Forum News (News in a Forum) [Archive]

JJR512

07-13-2002, 10:00 PM

This hack adds news headlines to the top of a forum. The headlines come from an XML source. The headlines are links to the articles. Through the admin cp, add or modify forums system, you can select from a list of sources (or select no news for that forum). There is also a master on/off switch for the entire feature, and you can also select how many headlines will appear.

Support for this hack will be provided only within the vbulletin.org forums.

This hack involves database modifications. Please make a backup copy of your database prior to installing this hack. The author of this hack assumes no responsibility for anything.

The XML feeds come from Moreover.com. This service is provided free-of-charge only to non-commercial, non-profit, educational, or personal/hobby sites, and may not be used on any for-profit site. If you operate a for-profit site, you must contact Moreover.com to discuss purchasing the rights to the service.

http://www.jjr512.com/images/forumnews/forumnews_forum.gif

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https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

Changelog
v1.0: Original release
v1.1: Fixes problem of not being able to change a forum's newsfeed back to NONE after previously selecting one.
v1.1a: Error in instructions file corrected. If you have 1.1, you do not need to download this; absolutely no code has changed.
v1.1b: See Post #30 below. If you have v1.1a, you do not need to download again; just make the fix as instructed in Post #30.
v1.2: Changes the code added to forumdisplay.php so that only one query is used. If you have v1.1b, you only need to replace the code added to forumdisplay.php with the newer bit of code from the instructions.
v1.2a: Fixes a minor bug affecting only the appearance of the output. If you already have installed v1.2, you do not need to re-download and re-install; please see Post #34 below for the simple fix.
v1.2b: Current release. Corrects the URL shown in the registration required notice. The only change over v1.2a is the "forumnewsbit_accessreg" template.

OPTIONAL Add-in feature: Make this feature user-selectable
I have created some instructions you can use if you'd like to give your users the ability to not see the news in a forum. Read Post #44 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=278689#post278689) below for more info.

Neo

07-14-2002, 06:01 AM

Gasp!!!!!!!!!!!! The hack master is back.

This is really nice and I would like to say thank you :)

JJR512

07-14-2002, 06:09 AM

Wow, that's a very quick reply! :)

I've been suffering a horrible affliction over the past few months. It's made it very difficult for me to come to these forums. My problem: Hack idea blockage! No new ideas. Well, I finally had one, and I hope many people will enjoy it.

***

Also forgot to mention, for the record: This hack was developed on a clean install of vB 2.2.6. After the hack was completed, the test board was wiped clean, and the hack was tested using the instructions; it installed and worked perfectly. :)

Neo

07-14-2002, 06:13 AM

I know how you feel if you ever need a idea I got one for you. I posted it a vbulltin.com though for a future addon for VB3.

I myself havent been able to stop hacking Oo It gets painful after awhile, and I can already see myself having to wear glasses.

Vivi Ornitier

07-14-2002, 06:48 AM

hella nice hack, sweet idea.

JJR512

07-14-2002, 07:00 AM

I just realized I didn't really mention why I made this hack, or what I think it would be useful for. I guess it's probably obvious, but just in case... I have forums on my board related to various computer topics, as well as sports, entertainment, cars, and other stuff. I wanted to have a newsfeed in each forum that was related to what the forum was about. So, in my Software forum, I have Software News, and in my Entertainment forum, I have Entertainment News. There are 334 different news feeds you can choose from; hopefully, you'll be able to find something for at least some of your forums. Remember, each forum is configured independently, to have its own feed, or no feed at all, if you can't find an appropriate one.

AndyTSJ

07-14-2002, 08:01 AM

I got a hack idea for ya JJR512.... actually I got a few. Let me know if you wanna hear them...

JJR512

07-14-2002, 08:16 AM

Sure, but you'd probably have better results by posting in the requests forum. If I can do it, I will; I've made requested hacks before. But if you just tell me, it might be something I don't know how to do, or don't have time to do. I just didn't look in there for a while, either, because I was just a bit worn out, I guess.

Vivi Ornitier

07-14-2002, 04:46 PM

hmmm . . . where do we add the news? I can't find any link in the admin panel???

Brad

07-14-2002, 08:02 PM

http://www.jjr512.com/images/forumnews/forumnews_mastersettings.gif

in vbulletin options where that ^ is supose to be i get nothing but the forum news in the purple table and no options at all.

