PluhNews 1.5

UPDATED! Woohoo!

I just fixed/added stuff from version 1.0!

Download the new version 1.5 if you have the old 1.0 - lots of better features.

From the readme.txt:

This script isn't really a hack, just an external script that pulls information out of the VBulletin Database for news
or whatever reason you see fit. It's easy to install and configure, and has tons of the same features that many other
news scripts have, except you don't have to modify any Vbulletin source code (which I'm never comfortable doing
for some reason, but that's just me .

I had a really rough time finding a good, EASY news script that did what this does. I searched and found some, but
it really came down to easy installation. I didn't want to modify MySql tables or mess with the advanced Vbulletin
source (well, to me anyway). So I wrote this script. Yer.

This script was intended for VBulletin 2.0 only (I don't know if it will work with previous releases) and PHP4.

Working Demos can be found in use at http://pluh.com/forums/PluhNews.php and for headlines,
http://pluh.com/forums/PluhHeadlines.php

After you install, if at all possible, I would appreciate some credit to my script. A link to http://pluh.com
on your page before or after your news would be great. Let me know when you have it installed too - I love
seeing my stuff working on other websites!

You can check out the raw demo here for PluhNews: http://pluh.com/forums/PluhNews.php

And Headlines! http://pluh.com/forums/PluhHeadlines.php


Let me know if you like it! (Thanks Dark Wizard and Bane)

*NOTE: I will not be able to provide support for this hack, as I am extremely busy. Sorry...*

[Kayn]

I went through printthread.php, and I was scratchin' my head. I'm gonna try some stuff with the code. I got the results to recognize line breaks, which was actually easy.

But once I get this working with VBcode and all that stuff, I'll be sure to let you know.

Thanks!

[White Knight]

Nice job on the addon i would say.. I am using it at my site right now for the front page www.sportbikes.net

I did notice about the line breaks it would be nice if it can look just like what is posted. Because If I do add the line breaks then the post looks wrong. Just something I noticed.

Also.. This is kind of a permission thing but I figured I would ask here. I want it so only admin and moderators can post in the forum but everyone can reply. Is there a place I need to go to set this permission up?

Thanks again.. keep up on the updates.. i love it

Goodbye newspro.. hello Pluhnews

[eva2000]

this looks great just needs parsing of vB code & smilies and sent to friend link and you're set

[jarvis]

White knight...

I like how you have the

"0 Comment(s) Last comment was by Fred"

after your news posts. Did you use this hack to do that, or is there some other line of code that your are using? I would like to be able to do this at my site www.mhogaming.com

Thanks for the help!!

[Kayn]

Working on those new features, and yes, the script includes the (0 Comments, last comment was by So-and-so).

This might take a while, so bear with me...

[Dark_Wizard]

I have fixed the time so it displays properly....Kayn >> I PM'd you can you get back to me so I can give you the changes?

[SuitCase]

Wow, this hack looks excellent! Great work, Kayn.

One question, though... Can I make multiple news forums and have several news things used on different pages? If not, would it be too hard to modify it and make that work? Thanks.

[White Knight]

Hey Kayn I found something I dont know if someone pointed out.

Today I tried to add a new post which worked fine. The problem is the vb URL tag does not work correctly. The code just shows and does not make the url. I went back into the post and used html code but I figured this would be something to look at.

Just trying to give a helping hand. This script is very nice for me not having to give away passwords for newspro..

[White Knight]

Originally posted by jarvis
White knight...

I like how you have the

"0 Comment(s) Last comment was by Fred"

after your news posts. Did you use this hack to do that, or is there some other line of code that your are using? I would like to be able to do this at my site www.mhogaming.com

Thanks for the help!!

Accually the tag was in the code itself I just moved it to where i needed it. The biggest thing I had to remember is to put a \ in front of all the " color codes. Otherwise I would get a damn parse error..

Yes I am still new to php.. but lovin every minute of it

[Kayn]

Dark_Wizard, I PMed ya back.

Suitcase, I don't see why you couldn't. You can copy and rename the the hack file to pluhnews2.php and configure it to whatever forum you wanted. That way you could have tons of different news forums if you chose.

The VBcode is still not working as of yet, White Knight, but I am taking that on. It should be included in the next release.

Keep the suggestions coming, I would love for this to have tons of features.

Another feature I was working on is categories. I have a 'rigged' version of categories on http://pluh.com if you want to see it. If that would be an interesting feature, let me know and I'll plug it in. Thanks!