[RELEASE v2.x] OPNews v1.2 << More features!

[merk]

Well, after very little effort on my behalf, i have released version 1.2.

Not much new, however-

I have added a headlines system, which is basically it ;)

Anyway, it works exactly the same way as the original, just setup a news forum(you can set its display order to 0, if you wish for noone to actually see it. i also recomend only allowing normal members to reply, not post :)

Just create a template, headlinebit and add the following

<smallfont>-></smallfont> <normalfont><a href="$forumspath/showthread.php?s=&threadid=$newsarray[threadid]">$newsarray[title]</a> by <a href=\"$forumspath/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=$newsarray[postuserid]\">$newsarray[postusername]</a></normalfont><smallfont> ($dateposted)</smallfont><br>


You can customise it, and you have access to all field names in the thread table. (check out the ERD in the members area, Keir :p)

As easy as it is, to access the headlines(or include them) add

?action=headlines


or to include

<? include('/path/to/news.php?action=headlines'); ?>



Not much else i can rant about, im a bit lonely tonight :(

Anyway, heres the script:

(attached)

PS. like most scripts, just place this into your /forum/ directory, where its with its buddies(like index.php and global.php)

I just thought of another feature to add, which will come later tonight hopefully!(most commented news items, of course which would expire after a certain date offset of the current date)

[merk]

again, if you have any sugestions on features youd like to see, post away, im trying to make a decent script.

Also, im trying to plan a few more features that would have customisability via admincp, for example- instead of specifying a value in the file, specify each and every forum in your forumlist thingo in admincp, stuff like that.

So knock yourselves out!(well, only if you like that sort of thing)

[DjSao]

Well a pagenav would be good, so that if i have selected view 10 news per page then there should be a page 2 which displays 11-20 and so on.

[merk]

Ill have a go at it, however i dont see why its relevant, when they can just view the forum?(i guess it depends, ill look into it later)

[IanMFT]

argh, I've been going nuts with this. The script works, BUT I'm having problems with my smilies appearing correctly.

here's the news script slightly modified with a chdir command so the require for global.php works:
http://mainframetech.net/news.php
As you can see, the smilies don't work.

So here's the script unmodified and without the chdir command since its in my forums directory:
http://mainframetech.net/forums/news.php
So it works right?

Wrong, when I include it in a page in my / directory, here's what happens:
http://mainframetech.net/index2.php
The smilies don't appear,,,this is driving me nutso, so here's some info about the paths and vB info and the news script stuff:

Host Info
Host: Hostrocket
Absolute path to my space: /home/mftech/public_html
Relative forums dir: /forums

index2.php include path to news.php in the forums directory
<?php require("http://www.mainframetech.net/forums/news.php"); ?>

Anyone wanna help me with this? if you need more help, please ask...I'll provide it, I want to get this working.

[merk]

As far as i can tell-

your settings in admincp are relative to your forum directory.

Go to your AdminCP --> Styles --> Image paths, and change /images to http://www.domain.com/forum/images

Hope that works!

[IanMFT]

hrrrmmm...that diddn't work...I'm suspecting that host rocket is to blame. I could really care less about smilie code parsing, i just don't want a bunch of Red X's there.

The wierd thing is, I diabled smile parsing in the News forum..

Is there a function that is in global.php that will applt that forum numbers smilie settings to this little script...it can already parse vBcode and such, but there HAS to be a way to get the forum options to be applied to, ie: not to parse smilies if the forum is set not to.

[merk]

Im sure there would be a method of sorts.

However, because i allow all vBCode in my forums, its a bit hard.

it envolves the function,


$cookedthread=bbcodeparse2($newsarray[pagetext],"1","1","1","1");


My sugestion would be to try and set each of the 1s to 0s one at a time and see which sort of code it disables(or look in functions.php)

[IanMFT]

ok, i changed the second to last 1 to a 0 and it worked...thanks :)

[IanMFT]

ok, here's another oddity....

http://www.mainframetech.net/index2.php
(I posted the problem there)

here's my newsbit template:

<table width="98%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="center">
<tr>
<td height="12" class="newssubject">$newsarray[title]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="12" align="left" valign="baseline" class="newsinfo">Posted By <a href="$forumspath/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=$newsarray[postuserid]"><b>$newsarray[postusername]</b></a> at <i>$dateposted</i> [<a href="$forumspath/showthread.php?s=&threadid=$newsarray[threadid]">$newsarray[replycount] $commenttext</a>]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" class="smalltext">$cookedthread</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br>


odd is this one</yoda>

[merk]

Ill need the $newsquery lines please.

