Add-On Releases - vB News CMS

Very similar to vB News CMS for 3.5, but a some of the code was rewritten. This now works with BBCode - (This includes line breaks, URLs, smilies, etc.). I've removed several lines and taken out have removed the dual option for SQL 4.1 or higher as a lot of people are still on the lower MySQL

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 works only for vbulletin 3.6.0 or higher.

There is a 3.7.x version here

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

V. 1.2a Added security for admins
V. 1.2 Added support for Who's Online

Things in consideration for future releases

1) Menu system that dynamically displays a menu based on forum choices.

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.

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

[jags2ooo]

Can this be also used on a non vb page? Pulling the info from a vb forum section then adding it in a new style format to a non vb page?

[Masiello]

Originally Posted by anzo

very cool, thank you Installed here: http://latforums.lv/vbnews.php

very bad layout, same as IE and FF

[davidw]

Originally Posted by jags2ooo

Can this be also used on a non vb page? Pulling the info from a vb forum section then adding it in a new style format to a non vb page?

I don't see why it can't be - its mainly queries and templates.

[Aotw]

Hey!
Trying to get this working on a page outside the forum folder, a non vb page. I have included the vbnews.php file into the page i want to show my news, but it somehow destroys the design of the page. It should be 3 colums with the news in the middle and the tables separated with a vertical dotted line.

Anyone have any ideas how to fix this issue?

[davidw]

Not offhand

[anzo]

Originally Posted by Masiello

very bad layout, same as IE and FF

what is bad about it?

[davidw]

I've updated to include Who's online support.

[Timan]

I have a question about this, could I rename the news.php to say index.php and move it out of the forums folder?

Say I have
\index.php (renamed news.php)
\board\ (forums folder)

Will that work?

[davidw]

Most likely, but you will need to edit each instance of vbnews.php and vbnews to index.php and index (respectively) in the php page. I've not tried it, but don't see why not.

[Timan]

I've had no luck getting this to work, out side of the forum folder. I keep getting the following error(s)

Warning: main(/home/aquasoft/public_html/includes/init.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/aquasoft/public_html/board/global.php on line 20

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/aquasoft/public_html/includes/init.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/aquasoft/public_html/board/global.php on line 20