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...*

[sccr410]

In global2.php there was a require to admin/config.php and in the require statements on my index.php the suggestion was to require the same file. I commented out the require on the index page, that didn't work. Commented out the one on the global2.php file, that made things even worse.

I have it working fine, but mine doesn't know how to read bbcode. I was hoping all this would fix that.

http://www.sandiegopegasus.com

[Hamma]

hmm, You removed my path from the global2.php and added your own correct? (I think there were a few instances)

[sccr410]

Yep, sure did.

[Hamma]

k hmm if i remember correctly that is related to cookies, did you change the cooking setting in the CP to .yourdomain.com ?

[Hamma]

also you dont want to include the file in the top line with the other files, you would want to include it somewhere else on the page

<? include('/home/sandieg/public_html/forum/PluhNews.php'); ?>

[sccr410]

Ahh, I made the require statements the first thing on my index page and it worked

Now, the only problem is that the path to the smilies is wrong and I get the red x box

[sccr410]

Nevermind, now the smilies work too It's all working 100% now! WOOHAW!

Now I shouldn't get any "Why doesn't this work?" questions from all the team managers trying to use it

[Hamma]

lol congrats, always ends up bein somthin easy Im gonna end up being an expert on this script lol

[SirSteve]

What about a teaser line and "Click here" for the full story where you get a separate page with the full article (that doesn't look like the forums)? And the ability to included attachments within the article...

[sianews]

Steve, we alreasdy have that in the character limit on page 11 or 13 I think. The problem is, only the latest article from any given forum can be shown on the websites template. See www.sianews.com/columnists.php for example. On each columnists page, I have their latest article, but PluhHeadlines can only link to the forum .

I was thinking of linking to www.sianews.com/forums/authorid.php?threadid in the Headlines file, but I don't know how to pullt hat threadid back out of the URL to make it display.

Does that even make sense .