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Originally posted by tamarian
If I use phpMyAdmin to enter my news server info and options, or if the settings are entered in newnews.pl, no code changes are necessary?

Yep. That's right. I did actually have a go at changing the config page to work standalone which would mean you wouldn't even have to make the one little change left, but it was getting late and I broke it I'll give it another go if I get time before RC3 or vB final is released.

I've figured an easy way to get the usenet post counts and any other config setting you make in the usenet control panel into a global variable that can be referenced in templates. I can just append them to the options template during each news pull. The only drawback to that is if you update the vB config using in between news pulls, the usenet variables will be overwritten until the next news pull set them again. It won't be a problem as long as you remember to resubmit the usenet config straight after you update the vB config. And if you really can't remember to do that, it would only be one little optional code change to functions.php to automate it. I'll try to find another way, but that method is favourite at the moment.

I still haven't figured out a way to eliminate the usenet posts from 'new post' searches without code edits. I'm sure there must be a way though