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News Reader with RSS Feeds - For Dummies · **Released**: 04-22-2007

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Seriously, I got tired of trying to figure out how to get the news I wanted on my site that provided the whole story and not just a description or a feed that was nothing more than a ?disguised ad? for another site, so I located a Google Map Reader, acquired permission to use the program and wrote a ?modification for vb.?

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Testing:
I have tested this on 3.5.x and 3.6.x and it works fine on both. 3.5.x users follow this link:

VbGoogleNews 3.5.X version 1.0.2

What this program does:
This is a Google Map with interactive pins on each continent. Access is gained via the navbar.

Usage:
Select the location on the map that you?d like by dragging mouse, click on pin until you locate the exact country, region, local area you desire and the news will appear. Click on article and a new window will display story; members never leave your site.

Changelog
v1.0.1 working version
v1.0.2 two minor modifications to adjust width

Since the Reader and RSS Feeds is remotely hosted and they do the upgrades, I can?t think of any improvements necessary, but feel free to make suggestions and/or provide file(s), translate to another language, whatever!

Live Demo:
http://www.namelessboard.com/forum/googlenews.php

thedvs · #12 04-23-2007, 12:42 PM

can we make it a little wider?

lefthome · #13 04-23-2007, 12:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thedvs

can we make it a little wider?

It's at 680px now. What did you have in mind?

*edit*

By the way, making that change is really easy if you would like to do it yourself.

Admin CP => Styles & Templates => Style Manager => Edit Templates => Googlenews

Find:
<script>setTimeout('hmap(680,500,0,0,0,0,0,10,0,1) ;', 100);</script>

Change the width and/or height as desired. They are the first two numbers in brackets: 680 (width) 500 (height).

vip-q.com · #14 04-23-2007, 12:58 PM

you didn't catch my point
I was means the hack in Arabic all of it ( News & Design ) not only News

and I'll send to you feed News from bbc and aljazeera.net and alarabiya.net this web site are the best in Arabic News

vip-q.com · #15 04-23-2007, 01:08 PM

for BBC ( middle east news )
http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/arabic/...t_news/rss.xml

General news from Alarabya.net
http://www.alarabiya.net/rss/rss_top08.xml
political news
http://www.alarabiya.net/rss/PoliticsPage.xml
Sports news
http://www.alarabiya.net/rss/SportsPage.xml
economic news
http://www.alarabiya.net/rss/FiniantialPage.xml

and they are not for local news ( it for general news ) but in arabic

iorkara · #16 04-23-2007, 02:01 PM

Awesome Thank you

lefthome · #17 04-23-2007, 10:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vip-q.com

for BBC ( middle east news )
http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/arabic/...t_news/rss.xml

General news from Alarabya.net
http://www.alarabiya.net/rss/rss_top08.xml
political news
http://www.alarabiya.net/rss/PoliticsPage.xml
Sports news
http://www.alarabiya.net/rss/SportsPage.xml
economic news
http://www.alarabiya.net/rss/FiniantialPage.xml

and they are not for local news ( it for general news ) but in arabic

I put in a request to the host and should have an answer back in a day or two.

Tralala · #18 04-23-2007, 11:47 PM

This is sweet!

The sidebar with the news doesn't appear in Safari (Mac OS X.) Hopefully you'll be able to fix that?

Fungsten · #19 04-24-2007, 12:53 AM

I'm installing it on my test board!!

On Edit:

I set it up and got nothing. I'm a noob, do I have to do something with the RSS Feeds also? I don't have those working.

lefthome · #20 04-24-2007, 01:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fungsten

I'm installing it on my test board!!

On Edit:

I set it up and got nothing. I'm a noob, do I have to do something with the RSS Feeds also? I don't have those working.

I called this News Reader and RSS Feed for Dummies for a reason so we don?t have to do squat other than load the hack. The rss feeds is remotely hosted, so this has to be an installation issue.

A few step-by-step questions:

You are using vbulletin 3.6.5, yes?
Did you upload the vbgooglenews.php to your root directory?
Did you upload the four pictures to your image/misc directory?
Did you go to your AdminCP => Plugins & Products =>Manage Products => Add/Import Product => upload googlenews.xml=> Import?
Did you go to your AdminCP => Styles & Templates => Edit Templates => Navbar and install link?

If you did all that then there is no reason this program will not work

lefthome · #21 04-24-2007, 01:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tralala

This is sweet!

The sidebar with the news doesn't appear in Safari (Mac OS X.) Hopefully you'll be able to fix that?

I don't even know anyone that has a mac so I can look, therefore, I will have to research this question and get back to you.

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