JJR512

07-15-2002, 12:13 AM

Anime-loo, did you run all the queries at the bottom of the instructions? There were two that started with, "INSERT INTO setting", which make those two settings appear.

Vivi Ornitier, to add news to a forum, edit that forum (admin cp-> forums & moderators: modify->click the edit link by the forum you want to add news to->select a newsfeed from the drop-down box that appears in the second section of options (see the second picture above).

Brad

07-15-2002, 01:09 AM

Originally posted by JJR512
Anime-loo, did you run all the queries at the bottom of the instructions? There were two that started with, "INSERT INTO setting", which make those two settings appear.

yes i did

JJR512

07-15-2002, 01:27 AM

Have you added any other sets of custom settings to the vBulletin Options? At the top, in the links to all the groups, is Who's Online the last one before News Options, or is there anything else in between them?

Note to anyone that DOES have other custom groups of settings: You will need to modify the three queries that start with "INSERT INTO". On the vBulletin Options page of the admin cp, at the top, where you have the links to all the settings groups on the page, if you point to each link, in the status bar of your browser you should see a URL that ends with something like settinggroup31. Point to the last of the links and note the number; is should be higher than 31 (31 is for Who's Online, the last of the groups that are stock). Now, in those three queries that start with "INSERT INTO", you will need to change all occurrances of the number 32 to whatever number you found plus 1; i.e., if your highest settinggroup number is 34, you need to change all 32s in the queries to 35.

Brad

07-15-2002, 01:28 AM

ahh i see whats wrong :) your using the same displayorder # (32) as the default pm hack. got it working

alanvo

07-15-2002, 01:38 AM

i did everything right, but for some reason, the news doesnt show up.

Brad

07-15-2002, 01:38 AM

once i set a news item for a forum i cant select none anymore :(

JJR512

07-15-2002, 03:16 AM

Anime-loo, I believe I have fixed that problem. I apologize for letting that one slip by; I thought I had tested for that, but I aparently forgot. Anyway, I've tested this on my own test board, and it works fine for me, as far as I can tell. I've updated the instructions. You will need to add some new code to admin/adminfunctions.php (previously not modified at all for this hack), and some of the new code for admin/forum.php has been changed. The forumdisplay.php and admin/functions.php files, all templates, and the database are not changed between 1.0 and 1.1.

alanvo, please try going to the vBulletin Options page of the admin cp, and submitting it. You don't have to change anything; just press the submit button at the bottom. Then go back to the forum, and refresh the page.

JJR512

07-15-2002, 03:21 AM

For the record, the value -- None -- will now always appear as the first option in the newsfeed selection drop-down box.

The attachment in the original post in this thread has been updated.

Brad

07-15-2002, 03:55 AM

Parse error: parse error in /home/kousetsu/public_html/newforum/admin/forum.php on line 235

re hacked 5 times.

JJR512

07-15-2002, 04:17 AM

You must have made a mistake in editing that file. Make sure lines 187-196 look exactly like this:

if ($forumid!=-1) {
makeforumchooser("parentid",$forum[parentid]);
} else {
makehiddencode("parentid","0");
}

maketableheader("Forum News Options");
makeforumnewschoosercode($forum[forumnewsid]);

maketableheader("Moderation Options");

Smoothie

07-15-2002, 04:43 AM

question....in my vb options, the settinggroup, whosonline is 31, and then there are 2 new ones. Quiz is 32, and signature settings is 302. What number should I use when i change the "insert into" queries?

JJR512

07-15-2002, 04:56 AM

You can really use any number that's not already in use. You could make it be 33 to appear in between quiz and signature settings, or you could make it be 303 to appear last.

Smoothie

07-15-2002, 05:02 AM

Two more quick questions before i install. have you had a any problems with moreover.com slowing your forums down, and are there additional queries that are added by using this hack?

Thanks.

JJR512

07-15-2002, 05:51 AM

I believe it adds one query to every forumdisplay page to check if that forum has a newsfeed, and if there is, there is another query to get the details.

I haven't had any problems from moreover.com. They seem like a pretty good, reliable source. Although I suppose I should probably add some error handling in case it can't connect to their server.

