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Forum News (News in a Forum) · **Released**: 07-13-2002

This hack adds news headlines to the top of a forum. The headlines come from an XML source. The headlines are links to the articles. Through the admin cp, add or modify forums system, you can select from a list of sources (or select no news for that forum). There is also a master on/off switch for the entire feature, and you can also select how many headlines will appear.

Support for this hack will be provided only within the vbulletin.org forums.

This hack involves database modifications. Please make a backup copy of your database prior to installing this hack. The author of this hack assumes no responsibility for anything.

The XML feeds come from Moreover.com. This service is provided free-of-charge only to non-commercial, non-profit, educational, or personal/hobby sites, and may not be used on any for-profit site. If you operate a for-profit site, you must contact Moreover.com to discuss purchasing the rights to the service.

Changelog
v1.0: Original release
v1.1: Fixes problem of not being able to change a forum's newsfeed back to NONE after previously selecting one.
v1.1a: Error in instructions file corrected. If you have 1.1, you do not need to download this; absolutely no code has changed.
v1.1b: See Post #30 below. If you have v1.1a, you do not need to download again; just make the fix as instructed in Post #30.
v1.2: Changes the code added to forumdisplay.php so that only one query is used. If you have v1.1b, you only need to replace the code added to forumdisplay.php with the newer bit of code from the instructions.
v1.2a: Fixes a minor bug affecting only the appearance of the output. If you already have installed v1.2, you do not need to re-download and re-install; please see Post #34 below for the simple fix.
v1.2b: Current release. Corrects the URL shown in the registration required notice. The only change over v1.2a is the "forumnewsbit_accessreg" template.

OPTIONAL Add-in feature: Make this feature user-selectable
I have created some instructions you can use if you'd like to give your users the ability to not see the news in a forum. Read Post #44 below for more info.

nghiasi · #42 07-29-2002, 02:17 PM

Nice one!Thanks You

nghiasi · #43 07-29-2002, 03:02 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by mem
Warning: php_hostconnect: connect failed in /home/fashe/maze0001/forum/admin/functions.php on line 2339

Warning: file("http://p.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?c=Windows%202000%20news&o=xml") - Bad file descriptor in /home/fashe/maze0001/forum/admin/functions.php on line 2339

Warning: Bad arguments to implode() in /home/fashe/maze0001/forum/admin/functions.php on line 2339

Why?

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I think you have mess up your functions.php . You might mess up with other hacks with this hacks. :bunny:

JJR512 · #44 07-29-2002, 06:59 PM

I tried that news feed just now on my own board to test it, it worked fine for me. I also manually viewed the URL http://p.moreover.com/cgi-local/page...0%20news&o=xml and it displayed correctly as well. I don't know what the problem could be for you. Is this the only newsfeed that is giving you a problem? Does it work now? Maybe Moreover.com's server was temporarily unavailable or something.

JJR512 · #45 07-29-2002, 10:39 PM

I have come up with some optional instructions you can use if you'd like to give your members the ability to turn this feature on or off for themselves. This feature will be enabled by default, and they can elect to not see it. Note that if you have the feature completely turned off (through the admin cp setting added by this hack), that a user cannot turn it on for themselves; in other words, the admin cp setting of "off" overrides a user's setting of "on".

The instructions for this will assume that you have already completely finished the instructions from the original base hack.

mem · #46 07-30-2002, 03:49 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by JJR512
I tried that news feed just now on my own board to test it, it worked fine for me. I also manually viewed the URL http://p.moreover.com/cgi-local/page...0%20news&o=xml and it displayed correctly as well. I don't know what the problem could be for you. Is this the only newsfeed that is giving you a problem? Does it work now? Maybe Moreover.com's server was temporarily unavailable or something.

Yes, it can work.
but it is very very slow.

JJR512 · #47 07-30-2002, 03:58 AM

For just this one feed or for all feeds?

Kars10 · #48 07-31-2002, 06:44 AM

Hello JJR!!
I like the Idea of this Hack and will install it.
But is there a way to put News in German Language on my Forum??

Thanx!

JJR512 · #49 07-31-2002, 07:05 AM

I don't believe so. The text is provided by an independent website.

bill-t · #50 08-05-2002, 11:18 AM

Well, I screwed the pooch on this one... My problem is that I couldn't figure out how to import the sql file in phpmyadmin... So I created the table and tried doing an import, since it it had to have a table to import to... I know it's messed up... Any help? I know I need to delete that table and do that over... Everything else is good to go...

JJR512 · #51 08-05-2002, 06:02 PM

What do you need help with first? Do you need to know how to delete a table, or did you already do that?

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