vB News Ticker

What does this do? It allows you to take your news from your news forums (up to 9 news forums) and display them. You have a choice on how many you can pull from each forum, how fast you want the ticker to scroll, the length of the title of each news item, etc.

This works on 3.5.4, 3.5.5, and should work on pretty much any of the 3.5.x. I've not tested this for 3.6, but I have been told that it does work for 3.6.

Install/Upgrade Instructions

Step 1: Go to your admin Control Panel => Styles & Templates => Style Manager
Find your Master/Parent style or the style you wish to add this to and drop down the All Style Options menu dropdown and choose Edit Templates
Click Go if it does not redirect you
Open up your Forum Home Templates subdirectory and choose your FORUMHOME template

Find

PHP Code:

<!-- main --> 


Add above

PHP Code:

$vbnews_ticker 


Click Save & Reload

Step 2: Go to your admin Control Panel => Plugin System => Manage Products => [Add/Import Product];
Click Browse and find product-christianb_vbnews_ticker.xml
Remove contents of second line ./includes/xml/product.xml
Click the button next to Yes in Allow Overwrite
Click Import

Step 3: Go to your admin Control Panel => vBulletin Options => vBulletin Options => vB News Ticker => [Edit Settings]
Alter Settings as appropriate
*** IMPORTANT *** Make sure that if you do not enter an item in the forumIDs after the first one, the rest must be set to 0
- if it is not set to 0 or a forumid number, it will result in a database error.
Click Save

I've included the readme and the .xml Product/Plugin in the zip file.

If there are features you'd like to see for a future release, please let me know.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the forumid?
The forumid is the id of the forum you have created. Each forum has its own unique number assigned to it. When you click on a forum link you can see a number that is assigned to it. This will show up in the URL of the page you are browsing. Another way of seeing the forumid is to go to your admin control panel => Forums & Moderators => Forum Manager => Click on [Expand All] and then move your mouse over (hover) any of the forums you've created. Your status bar (bottom of screen) should display your forumid (number at the end of the link/url).

How do I add the news ticker to the IBProArcade or Photoplog?
Thanks to Mark.B for his add - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=144

Changes

1.0.4 Added security

1.0.3 Changed the hook location from forumhome_complete to global_start giving admin ability to put the news ticker most places rather than in forum home.
Updated the query to remove a JOIN that may have been causing delays.

1.0.2 Added instructions to comment out unneccessary query pulls in the array to reduce wait times.
Optimized the query by removing non-essential SELECTs.
Added option for user to separate news items in admincp.
Fixed IE whitespace issue for ticker height as seen here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....3&postcount=28

1.0.1 Fixed a width issue as seen here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....3&postcount=12


Known Bugs/Issues:
From my testing on the new updates, when I (or a user on my site) clicks on any of the links that has the news ticker, it works fine, but when I or a user hits the refresh button, it can hang. I'm unsure why this is happening.

Temporary demo location:
http://www.christianboards.org/forum.php

[davidw]

Yes it is - I initially created it while I used version 5

[baklash]

hey i installed it and its in the system but where do i add the news? lol i cant not find it lmaoo

[davidw]

You make all changes (add forumids for example) in the admincp options
Admincp => vBulletin Options => vBulletin Options => vB News Ticker

Don't forget to click install

[SBlueman]

The ticker seems to be working on my forum home:
http://gridironfans.com/forums/index.php

But not on my vbadvanced index page:
http://gridironfans.com/

What can be done to fix this?

[SBlueman]

Nevermind, I found this post and it answered my question:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=103

Ok, here's what I have read... you need to add the plugin titles to Portal Output Global Variables in your CMPS options. I am not sure how to navigate there as I don't have access to this atm.

Edit reading another thread, the way is: Admin CP => vBa CMPS => Default Settings => Portal Output Global Variables
Thanks, that got it working perfectly. I just added ticker_titles and vbnews_ticker into there and its working like a charm.

[Alfa1]

I would really like some effects, like http://eurosport.yahoo.com/ or http://news.bbc.co.uk/
Would you consider to add this?

[SBlueman]

I like how the Yahoo link you put up allows you to scroll back and forth. I was using the RSS News Ticker from CoffeeCup before having to uninstall it because of a security flaw (hattip to Alfa1 for the heads up) but it allowed you to scroll back and forth. It's the only feature missing that I am missing from the CoffeeCup code.

[davidw]

I've actually considered working on adding something like the second link. The first link would be something I'd have to look into as I've not seen that one as of yet. Let me see what I can do when I get some time.

[Alfa1]

How do you change the background colour?
I want to decrease the height of my ticker. The height of my ticker does not change when changing the setting in vb options. I have already set it to 1, but that does not help. Any ideas?
I do have the ticker in VBA CMPS.
This is my template:

PHP Code:

<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" class="tborder" width="100%">
<thead>
        <tr>
            <td class="tcat" colspan="$mods[colspan]">
            
            <span class="smallfont"><strong>$vba_style[portal_blockbullet] <if condition="$mods['link']"><a href="$mods[link]">$mods[title]</a><else />$mods[title]</if></strong></span></td>
        </tr>
    </thead>    
   
    <tr>
<td
style="height: 0px; width: 100%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">      
$vbnews_ticker 
</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table><br /> 


[davidw]

To change the background color you should be able to just edit the $vbnews_ticker template and add something like this in this div tag:

<div align="center" style="padding:7px">

right before the "> add

 z-index: -1;  background-color:#FF0000; layer-background-color:#FF0000;

- change the colors as necessary.
Also, remove the padding:7px to adjust the height (or change the number to a lower number).