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

[Battle_Ring]

will this work with 3.6

[davidw]

Yes

[doggy1]

This appears to be a great hack and thank you for offering it. However, I had to remove it because it caused delays with members trying to post on the forum and every now and then an error message that the page could not be displayed would appear. Anyone else having this and is there a way to fix it? Thanks.

[davidw]

Which version did you use? Did you try the legacy version? Just curious.

[doggy1]

Originally Posted by christianb

Which version did you use? Did you try the legacy version? Just curious.

I did not try the legacy version, but maybe if I learn to read I would have seen that you have addressed this already with this version. LOL!

I will this version and see what happens. Thanks for the reply!

[doggy1]

Originally Posted by christianb

for the second part, in the edit the plugin in the plugin manager, find vB News Ticker under forumhome_complete.
Look for     and put a - (hyphen) in between the two   symbols.

Product appears to now work! Thank you. Now.....

I am trying to find out how to get into forumhome_complete to add this hyphen. I am able to get to the edit section of the plugin manager but don't know how to get where I need to go for the edit.

Thanks!

[davidw]

Actually, you don't have to do that now - its in the adminCP
Just put something like

  -  

in the ticker separator.
Don't forget to click install

[doggy1]

Originally Posted by christianb

Actually, you don't have to do that now - its in the adminCP
Just put something like

  -  

in the ticker separator.
Don't forget to click install

Worked perfectly and one click for this product!

I have to see if there is a way to change the colors and if you can put the feature on other pages, not just on forumhome. If so it will even be more awesome!

[davidw]

The new version I changed it from forumhome_complete to global_start and I was able to use it in the header and on other pages. Just play around with that.

What did you have in mind on the colors?

[doggy1]

Originally Posted by christianb

The new version I changed it from forumhome_complete to global_start and I was able to use it in the header and on other pages. Just play around with that.

What did you have in mind on the colors?

I will try to add it to the other pages.

As for the colors, it will probably be easier just to show you the hack on the forum. We do have several styles but it blends in too much with the surroundings. I'm still trying to decide on colors but take a look if you get the chance. Plus, other members here can see how well your hack is working!

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