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News "Hack" · **Released**: 06-23-2002

Ok, I made a news ticker hack. This is my first hack. YAY!

Description:
This hack allows you to enter a message in the General Settings part of vBulletin Options in your Admin CP. Enter $news anywhere on any template and the message will show up.

HUGE credit to Xenon for showing me how to get the variables to work. Without him, this wouldn't exist.

Credit to Andy Sookram for the news ticker.

News Ticker found here.

To do:
1 MySQL Query
1 File Edit
? Template Modification(s)

Enjoy!

UPDATE 12/22/02
I decided to give this simple little hack an update. It no longer adds a query, and it is less confusing to install. Enjoy

Drowning Inside · #32 02-01-2003, 09:57 PM

Damn... thanks, though

Link14716 · #33 02-01-2003, 09:59 PM

Not tested, but try it anyways:

In global.php, find:

Code:

$news=bbcodeparse2($news,1,1,1,1);

Replace with:

Code:

eval("\$news = \"$news\";");

Link14716 · #34 02-01-2003, 10:05 PM

It'd let you use HTML code and PHP variables (of course you won't be able to use smilies or bbcode).

XrayHead · #35 02-02-2003, 09:16 AM

Thanks for the reply, It works OK now.

Link14716 · #36 02-02-2003, 05:52 PM

No problem. Glad you like it.

CityInet · #37 03-20-2003, 04:08 PM

i dont understand. I have the ticker working, but I don't understand where i enter the news to be used by the ticker.

As you can see at www.warvoice.com, on the right hand side, below to news feed, I have it set up with a static message. load the $news variable.

Where does it pull the data from?

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