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...*

[Lethal]

anyone know who to have this script use vbulletins styles for colors and stuff like that. I have the script in my forums directory and it is included on a page outside of the forums directory. I try using stuff like {categoryfontcolor} and stuff like that but it either gives me a parse error or shows a wierd color or just doesn't show up. Any ideas?

[EnriqueHavoc]

im also wondering how to get avatars working for newsposts. im close but just cant seem to get it to work. I can get avatars showing up for whos logged in, but not for the damn news posts :P

anyone still supporting this hack? id hate to have to completely remove pluh and install a different one just for avatars

[sauron2002]

i was wondering if you have fixed it so when your not logged into the forums and the forums is "logged in only" style you dont see the login page interfere with the site and not the recent posts

[Lethal]

Is there going to be an updated version on this anytime soon?

[Brew]

Has anyone gotten this to work with PostNuke or PhPnuke?

I have applied every fix in this thread. I got it so I can go the pluhnews.php from the root and it displays fine.

But in PostNuke I have tried all the different block types there that would work and I either get blank pages or errors. I have included the pluhnews.php, I have used php type blocks and inserted all the code into that that is in pluhnews.php, I have used the php type blocks and used php includes.

Nothing has worked.

If this hack isn't the right one to work for getting news posted from vBulletin to a PostNuke main page can you tell me which hack it would take?

Thank you so much!

Brew

[Crazy Pete]

Ok this is irritating me. I had previously had another news script working for me on my old board (not vB), but this one just doesn't want to.

It works fine if you go to the script directly... http://www.expectedmiracles.com/forums/PluhNews.php

But if you go to the page which calls that script, you get a blank section where it's supposed to be... http://www.expectedmiracles.com/index2.php

My include looks like:
<?php include("/s/expectedmiracles.com/httpdocs/forums/PluhNews.php");?>

Which is exactly how I had my old one working, the only difference being the script name. Anyone have any ideas?


Edit -- Nevermind, I got it going. Well, apart from the smilies but I guess I can live without them. How easy would it be to limit the output to a certain amount of characters rather than displaying the whole post at once?

[todd.o.callen]

I have a headlines page that reads a moderated forum.

BIG PROBLEM: the headlines show, even if they have not been approved yet. The links to unapproved posts yield bad thread errors, so all is not lost, but if the unapproved thread says something like "You guys suck" , then some damage is already done. I use this on a corporate intranet homepage, and have been lucky thus far...

[Zivilyn]

Hmm, I loaded my php page with the includes etc, but for
<? include ("PluhNews.php"); ?> I get this:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare stripslashesarray() (previously declared in C:\forums\upload\global.php:31) in C:\forums\upload\global.php on line 31

[Aaron1]

I installed the Pluhnews hack on my forum:
As you can see here it works fine:

http://www.housequake.com/forum/PluhNews.php

But what i want to do, just doesn't work for me somehow.
I can include <?php include ("http://www.housequake.com/forum/PluhNews.php"); ?>
in my index.php, that works for me aswell, but it parses the pluhnews in the beginning of my forum homepage, and that looks awfull.

I just like to add the pluhnews in a certain place in my forumhome template. Just like i can move the $pminfo or $loggedinusers in any place i want. Is this possible?

Or in other words, how do i incorperate the content generated by PluhNews.php, in my forumhome template?

Thanks for helping me out!

[www.tfw2005.com]

AVATAR

AVATAR

AVATAR

AVATAR

ICONS

ICONS

ICONS

ICONS

ICONS


I finally find the perfect news script, install it in 2 minutes, and spend hours on trying to get it to pull the damn avatar or icon.

PLEASE, SOMEONE WRITE THIS OUT for us, Ill pay you!

thanks