News Cast for Forumhome

[vbenhancer]

A News Caster which grab the latest threads in forum X, listing them on Forumhome page, just below the navbar.

This was very popular for InvisionBoard since the begining, and as there is none on vB, as i needed one, i coded one... :)

Here are the settings, in: AdminCP >> vBulletin Options >> Nexia's Forumhome Newscast Settings

This engine will list all the latests threads, based on which forumid you put in the list. It generate only a single additional query on forumhome to grab the news, it have a simple display you can modify at will from the templates.

the engine is without template or file or database edits, just import this product file.

on december 30th 2009, version 1.5.0, added BBCode Parsing in the settings so you can show images/links or not.

[cindy helmond]

great installed !! :)

[Vackrick]

n1 man i installed it look great

[apiasto]

will it shows images as well?

[vbenhancer]

it shows the post, so it is supposed to show the images as well... i don't remember having deleted that part, but it's easy to edit the bbcode filtering to add images if i forgot it.

[Nickfrikscape]

nice! installed!

[Ice-Maiden]

Installed and working fine, will come in very handy for members who tend to miss alot of the new posts, thanks for the work! :)

[Ice-Maiden]

it shows the post, so it is supposed to show the images as well... i don't remember having deleted that part, but it's easy to edit the bbcode filtering to add images if i forgot it.

what do i need to do the get the image to show, the mod itself is working great but im getting the link not the image, any help would be appreciated! Thanks! :)

[vbenhancer]

hum, any help, on my site, as clearly indicated on the description... but everything is possible, it's all vBulletin.

[hatiramolsun]

picture looks bad link

Do not show image links ?
help pls..

[vbenhancer]

it does not show up images links properly, i'll see to that...

[COL NIL SATIS]

installed but nothings showing on my forum??any ideas

[vbenhancer]

possible causes:

1- obsolete theme, you need all the needed hooks
2- did you setup the system like shown in the screeny?

[COL NIL SATIS]

i think so mate..i will recheck now !!!

[BillieJoe]

hi there. i tested it today and anytime a user reports a bad post it shows up in the news cast.
but i only set one forum for the news-cast and it's not the one reported posts are going in.
any suggestions to solve it?

greets

billiejoe

[betts02]

got this installed and working fine, dont use any images for this so dont know about that 1.
anyway in the tthread that i post up for this, is there a way so when it is posted and shown up that a URL will work ?
it shows the URL but its not clickable, if you know what i mean
anyone know how to do this ?
cheers

[vbenhancer]

hum, no idea... that has nothing to do with my hack, i suppose something goes wrong with something else installed on your site...

[BillieJoe]

hm ok, i'll let you know what was wrong if i'm able to fix it.

[vbenhancer]

As you can see in the first screenshot, there is now an option to Activate BBCode Parsing.. as requested!

[TheLastSuperman]

Thanks for the Update Nex ;)

[apiasto]

great,thankzzz

[betts02]

dont know if you understood me correctly mate.

what i mean is if i post up some text with a link say :

todays weather can be found at www.url.co.uk

when its posted up in the news cast it just has the text, the url for the www.url.co.uk is not clickable

everything else works fine

[vbenhancer]

with that update, the link is supposed to be active... if you understand bbcodes.

[betts02]

not really mate, just starting out with vb tbh, but getting there slowly.lol

but will update it mate and cheers for the responce

[SMosher]

Great addition nexia. Above the rest!

[betts02]

works a treat now mate, many thanks

a great addition to keep members informed of certain threads/posts

[jiffylb1]

got this error when activating it
Database error in vBulletin 3.8.4:
Invalid SQL:
SELECT post.pagetext AS preview,
thread.threadid, thread.title AS threadtitle, thread.forumid, pollid, open, postusername, postuserid, thread.iconid AS threadiconid,
thread.dateline, notes, thread.visible, sticky, votetotal, thread.attach, thread.lastpost, thread.lastposter, thread.lastpostid, thread.replycount, IF(thread.views<=thread.replycount, thread.replycount+1, thread.views) AS views,
thread.prefixid, thread.taglist, hiddencount, deletedcount

FROM thread AS thread
LEFT JOIN post AS post ON(post.postid = thread.firstpostid)

WHERE NOT ISNULL(thread.threadid)
AND thread.forumid IN (0,68,10,131,76,18,112,128,123,120,)
AND thread.visible = '1'
AND thread.open != '10'
ORDER BY thread.threadid DESC
LIMIT 0, 19;
MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ')
AND thread.visible = '1'
AND thread.open != '10'
ORDER BY thread.thre' at line 10
Error Number : 1064
Request Date : Friday, January 1st 2010 @ 02:38:07 PM
Error Date : Friday, January 1st 2010 @ 02:38:07 PM
Script : http://www.clearwaterbiker.biz/forums/index.php
Referrer : http://www.clearwaterbiker.biz/forums/admincp/index.php?do=head
IP Address : 72.185.52.17
Username : admin
Classname : vb_database
MySQL Version : 4.1.22

[vbenhancer]

drop the final comma you have in the list of forumids you have in the system...

edit: i'll post a fixed version later, it's just a strip of pointless characters...

[cozmin]

Why don't you add some option where the news cast can be put ?

Some permission, for ex. unregistered users cannot see the news cast

[vtck]

great work, :up:

if one is able to insert url where table of latest threads to be located, it would be better than current just select forum home - yes or no. Insert url in text box.

And instead of NewsCast, insert Title in text box.

Also looking for a table format of latest threads with buttons on the left and just title of the thread on the right hand side, such a table format of latest threads to be displayed on .php extensions.

[Frank Sinatra]

Thanks works really nice.
Any chance to put the info in other place like a new created template ? would be great

[HW Nation]

\I do not understand why I see strange characters: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2011/08/40.jpg

[mirko185]

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2012/08/33.png

the image doesn't work...