PluhNews 1.5

UPDATED! Woohoo!

I just fixed/added stuff from version 1.0!

Download the new version 1.5 if you have the old 1.0 - lots of better features.

From the readme.txt:

This script isn't really a hack, just an external script that pulls information out of the VBulletin Database for news
or whatever reason you see fit. It's easy to install and configure, and has tons of the same features that many other
news scripts have, except you don't have to modify any Vbulletin source code (which I'm never comfortable doing
for some reason, but that's just me .

I had a really rough time finding a good, EASY news script that did what this does. I searched and found some, but
it really came down to easy installation. I didn't want to modify MySql tables or mess with the advanced Vbulletin
source (well, to me anyway). So I wrote this script. Yer.

This script was intended for VBulletin 2.0 only (I don't know if it will work with previous releases) and PHP4.

Working Demos can be found in use at http://pluh.com/forums/PluhNews.php and for headlines,
http://pluh.com/forums/PluhHeadlines.php

After you install, if at all possible, I would appreciate some credit to my script. A link to http://pluh.com
on your page before or after your news would be great. Let me know when you have it installed too - I love
seeing my stuff working on other websites!

You can check out the raw demo here for PluhNews: http://pluh.com/forums/PluhNews.php

And Headlines! http://pluh.com/forums/PluhHeadlines.php


Let me know if you like it! (Thanks Dark Wizard and Bane)

*NOTE: I will not be able to provide support for this hack, as I am extremely busy. Sorry...*

[webhost]

is it possible to setup the PluhHeadlines on a different domain rather than your own where some other site could pull the headlines from you?

[Kayn]

I think you can. Try this:

PHP Code:

<? include("http://thenameofyourdomain.com/nameofforums/PluhHeadlines.php"); ?>

[webhost]

try mind if you don't mind and see if it works

http://www.realwebhost.net/forums

or you might try http://forums.realwebhost.net

[jarvis]

Okay, I've really been wanting to get something like this. I'm not so interested in the thread creation part of this hack, but I am really wanting to link to my threads from my home page and be able to display information like the following:

"e.g. www.mhogaming.com News article here"

20 comment(s) Last post by Jarvis

I would think that there is a line of code from this hack that I should be able to use and just manually put in the forumid and thread strings, but my question is, where would I have my MySQL user information to pull this data. My main page is HTML-based, but PHP-parsed. I'm a bit nervous about embedding my user information in my homepage. Can this or any other hack do what I am asking?

Newbie questions I'm sure, but any help is greatly appreciated!!!

Thanks!!

[webhost]

This works had someone try it today with mind.

PHP Code:

<? include("http://thenameofyourdomain.com/nameofforums/PluhHeadlines.php"); ?>

[jarvis]

Thanks Webhost,

That solution would give me an output to my mainpage of all the articles in one particular forum, correct?

What I am wanting to do is have something that points to one specific thread in any forum. I am okay with having to manually enter the forum and threadids in the string of code which could do this. All of the news items on my site are manually entered by myself or one other, and what I was hoping was something that points to that thread from my home page (i.e. the "Discuss this Post" that I am already using) but also give the last poster and # of posts in that thread.

One way I was thinking of tackling this was that I could have an individual phunews.php (i.e. news1.php, news2.php, etc) for EACh article I post, but it seems that there would be a line of code that I could use for every post, and just manually type in the forumid and threadid specific to that news item that I have already created.

Hopefully I'm getting my needs across, but I feel like I'm talking in one huge circle.

Thanks!

[webhost]

Yea I asked earlier in this post about be able to pull from more than one forum at time. They stated they were working on that. I think if that could be done then what you want should be achiveable. Look back in the post and ask one of the guys that put this hack together. They might be able to help. Got my hands full now with a calendar hack I am working on.

Joey

[dost]

There is 9 hours time difference between me and where my website is hosted. vBulletin has a setting like that so that the time is displayed correctly. Could you please help to solve the time difference issue in PluhNews between the server and client. I hope I could explain my problem.

Thanks

[Kengan]

Originally posted by Kayn
UPDATED! Woohoo!

I just fixed/added stuff from version 1.0!

Download the new version 1.5 if you have the old 1.0 - lots of better features.

From the readme.txt:



You can check out the raw demo here for PluhNews: http://pluh.com/forums/PluhNews.php

And Headlines! http://pluh.com/forums/PluhHeadlines.php


Let me know if you like it! (Thanks Dark Wizard and Bane)

Wonderful script !! keep it up for your good work ! Thanks !

[SystemLogic]

I've converted our staff new at http://www.systemlogic.net to PluhNews, using PluhHeadlines.

I would like to do the same with our tech news, but like I said before, how can you create a source. I saw another site with it....