Haven't read this entire post, but this hack shouldn't be final.

The templates have french hard coded in them, and you can't input news with apostrophes in them; it doesn't look like slashes are added before the database query.

Typos also, like: News ofe "forumname."

Once you get all the little bugs and typos worked out, it works nicely.

One suggestion, is to have a text area for the input box instead of a one line input box.

Exactly, that sucks big time...

And another little thing, when I collapse the news box, it will not remain that way when I enter a subforum and then go back to the index. What's the use of that function if it's not configured?

Other than that, great hack!

its a very nice hack.
but i have a suggestion.
how about if u have built a own vbulletin page and let the users type in new from this page?
It would be better if avereybody could give some information in the newsfeed.
Would it be possible to create something like that?

In the admin penal <--- you need to look at that.

well i ran the auto install , done everything as stated and then got parse error index.php on line 50

which is

,
'danews',
'danews_news',
'danews_fin'

ive tried everything and just lost atm :( any help ?

EDIT: Thanks guys, i read the followups and figured it out that it was missing a debug line in config.php.

Works like Charm, it will be cool if the news ticket is going vertical, instead of horizontal.. because when we add more and more news as seperate ones.. we need a big amout of placeholder for the news. If its like a news ticker, which sends one news at a time but in horizontal or vertical way.. it wud be cool.

Just my suggestion :)

natrails,
In the index.php, when u insert those codes below the other bits, please do this:

Instead of adding:

,
'danews',
'danews_news',
'danews_fin'

Replace tat line with this:

'danews',
'danews_news',
'danews_fin'


Then go to the variable that is right above 'dannews', and add a comma after it in order to get ride of that parase error.

If u dunno wat i mean.. check this example:
Before:

'Test'
,
'danews',

After:

'Test',
'danews'.


As you can see, your comma is what was causing the pbm. I had this erorr and i done exactly like wat i am suggesting u and it worked :)

i get when i install it
If i want add news on sidebar how can i do that?
please help me