Add-On Releases - CES Site News

CES Site News
Version: 1.6.3
vBulletin 3.7.x, 3.8.x supported

*** NEWS ***
5/15/2008 - v1.6.3 released
5/5/2008 - v1.6.2 released
5/2/2008 - v1.6.1 released
4/17/2008 - v1.6.0 released
11/7/2007 - v1.5.1 released
9/9/2007 - v1.5.0 released
4/12/2007 - v1.4.1 released
4/5/2007 - v1.4.0 released
4/1/2007 - 4/2/2007 - v1.3.1 through v1.3.2 released
3/30/2007 - v1.3.0 released
3/23/2007 - 3/26/2007 - v1.2.0 through v1.2.4 released
3/14/2007 - v1.1.1 released
3/12/2007 - v1.1.0 released
2/9/2007 - v1.0.8 released
1/29/2007 - v1.0.7 released
1/23/2007 - 1/27/2007 - v1.0.0 through v1.0.6 released

Known Issues:
- none

What It Does:
This allows you to turn one of your forums into a news blog.

Live Installation: http://www.crackedeggstudios.com/news.php
This site is usually an update or two ahead of what's available in this thread, because that's where we do all our testing.

Products to Install: 1
Plugins Included: 14
Files to Upload: 7
Files to Edit: 0
New Templates: 8
Template Edits: 0

Mod Features:
- adds options to the Forum Manager
- uses forum permissions
- threads in the given forum become articles
- pull articles from other forums
- full-text articles are displayed in a customized forumdisplay
- post replies are added as comments
- set number of articles and comments per page
- turn on/off announcements in news display
- turn on/off attachments in news display
- turn on/off last comment in news display
- ajax quick edit in news display (basically, quick edit in forum display)
- display articles on every comments page
- limit size of article preview
- additional BB-Code tags for articles

BB-Code Tags:
[previewlength]value[/previewlength]
Placing this anywhere in an article overrides the preview limit for that article only. Multiple [previewlength] tags are cumulative. A "Read More..." link will appear if this tag is used.

[preview]value[/preview]
Placing this anywhere in an article defines text that will only show on Newsdisplay. Text contained in this tag completely replaces the post text on Newsdisplay. Multiple [preview] tags are cumulative. A "Read More..." link will appear if this tag is used.

[more]value[/more]
Placing this anywhere in an article defines text that will only show on Shownews. Text contained in this tag does not replace the post text on Shownews. It only hides text from Newsdisplay.

*** Changelog ***
As of Version 1.6.3:
- bug fix: preview functions do nothing since alias support added
- bug fix: preview functions never worked on editpost or newthread
- bug fix: inconsistent postbit after quick edit
- updated files: news.php, shownews.php, ces_news_bbcode.php,
ces_news_quick_edit.js

As of Version 1.6.2:
- bug fix: more database errors in vB 3.6.x
- bug fix: post controls hide on news display in IE7
- bug fix: threadbit and postbit widths inconsistent
- updated templates: ces_news_postbit, ces_news_threadbit
- updated files: shownews.php

*** Screenshots ***
1. New Forum Manager Option
2. Site News Settings
3. News Articles (forumdisplay)
4. Comments (showthread)

[Chadi]

Originally Posted by thincom2000

That's a template edit. Just modify the class for the tag surrounding $post[musername].

For making comments not increase post counts, you can accomplish this with a vBulletin stock feature.

Open your news forum in AdminCP -> Forums & Moderators -> Forum Manager. Under "Enable / Disable Features," there is an option "Count Posts Made in this Forum Towards User Post Counts." Set this to no.

If on the other hand, you just don't want comments in the news to be returned as post search results or something, that is beyond the scope of this mod, since it was designed as an alternative to journal hacks that didn't count comments as posts.

Ok, but I only wanted my posts to count, but not the comments. Is this possible?

Can you please clarify which template? I tried both news_threadbit and news_postbit

Posted by <b><span  id="postmenu_$post[postid]" class="alt2"><if condition="$show['profile']"><a href="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$post[userid]">$post[musername]</a>

I changed alt1 to alt2, nothing changed

[thincom2000]

Odd. What do you have set for your Usergroup markup?

And in response to that email notification, a big fat question mark. News.php is almost exactly the same as forumdisplay.php (except you can't sort the news, it's always chronological -- this was done to save some queries), with modifications basically only around the threadbit_display hook. If you get another one of those, let me know.

[Chadi]

My admin group (myself) is red colored only, thats the only markup but the thing I'm trying to get rid of is not the font color in the news view, but the background itself which it is not doing between alt1 and alt2 in both templates I mentioned

[thincom2000]

Originally Posted by chadi

Ok, but I only wanted my posts to count, but not the comments. Is this possible?

I don't believe it's possible to give the thread starter an increase in post count and not those who reply. That's just the way vBulletin currently works. You could do this manually by adding another plugin, but it would add 1 query to newthread.php when you click submit. If you don't mind that, I'll write it up for you.

Originally Posted by chadi

My admin group (myself) is red colored only, thats the only markup but the thing I'm trying to get rid of is not the font color in the news view, but the background itself which it is not doing between alt1 and alt2 in both templates I mentioned.

What are the background colors for your thead and normal classes?

<td colspan="2" class="thead">
			<div class="normal">
				<if condition="!$show['announcement']">
					Posted by <b><span  id="postmenu_$post[postid]" class="alt1">

P.S. If you are having CSS problems with one template, then you most likely should edit both news_threadbit and news_postbit since they should visually look the same (though functionally they are different), and thus you would be having problems with both.

[Chadi]

main css shows this:

alt1
background = #E4E6F5
font = #4D528C

alt2
background = #F5F5FF
font = #4D528C

[Eagle Creek]

And uuhm.. there's no

<table class="tborder" id="post$post[postid]" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">

in postbit legacy. Only in postbit.

[thincom2000]

In postbit_legacy it's:

<table id="post$post[postid]" class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="center">

It's the first line in both cases anyway and means exactly the same thing.

[Chadi]

I have this mod installed for RSS Feeds:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=118004

The strange problem is, trying to add a "news" thread in my CES mod is redirecting to the above hack:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=137365

So, clicking the actual forum link "Forum News Blog" shown here http://www.talkjesus.com/press-stand/ redirects to the RSS hack, here http://www.talkjesus.com/news.php?f=72

I'm not sure if this is a conflict with vbseo, but any help is appreciated

[thincom2000]

The first thing that comes to mind is that both hacks use a file called news.php.

Have you renamed either file? Or did you overwrite this hack's news.php with the RSS news.php?

[Chadi]

Yes, both use news.php in root folder. Can you please explain how I can do a workaround on yours?

My suggestion is that programmers of these hacks should use their hack name, abbreviated at least in the filenames such as :

newsrss.php
or
newsces.php

This would avoid once in a blue moon conflicts