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...*

[Gutspiller]

Yesterday at 02:29 PM upnorth said this in Post #500
is there any way to set the number of characters that are displayed followed by "..."?

yeah it's in the config file. Just look at the config file and it's all in there.

[upnorth]

These are the only items in the config file. I thought that $newsforums identified which forum to pull from, $newsitems identified how many threads to show at one time, and then $forumspath. Am I mistaken re $newsitems? IS this for the number of characters to display for each thread or am I missing something?

Code from config file:
========================
//Retrieve news from the correct forum, which is the forumid
$newsforums = 1;

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

//Path to your forums directory (leave out trailing slash)
$forumspath = "/forums";
==========================

[Gutspiller]

I must be thinking abut the Latest XX hack then. I use both quite a bit on my site: http://www.3dnewz.com

[upnorth]

anyone know what would need to be changed to get an attached image file to be displayed with this hack?

[D2Expansion]

awesome script
got it in use and integrated into my site at
www.d2expansion.com

but i have one thing i want to do, and it doesnt really have anthing todo with the script but rather with php

i split the $dateposted variable into 2 variables

PHP Code:

//gotta convert that damn unix time crap
$dateposted = date("D, M j",$dateline);
$timeposted = date("g:i A",$dateline);
//end the goodies 


wich displays it as:
$dateposted = Mon, Jul 21
$timeposted = 4:45 AM

i want $dateposted to display as Monday, July 21

is this possible?

thanks
Aku12

[ga.net]

Im getting this error:

Warning: main(): stream does not support seeking in /home/green/public_html/index_uaap.php on line 313


FYI, i inserted this tag in my html file and saved it as php

<? include ("http://www.greenarcher.net/forums/campusbuzz.php"); ?>

Hows this?

Thanks

[ga.net]

bump

[ProParadox]

I added a simple bit of code to make it not say last comment was posted by $username when there were no comments. Here it is:
";
if ($replycount[replycount]==0]){
echo "<a href=\"$forumspath/showthread.php?s=&threadid=$threadid\"><b>$replyco unt</b> $commenttext</a>";
}else{
echo "<a href=\"$forumspath/showthread.php?s=&threadid=$threadid\"><b>$replyco unt</b> $commenttext</a> Last comment was by <b>$lastposter</b>";
}
echo"

[SweetiePie*]

Hoping someone can help.

On my site, we are trying to PREVENT certain sections from being viewed in the Actice Topics list (www.clanbrats.com).

Any offers of suggestion?

[3DSJFH]

Any clues whether this can work with vB 3 betas at its current stage?