Add-On Releases - News Reader with RSS Feeds - For Dummies

Please click Mark as Installed if you use this modification >>>>

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.?

Files to edit: 0
Queries to run: 0
Uses Product: Yes
Template Edits: 1

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

[Fungsten]

I don't have the four pictures Everything else yes.

Where are the pictures?

Originally Posted by lefthome

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

[Fungsten]

Oh well. Great hack!

Nominated!!

[lefthome]

Originally Posted by Fungsten

Oh well. Great hack!

Nominated!!

Thank you and I should called the pictures .gif files. They are located in the image folder.

[imfeelingitdawg]

Awesome! I love it being a news junkie. Now I can easily catch up on news around the country. One question. Why does the navbar seem to be stretched out longer than the page when viewing the map? It's more of an asthetic issue as it doesn't affect much other than having a scroll bar at the bottom of the screen.

[Endurer]

This is awesome.. thanks man

Nominated, installed and rated.

[lefthome]

Originally Posted by imfeelingitdawg

Awesome! I love it being a news junkie. Now I can easily catch up on news around the country. One question. Why does the navbar seem to be stretched out longer than the page when viewing the map? It's more of an asthetic issue as it doesn't affect much other than having a scroll bar at the bottom of the screen.

If you would please PM me a link to your site. I would like to look at what you are talking about.

[imfeelingitdawg]

Originally Posted by lefthome

If you would please PM me a link to your site. I would like to look at what you are talking about.

Actually the same thing happens on the demo link for the mod. I can make the browser window as large as possible, 1650 X 1050, and I still have to scroll left and right. In other words, for some reason, the navbar is over 100%. Make any sense?

[Alien]

Uncached templates: Googlenews (1)

I also noticed in the breadcrumb/navigation that "Googlenews" is forced to a weird color sometimes instead of reading the proper colors of the style like other areas do...

[Alien]

To fix uncached template, edit googlenews.php

and change:

PHP Code:

$globaltemplates = array('googlenews'); 


to

PHP Code:

$globaltemplates = array('Googlenews'); 


[Alien]

...and to fix the second bug I reported:

Edit Googlenews templates, and add:

$stylevar[htmldoctype]

To the very top of the template.