUMHOME.

* Features:
- Whole Hack Enable/Disable
- Allow separate usergroups.
- Expand/Collapse Table
.....more features coming soon in next versions.

* How to install?

Download the version you like. Goto your VBulletin AdminCp > Plugins & Products > Add/Import Product and upload the XML you downloaded.

Now Open Template: "navbar", at the bottom add:-
$latest_newsAnd you are done :)

Version History:
1.0 - Initial release.
1.1 - New Feature: Collapse / Expand Table
1.2 - News title is now in a "thead" td.

***** Please click to Install if you like this hack *****


Thanks

[RFViet]

Thanks, first installed :D

[Glynn58]

installed and not showing the news details section, nothing under news title :confused:

[projectego]

Awesome! Thank you very much. :)

[farooqaaa]

installed and not showing the news details section, nothing under news title

Have you installed it correctly?

I checked it and its working fine.

[SpeedyHire]

Cant see where to post the news to, yes can see the news title, but not to where to type the news?
seems somehting is amiss here

[rmxs]

Same Here :(

[farooqaaa]

ohhhhhh!! sorry there was a problem with it!

A new,fresh,tested and FIXED version is just uploaded. Please download it and it will work.

OR if there were still problems let me know.

Thanks

[Glynn58]

working great now , cheers :up:

[SpeedyHire]

yup working a teat now:)
nice work bud

[Hornstar]

Is the news box collapsible? if not maybe a feature request.

Thanks.

[marcsmith73]

I like this hack. Simple, and effective.

[Nathan2006]

Thank you Farooq

Like this a lot :)

Install

Oh just wanted to ask if there was anyway to customize the
background color of the box?

Thanks :)

[thincom2000]

To make the box collapse ---

In template latest_news, find:
<td class="tcat">Latest News</td>

Replace with:
<td class="tcat"><a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('latenews')"><img id="collapseimg_latenews" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_tcat$vbcollapse[collapseimg_latenews].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>Latest News</td>

Find:
</tr>
<tr>

Replace with:
</tr>
<tbody id="collapseobj_latenews" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_latenews]">
<tr>

Find:
</table>

Add above:
</tbody>

[Atakan KOC]

Thanks Installed...

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2007/02/22.jpg

[maxicep]

reserved thanks,


Thanks Installed...

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2007/02/22.jpg


What does this mean Atakan KOC in your post this code :

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2007/02/22.jpg

[farooqaaa]

Is the news box collapsible? if not maybe a feature request.

Thanks.

ok version 1.1 is released with "collapse / expand". :)

Enjoy!

[farooqaaa]

1.2 Version released. Now the News Title will be in a "thead" td. See the new screenshot:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=60300&stc=1&d=1171024314

[thincom2000]

Ah, yes. I was wondering about that. Didn't quite mind the bold text as a header and didn't really feel the need to add a thead on a box with only one short blurb in it... Still I'll install the update. Thanks!

[rmxs]

if the usergoup its for example 25 doesnt appeard :(

I remove from template this code

<if condition="$bbuserinfo[usergroupid]== $vboptions['ugroups_lt']{0} OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]== $vboptions['ugroups_lt']{2} OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]== $vboptions['ugroups_lt']{4} OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]== $vboptions['ugroups_lt']{6} OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]== $vboptions['ugroups_lt']{8} OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]== $vboptions['ugroups_lt']{10}">

And now works with all usergroups byt i cannot restrict

Strainge error

[farooqaaa]

if the usergoup its for example 25 doesnt appeard

I remove from template this code

<if condition="$bbuserinfo[usergroupid]== $vboptions['ugroups_lt']{0} OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]== $vboptions['ugroups_lt']{2} OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]== $vboptions['ugroups_lt']{4} OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]== $vboptions['ugroups_lt']{6} OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]== $vboptions['ugroups_lt']{8} OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]== $vboptions['ugroups_lt']{10}">

And now works with all usergroups byt i cannot restrict

Strainge error

Don't remove that code. Re-install the product, and don't edit that template (latest_news).

Hope that helps.

Thanks

[farooqaaa]

Ah, yes. I was wondering about that. Didn't quite mind the bold text as a header and didn't really feel the need to add a thead on a box with only one short blurb in it... Still I'll install the update. Thanks!

