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

[N FUL FX]

Nah couldn't find anything. It was fine before. It's not a big deal, I just don't know where that would suddenly come from. Thanks for the tip though!

[oaddah]

thanks my frind

installed

[rnmcd]

What is the latest version of vB that you have found this hack to work in?

[darkskies1]

I was wondering, is there anyway to get this to pull from the categories instead of just the forums? Is there any chance you will be adding it for more then 9 forums?

It's an awesome, well loved mod within my members. Thanks!

[davidw]

Originally Posted by rnmcd

What is the latest version of vB that you have found this hack to work in?

I have a 3.7.x version here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=167061

Originally Posted by darkskies1

I was wondering, is there anyway to get this to pull from the categories instead of just the forums? Is there any chance you will be adding it for more then 9 forums?

It's an awesome, well loved mod within my members. Thanks!

I'm not sure if categories would work, but you could try the respective id in there and test that. How many were you interested in? Any changes I make will probably be to the latest version.

[leitel]

It looks like the ticker is not updating to reflect the newest x entries. I disabled and then re-enabled the product with no change. It is working but with the original entries from each forum although there are newer entries posted into these forums.
Ideas? Suggestions?
Thank you

[davidw]

If I remember this correctly, this is based on thread creation date, so in order to get it to display by last response the query would have to be altered.

[leitel]

I will explore that but I expected the default behavior for it to show the latest 'news'.

[leitel]

From what I see, here is the query performed on each forum:

...
ORDER BY dateline DESC 
LIMIT " . $alllim . "

So basically, the query takes the latest x posts and adds them to the list to be displayed in the newsticker.

The queries look good however what appears in the ticker does represent the latest posts.

[davidw]

This version no longer supported. Only 3.7.x and higher is supported.