vBulletin CMS Widgets - Central What's New Widget

Central What's New Widget 2.0
Tested with vBulletin Suite 4.0.0 up to 4.1.7


This modifications collects in one central widget all data relevant to your forum. You can select how many streams, how many days it should look back and the length of the preview text.

A version that displays streams in user profiles can be found here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=256071

With v2.0.2 there is support for collecting streams from this:
- Blog
- Blog comments
- CMS Articles
- CMS comments
- vBExperience achievements
- vBExperience awards
- Group discussions
- Group messages
- Album Pictures
- Album Pictures comments
- Threads
- Posts
- Visitor Message
- Project Tools Issues
- iTrader Feedbacks


It can be easily expanded to display also data from Post Thanks, vBookie, Downloads, etc...


/***** Demo: *****\
http://www.insidesupcom.de/?langid=1


/***** How to install this? *****\
- Upload the content of the folder "upload_via_ftp" to your server.
- Install the product xml

- Create a new Widget:
Type: PHP Direct Execution
Title: Central What's New

Save!

- Configure the new Widget:
PHP Code: require_once('./cwnw/cwnw.php');
Template name: cwnw_wrapper

Save!

You can now add this widget to your favourite location in your layout.



Comments, suggestions, translations, bugs, etc... are very welcome! Support is only given to people who have clicked "Mark as Installed".



History:
2.0.3, 10th Oct 2011:
- Fixed issues with wrong linked avatars. Just replace cwnw.php and clear CMS cache.


2.0.2, 23th Oct 2010:
- Fixed style issues that appeared with vBulletin 4.0.8 - Please remember to clear your CMS Cache after importing the product.


2.0.1, 18th Aug 2010:
- Fixed wrong date on vBExperience Achievements

- Support now streams from:
-- iTrader
-- vBExperience Awards
-- CMS Entries
-- Project Tools Issues


2.0.0, 07th Aug 2010:
- First public release

1.x:
- Releases used for own websites

[mnms]

Finally It works. my issue was that I tried to personalize the Template name. So I put the one indicated by Phalynx.
Thanks.

[HouseAddict]

Hey Phalynx,

How do we prevent the activity stream from actually evaluating YouTube links and showing them as embedded videos?

See the attachment screenshot.

The user simply posted a link to a youtube video, and in the thread it's showing as a link only, but in the activity stream it tries to show as an embedded video with a player box thingy thing.

Thanks!

[doctorsexy]

Thank you...

[mrt12345]

i have version 1.1.5 but i get this error
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/tracy/public_html/packages/vbcms/widget/execphp.php(191) : eval()'d code on line 2
any ideas

[tagman]

Just discovered this the other day. I love it! It does almost everything I want, except show when an album is created. Is there any way to implement that? I would probably turn off the pictures themselves and the picture comments if I had a way to show that a new album was created and link to it. Would this be an easy thing to do? Maybe involve the creation of a new php file to handle retrieving the album info?

[Phalynx]

You can create a php file and include that in the stream.

[tagman]

Thanks Phalynx. I wouldn't know what to put in the php file though...

[tagman]

So I looked at some of the php files included with the cwnw to try to figure out how to create one for the album function. Each one of those files is very different. Is one of them better suited than another to act as a template for me to start with?

[Phalynx]

Mainly they differ in the way they are querying the database. The structure should retain the same. Try with the PHP that is handling album pictures.

[tagman]

Still messing with this. I really just want the widget to show...

Album:
Name of album.

I don't want anything fancy or for it to even show pictures, unless it only shows the album cover.

I've been screwing around with this all night. Using the picture.php as an example, I have only been successful in changing "username uploaded new picture" to "username created new album". I think I am going the wrong way with this since I don't really care at this point who creates the album, just what the name of the new album is and that one has been created.

Any more advice you can give?