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

[Frzzy]

clicked install button...

great script... thank you...

a lil note... i think the logician_query.php script is not needed after advanced install... maybe no need at all... why do you don't tell everyone to remove it after install?

[copyninja]

looks like a great script, and i was looking for sumthin as goos as this.. going to install it right now!

[lasto]

Logician i hope u see this as need some info

I use a portal system where everything has a set place in boxes etc - but in these boxes i can enter any html code i want and it works.

Now if i install this hack - i know u can mark certain posts to be shown on a front page but what commands are used on the front page to actually call this in ??

Would they go in an html box etc

[copyninja]

hm.. i installed it but i get this error on the main page where the news is supposed to be...

"mySQL error:Table 'db-name.post' doesn't exist" ..

db-name = MY Database ..

[lasto]

have u ran the queries m8 as it seems its looking for a table that dont exist.

[copyninja]

um.. since i dont know how to do that ... i dont think i ran queriers...

[lasto]

give me 2 mins while i download hack and see what needs to be done m8

[copyninja]

ok

[lasto]

ok in the zip is a file called logician_query.php

you need to edit it with the relevant details

## Username and password to log onto your MYSQL database server
$dbusername='root'; //MYSQL username
$dbpassword=''; //MYSQL password

## Name of the MYSQL database that you want to access.
$dbname='test';

so basically these are the same as you use for your vbull board so is quite easy.

so once u edited it - upload it to the admin folder and then run it

forums/logician_query.php and it will add the tables for you.

Also dont forget to edit phpheader with same details m8

[copyninja]

Ill try it but since i did the basic instalation ... it says i dont need to upload the logican_query.php ... thats what it says in the installation file...