PluhNews 1.5

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:

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...*

[Dark_Wizard]

Kayn >>> Did you implement the time fix I sent you? Let me know what else I can help with....keep up the great work!

[Kayn]

I wanted to let you all know that I'm going to try and have line breaks and VBcode working on Sunday, but that depends on how things go this weekend for me (I have a show on Saturday, and those are exhausting for me).

Dark Wizard added some stuff and sent it over to me (which is really handy), so I'll be implemeting those additions as well. I'll keep you updated.

Originally posted by Kayn
I wanted to let you all know that I'm going to try and have line breaks and VBcode working on Sunday, but that depends on how things go this weekend for me (I have a show on Saturday, and those are exhausting for me).

Dark Wizard added some stuff and sent it over to me (which is really handy), so I'll be implemeting those additions as well. I'll keep you updated.

good line breaks

im getting tired of <br>'s

[jarvis]

Not to stray off-topic here, but...

RobAC,

That home page for you is HTML?!? It looks like a php portal of sorts.

[White Knight]

Just some help from me if you want to do the ssi command. This is what I have on my website www.sportbikes.net

<!--#include file="forums/news.php"-->

parses in nicely

[MarkB]

Great hack, exactly what I was after, and now I even have it working!

http://www.metaltours.com/

[RobAC]

Originally posted by jarvis
Not to stray off-topic here, but...

RobAC,

That home page for you is HTML?!? It looks like a php portal of sorts.

It's pure html. I shaped it to look like php portal in appearance, but everything that's running on it that's forum related is through individual hacks.

[jarvis]

It's pure html

Thanks for the reply, Rob.

I'm trying to do something similar as the:

"0 Comment(s) Last comment was by Fred"

on my page, but I really do not want to implement all of the features of PluhNews. I manually type in the articles and links and photos, but I would love to replace my "Discuss this post" with the above real-time counter.

The only way I see I'd be able to do it with PluhNews is to call an unique file for each article and manually specify the threadid's in each file, i.e. news1.php, news2.php, etc.

Any ideas, or would I have to go all or none in order to do this. My site is www.mhogaming.com so that you may see exactly what I am talking about.

Thanks!!

[sysmom]

I installed this yesterday without any troubles and am ever so pleased with it.

Heck, even my boss is pleased with it!

Thank you!

[Redmak]

There's an easy way to have vbcode and linebreaks and stuff interpreted by vbulletin so it shows up on your main news page.

Make sure the following line is added to the news script

PHP Code:

require("./global.php"); 


To have the message parsed by vbulletin add the following:

PHP Code:

  $bericht=bbcodeparse2($pagetext,"1","1","1","1"); 


$bericht is now the formatted message

The 1's stand for "dohtml,dobbimagecode,dosmilies,dobbcode"


Enjoy