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- - Add-On Releases - vB News CMS (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=133302)

Very similar to vB News CMS for 3.5, but a some of the code was rewritten. This now works with BBCode - (This includes line breaks, URLs, smilies, etc.). I've removed several lines and taken out have removed the dual option for SQL 4.1 or higher as a lot of people are still on the lower MySQL

What does this do? It allows you to take your news from your news forums (up to 9 news forums) and display them in a category-style fashion with the ability to add new content, reply to the original story, send to a friend, and print.

This works only for vbulletin 3.6.0 or higher.

There is a 3.7.x version here

Install/Upgrade Instructions

Located in the zipped readme.txt file.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the forumid?
The forumid is the id of the forum you have created. Each forum has its own unique number assigned to it. When you click on a forum link you can see a number that is assigned to it. This will show up in the URL of the page you are browsing. Another way of seeing the forumid is to go to your admin control panel => Forums & Moderators => Forum Manager => Click on [Expand All] and then move your mouse over (hover) any of the forums you've created. Your status bar (bottom of screen) should display your forumid (number at the end of the link/url).

Changes

V. 1.2a Added security for admins
V. 1.2 Added support for Who's Online

Things in consideration for future releases

1) Menu system that dynamically displays a menu based on forum choices.

Known Bugs/Issues:
1) - When you go to the page directly, the page acts as a normal page - however, if you click refresh on the page, the refresh stalls. I don't understand why this occurs.

Temporary demo location:
http://www.christianboards.org/vbnews.php

Reserved

I will let you know. Look sweet.

thanks for this release, trying now.

Installed . Thanks

i think it shows Sticky posts instead of new post , isnt it ?

is it possible to put this as your site, instead of the forum?

Yes, it can be done with some renaming of files and some changes to your settings. It will only work in the same directory as your forums though.

Nice.

/me clicks install

Thx !!

Better include in the future releases a category (with images) system, no? ;)
Just like "Slashdot News MOD" for phpBB if you know it ;)

This looks very good, however, if this could be used as a "true"homepage I would install in a minute.

Oh I think there might be something you might like then... Kerry-Anne? :P

Quote:

Originally Posted by Genjuro-Sensei (Post 1132900)

Thx !!

Better include in the future releases a category (with images) system, no? ;)
Just like "Slashdot News MOD" for phpBB if you know it ;)

If you put images in your news to start with, they should display here as well. :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by christianb (Post 1132915)

Oh I think there might be something you might like then... Kerry-Anne? :P

Can't have nothing to myself for 5 mins can I? It's not custom though if I share :(

Weekend sound like a plan David?

Thanks, christianb. ;)

[high]* projectego clicks install[/high]

Quote:

Originally Posted by peterska2 (Post 1133069)

Can't have nothing to myself for 5 mins can I? It's not custom though if I share :(

Weekend sound like a plan David?

hehe - I got excited :P

Quote:

Originally Posted by christianb (Post 1133124)

hehe - I got excited :P

I noticed. I'll have yet another tidy up of the code (left myself notes all over the place) and check it on 3.6.4 and if it works then it should be released at weekend, but no promises that it will definately as I've got exams this week and the flu, so coding isn't high up the list of things to do atm.

I've been sick myself - very sick, and been waiting on trying to get my merger done. I just decided to go ahead and finish up some stuff before I work on my major projects (vbnl, vbb, vbb+mp3) merger comes first though. Which could be as soon as today. Hopefully I'll feel better by tomorrow. I've not had the flu, but had nasal and chest issues.

Thankyou for this ;)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Smoothie (Post 1132911)

This looks very good, however, if this could be used as a "true"homepage I would install in a minute.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=133757
There ya go... :P

very cool, thank you :) Installed here: http://latforums.lv/vbnews.php

You'll find the german version here.

well i installed this News CMS (looks awesome)
but i got one little Problem, the Page is on the left
i want it to get to middle (center)
what do i need to edit?

By default it is set to center on the page unless something is forcing it to the left. The templates tell it to center. However you can alter the template to a width of 100% rather than a fixed width and this should fix the issue.

Btw, don't forget to click install.

they weird problem is, my forum got a size of like 50%
the Forum is on the center
i just installed your mod, and now the vbnews.php is on the left

i dont get it

This will be an issue with your style in general. Check your header and footer templates for anything that could affect it.

i just found out
the problem seems to be Internet Explorer 7
Working on IE6 and Firefox

why is that?

Code:

<!-- logo -->

<a name="top"></a>

<div class="side_borders">

<table border="0" width="$stylevar[outertablewidth]" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center" class="tborder">

<tr>

        <td align="center" valign="top">



<table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center">

<tr class="header_bg">

        <td align="$stylevar[left]" valign="middle" width="330" height="92"><a href="$vboptions[forumhome].php$session[sessionurl_q]"><img src="$stylevar[titleimage]" border="0" alt="$vboptions[bbtitle]" /></a></td>

        <td align="$stylevar[left]" valign="top" width="246" height="92" ><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/xright.gif" width="246" height="92" alt="" /></td>

<td align="$stylevar[right]">

                &nbsp;

<!-- banners -->

</td>

                

        

</tr>

<tr>

<td height="33" colspan="3" style="background-image:url($stylevar[imgdir_misc]/xnav.gif);">



<!-- nav buttons bar -->

<div align="center">

        <table  cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"  align="left">

        <tr align="center">

                <if condition="$show['member']">

                        <td width="78" height="33"  ><a href="usercp.php$session[sessionurl_q]"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/xusercp.gif" width="79" height="33" border="0" alt="" /></a></td>

                </if>

                <if condition="$show['registerbutton']">

                        <td width="78" height="33"  ><a href="register.php$session[sessionurl_q]" rel="nofollow"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/xreg.gif" width="79" height="33" border="0" alt="" /></a></td>

