Add-On Releases - CES Site News

CES Site News
Version: 1.6.3
vBulletin 3.7.x, 3.8.x supported

*** NEWS ***
5/15/2008 - v1.6.3 released
5/5/2008 - v1.6.2 released
5/2/2008 - v1.6.1 released
4/17/2008 - v1.6.0 released
11/7/2007 - v1.5.1 released
9/9/2007 - v1.5.0 released
4/12/2007 - v1.4.1 released
4/5/2007 - v1.4.0 released
4/1/2007 - 4/2/2007 - v1.3.1 through v1.3.2 released
3/30/2007 - v1.3.0 released
3/23/2007 - 3/26/2007 - v1.2.0 through v1.2.4 released
3/14/2007 - v1.1.1 released
3/12/2007 - v1.1.0 released
2/9/2007 - v1.0.8 released
1/29/2007 - v1.0.7 released
1/23/2007 - 1/27/2007 - v1.0.0 through v1.0.6 released

Known Issues:
- none

What It Does:
This allows you to turn one of your forums into a news blog.

Live Installation: http://www.crackedeggstudios.com/news.php
This site is usually an update or two ahead of what's available in this thread, because that's where we do all our testing.

Products to Install: 1
Plugins Included: 14
Files to Upload: 7
Files to Edit: 0
New Templates: 8
Template Edits: 0

Mod Features:
- adds options to the Forum Manager
- uses forum permissions
- threads in the given forum become articles
- pull articles from other forums
- full-text articles are displayed in a customized forumdisplay
- post replies are added as comments
- set number of articles and comments per page
- turn on/off announcements in news display
- turn on/off attachments in news display
- turn on/off last comment in news display
- ajax quick edit in news display (basically, quick edit in forum display)
- display articles on every comments page
- limit size of article preview
- additional BB-Code tags for articles

BB-Code Tags:
[previewlength]value[/previewlength]
Placing this anywhere in an article overrides the preview limit for that article only. Multiple [previewlength] tags are cumulative. A "Read More..." link will appear if this tag is used.

[preview]value[/preview]
Placing this anywhere in an article defines text that will only show on Newsdisplay. Text contained in this tag completely replaces the post text on Newsdisplay. Multiple [preview] tags are cumulative. A "Read More..." link will appear if this tag is used.

[more]value[/more]
Placing this anywhere in an article defines text that will only show on Shownews. Text contained in this tag does not replace the post text on Shownews. It only hides text from Newsdisplay.

*** Changelog ***
As of Version 1.6.3:
- bug fix: preview functions do nothing since alias support added
- bug fix: preview functions never worked on editpost or newthread
- bug fix: inconsistent postbit after quick edit
- updated files: news.php, shownews.php, ces_news_bbcode.php,
ces_news_quick_edit.js

As of Version 1.6.2:
- bug fix: more database errors in vB 3.6.x
- bug fix: post controls hide on news display in IE7
- bug fix: threadbit and postbit widths inconsistent
- updated templates: ces_news_postbit, ces_news_threadbit
- updated files: shownews.php

*** Screenshots ***
1. New Forum Manager Option
2. Site News Settings
3. News Articles (forumdisplay)
4. Comments (showthread)

[thincom2000]

Okay thank you for reporting this. I had first seen this on your forum and thought maybe you configured it like this on purpose. This could be happening because you may have thread previews disabled.

In news.php find:
PHP Code:

PHP Code:

// disable thread preview if we can't view threads
if (!($forumperms & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_forumpermissions['canviewthreads']))
{
    $vbulletin->options['threadpreview'] = 0;
} 


Replace with:
PHP Code:

PHP Code:

// disable thread preview if we can't view threads
if (!($forumperms & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_forumpermissions['canviewthreads']))
{
    $vbulletin->options['threadpreview'] = 0;
}
else
{
    $vbulletin->options['threadpreview'] = 1;
} 


In CES News, the threadpreview setting is treated as a 0 = off, 1 = on value.

Please let me know if this fixes the problem. If it does, I can upload a new version with a few optimizations.

[Chadi]

This seemed to have happened before. I am using the highslide hack here https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=139167

When viewing the actual blog post on my site, it does not show the attachments at all, unless I'm viewing the blog main page, which it shows the attachments plus the highslide correctly.

How do I fix this in the news mod?

[thincom2000]

Hm... I tried installing highslide to test this. I am not seeing the bug you have described. First, make sure you are using the most recent version of that hack. The newest one requires no file or template edits, so you should undo any you may have done for the old version.

If this does not help, perhaps this is a result of one of the few small fixes on my site. I will have to package my current version early this week anyway since I have long delayed releasing it.

[Chadi]

All my hacks are always up to date actually. Yours also and the highslide one as well.

[Chadi]

This is happening again. Getting the purple background behind the comments area.

Also, replies made are not showing up as comments, which still shows "0" even though replies were made to the blog post. Am I missing something?

the news_comments template is default, showsnews is also default

[thincom2000]

Hm... I checked your site and the only thing that appears to be out of order in my browser is the purple background.

In the news_comments template add class="page" to the first div. This should fix the problem. I will include this in the next release (even though I thought it was there already for a very long time ???).

[Ba$im]

It’s look like very nice
I wil try it soon

thanks for gr8 job

[Chadi]

Now it shows another purple bar below the comments box.

http://www.talkjesus.com/shownewsces.php?t=15408

I also did as you said

<div class="page" style="width:$stylevar[outerdivwidth]; text-align:$stylevar[left]">
<div style="padding:0px $stylevar[spacersize]px 0px $stylevar[spacersize]px">

Also, the highslide does not work still when viewing the blog post itself, only in blog main page.

[thincom2000]

Aha, progress. Trust me, the purple box has gotten smaller. Somewhere in your templates there is an extra <br> tag. Check your news_comments template again. If there is a <br> tag at the end, remove it.

As for highslide breaking, the only explanation I can give is that your current version shownews.php is based on showthread.php from vBulletin 3.6.7. When I release the one updated for 3.6.8 this week, it should hopefully solve that issue.

[thincom2000]

Version 1.5.0 has finally been released. This version includes the changes that were made to showthread and forumdisplay since 3.6.7, including template hooks and the like. This should fix a number of issues users have been having since then, and several bugs that occurred in some configurations have been fixed.