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vBadvanced CMPS - News Digest Module 1.02
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News Digest for vBadvanced CMPS vers. 1.0.2 This hack allows your vBadvanced hompage to display news in a digest format. Instead of having each article appear in a box, it will appear as an item in a bulleted list. These lists are sorted by date and then by category. If you're site has more than a couple of news items per day you should find this hack useful, especially if those news items are particularly small by themselves (only a line or two of text). Live examples: http://www.enworld.org/forums/index.php (starting below the ad for Dundjinni). This hack requires that you have vBadvanced CMPS of course. Image support for the categories (as seen on the enworld site) can be accomplished by installing BeerMonster's banner images on forumhome hack. If you don't want to install this other hack, or if you're boards has a different hack that associates images with forums, you'll need to modify the provided newsdigest.php file. BeerMonster's hack is found here... https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=63994 During the installation of this hack you will create 3 templates. This hack requires no file modifications in and of itself, but some supplemental hacks do require such modifications, and they'll be dealt with in detail shortly. First, the primary hack: Step 1: Prepare the newsdigest.php file. Download the attached file and put it in [yourforum]/modules/ Step 1A: If you don't want to have any forum images for your categories, or don't wish to install the forum banners hack above then open the newsdigest.php file and search for the following code. Find: PHP Code:
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Step 2: Create the Templates Create a new template called adv_portal_newsdigest_date and insert the following into it: HTML Code:
<if condition="$prevdate"><br /><hr></if> HTML Code:
<b>$news[title]</b><if condition="$news['icon']"><img src="./images/forumicons/$news[icon]" align="right" height="60" weight="60"></if> HTML Code:
<b>$news[title]</b> HTML Code:
<div align="justify">$news[message] - scoop submitted by $news[postusername]</div> Go to your forum manager and create one news forum for each news category you desire to have on your news page. Also choose their display order at this step by modifying the display orders of the forums themselves. Note their forum #'s Step 4: Prepare the News Page Open your vBadvanced CMPS control panel and select "Add Module" Module Title: News Digest File to Include: newsdigest.php Templates to Include: adv_portal_newsdigest_date, adv_portal_newsdigest_category, adv_portal_newsdigest_item Step 5: Activate the Module Go to your page settings and turn the original news module off (It's redundant). Enter the forum #'s of each forum you want in any order (the display order of the categories is the same as the forums. Turn the newsdigest module on. --------------------------------------------------------- FINISHED. Version History Version 1.0.0 had several little glitches due to me rushing it out the door in my excitement from creating my first big hack. I'll demonstrate a bit more patience in the future. Version 1.0.1 (and prior) has a serious month wrap bug. Version 1.0.2 is current. If you like this hack please click install - thx. --------------------------------------------------------- Supplemental Hack: Bump and Debump News The date of the news is important with this hack. If you find an item displaying on the wrong day then you can use the following tools to scoot it around. Note - this "supplemental" hack is almost exactly like Rigel Kentaurus' "Bump Thread and Make Thread Older" hack, so I'm not going to take any credit for originality. Here is the modified version of his hack for bumping news items around for the digester. Code:
Code Modifications: 2 in 1 file |
a onsite example would be cool.. ;)
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Out of beta now - it's been running 12 hours on my site and I've tested everything I think. I will pitch in if it causes problems.
My apologies for getting all giddy yesterday and rushing this out a wee bit early - this is my first major hack (though it's nothing compared to what I've planned). |
sweet dude :D:D:D
honestly - i always wanted this sort of setup for my old board (running phpbb :S ) this will allow the 5 or so news posters to put up news throughout the day and not continue to make new boxes, that clutter. it was hard to understand what you meant at first, until i saw your example. i'll keep you posted after some testing in a few days.... |
Found a display bug. I was using vbdate (); out of habit, but apparently that causes problems for any visitors who aren't on the same time zone as the server. Corrected by simply changing the newsdigest.php file - no changes to the install instructions or templates necessary.
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This has been working a week now without any errors on my setup. Anyone have any ideas for improvements?
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This is gorgeous but how do I only get 2 days worth ... and not a whole HUGE string of days ... ?
I'm installing it on www.whatisnew.com |
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