I am also interested in both ideas. I downloaded Ratorasniki's hack for NewsPro, but after looking at it, I don't think it'll work to well, because I have 2.0, and I am not sure it'll work with that. I am using ktalk, and I really do not like that program, and I would love to integrate comments into vBulletin.
leadZERO, I read this news post:
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Well, I spent the last couple days roughing out a new news system that will integrate with the forum software and MySQL database. All I have to say is MySQL rocks... Such a powerful databasing engine. Hopefully in the coming days I will get more elaborate and incorporate new features. Right now it just takes any thread from this forum and makes it into a news item and links to the thread for commenting. (No you can't post your own threads, the permission SHOULD be denied, try it, and if you can let me know, I'd appreciate it.)
Let me know what you think, feel free to PM me or email. I will be writing a script to import all the old news into this forum also, look for that soon.
Your friendly RG administrator,
Ryan "leadZERO" Sommers
I love the little script you wrote, I may try it. I do have one idea for a script though. Maybe have it create different categories depending on the categories in the certain forum. For example:
--Forum: News (Level 1) - This is where normal news will go
---Forum: Gaming News (Level 2) - This is where gaming news will go
---Forum: Tech News....
So on. Then, when you load the news with <?php echo"$news"; ?>, you can specify another forum ID, which is under the main forum ID (specified in the variables) and creates a different category. I think that would be cool.
I hope you understand that, and I am interested in any updates in either of these addons/scripts.