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V3Arcade - Scrollable news / more news · **Released**: 10-28-2004

[MOD] V3Arcade - Scrollable news / more news

This little mod will make your news window thats on the main Arcade screen / Arcade category screen scrollable.

Files to modify
Arcade.php

Templates to modify:
arcade_main
arcade_main_category (if your using the category mod)

**** DONT FORGET TO BACK UP BEFORE U MODIFY ****

Here what to do:
Open your admincp ==> Styles & Templates ==> Style Manager ==> Edit templates

Open up the arcade_main template
FIND:

Code:

$arcadenews

Add this directly above that:

Code:

<div style="height:125px; width:100%; overflow:auto;">

If you have the category mod installed:

Open the arcade_main_category template
FIND:

Code:

$arcadenews

Add this directly above that:

Code:

<div style="height:125px; width:100%; overflow:auto;">

NOTE: CHANGE :

Code:

height:125px to your liking

Now to make more news available for viewing. Remember, depending on how much news you set to view, this can have an effect on your sites performance.

Open up Arcade.php
FIND: (if you are using the category mod, this like will be in there twice)

Code:

$newsresult = $DB_site->query("SELECT * FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "gamenews ORDER BY datestamp DESC LIMIT 4");

SET Number of new items to show by changing this:

Code:

LIMIT 4

Hope this can be usefull. Just click install if you use.

Pete C · #12 10-20-2005, 02:19 PM

Neat hack *Installed* Thank you.

Thanks also to sim tech for that very helpful info . . it worked for me too

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