vB News CMS

What does this do? It allows you to take your news from your news forums (up to 9 news forums) and display them in a category-style fashion with the ability to add new content, reply to the original story, send to a friend, and print.

This is a limited 3.5.x version. For more features, such as parsing bbcode, you should use the 3.6.x version here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=133302

Thanks go out to sabret00the for his help on the project who helped out a lot, to peterska2 for testing and working with me on the templates, and to the beta testers for helping find potential problems and bugs to be fixed/worked out.


Install/Upgrade Instructions

Located in the zipped readme.txt file.


Frequently Asked Questions

What is the forumid?
The forumid is the id of the forum you have created. Each forum has its own unique number assigned to it. When you click on a forum link you can see a number that is assigned to it. This will show up in the URL of the page you are browsing. Another way of seeing the forumid is to go to your admin control panel => Forums & Moderators => Forum Manager => Click on [Expand All] and then move your mouse over (hover) any of the forums you've created. Your status bar (bottom of screen) should display your forumid (number at the end of the link/url).


Changes
Added security

Known Bugs/Issues:
1) - When you go to the page directly, the page acts as a normal page - however, if you click refresh on the page, the refresh stalls. I don't understand why this occurs.
2) - BBCode does not parse yet - I am looking into making it parse without causing problems.

Temporary demo location:
http://www.christianboards.org/vbnews.php

[davidw]

Look down the page to where the two articles are that I mentioned above... I think that's what's causing the issues.

[RaceJunkie]

Originally Posted by christianb

I'm wondering if it is a couple articles that are causing the issue, such as (SpeedwayMedia News Feeds)-Chase set unless something weird happens - the URL in there is stretching - along with the next article.

I did not notice that one.. Everything looks fine except when you scroll down, then it stretches back out..


Is this from it not parsing bb code?

[davidw]

Not parsing bbcode will allow the original hyperlinks to show - however I've not encountered long words yet so I'll have to see if there's a way to limit the length of characters on large words.

[RaceJunkie]

Originally Posted by christianb

Not parsing bbcode will allow the original hyperlinks to show - however I've not encountered long words yet so I'll have to see if there's a way to limit the length of characters on large words.

thanks for the help, I clicked installed so I wont miss anything..

[davidw]

One thing you could try is this:

In the vbnews.php file, change this:

$news['pagetext']		=	strip_bbcode(fetch_censored_text(substr($news['preview'], 0, $charlimit)));

to this:

$news['pagetext']		=	fetch_censored_text(substr($news['preview'], 0, $charlimit));

for each of the forums and see if that doesn't fix it.

[RaceJunkie]

Ok I just noticed this.. I tried the php edite above and it did not fix it.. So I uploaded the original back.

I am using Firefox and everything stretches to the right..(should have mentioned this ) When I use I.E everything is correct except for the top navigation (breadcrumb area) and my footer. But they are fine in all my other pages? If you would like me to post some pics I will, but you can see it using I.E.

[davidw]

I am pretty sure its because of those two articles. Let me see if I can find a way to limit the size of long words so that the url doesn't extend.

[project-Buckfas]

I had the same idea as you!

Looks great.

Originally Posted by peterska2

installed and used as a source for my RSS feeds instead of having a very busy looking forum with the content.

You can see how I have it set up here

Christianb I will install this tonight when I get home. Thank you

[Rushyman]

Just what I need. I want to run this as an include and I can get it to work fine. Only problem I have is once the script has run it ceases to load the rest of the page. Any ideas how to get it to load the rest of the page once the script has completed it's DB query? I have this outside of the VB directory.

[davidw]

Do you have a link to where it is? I'm a little confused at what is going on.