Add-On Releases - News in Portal module for vBCMPS

-! News in Portal Module For vBCMPS !-

-! Thanks to Oyadus, M4GN3T and Dexter 145 ! -

This is for use with the vBadvanced Portal not the vBCMS!

Hi all,

This is my first mod here on vB.org. I'm not really experienced in coding for vBulletin but i did achieve something i wanted to. I created a module which basically loads a news topic out of your forum within the vBCMPS portal. This gives the website a better look instead of everything looking forum-based.

I would also like to say that everyone is free to add or enchance the script, the only thing i ask is upload the one you modded/enchanced here in the topic .

Demo; http://www.ps3-sense.nl/?pageid=nieuws&t=5445

Install:

1) Upload all contents in the upload folder.

2) Go to the admincp of your vBulletin installation and navigate to the vBCMPS tab. Click on 'Add Page' and select Module page.

Settings for page;

Page title: news
Page identifier: news

now save.

3) Now go to the vBCMPS tab again and hit 'Add module', now choose for PHP File Module. Under file to include choose news_in_portal.php

Settings for module;

Module title; Just type something
Module parent; none
Initialize BB Code Parser; yes
Initialize Forum Permissions; yes
Clean file output; yes
Use Module Wrapper Template; no

4) Now place the module on the page you created @ step 2.

5) Type the following url in the browser;

http://www.your_forum.com/?pageid=[Page identifier (step2!)]&t=[Thread number]

6) For a demo check out here:

http://www.ps3-sense.nl/?pageid=nieuws&t=5445

[Robru]

Thanks, I think that's very usefull

[Spank]

Originally Posted by M4GN3T

If you use the standard news module it redirects every newspost to your forum, which doesn't give you a 'website' feeling. But by adding this phrase:

<span class="smallfont"><a href="{1}?pageid=[page identifier]&{3}t={2}"><b>[read more]</b></a></span>


All your newsposts gets loaded inside the portal, something vBCMPS never accomplished.

For example;
Redirect with vBCMPS: http://www.ps3-sense.nl/showthread.p...45.html?t=5445
With this module: http://www.ps3-sense.nl/?pageid=nieuws&t=5445

That's pretty good, thanks for clearing that up. I'll install soon.

[rm-rf]

Installed 2 times,,,, will not show any threads from my forums.

vba 3.1.0

vb 3.7.4

[rm-rf]

Ok I figured it out. there is a line in the PHP file you need to edit to tell the module which forums it is allowed to use threads from. Got it working now.

[Alfa1]

Does this comply with Google news qualifications?

[rm-rf]

This mod needs a preview module. I have sort of faked it on my site by making a hidden preview thread. I took a look at the news.php and am not quite sure how to pass the generated [read more] as a link to this portal mod.

this is the line out of news.php that I would need to modify to make the [read more] links go to the new page.

 $news['message'] .= '...' . construct_phrase($vbphrase['read_more'], $vbulletin->options['bburl'], $news['threadid'], $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl']);

Any php gurus out there know how to recode that up to the 'threadid' to pass this url
http://www.microracing.com/?pageid=columns&t=5080

to see how I using this mod check http://www.microracing.com/index.php...ticles_columns

[M4GN3T]

Originally Posted by rm-rf

This mod needs a preview module. I have sort of faked it on my site by making a hidden preview thread. I took a look at the news.php and am not quite sure how to pass the generated [read more] as a link to this portal mod.

this is the line out of news.php that I would need to modify to make the [read more] links go to the new page.

 $news['message'] .= '...' . construct_phrase($vbphrase['read_more'], $vbulletin->options['bburl'], $news['threadid'], $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl']);

Any php gurus out there know how to recode that up to the 'threadid' to pass this url
http://www.microracing.com/?pageid=columns&t=5080

to see how I using this mod check http://www.microracing.com/index.php...ticles_columns

Just search for the read more phrase and replace it by this:

<span class="smallfont"><a href="{1}?pageid=columns&{3}t={2}"><b>[Read more]</b></a></span>

[Volvoholic]

I have the same problem. Can't get any threads to show.

Where can I find the news.php file? Many thanks for putting up with a newbie

Thanks.

[Infopro]

What's this mean?

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.0:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT
post.*, post.postid, post.userid, post.username, post.title, post.dateline, post.pagetext,
thread.forumid, thread.views, thread.replycount, user.*

FROM post AS post
LEFT JOIN user AS user ON(user.userid = post.userid)


LEFT JOIN thread AS thread ON(thread.threadid = post.threadid)
WHERE post.threadid =
AND post.visible = 1
ORDER BY post.dateline asc;

MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'AND post.visible = 1
ORDER BY post.dateline asc' at line 11

[MarkFoster]

Originally Posted by Infopro

What's this mean?

I got same problem.