JJR512

07-15-2002, 06:03 AM

(Post edited because of changes to the code.)

This hack uses only one new query when showing a forum, and that query is ONLY used if that forum is getting a newsfeed. Thanks to FireFly for showing me how to do that. :)

Smoothie

07-15-2002, 06:42 AM

JJR512-

Thanks for the info. BTW, in the instructions .txt file, you say:Note regarding the next three queries: but you have only 2 listed below that. I'm thinking it was the one above, and the 2 below? One that started with:INSERT INTO settinggroupand the other 2 that started with:INSERT INTO settingAll 3 should use the same number?

JJR512

07-15-2002, 06:48 AM

Yes, sorry about that, I put that note in the wrong spot.

xug

07-15-2002, 07:05 AM

JJT512, you have showed us again what a great 'hacker' you are.

Thanks for this great hack, one word : SUPER.

In note to a posting about slowing down, I have the feeling that it slows my forum down for about one or two seconds, which is in my eyes not a problem at all.

xug

07-15-2002, 07:55 PM

I found a small bug and can't solve the problem myself.

When you look at the news that is presented like :

HiTech gets Aces High again! From: ConsoleDomain Jul 13 2002 3:24AM

and want to select the news link source, so in this sample above here it would be 'ConsoleDomain' main website you get an error because the link that will be projected is like :

http://www.gamesdomain.com%20target=/

So the taget function is not properly coded and can't figure it out myself, to me the coding looks good, but hey, I'm a dunno ;)

Please help.

JJR512

07-15-2002, 08:22 PM

Sorry about that; I left a closing quote out of an <a href...> tag in the forumnewsbit template.

In that template, find this:
<a href="$forumnews[sourceurl] target="_blank">

Change it to this:
<a href="$forumnews[sourceurl]" target="_blank">
I will update the attachment shortly, but if you already have v1.1a, you do not need to download it again, as this is the only fix.

xug

07-15-2002, 09:08 PM

Thanks for the fast reply.

JJR512

07-16-2002, 08:23 AM

I have updated this hack to v1.2, after FireFly has shown me how to reduce the queries when showing a forum from one all the time, plus another if there's a newsfeed for that forum, to just one, only if there's a newfeed for that forum.

I have sent an update using the send update feature to all users who've clicked the Install button. :)

For the record, if you have v1.1b, you only need to change the code added to forumdisplay.php, the part from "// Begin Forum News" to "// End Forum News".

xug

07-16-2002, 01:37 PM

Originally posted by JJR512
I have updated this hack to v1.2, after FireFly has shown me how to reduce the queries when showing a forum from one all the time, plus another if there's a newsfeed for that forum, to just one, only if there's a newfeed for that forum.

I have sent an update using the send update feature to all users who've clicked the Install button. :)

For the record, if you have v1.1b, you only need to change the code added to forumdisplay.php, the part from "// Begin Forum News" to "// End Forum News".

Thanks JJR512 and FireFly! :classic:

Cool Update Feature :cool: Is this FireFly's work? Must Be :classic:

JJR512

07-18-2002, 01:24 AM

I have identified a minor bug in this hack.

Some of the sources that Moreover.com uses require free registration at their site before you can view the entire article linked to in the headlines. Headlines that come from sources that require registration are marked in the XML source with a special flag, and I have written a feature into the XML decoder that if that flag is present, a notice will appear by the headline that says, "(NOTE: Registration or subscription may be required to access this article.)". There was a minor code error in this part of the hack whereby if there was more than one headline showing up with this notice, there would be one notice for the first, two for the second, three for the third, etc.

I will be updating the attachment in the original post above shortly. That will become v1.2a. If you have already installed v1.2, all you need to do to fix this is:

In forumdisplay.php, find:
eval("\$forumnewsaccessregbit .= \"".gettemplate("forumnewsbit_accessreg")."\";");
Change it to this:
eval("\$forumnewsaccessregbit = \"".gettemplate("forumnewsbit_accessreg")."\";");
That's it!

JJR512

07-18-2002, 02:12 AM

One other minor little bug corrected, which was that in the "(NOTE: Registration or subscription may be required to access this article.)" message, as described in the previous post, the URL which formed the text "Registration or subscription" was not defined properly, causing it to point back to your own forum's home page. This is corrected in v1.2b.