If you don't want the THEAD to be there, install version 1.1 :)

[rmxs]

Don't remove that code. Re-install the product, and don't edit that template (latest_news).

Hope that helps.

Thanks
if i dont remove this code your hack doesnt appeard to groups with 2 digits exapmle group 25,26,11,.....

[thincom2000]

if the usergoup its for example 25 doesnt appeard :(

I remove from template this code

Considering this hack doesn't use bitfields for Usergroup Permissions, you should do the following.

Create a new plugin.
Product: Latest News
Hook Location: parse_templates
Title: Latest News Usergroup Perms
Execution Order: 5
Plugin PHP Code:
if ((THIS_SCRIPT == 'index') AND $vbulletin->options['enable_ltnews'])
{
$augs = explode(',', $vbulletin->options['ugroups_lt']);

$mgs = explode(',', $vbulletin->userinfo['membergroupids']);

if (is_array($augs))
{
foreach ($augs AS $aug)
{
if (is_array($mgs))
{
foreach ($mgs AS $mg)
{
$news_allow = (trim($aug) == $mg) ? true : $news_allow;
}
unset($mg, $mgs);
}

$news_allow = (trim($aug) == $vbulletin->userinfo['usergroupid']) ? true : $news_allow;
}
unset($aug);
}
unset($augs);
}

Then edit your template latest_news.

Find:
<if condition="$bbuserinfo[usergroupid]== $vboptions['ugroups_lt']{0} OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]== $vboptions['ugroups_lt']{2} OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]== $vboptions['ugroups_lt']{4} OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]== $vboptions['ugroups_lt']{6} OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]== $vboptions['ugroups_lt']{8} OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]== $vboptions['ugroups_lt']{10}">

Replace with:
<if condition="$news_allow">

[Glynn58]

yep thats true, i have had to remove the code,

oops cross posted lol

[SidelineSports]

Sorry for the foolish question all. I uploaded the XML file, and inserted the $latest_news at the bottom of the navbar template as instructed. I see nothing, get nothing. Is there something I'm missing? Do I need to 'turn on this feature'? Change any settings? I am very new at all of this. Any help would be appreciated.

[Nathan2006]

if i dont remove this code your hack doesnt appeard to groups with 2 digits exapmle group 25,26,11,.....


Yeah I know what its doing:

Usergroup 11 would allow Usergroup 1 to view the news

Even if you added 11,12,2,4,5,6

Usergroup 1 would still be able to view it fully.

I tried the same thing by looking on my laptop and using my PC in the admincp.

As soon as I removed my usergroup 11 I could then view the news as a guest on my laptop.


So all 2 digit numbers are not working :(

Will there be any fix to this soon?

I really like this mod :)

[thincom2000]

Will there be any fix to this soon?

I really like this mod :)

It seems you guys have ignored my previous post: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1179159&postcount=24

[MarcG]

Sorry for the foolish question all. I uploaded the XML file, and inserted the $latest_news at the bottom of the navbar template as instructed. I see nothing, get nothing. Is there something I'm missing? Do I need to 'turn on this feature'? Change any settings? I am very new at all of this. Any help would be appreciated.


In your Admin CP...go to your "vBulletin Options" and scroll down down to "Latest News by Betlik.com"

[dizzy100]

Doesn't seem to work for Mod ID numbers. I.e. i have a mod that is assigned to the mod group (7 i think) and cannot see the news. All other groups 1 - 6 including me the admin can however and i have checked and she's right, nothing shows. Any ideas ?

[SidelineSports]

In your Admin CP...go to your "vBulletin Options" and scroll down down to "Latest News by Betlik.com"

Thanks for the help! Installed!

[BozzaJos]

Looks like an awesome hack! Unfortunately, I'm using vb3.5 and can't import the product. Can you perhaps make something like this for 3.5 or is there already anything similar to this for 3.5?

Anyway, good job mate! Looks like a good hack...

[thincom2000]

You should be able to edit the product in NotePad or something and change the Product Dependency from 3.6 to 3.5. Of course I didn't author the hack, but I don't think there should be any problems running it on 3.5, considering it doesn't really make use of anything that changed (such as the datastore).

