Forum Home Enhancements - News Cast for Forumhome

A News Caster which grab the latest threads in forum X, listing them on Forumhome page, just below the navbar.

This was very popular for InvisionBoard since the begining, and as there is none on vB, as i needed one, i coded one...

Here are the settings, in: AdminCP >> vBulletin Options >> Nexia's Forumhome Newscast Settings

This engine will list all the latests threads, based on which forumid you put in the list. It generate only a single additional query on forumhome to grab the news, it have a simple display you can modify at will from the templates.

the engine is without template or file or database edits, just import this product file.

on december 30th 2009, version 1.5.0, added BBCode Parsing in the settings so you can show images/links or not.

[apiasto]

great,thankzzz

[betts02]

dont know if you understood me correctly mate.

what i mean is if i post up some text with a link say :

todays weather can be found at www.url.co.uk

when its posted up in the news cast it just has the text, the url for the www.url.co.uk is not clickable

everything else works fine

[vbenhancer]

with that update, the link is supposed to be active... if you understand bbcodes.

[betts02]

not really mate, just starting out with vb tbh, but getting there slowly.lol

but will update it mate and cheers for the responce

[SMosher]

Great addition nexia. Above the rest!

[betts02]

works a treat now mate, many thanks

a great addition to keep members informed of certain threads/posts

[jiffylb1]

got this error when activating it
Database error in vBulletin 3.8.4:
Invalid SQL:
SELECT post.pagetext AS preview,
thread.threadid, thread.title AS threadtitle, thread.forumid, pollid, open, postusername, postuserid, thread.iconid AS threadiconid,
thread.dateline, notes, thread.visible, sticky, votetotal, thread.attach, thread.lastpost, thread.lastposter, thread.lastpostid, thread.replycount, IF(thread.views<=thread.replycount, thread.replycount+1, thread.views) AS views,
thread.prefixid, thread.taglist, hiddencount, deletedcount

FROM thread AS thread
LEFT JOIN post AS post ON(post.postid = thread.firstpostid)

WHERE NOT ISNULL(thread.threadid)
AND thread.forumid IN (0,68,10,131,76,18,112,128,123,120,)
AND thread.visible = '1'
AND thread.open != '10'
ORDER BY thread.threadid DESC
LIMIT 0, 19;
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 thread.visible = '1'
AND thread.open != '10'
ORDER BY thread.thre' at line 10
Error Number : 1064
Request Date : Friday, January 1st 2010 @ 02:38:07 PM
Error Date : Friday, January 1st 2010 @ 02:38:07 PM
Script : http://www.clearwaterbiker.biz/forums/index.php
Referrer : http://www.clearwaterbiker.biz/forum...ex.php?do=head
IP Address : 72.185.52.17
Username : admin
Classname : vb_database
MySQL Version : 4.1.22

[vbenhancer]

drop the final comma you have in the list of forumids you have in the system...

edit: i'll post a fixed version later, it's just a strip of pointless characters...

[cozmin]

Why don't you add some option where the news cast can be put ?

Some permission, for ex. unregistered users cannot see the news cast

[vtck]

great work, :up:

if one is able to insert url where table of latest threads to be located, it would be better than current just select forum home - yes or no. Insert url in text box.

And instead of NewsCast, insert Title in text box.

Also looking for a table format of latest threads with buttons on the left and just title of the thread on the right hand side, such a table format of latest threads to be displayed on .php extensions.