[Release v2x php] pNews..

Hi everyone,

I wrote a news system to use with vBulletin v2.0.0+ (php version only) and im looking for people to test it for me. You can find it here (http://phpnews-system.sourceforge.net). What this news system does is... When you make a new news post it automatically creates a thread in the forum that goes along with the news post, it then makes a link in your news post to the thread.

[Goldfinger]

i think ill stick with PluhNews :).

[Joshua]

Well the vBulletin support is in beta stage right now. Im still working out the bugs. Hopefully some people will use it and find any bugs that it might have in the vBulletin system. Besides, I cant win them all :) I just hope I win a few ;)

[DarkReaper]

This seems like it'd be nice to anyone who doesn't have a website and wants to throw up a vB backed site, but for those with websites, this isn't going to be very useful at all. :(

[Joshua]

I've worked out quite a few bugs that were in the system. Most people figure pNews is like phpNuke, in ways it is. But its roots lay in newspro. When I first started developing pNews about a year ago I was tired of trying to make newspro work with a forum to make a comment link. So I found out about php and started learning it, and here I am a year later ;).

Ok ok I know what your thinking, what does this have to do with anything? Well first off you can run pNews similar to the way you run PluhNews. You just make a php file and include a couple files and add one line of php code and it includes your news. All tho yes it does come with a theme system, its not required (all tho you do have to include the base theme files for it to display the news, they are theme.class.php and theme.subclass.php. They are just class files that hold the table html.) Well enough rambling for now. Gotta get some sleep :)

[badmeetsevil-]

Originally posted by DarkReaper
This seems like it'd be nice to anyone who doesn't have a website and wants to throw up a vB backed site, but for those with websites, this isn't going to be very useful at all. :(

Um.. yes it will. This could be a newsposter for websites. People are gradually breaking away from NewsPro and all the other web-based stuff to integrated BBS/Forum Posters.

[pdatoon]

Does it allows validation of posting and user management?

[Joshua]

Not sure what you mean by post validation...But it uses the already existing forum users table for login and posting. Also If you dont want to install it with support for a forum it has its own built in user table.

[Night Demon]

Looking good. :)

[DarkReaper]

Would you mind posting which files do what? I'm trying to find the code that adds the news to the vB database when news is added. I already have a news system setup on my site, with a table for news on database1 and my vB is on database2. It'd be nice to be able to integrate this with my news posting system so when a new post is made, it'd posted to the forums as well. :)