                </if>

                <td width="78" height="33"  ><a href="faq.php$session[sessionurl_q]" accesskey="5"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/xfaq.gif" width="79" height="33" border="0" alt="" /></a></td>

                <td width="78" height="33"  ><a href="memberlist.php$session[sessionurl_q]"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/xmembers.gif" width="79" height="33" border="0" alt="" /></a></td>

                <td width="78" height="33"  ><a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/xcalendar.gif" width="79" height="33" border="0" alt="" /></a></td>

                <if condition="$show['popups']">                

                        <if condition="$show['searchbuttons']">

                                <if condition="$show['member']">

                                <td width="78" height="33"  ><a href="search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getnew" accesskey="2"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/xnew.gif" width="79" height="33" border="0" alt="" /></a></td>

                                <else />

                                <td width="78" height="33"  ><a href="search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getdaily" accesskey="2"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/xdaily.gif" width="79" height="33" border="0" alt="" /></a></td>

                                </if>

                                <td id="navbar_search" width="78" height="33" ><a href="search.php$session[sessionurl_q]" accesskey="4" rel="nofollow"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/xsearch.gif" width="79" height="33" border="0" alt="" /></a><if condition="$show['quicksearch']"><script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("navbar_search", 1); </script></if></td>

                        </if>

                        <if condition="$show['member']">

                                <td id="usercptools" width="78" height="33" ><a href="$show[nojs_link]#usercptools"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/xlinks.gif" width="79" height="33" border="0" alt="" /></a><script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("usercptools", 1); </script></td>                

                        </if>                

                                

                </if>

                <if condition="$show['member']">

                        <td width="78" height="33"  ><a href="login.php?$session[sessionurl]do=logout&amp;logouthash=$bbuserinfo[logouthash]" onclick="return log_out()"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/xlogout.gif" width="79" height="33" border="0" alt="" /></a></td>

                </if>

                

        </tr>

        </table>

</div>

<!-- / nav buttons bar -->

</td></tr>

</table>

<!-- /logo -->



<table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" style="background-color:#1E2830;">

<tr>

  <td><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color:#232D35;">

      <tr>

        <td width="12" align="left" valign="top"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/ls_main_table_top.gif" width="12" height="8" alt="" /></td>

        <td width="100%" align="left" valign="top"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/expand_main_table.gif" width="100%" height="8" alt="" /></td>

        <td width="12" align="left" valign="top"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/rs_main_table_top.gif" width="12" height="8" alt="" /></td>

      </tr>

    </table>

    <!-- content table -->

    <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="background-color:#232D35;">

    <tr>

      <td>

<!-- content table -->

$spacer_open



$_phpinclude_output

the problem must be somewhere in the header

when i revert it, the navbar is ++++ed, but the page is on the center

Can this be also used on a non vb page? Pulling the info from a vb forum section then adding it in a new style format to a non vb page?

Quote:

Originally Posted by anzo (Post 1149664)

very cool, thank you :) Installed here: http://latforums.lv/vbnews.php

very bad layout, same as IE and FF

Quote:

Originally Posted by jags2ooo (Post 1206304)

Can this be also used on a non vb page? Pulling the info from a vb forum section then adding it in a new style format to a non vb page?

I don't see why it can't be - its mainly queries and templates.

Hey!
Trying to get this working on a page outside the forum folder, a non vb page. I have included the vbnews.php file into the page i want to show my news, but it somehow destroys the design of the page. It should be 3 colums with the news in the middle and the tables separated with a vertical dotted line.

Anyone have any ideas how to fix this issue?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Masiello (Post 1207513)

very bad layout, same as IE and FF

what is bad about it?

I've updated to include Who's online support.

I have a question about this, could I rename the news.php to say index.php and move it out of the forums folder?

Say I have
\index.php (renamed news.php)
\board\ (forums folder)

Will that work?

Most likely, but you will need to edit each instance of vbnews.php and vbnews to index.php and index (respectively) in the php page. I've not tried it, but don't see why not.

I've had no luck getting this to work, out side of the forum folder. I keep getting the following error(s)

Code:

Warning: main(/home/aquasoft/public_html/includes/init.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/aquasoft/public_html/board/global.php on line 20



Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/aquasoft/public_html/includes/init.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/aquasoft/public_html/board/global.php on line 20

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Page Generation 0.01384 seconds Memory Usage 1,840KB Queries Executed 10 (?)
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Template Usage: (1)ad_footer_end (1)ad_footer_start (1)ad_header_end (1)ad_header_logo (1)ad_navbar_below (2)bbcode_code_printable (8)bbcode_quote_printable (1)footer (1)gobutton (1)header (1)headinclude (6)option (1)pagenav (1)pagenav_curpage (1)pagenav_pagelink (1)post_thanks_navbar_search (1)printthread (40)printthreadbit (1)spacer_close (1)spacer_open Phrase Groups Available: global postbit showthread	Included Files: ./printthread.php ./global.php ./includes/init.php ./includes/class_core.php ./includes/config.php ./includes/functions.php ./includes/class_hook.php ./includes/modsystem_functions.php ./includes/class_bbcode_alt.php ./includes/class_bbcode.php ./includes/functions_bigthree.php Hooks Called: init_startup init_startup_session_setup_start init_startup_session_setup_complete cache_permissions fetch_threadinfo_query fetch_threadinfo fetch_foruminfo style_fetch cache_templates global_start parse_templates global_setup_complete printthread_start pagenav_page pagenav_complete bbcode_fetch_tags bbcode_create bbcode_parse_start bbcode_parse_complete_precache bbcode_parse_complete printthread_post printthread_complete
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