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Logician NEWS: Drag Any Message to Your Main Page · **Released**: 05-30-2002

This is a news script which will drag vb forum messages from your vb db to your non-vb main page/news page. There are a lot of good news script around but I needed a highly customizable main page news script with some special features and wrote it myself. I'm using it in my site's main page for a long time, but I was just too lazy to write installation/help documents to share it here, sorry!

FEATURES:

* This script simply pulls forum messages which you marked as "news" from your vb database and post them in your non-vbulletin (main/other) page.
* You can mark messages as "NEWS" in any forum you want (including private forums). You dont need to restrict your news to a specific forum.
* You can drag any message to your main page, regardless of its date. So news is NOT supposed to be the most recent messages in your board.
* You do NOT have to carry the whole message to your main page as news. You can import it all or simply take some part of it. So eg. you can drag a message's the first paragraph to your news page and link the thread for "Read More".
* Moreover you can insert invisible custom NEWS text which will be dragged to your main page to your board messages, but not shown in the original forum thread. So your original thread message and news text on your main page can be different than eachother.
* You can have sticky news in your main page (even if they are not sticky in your forum).
* News does NOT need to be the first message in the thread. You can tag any reply message as news and pull it to your main page either.
* Script parses ALL of your message icons/smilies (including your custom add-ons) and some of the important vBCode like: [url] [email] [img] [b] [i] [u]
* You can specify which members may post news.
* You can form your News' title seperately, apart from of the original thread/message title.
* You can set maximum number of news shown in your main page.
* You can set maximum number of characters that all shown news should not exceed. Some messages can be long and some can be short and if you set a character limit, the script will automatically compile enough news from your database to fit your web page's relevant part according to the limit you set.
* You can enable/disable:
News Poster Name
News Date
News Read Number
News 'Send to a Friend' Link
Comment number/Add comment button/Last commenter
Will viewing news increase the original thread's view count or not
News is sticky or not
for ALL your news INDIVIDUALLY.
* All news tags are invisible in the original thread. So forum readers do not notice any difference when you tag a message as news.
* Dragging a message to your main page as news is as simple as inserting a hidden [news]Title of My News[/news] tag to your forum message.

Well, these features are what I needed in my news script, so it should suffice to you too!

It's an easy to install script and will work with ALL vbulletin versions because it's an add-on, not a hack. I can give support as much as I have time, but please ask here, not via email or PM.

If you use the script, please click INSTALL. If you post the URL of your news page after installation, you can help other users see the script in action in different pages and in custom designs, thank you!

Logician

VeoMorphine · #**102** 02-01-2003, 05:54 PM

is there an edit i can make that lets certin usergroups use the tags insted of forum names? so insted of putting nick one i can put usergroup 6, 5 ,4

Logician · #**103** 02-01-2003, 08:17 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by VeoMorphine
is there an edit i can make that lets certin usergroups use the tags insted of forum names? so insted of putting nick one i can put usergroup 6, 5 ,4

Try this:
edit newsconfig.php find:

PHP Code:


			
select postid, threadid, username, userid, dateline, title, pagetext, iconid 

from post WHERE

visible= '1' $SQLposters AND (pagetext LIKE '%[news]%' OR pagetext LIKE '%[NEWS]%')AND (pagetext LIKE '%[/news]%' OR pagetext LIKE '%[/NEWS]%') order by dateline DESC LIMIT 500

Replace it as

PHP Code:


			
SELECT p.postid, p.threadid, p.username, p.userid, p.dateline, p.title, p.pagetext, p.iconid, u.usergroupid FROM post p LEFT  JOIN user u ON u.userid = p.userid WHERE ( u.usergroupid = 6 OR u.usergroupid = 5 OR u.usergroupid = 7 ) AND visible =  '1' AND ( pagetext LIKE  '%[news]%' OR pagetext LIKE  '%[NEWS]%' ) AND ( pagetext LIKE  '%[/news]%' OR pagetext LIKE  '%[/NEWS]%' ) ORDER  BY dateline DESC  LIMIT 500

Also find:

