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...*

[Kayn]

Originally posted by webhost
Kayn

Any word on the features to be able to pull from more than one forumid?

Great hack

I've been busy pretty much 24/7 and haven't been able to look at it lately. But it's on the list!

[badmeetsevil-]

Kayn.. I can't seem to find where it says "Todays News" in the HTML code. Where is it? I'd like to remove it with an image.

Thanks.

[Kengan]

Originally posted by Kayn
New Version is out. Go to the first page to get it!

Thanks for all your help ya'll!

Will you tell me where is new version ?

[webhost]

badmeetsevil-

Look in PluhHeader.txt file

[badmeetsevil-]

Yeah, I figured it out right before I came back here to reply. It was hidding in the PHP. The include that is.

[IanMFT]

Yeah, well, i gotta bump this thread up because i need some help...My images (smilies are not showing and for the life of me, i can figure out how to fix this. Heres my PluhConfig.php file:

PHP Code:

<?
//This is the Config file to get PluhNews running.
//**********************
//Set some Variables

//Retrieve news from the correct forum, which is the forumid
$newsforums = 48;

//Number of news items to show at once
$newsitems = 10;

//Path to your forums directory (leave out trailing slash)
$forumspath = "http://forums.mainframetech.net";

?>

As you can see, my forums are at http://forums.mainframetech.net but the images come up as if they are in the images directory on the main site (www.mainframetech.net) instead of the forum site (forums.mainframetech.net). Anyone have any ideas on whats wrong here?

[ruph]

this is what ive been looking! does the script support vB 2.0.3?? the news appears but when i click on the links like Comments,Search or View i get a 404 error?? help? im just testing it on a test board till i get that fixed.. heres the link http://www.digital-host.net/~ruph/forum/PluhNews.php

I really need to get this working!

[Kayn]

The only fix I can think if IAN, is to go to your admin for the VBulletin and change the paths to your images to something like:

/forums/images/smilies/whatever.gif

Hmm, I looked at ruph's page - it looks like something is wrong in your config. Double check and make sure the paths are right.

[webhost]

Ok what I have done is just make 5 sets of this to pull from different forum id's. seems to work alright.

2 questions

First is there a way that when someone opens the news or headlines that it would automaically add to the thread view totals for the post that are included in the news or headlines page.

Second is there a way to add a reply button or link under each thread shown for someone to reply to the thread.

[Rostor]

Hi,
this hack works fine...but I'v got some problems to configure more then 1 headlilne on my home page.

It continues to give me this error:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare stripslashesarray() in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\swzone.it\forum\global.php on line 10

There is a way to solve it ?

Thx in advance.

Renato