[Warlord]

Ok, I re-wrote the hack to work on 2.2.4 with code from the posts of BitBender and PBC.

Just thought I'd make it a bit easier for some of the newer php hackers to install this.

vBulletin Newsfader Hack for 2.2.4


Files to edit:
vb/admin/index.php
vb/index.php

Template to edit:
forumhome

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**1)open ADMIN/INDEX.PHP and find**
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makenavoption("Add","announcement.php?action=add", "|");
makenavoption("Modify","announcement.php?action=mo dify");
makenavselect("Announcements");
// ***

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**just below it,add this**
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// start of newsfader hack
makenavoption("Add","newsfade.php?&action=add","|" );
makenavoption("Edit","newsfade.php?&action=modify" ,"|");
makenavselect("Forum News");
// end of newsfader hack

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**save and upload**
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**2)open vb/index.php and find**
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if ($birthdays) {
eval("\$birthdaybits = \"".gettemplate("forumhome_birthdaybit")."\";") ;
}
}

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**just below it add this**
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// Hack newsfade
$newsfadebits = "\"<b><i>Welcome to $bbtitle</b></i>\",\"\",\n";
$newsfades=$DB_site->query("SELECT title,pagetext FROM announcement WHERE enddate>=$today AND forumid=0 ORDER BY startdate DESC");
while ($newsfade=$DB_site->fetch_array($newsfades)) {
$newsfadebits.="\"".addslashes($newsfade[pagetext])."\",\"$newsfade[title]\",\n";
}
$newsfadebits = substr($newsfadebits,0,-2);
// End Hack newsfade

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**3)edit template forumhome and find:**
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<meta name="description" content="$bbtitle is a discussion forum powered by vBulletin. To visit the forum, go to $bburl/ . To find out about vBulletin, go to http://www.vbulletin.com/ .">
<title>$bbtitle - powered by vBulletin</title>
$headinclude

*********************
**Just below it,add**
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<SCRIPT LANGUAGE='JavaScript1.2' TYPE='text/javascript'>
prefix="";
arNews = [
$newsfadebits
]
</SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE='JavaScript1.2' SRC='fader.js' TYPE='text/javascript'></script>


**************note: this should be added before "$header"**************

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**then find**
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$unregwelcomemessage
</table>
<!-- /text -->

<br>

<!-- main -->

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**just below it,add this code**
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<table bgcolor="{tablebordercolor}" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" width="100%" border="0">
<TR bgcolor="{tableheadbgcolor}" id=cat><TD colspan=6>
<normalfont color="{categoryfontcolor}">Forum News</normalfont></td>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan=6 bgcolor="#f7f7f7" height=30 valign="top" align="center">
<div id="elFader" style="position:relative;visibility:hidden;width:5 00"><div align="center">Forum news</div></div>
</td></tr>


<table cellpadding="{tableouterborderwidth}" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="{tablebordercolor}" {tableouterextra} width="{contenttablewidth}" align="center"><tr><td>

**********upload NEWSFADER.PHP to you vb/ADMIN
**********upload FADER.JS to your vb/
**********go to you vb/ADMIN modify or post a news!

You're done.