vB News CMS

What does this do? It allows you to take your news from your news forums (up to 9 news forums) and display them in a category-style fashion with the ability to add new content, reply to the original story, send to a friend, and print.

This is a limited 3.5.x version. For more features, such as parsing bbcode, you should use the 3.6.x version here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=133302

Thanks go out to sabret00the for his help on the project who helped out a lot, to peterska2 for testing and working with me on the templates, and to the beta testers for helping find potential problems and bugs to be fixed/worked out.


Install/Upgrade Instructions

Located in the zipped readme.txt file.


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).


Changes
Added security

Known Bugs/Issues:
1) - When you go to the page directly, the page acts as a normal page - however, if you click refresh on the page, the refresh stalls. I don't understand why this occurs.
2) - BBCode does not parse yet - I am looking into making it parse without causing problems.

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

[peterska2]

installed and used as a source for my RSS feeds instead of having a very busy looking forum with the content.

You can see how I have it set up here

[redlabour]

Originally Posted by peterska2

installed and used as a source for my RSS feeds instead of having a very busy looking forum with the content.

You can see how I have it set up here

For that it is a nice Idea. Sorry for my first Comment to this.

[RaceJunkie]

Can only one page be made? Just curious..

[davidw]

Originally Posted by RaceJunkie

Can only one page be made? Just curious..

In theory, I would assume you could make more than one page, provided you
A) Use the legacy version of the file
B) change the name of the file
C) edit this line

define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'vbnews');

to the name of the new file (without .php on the end)
D) Only use the sections you want for each script. They start with:

if (forumid1) {
    $getnews1 = $db->query_read("

and end with

    }
}

and leave ALL other code intact.

I've not tried this, so I don't know if it will work - but I suspect it could.

[RMS-Chef]

Nice style in that screenshot

[jugo]

Originally Posted by redlabour

I think it is useless. Nobody wants something like this if he can have a complete Portal like vBadvanced.

That was a useless post don't you think??

Way to support your fellow contributors.

I think it's a wonderful idea. in fact, I think this may be a starting point to replace the Defunct vBExternal Hack.

[dirtycrow]

this looks pretty cool, example of it working live tho? i have vbadvanced and wonder how i would incorporate this into my site.

[dirtycrow]

also, perhaps you could answer a question. I've tried to run news rss feeds on my site before, but the members complain that they don't want to see 1000 new threads just from the news feed in the "new posts" section."

is there any way to get newly created threads from the news feed not to show up on "new posts" until at least a couple of replies to the said threads?

[chriszep]

great !
exactely what i wanted
thanks a lot

[davidw]

Originally Posted by RMS-Chef

Nice style in that screenshot

Thanks - I like that style.

Originally Posted by dirtycrow

this looks pretty cool, example of it working live tho? i have vbadvanced and wonder how i would incorporate this into my site.

I have it running live http://www.christianboards.org/vbnews.php
All I did was not use the news function for the home page in vba admincp options and put a link for the page in my navigation menu on the left side of my home page.

Originally Posted by dirtycrow

also, perhaps you could answer a question. I've tried to run news rss feeds on my site before, but the members complain that they don't want to see 1000 new threads just from the news feed in the "new posts" section."

is there any way to get newly created threads from the news feed not to show up on "new posts" until at least a couple of replies to the said threads?

You can limit however many you want to show in the admincp options for vb news. In regards to post count, I'm not sure offhand, but it would have to be a query edit. I can look into this when I get time, but it could be a few days.