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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

lasto · #**162** 09-19-2003, 12:19 AM

yep ok but u still need to do it to phpheader

i aint installed it m8 so only going off a quick read of the install instructions.

But u deffo missing some tables thats for sure

copyninja · #**163** 09-19-2003, 12:24 AM

ehh.. i did it in the phpheader.. and i know im missing the tables ... i guess ill wait for Logician to respond...

Logician · #**164** 09-19-2003, 09:58 AM

Quote:

"mySQL error:Table 'db-name.post' doesn't exist" ..

Make sure you edited this section in phpheader.php file correctly:

PHP Code:


			
## Username and password to log onto your MYSQL database server

$dbusername='test'; //MYSQL username

$dbpassword='pass'; //MYSQL password



## Name of the MYSQL database that vbulletin data exits. 

$dbname='testdb';

Especially make sure you entered dbname correctly because the error indicates that the name you entered there is not your vbulletin database. You can check "forum/admin/config.php" to make sure what database is your vb is using.

Quote:

I use a portal system where everything has a set place in boxes etc - but in these boxes i can enter any html code i want and it works.

Now if i install this hack - i know u can mark certain posts to be shown on a front page but what commands are used on the front page to actually call this in ??

This is hard to answer. You may try to apply STEP 2 into your portal file and this may work but there is no guarentee because you are now trying to incorporate this hack to an alien script. There might be unexpected problems: For example some function names or variables names in both scripts can be same and they might clash etc.

copyninja · #**165** 09-19-2003, 10:20 AM

O ok so im supposed to you the same database the vB is using? ... damn im dumb lol.. i made a whole new databse for this lol, i'll change it when i come home today afterschool.

copyninja · #**166** 09-19-2003, 10:41 AM

ok i did what you said...

and i wrote several news threads....and when i look @ where the news is supposed to go to.. it just says

"News has been compiled in 0.0143 seconds."

and it shows no news though/

Logician · #**167** 09-19-2003, 10:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by copyninja

ok i did what you said...

and i wrote several news threads....and when i look @ where the news is supposed to go to.. it just says

"News has been compiled in 0.0143 seconds."

and it shows no news though/

Check your phpheader.php very carefully and make sure every config applies to your board.

For instance your problem usually happens because you didn't edit the part:

PHP Code:


			
## News Posters' Names

## You set here which users can post news. Use their forum names and be careful about caps.

## if you want all members to post news (of course if they know the relevant tags) simply put // just in the begining of the line

$news_posters=array("Admin", "Poster2");

copyninja · #**168** 09-19-2003, 11:00 AM

yes i edited that ...

PHP Code:


			
## News Posters' Names

## You set here which users can post news. Use their forum names and be careful about caps.

## if you want all members to post news (of course if they know the relevant tags) simply put // just in the begining of the line

$news_posters=array("Rocky", "Poster2");

Logician · #**169** 09-19-2003, 11:07 AM

and checked other phpheader.php options too? Say:

PHP Code:


			
## Forum IDs open to News Posting

## Script will compile the news from these forums only. 

## To learn what a forum's id is, login CP, go to Forums&Moderators/Modify, Put your mouse ON forum name you want to learn its ID

## and you'll see the ID number in IE's taskbar. 

## if you want all forums to be open to news posting simply put // just in the begining of the line

$news_forums=array("1");

copyninja · #**170** 09-19-2003, 06:51 PM

Thank you very much .. i just need to change the way the news looks when posted, thank you for all the quick reposnses

copyninja · #**171** 09-19-2003, 08:06 PM

o damn sorry to double post but ... my concern is not post count of these boards lol neways...

i would like to change the format of the date in 2 ways ..

i would delete the part that says "Past Date:" because i dont need that part...

also i would like the date to read (random date) .."9/18/2003 at 'time'"

ALSO this right here may be asking alot lol so if it is you dont have accomodate this request, anyway you think you make it so that the time is in a 12hour format and then you can use am or pm ...

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