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About Developer · **Released**: 07-02-2001

UPDATED! Woohoo!

I just fixed/added stuff from version 1.0!

Download the new version 1.5 if you have the old 1.0 - lots of better features.

From the readme.txt:

Quote:

This script isn't really a hack, just an external script that pulls information out of the VBulletin Database for news
or whatever reason you see fit. It's easy to install and configure, and has tons of the same features that many other
news scripts have, except you don't have to modify any Vbulletin source code (which I'm never comfortable doing
for some reason, but that's just me

.

I had a really rough time finding a good, EASY news script that did what this does. I searched and found some, but
it really came down to easy installation. I didn't want to modify MySql tables or mess with the advanced Vbulletin
source (well, to me anyway). So I wrote this script. Yer.

This script was intended for VBulletin 2.0 only (I don't know if it will work with previous releases) and PHP4.

Working Demos can be found in use at http://pluh.com/forums/PluhNews.php and for headlines,
http://pluh.com/forums/PluhHeadlines.php

After you install, if at all possible, I would appreciate some credit to my script. A link to http://pluh.com
on your page before or after your news would be great. Let me know when you have it installed too - I love
seeing my stuff working on other websites!

You can check out the raw demo here for PluhNews: http://pluh.com/forums/PluhNews.php

And Headlines! http://pluh.com/forums/PluhHeadlines.php

Let me know if you like it! (Thanks Dark Wizard and Bane)

*NOTE: I will not be able to provide support for this hack, as I am extremely busy. Sorry...*

SystemLogic · #**362** 02-20-2002, 04:14 PM

Yeah they are calling the right path, also PluhNews, PluhHeadlines, and PluhConfig are all located in the VB directory.....

Gutspiller · #**363** 02-20-2002, 04:31 PM

Yes they have to be in there, but the file that they are included in, the file that I told you to put those required lines before the < html > tag. That file has to be in there as well.

This simple post here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...397#post219397

Puts it out there, and I think it's pretty much the truth.

You can use the refresh html command to make it go there like I do. When people go to www.GameForumz.com it loads an index file that has this line

<META http-equiv=Refresh content=0;URL=http://www.theforumz.com/forumz/news.php>

right after the <html > tag. Is what it tells the browser to do, is instantly refresh the browser and go to my news page that IS within my vb directory. This is the easiest way I have foudn to get this script to work. Then in my news page I have this line

<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="300">

Which tells the news page to refresh ever 5 minutes. This makes it so that when the page is updated, people will know about it, at a maximum time of 5 minutes since it was last updated. You can use longer if it's a page that is only updated a few times a day or something. This is what I do and it seems to work. MY only problem is that the script gets this error at the bottom of the page:

Warning: 1 is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /home/theforum/public_html/forumz/admin/db_mysql.php on line 93

There seems to have been a slight problem with the database. Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.

An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can also contact if the problem persists.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

Database error in vBulletin: Invalid SQL: UPDATE session SET lastactivity=1014229334,location='/forumz/gamingnews.php',styleid=1 WHERE sessionhash='58b532c55d874f83029b1708f688821d'
mysql error:
mysql error number:
Date: Wednesday 20th of February 2002 10:22:20 AM
Script: /forumz/gamingnews.php
Referer:

which I have narrowed down to if you have both the headlines and the news file running on the same page it gives that error. The news by itself doesn't give that error and the headlines by itself doesn't give that error. I have been working on getting rid of this error for quite some time, but have still been unsuccessful on doing so.

I am going to email Kayn today and see if he can help with this error. If not, then even after all the tweaking and hacking on this error and 25 pages of posts, nobody will know how to get this hack to run. If I find out more I will let you know though. :up:

SystemLogic · #**364** 02-20-2002, 04:43 PM

Well I do have those require's before <html> in the index file....

Gutspiller · #**365** 02-20-2002, 04:46 PM

Do you have the index file in your vb directory though? and if you don't and you move it, make sure you change the paths in those require lines and let me know if that works. If it does, then that is as much as anybody has gotten this hack to work. If it doesn't then you do have other problems.... which I wouldn't know how to fix really, because my file is in my forum directory and it works.

SystemLogic · #**366** 02-20-2002, 04:50 PM

Just tried it in there and it didn't work still...

Gutspiller · #**367** 02-20-2002, 04:59 PM

hmm. Well if you can, email me your news,headlines,config and the index file calling them and I will take a look at them and see if I can see what's wrong.

Webmaster@CuttingTheEdge.com

Hamma · #**368** 02-20-2002, 05:00 PM

My file is outside of my forum directory. I had those stripslash and header errors at one point too. I ended up haxing the code that was causing the error and making a global2.php, that fixed it

I am able to include my news on a file outside of the forum dir now.

However I dont recall getting that smily error

SystemLogic · #**369** 02-20-2002, 07:30 PM

Hamma, how did you fix that striplash error?

Hamma · #**370** 02-20-2002, 08:39 PM

I removed a few lines of code from global.php and saved a second copy, global2.php

Im not exactly sure what I removed.. since it was a while ago. I suppose I could attach the file.. ill have to get it when I get home.

SystemLogic · #**371** 02-20-2002, 08:44 PM

Thanks

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