Pluh News categories

[sianews]

It's beyond time that this become a feature. I just installed the program and love it, but i have over 30 forums. As it stands now I'd need to install it 30 times. So, we need categories. Were to start?

[amykhar]

Do you want to mix the news? Or have it in separate areas?

Amy

[sianews]

Both would be good. Couldn't there be a main category where all the news is displayed, and then a sperate category for each forum?

[amykhar]

Are you just trying to show the latest post(s) from each forum? That's not really a "news" hack.

Or are you telling me that 30 of your forums are news forums?

Amy

[sianews]

Yes, the latest posts. The main category should contain posts from all, or specified forums. I was trying to use this, but it wouldn't work:

// create sql statement
$sql = "SELECT threadid, title, forumid, replycount, postusername, postuserid, lastposter, dateline, iconid FROM thread WHERE forumid = \"2\" AND forumid = \"3\" AND forumid = \"4\" ORDER BY threadid DESC LIMIT 5";

Additionally, each fourm should be it's own category, with the latest posts from that forum only (I hope that makes sense :)). The author said categories would be easy to implement, but no one has created them yet.

[sianews]

We talked about it osme more in this thread:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21875&perpage=15&display=&pagenumber=13

I think it was mentioned towards the beginning as well.

[sianews]

bump. I still can't figure this out. Anyone else?

[sianews]

bump