Logician NEWS: Drag Any Message to Your Main Page

This is a news script which will drag vb forum messages from your vb db to your non-vb main page/news page. There are a lot of good news script around but I needed a highly customizable main page news script with some special features and wrote it myself. I'm using it in my site's main page for a long time, but I was just too lazy to write installation/help documents to share it here, sorry!

FEATURES:

* This script simply pulls forum messages which you marked as "news" from your vb database and post them in your non-vbulletin (main/other) page.
* You can mark messages as "NEWS" in any forum you want (including private forums). You dont need to restrict your news to a specific forum.
* You can drag any message to your main page, regardless of its date. So news is NOT supposed to be the most recent messages in your board.
* You do NOT have to carry the whole message to your main page as news. You can import it all or simply take some part of it. So eg. you can drag a message's the first paragraph to your news page and link the thread for "Read More".
* Moreover you can insert invisible custom NEWS text which will be dragged to your main page to your board messages, but not shown in the original forum thread. So your original thread message and news text on your main page can be different than eachother.
* You can have sticky news in your main page (even if they are not sticky in your forum).
* News does NOT need to be the first message in the thread. You can tag any reply message as news and pull it to your main page either.
* Script parses ALL of your message icons/smilies (including your custom add-ons) and some of the important vBCode like: [url] [email] [img] [b] [i] [u]
* You can specify which members may post news.
* You can form your News' title seperately, apart from of the original thread/message title.
* You can set maximum number of news shown in your main page.
* You can set maximum number of characters that all shown news should not exceed. Some messages can be long and some can be short and if you set a character limit, the script will automatically compile enough news from your database to fit your web page's relevant part according to the limit you set.
* You can enable/disable:
News Poster Name
News Date
News Read Number
News 'Send to a Friend' Link
Comment number/Add comment button/Last commenter
Will viewing news increase the original thread's view count or not
News is sticky or not
for ALL your news INDIVIDUALLY.
* All news tags are invisible in the original thread. So forum readers do not notice any difference when you tag a message as news.
* Dragging a message to your main page as news is as simple as inserting a hidden [news]Title of My News[/news] tag to your forum message.

Well, these features are what I needed in my news script, so it should suffice to you too!

It's an easy to install script and will work with ALL vbulletin versions because it's an add-on, not a hack. I can give support as much as I have time, but please ask here, not via email or PM.

If you use the script, please click INSTALL. If you post the URL of your news page after installation, you can help other users see the script in action in different pages and in custom designs, thank you!

Logician

[gmarik]

Logician only one remark: please change the design of http://www.turkhukuksitesi.com/, if you need help - I could help you ... )

[Logician]

Today at 09:02 AM gmarik said this in Post #121
Logician only one remark: please change the design of http://www.turkhukuksitesi.com/, if you need help - I could help you ... )

hehe in my to do list for months but well my to-do list is long and I'm tight in time. But it is no big deal, it is kind a "private" site, membership requires approval, members do value functionality and content, not the visual look, so do I..

[Mr. Brian]

Seem i'm quite a bit outdated, till now then I know got such hack from you.

Too bad as I already got vbHome (lite) installed..

anyway, it's still a nice one.

[austinspace]

The link to the download is broken.

From:

vBulletin.org Forum > Hacks Database > Major Additions > Logician NEWS: Drag Any Message to Your Main Page

I'm interested in seeing if this add-on will allow me to send a new post in
certain forums to an email address automagically.

Mark

[Hobbes]

well...

I have two suggestions for add-ons.

One, is the ability to add a picture to the news, so when you post you can make a tab like [newsimage]http://www.blah.com/image.gif[/newsimage] and that image will not be displayed on the forum post, but it will be displayed on the main page where the news is (some new variable can do that)

The other is the ability to make it optional to put each news post into a category, so for example, if I wanted to sort my news by console, I could stick a tag like [newscategory]PS2[/newscategory]. Then you can be able to show only news from each category, or you can show all news.

srry if that dun make sense...hehe

[soccerclue]

May I know what's the difference between this hack and vbLite? I also installed vbWebtemplate also..and I think the combination of vbWebtemplate and this hack can do what vbLite does? Correct me if I am wrong.

Is it possible to drag only certain messages in the main page? Or can it be possible to drag the latest 5 posts? Can this be hack be integrated with Webtemplate?

If can, I might consider to install this one also.

[Logician]

Today at 06:13 AM soccerclue said this in Post #126
May I know what's the difference between this hack and vbLite? I also installed vbWebtemplate also..and I think the combination of vbWebtemplate and this hack can do what vbLite does? Correct me if I am wrong.

vblite is a portal that replaces your site home page. This hack is a news script that only compiles posts from your DB that you marked as news. You can use that compiled news in your homepage or in another page. This hack does not have any other features. But vblite has other add-ons for your home page like calendar, show post count etc.

Webtemplates hack can be used together with this hack only if you are using them in different pages. Say you can have this hack drag news to your main page and use webtemplates in other site pages. But they can not be in the same page.

Is it possible to drag only certain messages in the main page? Or can it be possible to drag the latest 5 posts?

If you want to drag latest X posts as news, try others news hacks, all can do it.

This is different because this will allow you to drag any message from any boards. You just need to mark it as news and it apprears in your home page.

[Solice]

I hate to post this here...
well first off, thank you for making such great add-ons logician... im currently setting up forums with your webtemplates add-on and its excellent... but anyway...

I set this up according to the directions, I've tried making a couple of news test posts... but nothing shows up on the main page...

www.solicenet.com/index2.php - main page, theres a lot of php lines in it, I don't know if maybe thats interfeering with the script?

www.solicenet.com/main/ - forums

If anyone could assist me with this, it would be greatly appreciated.

[Logician]

Today at 08:19 PM Solice said this in Post #128
I hate to post this here...
well first off, thank you for making such great add-ons logician... im currently setting up forums with your webtemplates add-on and its excellent... but anyway...

I set this up according to the directions, I've tried making a couple of news test posts... but nothing shows up on the main page...

www.solicenet.com/index2.php - main page, theres a lot of php lines in it, I don't know if maybe thats interfeering with the script?

www.solicenet.com/main/ - forums

If anyone could assist me with this, it would be greatly appreciated.

1- Check you installed the hack correctly
2- Make sure you marked a post as news correctly eg. [news]This is a News Title[/news]
3- Make sure configurations in options file does not clash with your news. For instance if you set a forum id for news, you can not post news in a different forum. Check phpheader.php file carefully.

[Solice]

1 - checked
2 - checked
3 - checked

I've looked at everything twice and I can't figure out whats wrong