Chris M

07-18-2002, 10:18 AM

Simply Superb:)

Satan

interrealm

07-20-2002, 09:57 PM

Ok I have an idea for an enhancement for this script... what is the possibility to take it to the next step and allow the headlines to be put into a specific forum(s) and then have an "initial" post made for each news article with a preset template with the article name, source and a "cookie cutter" sentense asking for people to read the article and discuss it there. If you need more clarification let me know. Its just an idea.

JJR512

07-21-2002, 01:58 AM

Something like that is probably beyond my capabilities at this point, and it may even be beyond vBulletin's capabilities. Moreover updates their headlines about every 15 minutes. Now a particular newsfeed may not get a new headline every update, of course. But, if every headline was to get automatically posted as a thread, you would need to run some kind of cron job in your website that would check the newsfeed to see if there were any new headlines on it. That's why I say it might be beyond the capabilities of vB, because cron jobs are separate. The only way I can think of to do it in vBulletin is for the script to check for new headlines whenever the forum itself is loaded (whenever someone goes to that forum), and unless that forum is constantly busy, there might be some headlines that get missed.

interrealm

07-21-2002, 08:13 PM

I utilize moreover's feed via cold fusion and have it set to check on a preset time (2 hours). It pulls the list... then queries the list against the table i made.. if it finds it already in the able (article name and date/time match) then it ignores it.. if it does not find it.. it proceeds to create a new record with this information.

I'm considering trying to write an outside hack (using cold fusion) to populate the vB this way... but this would require a better understanding of the table relationships and field creation rules that vB has then what i am capable of myself...

Just an idea... sounds like something that might bring vB to yet another level that no other board has right now (not that vB isn't already above the rest).

I'll be happy to give more ideas on concept for this on how I see it working.. just let me know.

mem

07-29-2002, 10:24 AM

Warning: php_hostconnect: connect failed in /home/fashe/maze0001/forum/admin/functions.php on line 2339

Warning: file("http://p.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?c=Windows%202000%20news&o=xml") - Bad file descriptor in /home/fashe/maze0001/forum/admin/functions.php on line 2339

Warning: Bad arguments to implode() in /home/fashe/maze0001/forum/admin/functions.php on line 2339

Why?

nghiasi

07-29-2002, 02:17 PM

Nice one!Thanks You

nghiasi

07-29-2002, 03:02 PM

Originally posted by mem
Warning: php_hostconnect: connect failed in /home/fashe/maze0001/forum/admin/functions.php on line 2339

Warning: file("http://p.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?c=Windows%202000%20news&o=xml") - Bad file descriptor in /home/fashe/maze0001/forum/admin/functions.php on line 2339

Warning: Bad arguments to implode() in /home/fashe/maze0001/forum/admin/functions.php on line 2339

Why? '

I think you have mess up your functions.php . You might mess up with other hacks with this hacks. :bunny:

JJR512

07-29-2002, 06:59 PM

I tried that news feed just now on my own board to test it, it worked fine for me. I also manually viewed the URL http://p.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?c=Windows%202000%20news&o=xml and it displayed correctly as well. I don't know what the problem could be for you. Is this the only newsfeed that is giving you a problem? Does it work now? Maybe Moreover.com's server was temporarily unavailable or something.

JJR512

07-29-2002, 10:39 PM

I have come up with some optional instructions you can use if you'd like to give your members the ability to turn this feature on or off for themselves. This feature will be enabled by default, and they can elect to not see it. Note that if you have the feature completely turned off (through the admin cp setting added by this hack), that a user cannot turn it on for themselves; in other words, the admin cp setting of "off" overrides a user's setting of "on".

The instructions for this will assume that you have already completely finished the instructions from the original base hack.

mem

07-30-2002, 03:49 AM

Originally posted by JJR512
I tried that news feed just now on my own board to test it, it worked fine for me. I also manually viewed the URL http://p.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?c=Windows%202000%20news&o=xml and it displayed correctly as well. I don't know what the problem could be for you. Is this the only newsfeed that is giving you a problem? Does it work now? Maybe Moreover.com's server was temporarily unavailable or something.
Yes, it can work.
but it is very very slow.

JJR512

07-30-2002, 03:58 AM

For just this one feed or for all feeds?