[IanMFT]

$newsquery = "SELECT thread.*, post.*";
$newsquery .= " FROM thread,post";
$newsquery .= " WHERE post.threadid=thread.threadid";
$newsquery .= " AND thread.forumid=$newsforums";
$newsquery .= " GROUP BY thread.threadid";
$newsquery .= " ORDER BY thread.dateline DESC";
$newsquery .= " LIMIT $newsitems";


sorry bout' that :)

[merk]

Originally posted by IanMFT
newsquery = "SELECT thread.*, post.*";
$newsquery .= " FROM thread,post";
$newsquery .= " WHERE post.threadid=thread.threadid";
$newsquery .= " AND thread.forumid=$newsforums";
$newsquery .= " GROUP BY thread.threadid";
$newsquery .= " ORDER BY thread.dateline DESC";
$newsquery .= " LIMIT $newsitems";


$newsquery = "SELECT thread.*, post.*";
$newsquery .= " FROM thread,post";
$newsquery .= " WHERE post.threadid=thread.threadid";
$newsquery .= " AND thread.forumid=$newsforums";
$newsquery .= " GROUP BY thread.threadid";
$newsquery .= " ORDER BY thread.dateline DESC";
$newsquery .= " LIMIT $newsitems";
^^ Hrm, thats the one i use, and it works fine.

Might just want to try reuploading the file.

[merk]

No problem about that either, just the newsbit template doesnt tell you much.

[pier]

I've a problem with the query showing ups thread titles & post text.

OpNEWS doesn't display the right pagetext if there're more than 1 post in the thread.

am I the only one with problems like this ? :confused:

thanks
pier

[IanMFT]

ok, something is REALLY screwey, i changed the 0 back to a 1(actually, i re copied the script) and its still displating the last comment instead of the news...this is quite odd. Any ideas?

[merk]

I dont get this problem.

Ill look into it, give me a day.

[pier]

Originally posted by IanMFT
ok, something is REALLY screwey, i changed the 0 back to a 1(actually, i re copied the script) and its still displating the last comment instead of the news...this is quite odd. Any ideas?

Yes... same problem there

[merk]

That is REALLY strange.

I have this script running, here (www.opticpower.net/forum/news.php) and it works fine.

Really weird.

Im actually working on another problem atm, so could you pls post a copy of the news.php file in here(just use [php] tags)

Thanks!

[IanMFT]

<?
error_reporting(7);
$templatesused='header,newsbit,shownews,headerbit, newsheaders';

//What is the ID of your News forum?

$newsforums = 48;

//How many news items should be displayed?
$newsitems = 10;

//Path to your forums directory (leave out trailing slash), i recomend using http://www.domain.com/forumpath
$forumspath = "/forums";

require('./global.php');

$newsquery = "SELECT thread.*, post.*";
$newsquery .= " FROM thread,post";
$newsquery .= " WHERE post.threadid=thread.threadid";
$newsquery .= " AND thread.forumid=$newsforums";
$newsquery .= " GROUP BY thread.threadid";
$newsquery .= " ORDER BY thread.dateline DESC";
$newsquery .= " LIMIT $newsitems";

$headlinequery = "SELECT thread.*";
$headlinequery .= " FROM thread";
$headlinequery .= " WHERE forumid = $newsforums";
$headlinequery .= " ORDER BY threadid";
$headlinequery .= " DESC LIMIT $newsitems";

if ($action == "headlines") {$query = $headlinequery;} else {$query = $newsquery;}

$passthruquery=$DB_site->query($query);

while ($newsarray=$DB_site->fetch_array($passthruquery)) {
//Get date in their timezone
$dateposted = vbdate("jS F Y, H:i",$newsarray[dateline]);
//If they select anything but 'headlines' as their action, assume they want news.
if ($action != "headlines") {
//You may remove this, and replace any reference to $commenttext in the templates to Coments, or use replacment variables
//Make it plural if there is more than one comment
if ($newsarray[replycount]==1) {
$commenttext = "Comment";
}
else {
$commenttext = "Comments";
}
//Process the thread, and make it parse vBcode, and stuff
$cookedthread=bbcodeparse2($newsarray[pagetext],"1","1","1","1");
//Call the template 'newsbit' for each news entry it finds in the database
eval("\$newsbits .= \"".gettemplate("newsbit")."\";");
}
//They want headlines, so they get headlines
if ($action == "headlines") {
eval("\$newsbits .= \"".gettemplate("headlinebit")."\";");
}
}

eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate("shownews")."\");");

?>

[JJR512]

If anyone can figure out how to make the smilies show up correctly, I'd appreciate it. I want them to actually show up, so the changing the one 1 to a 0 isn't for me.

[merk]

As far as i can tell, you just need to set the full path to the images folder in the admincp

under styles

[JJR512]

Unfortunately, as IanMFT already pointed out above, that doesn't work.

[merk]

Im a bit tired atm, so excuse that post :)

Anyway, you may want to check the properties of the image that is showing as a X, and see exactly what is causing it.

Im not actually having any problems myself, but i use the news script in the forum root.

It may be a good idea, if your including news.php, to do:


<?
chdir('forum/');
include('news.php');
?>


Yer, im not sure :|

[JJR512]

Just tried it... no good.