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...*

[garymill]

Not sure how to pull the news onto my main page from the news.php script.

I would appreciate your help in doing this.

Thanks,

Gary

[RobAC]

Originally posted by garymill
Not sure how to pull the news onto my main page from the news.php script.

I would appreciate your help in doing this.

Thanks,

Gary

You need to use a server side include on your home page.

[Kayn]

Well, unfortunately you cannot include the file on an index.html page.

The page has to be either .php or .phtml - whichever your server is configured to parse php code.

You can then include it like so:

PHP Code:

<?  include ("news.php"); ?>

Hope that helps.

[garymill]

Thanks for everyone's help, after making the post, I thought that maybe an SSI would work.


This hack is really terrific, and you can see my site at
CyberMacro

Gary

[RobAC]

Well....it's running on my home page as an SSI and it works. And, my home page is an HTML document.

[garymill]

Right Rob, in my last post I did not make it clear that it is working for my as an ssi on my html based front page.

Gary

[White Knight]

Accually I am running mine on my index.html page. Via SSI. No problems as of yet.

sorry if this was answerd but

is there any news on getting vB code and line breaks to work yet ??

[SuitCase]

Originally posted by Kayn
Suitcase, I don't see why you couldn't. You can copy and rename the the hack file to pluhnews2.php and configure it to whatever forum you wanted. That way you could have tons of different news forums if you chose.

That's good to know, thanks.

Originally posted by Kayn
Another feature I was working on is categories. I have a 'rigged' version of categories on http://pluh.com if you want to see it. If that would be an interesting feature, let me know and I'll plug it in. Thanks!

They look nice, but personally I wouldn't need them. I'm sure many others would, though... Maybe have it as a selectable option in the next release.

Oh, I just thought of something that's possible with this hack... A picture for each news post! All one would need to do is make an <IMG src="webhost.com/news/images/thumbnails/$threadid"> somewhere in the HTML, and perhaps have it link to another image with the $threadid for a full sized image. Hey, that's cool... Thanks for the hack, it's very flexible!

[Kayn]

Originally posted by RobAC
Well....it's running on my home page as an SSI and it works. And, my home page is an HTML document.

Woa, I learned something new today about SSI's.

Line breaks and other stuff are on the way...