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...*

[Steve Machol]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Infinite
This is my config file...

$forumspath = "/vb";

?>

Well, I tried two different paths. One of which was /public_html/vb and just /vb. Neither worked.

I'd give you a link, but my server just went down. VenturesOnline is changing hardware apparently.

But the link to the vb is www.ripthemic.net/vb

Pluh News is www.ripthemic.net/vb/pluhnews.php
Headlies is www.ripthemic.net/vb/pluhheadlines.php

Think that should do it.

I'll try and get the full path, smachol, when the board comes back up. I figured that'd be my last step to get this working.

Richard

Works now, there was a capitalization error. In WSFTP I like to have all remote extensions forced as lower case...I was trying it as lower case when it had to be uppercase.

Richard

[Kayn]

Funny how picky php is...

I learnt that the hard way.

[Redmak]

You don't need to add the require admin/config bit since this is already done by global.php

Also global.php connects to the mysql database so your connection isn't really necessary. Just use $DB_site instead of $db

Great little news add-on you got here


Thnx for the credit Bane

[RobAC]

I agree....for some reason, it doesn't look to good in Netscat though. If you have more than 5 news items, for some reason, the font goes haywire.

[SystemLogic]

Some reason it's not processing the required's in mine

Fatal error: Failed opening required './admin/config.php' (include_path='') in /path/to/boards/global.php on line 66

any ideas?

[sysmom]

[QUOTE]If you have more than 5 news items, for some reason, the font goes haywire.

[SystemLogic]

im positive that's not an issue

[Kayn]

I will check for bugs with the HTML. The issue is that the loop is spitting out the HTML in a strange manner. I think...

I'll work on updating that unnecessary require (thanks!)