Well, after very little effort on my behalf, i have released version 1.2.

Not much new, however-

I have added a headlines system, which is basically it ;)

Anyway, it works exactly the same way as the original, just setup a news forum(you can set its display order to 0, if you wish for noone to actually see it. i also recomend only allowing normal members to reply, not post :)

Just create a template, headlinebit and add the following
You can customise it, and you have access to all field names in the thread table. (check out the ERD in the members area, Keir :p)

As easy as it is, to access the headlines(or include them) add
or to include

Not much else i can rant about, im a bit lonely tonight :(

Anyway, heres the script:

(attached)

PS. like most scripts, just place this into your /forum/ directory, where its with its buddies(like index.php and global.php)

I just thought of another feature to add, which will come later tonight hopefully!(most commented news items, of course which would expire after a certain date offset of the current date)

again, if you have any sugestions on features youd like to see, post away, im trying to make a decent script.

Also, im trying to plan a few more features that would have customisability via admincp, for example- instead of specifying a value in the file, specify each and every forum in your forumlist thingo in admincp, stuff like that.

So knock yourselves out!(well, only if you like that sort of thing)

Well a pagenav would be good, so that if i have selected view 10 news per page then there should be a page 2 which displays 11-20 and so on.

Ill have a go at it, however i dont see why its relevant, when they can just view the forum?(i guess it depends, ill look into it later)

argh, I've been going nuts with this. The script works, BUT I'm having problems with my smilies appearing correctly.

here's the news script slightly modified with a chdir command so the require for global.php works:
http://mainframetech.net/news.php
As you can see, the smilies don't work.

So here's the script unmodified and without the chdir command since its in my forums directory:
http://mainframetech.net/forums/news.php
So it works right?

Wrong, when I include it in a page in my / directory, here's what happens:
http://mainframetech.net/index2.php
The smilies don't appear,,,this is driving me nutso, so here's some info about the paths and vB info and the news script stuff:

Host Info
Host: Hostrocket
Absolute path to my space: /home/mftech/public_html
Relative forums dir: /forums

index2.php include path to news.php in the forums directory
Anyone wanna help me with this? if you need more help, please ask...I'll provide it, I want to get this working.

As far as i can tell-

your settings in admincp are relative to your forum directory.

Go to your AdminCP --> Styles --> Image paths, and change /images to http://www.domain.com/forum/images

Hope that works!

hrrrmmm...that diddn't work...I'm suspecting that host rocket is to blame. I could really care less about smilie code parsing, i just don't want a bunch of Red X's there.

The wierd thing is, I diabled smile parsing in the News forum..

Is there a function that is in global.php that will applt that forum numbers smilie settings to this little script...it can already parse vBcode and such, but there HAS to be a way to get the forum options to be applied to, ie: not to parse smilies if the forum is set not to.

Im sure there would be a method of sorts.

However, because i allow all vBCode in my forums, its a bit hard.

it envolves the function,

My sugestion would be to try and set each of the 1s to 0s one at a time and see which sort of code it disables(or look in functions.php)

ok, i changed the second to last 1 to a 0 and it worked...thanks :)

ok, here's another oddity....

http://www.mainframetech.net/index2.php
(I posted the problem there)

here's my newsbit template:
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