Kars10

07-31-2002, 06:44 AM

Hello JJR!!
I like the Idea of this Hack and will install it.
But is there a way to put News in German Language on my Forum?? :confused:
Thanx!

JJR512

07-31-2002, 07:05 AM

I don't believe so. The text is provided by an independent website.

bill-t

08-05-2002, 11:18 AM

Well, I screwed the pooch on this one... My problem is that I couldn't figure out how to import the sql file in phpmyadmin... So I created the table and tried doing an import, since it it had to have a table to import to... I know it's messed up... Any help? I know I need to delete that table and do that over... Everything else is good to go...

JJR512

08-05-2002, 06:02 PM

What do you need help with first? Do you need to know how to delete a table, or did you already do that?

bill-t

08-05-2002, 07:31 PM

Yes, I completely undid everything... I think I had everything right except importing the .sql file... Had to do full uninstall cuz it trashed my forums... I couldn't created new forums, couldn't post... got db errors... The errors referenced the table I created... No surprise since I had never manually created one before and winged it... I know myphpadmin is supposed to be able to import the file, but couldn't make it happen... Will do full install again after i'm sure i understand how to do that and it's late enough none of my users will be on the board... any help appreciated... was looking for a script specifically like this for both my vb and for wallpaper I'm making for my wife's dtop...

bill-t

08-05-2002, 07:34 PM

let me re-say that... I know for sure I had evrything correct... Uninstalling it was a breeze... Working backwards everything was exactly where it should be and didn't take long at all... (By the way, your notes with the line numbers and stuff are the best I've used...) I've had to rebuild my board from scratch over the last 3 days, and I've done at least a dozen hacks in the last couple days... Every one of them worked on the first attempt... Even so, yours was the clearest despite the fact I failed first time out, lol....

JJR512

08-05-2002, 09:24 PM

So your problem was just with importing the database stuff?

bill-t

08-05-2002, 09:30 PM

correct... what are the verbatim step for importing the .sql file via phpmyadmin when the table (newsforum or whatever it was called - sorry, don't have the documentation on the screen, but obviously you know the name, lol) doesn't exist to begin with... I tried the obvious, clicking on the choose button and navigating to the file on my hd and it would try and execute the file, but it couldn't load the info as there was no table to load it into...

JJR512

08-05-2002, 09:44 PM

In the instructions, in this section: III. Database Modifications, you need to do all the stuff listed in there. The first thing is an ALTER TABLE statement. What you do is copy the entire line(s) and paste it into the Query textarea (window) in phpMyAdmin, then hit Go. Now since you say there was no table to load the stuff from the file into, you probably missed the next part, which starts with CREATE TABLE forumnews (. Copy that entire section, from that line through ) TYPE=MyISAM;, paste that into the Query window, and Go. Make sure you have done the three queries after that as well (if you're not sure if you did or didn't, you can check by going to your admin cp, vBulletin Options page, and look for a section called "Forum News"; it will probably be the last section). After you have done all that, then you should try to import the sources.sql file, by doing just what you said you did the first time.

bill-t

08-05-2002, 09:57 PM

You're absolutly right... I went thru those directions at least a dozen times and somehow missed ever even reading that paragraph every single time.... Unbelievable... The one below... speechless... Thanks!

<CREATE TABLE forumnews (
forumnewsid smallint(5) NOT NULL auto_increment,
xmlsource char(100) NOT NULL default '0',
title char(250) NOT NULL default '0',
PRIMARY KEY (forumnewsid)
) TYPE=MyISAM;>

Erwin

08-06-2002, 01:17 AM

JJR512,

This is a great hack, as usual from yourself. :)

Just a question - is it possible to create my own keyword to search Moreover with so that I can have my own news category?

bill-t

08-06-2002, 06:51 AM

Installed in minutes this time, thanks!

TalkHardRandy

08-07-2002, 12:38 AM

I got a small problem & don't know how to fix:

I installed the hack with the add-on at the same time, however I go into my admin CP & I see a blank area under "Forum News". First thing I checked was the settinggroup queries... sure enough I put in the wrong number. Removed the three entries & tried them with the correct number - still nothing.

I've triple checked my PHP & everything looks the same. Any ideas?

