Steve, that's the exact same thing I would like. The news just goes into a queue and you can checkk "yes" or "no". Is that a possibility JJR512?

[QUOTE]Originally posted by sianews
Steve, that's the exact same thing I would like. The news just goes into a queue and you can checkk "yes" or "no". Is that a possibility JJR512?

sianews, about the URL thing, that should be pretty easy to add, I'll be able to get that done soon. This hadn't occured to me because I include a link to the source article in the message body itself anyway.

Now about the moderation queue for news items... that sounds like a good idea. I'll have to see if I can figure something out. Now do you want the thread itself to still get posted and be visible, while it waits to show up on the news page? Or do you want the thread to not show up at all while it's waiting for approval?

[QUOTE]Originally posted by JJR512
Now about the moderation queue for news items... that sounds like a good idea. I'll have to see if I can figure something out. Now do you want the thread itself to still get posted and be visible, while it waits to show up on the news page?

Sounds great - looking forward to it.

I always put a link in my article too, but this way would eliminate a step. Alternativly, you could make the headline print our like:

"This is the headline" - Read Post

With the headline linking to the source and the read post linking to the post. Also, instead of a checkbox, how about of the URL field has something in it, that acts as the "yes" in order for it to be posted on the front page. But that might limit the usefulness to people doing other things. Maybe an option or something.

Hey, I've noticed that the news index file only seems to work on my system when I place it in the forums directory. Is there any way to fix this so that it works in any directory? Or did I mess something up?

FYI, if you want to use HTML in your news instead of vbcode, you can go into the homeindex.php file and replace[QUOTE]$gnpagetext=bbcodeparse($gnpagetext);

Hey JJR, I hope you don't mind, but since you created a hack that I really happened to need -- at the moment I needed it -- I made a couple of customizations that really suited my purposes.

This is one I think a lot of people might be interested in.

I've always liked being able to cut short a news article on the main page, say, to a paragraph or two. Then you can click on a "READ MORE" link or something to that effect, so you don't end up taking up so much space on your home page.

So, I've modified the aforeposted hack to add this functionality.

This extra little bit of code will read the post, separate out the paragraphs, and if the post runs longer than your preset maximum number of paragraphs, it adds a "MORE >>" link at the end of the text.

Around line 20-ish, you'll see a line like this:After this line, insert the following code:$maxpars (in case you couldn't guess) is the maximum number of paragraphs you want to show. If you set it to 1, you'll only see one paragraph of the news, etc. etc. etc.

And you'll have to add $gnmorelink after $gnpagetext in the templates.

Please test it out! Enjoy!

Looks GREAT :).. one feature i'd like to see is maybe being able to include the person's avatar if they have one.

Installed this beta hack for a test and Im not able to keep the Can make new threads a News item ticked on the option I need.

Its ticked on (NO) as default, but when I go to change the option to (YES) it does not save it, so therefore the option does not appear in the bottom table of the post.

Also, were does the homeindex.php file go, is it into root of the forum or admin?.............. does not say? and were is the newspages called from/viewed by the members or must a link be placed in a template?

Thanks,

:D