Forum Home Enhancements - FA Latest News

Hello,

***** This HACK is brought to you by Betlik.com *****

* Description:
Show latest news on FORUMHOME.

* Features:
- Whole Hack Enable/Disable
- Allow separate usergroups.
- Expand/Collapse Table
.....more features coming soon in next versions.

* How to install?

Download the version you like. Goto your VBulletin AdminCp > Plugins & Products > Add/Import Product and upload the XML you downloaded.

Now Open Template: "navbar", at the bottom add:-

$latest_news

And you are done

Version History:
1.0 - Initial release.
1.1 - New Feature: Collapse / Expand Table
1.2 - News title is now in a "thead" td.

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Thanks

[SidelineSports]

Originally Posted by MarcG

In your Admin CP...go to your "vBulletin Options" and scroll down down to "Latest News by Betlik.com"

Thanks for the help! Installed!

[BozzaJos]

Looks like an awesome hack! Unfortunately, I'm using vb3.5 and can't import the product. Can you perhaps make something like this for 3.5 or is there already anything similar to this for 3.5?

Anyway, good job mate! Looks like a good hack...

[thincom2000]

You should be able to edit the product in NotePad or something and change the Product Dependency from 3.6 to 3.5. Of course I didn't author the hack, but I don't think there should be any problems running it on 3.5, considering it doesn't really make use of anything that changed (such as the datastore).

[Masiello]

Hello, from where I change the module title "Latest News" to my Own in forum home?
thx

[Masiello]

Can anybody have making this hack W3C standard?

Error Line 289, column 41: document type does not allow element "tbody" here .
<tbody id="collapseobj_latenews" style="">

Error Line 298, column 4: end tag for "br" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified .
<br>

naturally the error line are reffer to my board.

[SidelineSports]

Originally Posted by valdet

Can anyone confirm that this great thing works for vb 3.6.4

Yes, it does for me with 3.6.4

[thincom2000]

Originally Posted by Masiello

Can anybody have making this hack W3C standard?

naturally the error line are reffer to my board.

What DOCUMENT TYPE are you using on your board? By default you should not have a problem with the <tbody> tag.

<br> will be W3C compliant if changed to <br />

[Masiello]

Originally Posted by thincom2000

What DOCUMENT TYPE are you using on your board? By default you should not have a problem with the <tbody> tag.

<br> will be W3C compliant if changed to <br />

Hello, I'm using DOCTYPE by Default

!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

are you sure you don't have that problem using the same default doctype with this product enabled?

The tbody are allowed but not where it is now if not in a table

[thincom2000]

Perhaps you edited your template and messed up the table code, because I'm positive <tbody> is used properly.

On another note, I would recommend the author change the usergroup part of the code. It will make the template code a lot cleaner, easier for users to understand, and will work for membergroups as well. I made a suggestion like this earlier, but now this one is much simpler.

First, edit the plugin Templating Starting.
Replace the Plugin Code with:

PHP Code:

if ((THIS_SCRIPT == 'index') AND $vbulletin->options['enable_ltnews'])
{
    $ugroups_lt = explode(',', $vbulletin->options['ugroups_lt']);
    eval('$latest_news = "' . fetch_template('latest_news') . '";');
} 


Now edit the template latest_news. Find:

<if condition="$vboptions[enable_ltnews]"><if condition="$bbuserinfo[usergroupid]== $vboptions['ugroups_lt']{0} OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]== $vboptions['ugroups_lt']{2} OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]== $vboptions['ugroups_lt']{4} OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]== $vboptions['ugroups_lt']{6} OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]== $vboptions['ugroups_lt']{8} OR $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]== $vboptions['ugroups_lt']{10}">

Replace with:

<if condition="$vboptions['enable_ltnews'] AND is_member_of($bbuserinfo, $ugroups_lt)">

Then find:

</if></if>

Replace with:

</if>

[Masiello]

Originally Posted by thincom2000

Perhaps you edited your template and messed up the table code, because I'm positive <tbody> is used properly.

EDIT: Thanks! Yuor code have fixed too that issue