PHP Code:


			
select postid, threadid, username, userid, dateline, title, pagetext, iconid, news 

from post WHERE 

news='1' AND (visible= '1' $SQLposters AND (pagetext LIKE '%[news]%' OR pagetext LIKE '%[NEWS]%')AND (pagetext LIKE '%[/news]%' OR pagetext LIKE '%[/NEWS]%') ) order by dateline DESC LIMIT 500

And replace it as:

PHP Code:


			
SELECT p.postid, p.threadid, p.username, p.userid, p.dateline, p.title, p.pagetext, p.iconid, u.usergroupid,p.news FROM post p LEFT  JOIN user u ON u.userid = p.userid WHERE news='1' AND (( u.usergroupid = 6 OR u.usergroupid = 5 OR u.usergroupid = 7 ) AND visible =  '1' AND ( pagetext LIKE  '%[news]%' OR pagetext LIKE  '%[NEWS]%' ) AND ( pagetext LIKE  '%[/news]%' OR pagetext LIKE  '%[/NEWS]%' )) ORDER  BY dateline DESC  LIMIT 500

This is not tested but should work.. However please notice that this can increase query return time to a certain extend (especially in large dbs) as to query usergroupid we need to connect our SQL query to user table too. I can't say anything how much it will effect. You can turn on $run_time_config variable and test yourself.. For small databases it will not be a big deal anyway..

Enjoy.

Tobad · #**104** 02-02-2003, 04:46 PM

Yes I got it working, sorry didn't have time to post back. All I had to do was to update the path in the first line in the index.php.

From:
<?php include ('newsconfig.php');?>

To:
<?php include ('/www/t/tobad/htdocs/newsconfig.php');?>

I guess this is something new with the new version of PHP. It needs the full path.

Thanks for looking at it though.

cuba · #**105** 02-05-2003, 07:39 PM

hi

has anybody of you a german version of this news addon ???

thankz

cuba

cuba · #**106** 02-06-2003, 08:11 PM

hi logician

i've just installed your news hack, i think i have a problem with the vbcode...i've attached a printscreen...and in my index.php i get the message: no news at the moment !?!?

what's wrong?

best regards

cuba

cuba · #**107** 02-07-2003, 08:37 AM

@ logician

i got a problem with your hack: when i test the news vbcode in my admin cp it doesn't display a text (news) i got stripes ???

and on my index.php the message: "no news at the moment" appears !

what's wrong ???

thanks in advance for your kind help ! is it perhaps a language problem, i live in switzerland, my board is in german !?!?

regards

cuba

Logician · #**108** 02-12-2003, 06:36 PM

Quote:

and on my index.php the message: "no news at the moment" appears !

what's wrong ???

Have you marked any post as news by inserting [news]Title of the news[/news] tag in it?

If yes, also check the options you set in the phpheader.php file. For instance if you set $news_forums or $news_posters variables in the options, your news forum or news poster should comply with this..

DaPro · #**109** 02-13-2003, 07:45 PM

Hi Logician, I am a new b so I just wanted to know this:

I plan on using this script as a commenter more than a news script because I think this can work, but the problem I have is that I have different pages with different topics to comment on, so I was wondering is it possible to make certian comments go into pages? SOrry if this has been asked before, but I just wanted to know if this is possible without having to add this hack over and over. Thanks Lovely Hack!

Logician · #**110** 02-14-2003, 09:58 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by DaPro
Hi Logician, I am a new b so I just wanted to know this:

I plan on using this script as a commenter more than a news script because I think this can work, but the problem I have is that I have different pages with different topics to comment on, so I was wondering is it possible to make certian comments go into pages? SOrry if this has been asked before, but I just wanted to know if this is possible without having to add this hack over and over. Thanks Lovely Hack!

If I understand you correctly, nope sorry, it's not possible with this hack..

gopherhockey · #**111** 02-18-2003, 01:15 AM

I have a few non-vb hacks installed on our index.shtml file - last 10, recent images (from photopost) - this hack would be nice.. however, I cannot rename my index file to a .php extension as it ruins the other hacks.

Is there a way to run it under an index.shtml file?

I read the threads quickly and didn't see anything like this, which surprises me.

Thanks.

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