JJR512

08-07-2002, 01:09 AM

What is the settinggroupid number of the Forum News settinggroup? Did you put this same number in the appropriate spots for the two settings?

bill-t

08-07-2002, 01:22 AM

I've started having a problem on my board and I noticed it shortly after I installed this last night... I **DO NOT** think it is from installing this hack - as I stated earlier, I've installed a number of hacks in the past few days... I simply didn't see the problem until last night after doing this and the problem is intermittent enough that I well could have had it for some time before that and not known it... (just wanted to make that clear so I don't ruffle any feathers..)

I'm re-posting a post I made in another place on the forum here... My question is this - are any of the changes made potentally able to cause something like this? I notice that one thing that is more likely to cause it is going into a forum - if I stay out of a forum I'm more likely to be ok - and the forum has the option to have the stories...

REPOST - I've seen lots of threads with similar issues; different people seem to have similar issues but each seem to be a little different but there are common threads...

I had to rebuild my board from scratch - my wife accidently wiped out her site and in the process wiped out 3 of my domains both on my hosting server and on my server at home.... So I installed 2.2.6... For the first 2 days, things were normal.... I noticed though that I would have to log in every now and then when going from one page on the board to another...

It seems that sometimes I'll go through a period of time when I'll have to log back in every single time I change views on the board... Doesn't matter what browser I use... (opera, ie5.5, netscape4.79, netscape7.0[not the preview release, but a daily build], netscape 6.2.3 or mozilla 1.0 final).... killing disk and memory cache, cookies, history or even switching to a virgin machine makes no difference... switching to a different test account fixes problem...

Build several test accounts... Some have problem, some don't... problem comes and goes... will work fine for awhile then not....

question - possible that having same username on different vB boards a problem?

anyone have a solution? 2.2.6, using a host that has worked fine in past... board not usable....

TalkHardRandy

08-07-2002, 07:23 PM

Originally posted by JJR512
What is the settinggroupid number of the Forum News settinggroup? Did you put this same number in the appropriate spots for the two settings?

I picked a large number 90 & replaced the 32 in all the queries with 90.

bill-t

08-07-2002, 07:42 PM

I changed the gmt time setting in the vb options page last night... after doing so, I didn't have any problems for 2 straight hours... That may have been the problem, even though it never has before...

zootsuit

08-09-2002, 12:07 AM

Originally posted by TalkHardRandy
I picked a large number 90 & replaced the 32 in all the queries with 90.

Any news?

TalkHardRandy

08-09-2002, 06:35 PM

Originally posted by zootsuit

Any news?

Yeah... I still can't see the administrator options in the CP, but in one of my admin only forums, I have the news working!

PIMPY

09-28-2002, 12:30 AM

Hey, great hack, and super easy to do.

only one thing, is it possible for oyu to add a way for us to make our own news things? Cause that would make my anouncements forum so much better if i could make them news articles, and then use the forum for just chat about our own news.

MultiSync

09-28-2002, 12:50 PM

I am kinda new to forum stuff. How can I do the last step for the database thing? :o

From where? I am using xp. Can anyone give me detail instructions, cuz I am pretty new to this stuff. Thanks!

X-Fan

09-28-2002, 01:31 PM

JJ, I'm wondering how customizable this hack is. I run a comic book news site, and I'd like to have the latest articles from the news/features/reviews forums to be displayed on the forum homepage, kind of like what vbPortals does for its own front page but with the addition of a ticker as well.

Please mind my ignorance of PHP coding, but would it be possible to modify this hack to do that, or would that require a completely different hack?

BigCheeze

10-22-2002, 01:17 AM

I have this installed, but I'm not seeing any news in any forums where I have a news catagory selected.

Thanks!

Glenn379

11-07-2002, 04:15 AM

I tried installing this today, everything went smoothly except I have one problem. I can't actually post news. How do I do that? I'm not sure if I imported the sources.sql right. To make sure can anyone tell me how? Everything else is done like it should be. Everything is working except I don't know how to make news. Someone please help me.

BigCheeze

11-07-2002, 04:44 AM

Originally posted by Glenn379
I tried installing this today, everything went smoothly except I have one problem. I can't actually post news. How do I do that? I'm not sure if I imported the sources.sql right. To make sure can anyone tell me how? Everything else is done like it should be. Everything is working except I don't know how to make news. Someone please help me.

