Problem Solved: Need a simple news publishing script with vB integration
 

Ok, So on my site's home page I post the latest news. I am using vBExternal but this script is causing a bit of a problem when pulling urls from the forum.

Before I describe what I need, take a look at the article system.

http://www.grandtheftcentral.com/

When I post news articles in a designated forum, it publishes it to the front page where it displays the post, post author, number of replies, date and so on.

I need another one though since this one is a bit buggy.

Requirements
- I should be able to post articles from some sort of admin panel via a simple WYSIWYG or HTML panel
- It should output basics like Title, Post Body, Comment Numbers, Post Comment Link and so on
- People would need to log on first to post a comment

Simple as that. I don't care where it stores the news, it could be in a forum or in an independent db table, once it does the above jobs. Any help.

Thanks a lot.

Take a look at Dynamics..
http://www.vbadvanced.com/

The problem is that vbAdvanced controls the entire front page. All I want is to manage the news. I just want to include it within my current template.

How are yo pulling the content from your forums to the front page now?

Could you not use RSS?

Well the comments people make are the comments in the post.

Posts are in this forum...the first post displays on the home page and any replies are considered comments/replies

I wouldn't mind using RSS but do you have a script prog I could try out?

All you would do is add the feeds to your page where you wanted them to show. Here is an example on the bottom left of this page that i done for a customer. I'm just tossing out ideas someone else may have something better. http://www.countylineracewaync.com/

--------------- Added [DATE]1196480179[/DATE] at [TIME]1196480179[/TIME] ---------------

I built the feed using this site.
http://feed2js.org/index.php?s=build

Ah yes that's basically something like it. The only difference with mine would be it would need to pull news from a certain forum, and then display the first post of each thread with the comments and so on. Would it be able to display images and other forms of HTML?

I honestly don't know, haven't worked with RSS before.

You can pull fees from any forum. I use Fire Fox and whenever Im viewing a forum the feed icon shows in the address bar. I just click that to jet my feed url.

http://www.localracechat.com/news/ex....php?type=RSS2


Not sure about the photos, maybe if they were at the top of the post. I would create a blank page on the site and experiment with it. The site above is really easy to use take about 5 mins to set up a feed and you can preview it as well.

I don't think the comments and posts #'s will show up like this, I could be wrong as there may be another way but this is all I know of personally.


You will also need to make sure your external feeds options are on in you vB options in the control panel too.

Yea I'll turn it on and experiment...Quite helpful info.. thanks a lot

for other folks, please share any additional ideas. Thanks.

Good Luck i hope you find what you need.