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vB News CMS · **Released**: 12-04-2006

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

yoyoyoyo · #52 10-07-2007, 07:34 PM

cool - thanks - just found this - works great. I tweaked it a bit to suit my forum, but I really like it. Thanks again.

davidw · #53 10-07-2007, 07:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blindchild02

no no, I still want the option to choose which forums, but I dont want them organized in categories, I'd rather them all be in 1 category and by date.

I don't think it would be that hard to do - all it boils down to is queries and how they are handled. Let me see what I can come up with.

Blindchild02 · #54 10-07-2007, 08:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by davidw

I don't think it would be that hard to do - all it boils down to is queries and how they are handled. Let me see what I can come up with.

thank you very much

:up:

Blindchild02 · #55 10-09-2007, 05:24 PM

*bump* any help? ^.^

davidw · #56 10-13-2007, 01:35 AM

For others wondering, this was solved with a custom version of the script.

Blindchild02 · #57 10-13-2007, 07:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by davidw

For others wondering, this was solved with a custom version of the script.

great man :up:

blastup · #58 10-28-2007, 02:57 PM

hey can it group like news ? like 10 news entries per page.... that will be awesome if it could do that... so users can see all the news from the past... i suck at coding .. so i cant really do this my self.. if you can do that that will be a awesome addition .. let me know if you can do that thanx

blastup · #59 10-28-2007, 04:02 PM

can you also add something like users rank, avatar and etc.. most of the things on showpost thanx.. let me know if you can thanx

davidw · #60 10-28-2007, 09:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by blastup

hey can it group like news ? like 10 news entries per page.... that will be awesome if it could do that... so users can see all the news from the past... i suck at coding .. so i cant really do this my self.. if you can do that that will be a awesome addition .. let me know if you can do that thanx

The best way to do something like this is to take the two files (xml and php) and rename practically all the variables, phrases, etc., anything that is particular to this modification. Theoretically you could do this as many times as you want as long as your forums will allow without having issues.

Quote:

Originally Posted by blastup

can you also add something like users rank, avatar and etc.. most of the things on showpost thanx.. let me know if you can thanx

Currently those features (rank, avatar, etc. aren't set but I may include those in a future version).

blastup · #61 12-29-2007, 02:15 AM

hey ill pay you for the pagination feature? so you can see posts from the past? do you think you can make it becuase i think i really need it

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