[Masiello]

Hello, from where I change the module title "Latest News" to my Own in forum home?
thx

[Masiello]

Can anybody have making this hack W3C standard?

Error Line 289, column 41: document type does not allow element "tbody" here .
<tbody id="collapseobj_latenews" style="">

Error Line 298, column 4: end tag for "br" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified .
<br>

naturally the error line are reffer to my board.

[SidelineSports]

Can anyone confirm that this great thing works for vb 3.6.4

Yes, it does for me with 3.6.4

[thincom2000]

Can anybody have making this hack W3C standard?

naturally the error line are reffer to my board.

What DOCUMENT TYPE are you using on your board? By default you should not have a problem with the <tbody> tag.

<br> will be W3C compliant if changed to <br />

[Masiello]

What DOCUMENT TYPE are you using on your board? By default you should not have a problem with the <tbody> tag.

<br> will be W3C compliant if changed to <br />

Hello, I'm using DOCTYPE by Default

!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

are you sure you don't have that problem using the same default doctype with this product enabled?

The tbody are allowed but not where it is now if not in a table

[thincom2000]

Perhaps you edited your template and messed up the table code, because I'm positive <tbody> is used properly.

On another note, I would recommend the author change the usergroup part of the code. It will make the template code a lot cleaner, easier for users to understand, and will work for membergroups as well. I made a suggestion like this earlier, but now this one is much simpler.

First, edit the plugin Templating Starting.
Replace the Plugin Code with:
if ((THIS_SCRIPT == 'index') AND $vbulletin->options['enable_ltnews'])
{
$ugroups_lt = explode(',', $vbulletin->options['ugroups_lt']);
eval('$latest_news = "' . fetch_template('latest_news') . '";');
}


Now edit the template latest_news. Find:
<if condition="$vboptions[enable_ltnews]"><if condition="$bbuserinfo[usergroupid]== $vboptions['ugroups_lt']{0} OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]== $vboptions['ugroups_lt']{2} OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]== $vboptions['ugroups_lt']{4} OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]== $vboptions['ugroups_lt']{6} OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]== $vboptions['ugroups_lt']{8} OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]== $vboptions['ugroups_lt']{10}">
Replace with:
<if condition="$vboptions['enable_ltnews'] AND is_member_of($bbuserinfo, $ugroups_lt)">

Then find:
</if></if>
Replace with:
</if>

[Masiello]

Perhaps you edited your template and messed up the table code, because I'm positive <tbody> is used properly.


EDIT: Thanks! Yuor code have fixed too that issue :)

[Masiello]

EDIT: Can it's possible any mod for writing more than only one notice?

[Masiello]

Please can be fix this with collapse module, that is in original code cause w3c errors and warning but removing it is a only drastic solution.
Thanks in advance

[deezelpope]

Thank you!! Very nice!!

[dizzy100]

Doesn't seem to work for Mod ID numbers. I.e. i have a mod that is assigned to the mod group (7 i think) and cannot see the news. All other groups 1 - 6 including me the admin can however and i have checked and she's right, nothing shows. Any ideas ?

Is nobody else seeing this ?

[thincom2000]

dizzy100, have you tried my modifications to this mod? Post #40 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1191903&postcount=40).

[momo2]

installed excellent job thanks so much..
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[dizzy100]

dizzy100, have you tried my modifications to this mod? Post #40 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1191903&postcount=40).

Ah i missed that :) Excellent and thanks very much, this solved the issue.

I couldn't replace the

Then find:
</if></if> Replace with:
</if> However as vbulletin said one of the If conditions was open without a close (which it would be) so left that in place.

Works perfect. You have my many thanks.

[dizzy100]

dizzy100, have you tried my modifications to this mod? Post #40 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1191903&postcount=40).

Ah solved it, didn't notice you had combined the first conditional.

Many many many thanks :)

[harlita]

Installed on 3.6.5 and it works great.

Looks really cool too. Thanks! *clicks installed*

[Luky]

Awesome mate!

[kafi]

Nice add-on, thank you!

Any chance to make this with javascript so that once user read it, he can click "X" to close it?

[deezelpope]

<i>It is collapsible...that's what I usually do.</i>

[NashChristian]

Hello.