I didn't either...

Erwin

11-07-2002, 09:07 AM

For those missing news in the forum, did you edit the forumdisplay_*** templates?

BigCheeze

11-08-2002, 01:33 AM

HAHAHAHA!! I found the problem... What a shmuck I am!! LOL!

I created a new template... called forumnew... I left off the s

HAHAHAHA! DOH!! It works!

AzzKickr

11-27-2002, 02:08 AM

is it real to write my own news?
i don't wanna news from this site (and its really inrease speed of loading!) please tell me what should i do to do that? :ermm:

Visionray

11-27-2002, 04:48 AM

This is one amazing hack!!!

I've been looking for exactly this you are my hero man!!
Works perfectly.
cheers :)

Erwin

11-27-2002, 04:50 AM

I have to agree that it is very good, and works well. :)

Visionray

12-03-2002, 03:44 AM

While this is a great hack, I am now questioning the legal aspects of this.

It seems that as of August 27th, you are not allowed to use free Moreover scripts on your website unless you are a charitable organization, which I would think many of us are not.

http://moresuitable.com/moreover_terms_020827.html

Can anyone comment on this? Is there any way for moreover to find out you are using thier feeds?

Erwin

12-10-2002, 08:58 AM

Yikes... moreover.com is down, so it's causing havoc in my site headers...

Visionray

12-10-2002, 12:13 PM

Originally posted by Erwin
Yikes... moreover.com is down, so it's causing havoc in my site headers...

yea same here. It was taking over 10 seconds to load each page with the forum news.

Luckily this hack has the feature where you can automatically turn off the news. :)

nymyth

12-11-2002, 02:05 PM

um guys having a problem with the hack, i have the 2 options in the admin cp, but i dont have that second image thingy, that appears on the first post, and i cant see the news....anybody knows whats up...i went through the thing twice......

Peace

nymyth

12-11-2002, 02:12 PM

ok found those options....but i still cant get the news to show, anybody know whats up with that??? Thanx

Peace

nymyth

12-11-2002, 03:10 PM

ok nevermind, got everything to work, but i cant get the usercp thing to work i have the options showing in the cp, but when i click on 'NO' for the news, it still shows, any ideas??? Thanx

Peace

SemperFidelis

01-17-2003, 02:28 AM

Ok
Here is a different problem for you.

Ive now hacked this in for the 2nd time - including the user selectable part.
All the options show up fine at both an admin CP and user CP level.

But as soon as I switch it on, I get a blank page returned when trying to access /forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=2 (or any other forum).

Has anyone else come across this error ?
Or have any idease on how to resolve it ?

auz1111

03-19-2003, 09:02 PM

I have this hack working but the options under the ACP to turn it off or on are missing. any help is appreciated.

great hack!

1F42

03-20-2003, 10:16 PM

check your setting group number as described earlier by hovering over the options of forum news in your ACP look at the bottom of your browser for the id no if this is diff to that of the last 3 sql changes you did then you need to edit those in sql to this number

Doubledoom

03-24-2003, 09:29 AM

installed on 2.3.0 and running fine with no problems. Thanks

Restless_ca

05-11-2003, 02:23 AM

I fought and fought with this only to find out that I had made the modifications in code I had commented out due to a previous hack :)

I had to work it around some other hacks I had but once it was working it was slick. Very very nice hack. Thanks

atomic fireball

05-14-2003, 12:31 AM

This is one excellent hack!
Thanks for your work on this. I love the 'offbeat news' area for the nonsense forums :)

Quick question, is there any way to add the option of forum news on the main forum home page? This would be an excellent addition as well if it's possible.

I have this running with 2.3.0 and it works perfectly. Great work.

atomic fireball

05-24-2003, 04:07 AM

To anyone who has this installed:
Have you been having problems with the moreover.com newsfeeds lately?

This hack was running perfectly for the last few weeks, but now it's not pulling news from moreover.com. So it takes an incredible amount of time to actually get into any forum which carries a news feed on my board.

Something has changed at moreover.com, and I'm hoping it's only temporary. I've had to turn off this wonderful hack in the Admin Control Panel until it can pull the news feeds again. I haven't been able to pull in news feeds for about 24 hours now.

If anyone has any info, I'd appreciate it, thanks.