Add-On Releases - DnP AJAX Custom News Link - Offer the best news to your forum visitors

What was the last time you were so excited to write an awesome topic for your forum then hopelessly watched it faded away and nobody cares? How about having some great threads, unique information that's only available on your forum, and you want all visitors instantly pay attention to them ? Think you would make announcements everywhere about those topics, then expect someone to click on the links? Maybe that isn't so good and professional at all. Even worse, you have to bump your own thread to get others attention. DnP Custom News may have a solution for you.

What does this little MOD do ?

As the matter of fact, topics in forum are displayed by some formatted orders. Either it is arranged by newest first, oldest first, or last replies, etc...at some point these topics will not be visible in the view of members anymore. Especially, for new visitors to your forum since they have no clue whether yours is a good forum or just a random half-dead community with nothing interesting. How could you show them how great your forum is, what information it has and what kind of fun can be found there? What you need is a manual list that looks automatic, absolutely informative and interactive, totally content-rich to the guests and even search engines. DnP Custom News Link allows you to place your best topics and urls into an article block that appears on your forum home index and makes it looks like a section of online newspaper homepage. This way, it is almost guaranteed you will freshen up your forum look and feel, attract more members to articles or threads that give best of your forum! Even better, DnP Custom News Link supports AJAX for instant page change without refreshing the whole forum index page.

Screenshots of different configurations

Demo

Right on the forum homepage of DnP Network?

Feature Summary

+ Multipaging support.
+ Lightweight AJAX / SEO Friendly pages and links.
+ Three types of news : Image, Video, Article.
+ Option to track views.
+ Consume single query for fastest load.
+ Topic Thumbnail.
+ Topic Description. BBcode supported.
+ All settings and News manager under AdminCP.
+ Links are SEO.
+ Different style is not yet implemented in this version.
+ Able to act as a vB Advanced CMPS Module

Installation for normal forum without vB Advanced CMPS :

1. Upload all files and folders from the package to your forum_root folder, except product-dnp-custom-news-install.xml.
2. Use Product Manager to install product-dnp-custom-news-install.xml
3. Open your FORUMHOME template (or any templates that are used together for forum home index) , then place

PHP Code:

$dnp_news_output 


to anywhere you would want DnP Custom News block to appear.



Installation for vB Advanced CMPS :

Example of how DnP News block blends in along with other columns on a vBA CMPS page

1. Upload all files and folders from the package to your forum_root , then upload dnp_news.php one more time into forum_root/modules folder, except product-dnp-custom-news-install.xml.
2. Use Product Manager to install product-dnp-custom-news-install.xml
3. Go to Style Manager ? Add New Template of your currently in-use style. Input
   
   Title : dnp_vba_news_output
   Template content : $dnp_news_output
   
   
4. Go to vBa CMPS ? Add Module ? PHP File Module. Input the following information :
   
   Module Title : DnP vBa CMPS Custom News Link
   Active : Yes
   File to Include : dnp_news.php
   Module Parent : None
   Templates Used : dnp_vba_news_output
   Use Module Wrapper Template : No
   Leave everything else by default.
5. Save and load module to your CMPS page. Go to Plugin Manager and disable DnP Custom News : global_start

Management :
Now you can go to AdminCP to post some news link or configure the Dnp Custom News block

Enjoy and have fun, if you like this little MOD give it a mark and rating.
Feedbacks are very welcome in order to improve the MOD functions and features.

[Original Source : http://www.silveryhat.com/delynie/f139/dnp-ajax-custom-news-link-modification-7086.html]

Update :
Upload all files and folders in the package to your forum_root folder (or forum_root/modules if used vBa CMPS). Use Product Manager to install product-dnp-custom-news-install.xml to upgrade your current version.

History Log :
v1.3

1. Fix a minor bug
2. Add support for vB Advanced CMPS

v1.2

1. Cache Template fix. Performance optimized
2. Add List Order (Newest first, Oldest first, Views, Random).

v1.1

1. Improve AJAX Compability.
2. Add Collapsible feature.
3. New option to hide description and thumbnail for small news.

v1.0

1. Initial Release.

[Taurus1]

And no support here either!

[silveryhat]

Originally Posted by kmohamed

hey i'm back
luv the mod

you may if i translated this mod to arabic ? need ur permission ?
is there any vb4 update version?

thanx man

Originally Posted by FitgirlWorld

does this work on 4.0?

I do think it is compatible with vb4.0, in fact no advanced vb3.0 modification would be compatible with vb4 at all. I'm unable to afford vb4 at the moment so I cannot develop MOD for it yet.

Originally Posted by Taurus1

Any update on getting the Control Panel in the Moderators Control Panel??

DnP was the one who's responsible for this project and unfortunately he has been caught up with many things recently. I'll put a reminder to him to finish it as soon as possible. And it'll be for the next version. Hopefully.

[Taurus1]

Still nothing here! I really need this for vb4. Will pay!

[ajithkumarts]

is it support 4.1...display an error message..."fetch_template() calls should be replaced by the vB_Template class. Template name: dnp_vba_news_output in [path]/includes/functions.php on line 4055"

[SamirDarji]

Mental note to look at later.

[Erica1977]

Ok does anyone have this working yet on 4.1.4 , if so can someone share thanks hoping the person as welll updates it for 4xx

[Erica1977]

Sorry to bump this Thread but does anyone got a fix for this yet for 4.1.5 vB i will pay if someone can help me get it to work on 4.1.5 vB Thanks!

[moreilly]

Downloaded and installed.

But I get this error after installation and then looking at my site.

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare fetch_tag_list() (previously declared in /home/design/public_html/includes/class_bbcode.php:2228) in /home/design/public_html/includes/class_bbcode.php on line 2482

Any suggestions?

I'm using vb version 3.8.5

[Artes_Marciales]

Uncached templates: dnp_vba_news_output (1) : S

[billstelling]

Just letting everyone know that TheBull over at Creativex got this mod working on vb4.1.5 but he won't share what he did to get it working. One of you all might have better luck getting the info out of him.
http://creativx.net/forums/
I'm pretty sure he won't help me out because I belong to a competing site http://virtualcustoms.net/ and there was a big rift over posting work from Virtual Customs on there site without permission and claiming it as there own, but I didn't follow it all that much so I don't really know. Needless to say when I asked him what he did to get it working he refused me and seemed to know exactly who I was. Said he knows how I feel about him and CreativeX even though I never got involved in the mess or said anything to or about them.
At any rate, someone here might have better luck with them, but don't count on it..