[Hooper]

I had a PHP programmer write us a script that would allow vBulletin to input information and output it to php pages. This seems to work fine for what we are doing. It has a page numbering system as well as page deviding and a bunch more bells and whistles. So when you want to have a page break within an article produced with vBulletin, you break it and it auto numbers pages 1 through an infinite number. All template driven etc... and so on.

The site I have now isn't a news site. But I wanted a way to have a sitenews section or what have you without spending ten grand on it. PHPnews and all those programs seem to be a we bit flawed. I installed phpnews and had nothing but trouble with it. You have to remember that they are free to use though and there are no guarantees with any of it.

I'm not sure what to tell you really. There are a few news type scripts around here but they aren't very good. I pretty much tried what you will find here. You may want to hire a programmer to give you what you want. They will do it. Most likely for a grand or less. Make sure you know what you expect it to do. Give them exact instructions as to how you want it to function. I was willing to pay whatever was necessary, but I found that that using vBulletin to produce news output does just fine. In fact, with this last release of vBulletin, I've noticed an even faster query from the database.

You just need a well written news type scripting with at least all the above mentioned characteristics.

Like I said, there really wasn't anything at all around here that gave the output I wanted. As far as I know, there still isn't.

I asked for months myself for someone to write something decent and nothing was ever written. So I wish you the best in your search. I really do.

Good luck,
Hooper