Is there any way to have this show up on my forum HOME page only? Right now it is showing up on every page, and with the same content, it gets rather annoying on EVERY page. I know I can collapse it, but is there a way to just have it show up on the home? That would be much easier for me.

Thanks!

Great hack! (It's the first I've ever installed, and it actually worked the first time!)

[NashChristian]

Oh boy I figured it out, all on my own!

My how mother would be proud!

Thanks! Very cool Hack!:D

[NashChristian]

Ok, so I added the $latest_news line to my forum home template instead of the Navbar because I only wanted this on my home page. Only problem is that with the skin that I'm running, it was missing a shadow effect under the box, which all the other boxes on my page had. So I scanned the code and figured out which part was for the shadow effect. Please see the code below which I added into my forum home template:

$latest_news
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td width="70" align="left" valign="top"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/bot_left.gif" alt=" " border="0" /></td>
<td width="100%" style="background-image:url($stylevar[imgdir_misc]/bot_back.gif)"></td>
<td width="70" align="right" valign="top"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/bot_right.gif" alt=" " border="0" /></td>
</tr>
</table>

Everything works great with ONE SMALL EXCEPTION, there is a 1/4" gap between the bottom of the Latest News box, and the beginning of my shadow effect. It looks as though there is a <br> in there, yet I don't see any in the code.

You can reference my site to see what I mean: Click for Demo (http://nashvillechristian.com/forums/index.php).

It is most obvious by looking on the left side, where the Latest News box ends, it also is extremely visible if you collapse the Latest News box. I've got a 1/4" gap in there and I can't figure out how to get rid of it.

Can any of you awesome coders out there give this newbie a hand PLEASE???

Thanks a bunch!

[NashChristian]

In the eternal words of Pink Floyd, "Is there anybody out there?"

[NashChristian]

Nope. Nobody out there.

Is there still no way to fix this so that it works with double digit user groups?

It still seems to have that bug/issue, so that a large percentage of my viewers are missing the news message.

If anybody could respond to this...

Thanks!

[ESADCG]

I have gone through this thread and none of the solutions seem to work well. Couldn't the author rewrite this to work with all usergroups instead of all these hacks to the hack? It is pretty much worthless without the additional usergroups.

[periphrastic]

installed & thank you

[ESADCG]

Helllllo!!! Still need those double digit usergroups! This dude hasn't been online in a year! Someone needs to rewrite this thing!

[deezelpope]

On another note, I would recommend the author change the usergroup part of the code. It will make the template code a lot cleaner, easier for users to understand, and will work for membergroups as well. I made a suggestion like this earlier, but now this one is much simpler.

First, edit the plugin Templating Starting.
Replace the Plugin Code with:
if ((THIS_SCRIPT == 'index') AND $vbulletin->options['enable_ltnews'])
{
$ugroups_lt = explode(',', $vbulletin->options['ugroups_lt']);
eval('$latest_news = "' . fetch_template('latest_news') . '";');
}


Now edit the template latest_news. Find:
<if condition="$vboptions[enable_ltnews]"><if condition="$bbuserinfo[usergroupid]== $vboptions['ugroups_lt']{0} OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]== $vboptions['ugroups_lt']{2} OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]== $vboptions['ugroups_lt']{4} OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]== $vboptions['ugroups_lt']{6} OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]== $vboptions['ugroups_lt']{8} OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]== $vboptions['ugroups_lt']{10}">
Replace with:
<if condition="$vboptions['enable_ltnews'] AND is_member_of($bbuserinfo, $ugroups_lt)">

Then find:
</if></if>
Replace with:
</if>

I have gone through this thread and none of the solutions seem to work well. Couldn't the author rewrite this to work with all usergroups instead of all these hacks to the hack? It is pretty much worthless without the additional usergroups.

Helllllo!!! Still need those double digit usergroups! This dude hasn't been online in a year! Someone needs to rewrite this thing!
Did you see this first post I quoted? It works to fix the issue.:up:

[cbiweb]

I have two styles: Default and Test 1. Neither of them is a parent to the other, they are two separate styles.
Test 1 has the $latest_news variable in its navbar template.
Default does NOT have it, yet it shows the latest news module as if it did.

Why would that happen? :confused: