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...*

[Abbas]

I wanted to add the "icon" that you can select in vB while posting a new item to appear on the news as well. Can someone tell me what vB command do I need to add to display that...One of those commands that start with a $

Thanks
Abbas

[Ian Cunningham]

Um... this is wierd... I have included the headlines.php file into my template footer (removing the call for global.php) but my forums arent displaying!? I am just getting the bottom "Private Message" bar when this script in included in the page!?

[SugarChick]

nm my host is gay it fixed itself...

[princess]

Anyone know how I could add the first few lines of a news post to the headlines? For example, headlines would look like this:

news article 1
here are the first few lines of the first news article [ read more ]
news article 2
here are the first few lines of the second news artcile [ read more ]
news article 3
and just for fun this one gets a different first few lines [ read more ]
news article 4
so does this one, see what i'm saying?[ read more ]

[sianews]

Limit characters here .

[Gutspiller]

Can somebody help me to get this hack work across domains?

I take this page: http://www.theforumz.com/forumz/frontpage.php

and change all the stuff to look at: http://www.theforumz.com/forumz/plugnews.php or whatever the file name is.

I changed the requiring files to the same thing where I tell it the full domain path. When I try to use the page across a domain it gives me this error:

Fatal error: Failed opening required 'http:www//TheForumz.com/forumz/global.php' (include_path='') in (my domain path)\testfrontpage.php on line 1

So it is having a problem even doing the requiring the global.php part.

Can somebody please help me on how I can get this to work.

Thanks for any help you guys can provide.

[SystemLogic]

I think on global.php you need to require the files with the entire URL path....try that....

[Dherkhon]

sorry for by bad english

here is my error lol

Parse error: parse error in /homepages/32/d34562187/htdocs/forums/PluhNews.php on line 81

and here is my html

//Edit the HTML here (keep in mind that any double quote that is HTML requires a backslash in front of it)

<table width=\"90%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"1\"> <- Line 81
<tr>
<td bgcolor=\"#000000\">
<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">
<tr>
<td bgcolor=\"#6B7E89\">

echo "

<a href=\"$forumspath/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=$threadid\"><b>$title</b></a> - <a href=\"$forumspath/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=$threadid\"><b>$replyco unt</b> $commenttext</a><br>
Posted By <a href=\"$forumspath/forums/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=$postuserid\"> <b>$postusername</b></a> at <i>$dateposted</i>
</center>

</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor=\"#6B7E89\">

<blockquote></a>$bericht</blockquote><center><a href=\"$forumspath/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=$threadid\"><b>$replyco unt</b> $commenttext</a> Last comment was by <b>$lastposter</b></center><hr noshade height=\"1\" width=\"60%\"><p>
";


</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

}
}



//add news search stuff (this is optional - delete if you do not wish to include this, or edit it to meet your needs
echo "<center><a href=\"$forumspath/forums/search.php?s=\">Search the News</a> | <a href=\"$forumspath/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=$newsforums\">View All News Posts</a></center>";



//end HTML edit
//**********************

Thanks for help :cheeky:

[Brian Cruz]

I'd really like to be able to display the avatar and thread icon for each news post. How can the script be modifed to call those up?

[Brian Cruz]

Originally posted by Brian Cruz
I'd really like to be able to display the avatar and thread icon for each news post. How can the script be modifed to call those up?

Anyone? Please?