Add-On Releases - vB News CMS

Very similar to vB News CMS for 3.5, but a some of the code was rewritten. This now works with BBCode - (This includes line breaks, URLs, smilies, etc.). I've removed several lines and taken out have removed the dual option for SQL 4.1 or higher as a lot of people are still on the lower MySQL

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 works only for vbulletin 3.6.0 or higher.

There is a 3.7.x version here

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

V. 1.2a Added security for admins
V. 1.2 Added support for Who's Online

Things in consideration for future releases

1) Menu system that dynamically displays a menu based on forum choices.

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.

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

[davidw]

Try this...

change this

// ######################### REQUIRE BACK-END ############################
GLOBAL $parser;
require_once('./includes/class_bbcode.php');
require_once('./global.php');
$parser 	=& new vB_BbCodeParser($vbulletin, fetch_tag_list());

to this

// ######################### REQUIRE BACK-END ############################
GLOBAL $parser;
require_once('./includes/includes/init.php');
require_once('./includes/class_bbcode.php');
require_once('./global.php');
$parser 	=& new vB_BbCodeParser($vbulletin, fetch_tag_list());

Of course, you may have to edit the links to make them point directly to where the files are located based on this file's location.

[Timan]

Hey david, sorry to be a pest about it, but seem that didn't work either, now the error is the following.

Warning: main(/home/aquasoft/public_html/includes/class_core.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/aquasoft/public_html/board/includes/init.php on line 45

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/aquasoft/public_html/includes/class_core.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/aquasoft/public_html/board/includes/init.php on line 45

[davidw]

How are you setting this up in relationship to the forum? It may not be the files that are missing, but the link needs to be changed to what were originally required.

[Timan]

Well seems this addon fits my needs perfect for my site. We wanted to have a specified forum's posts be like news on a main page. Right now it works perfect at http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/news.php problem is we really wanted to move that news.php file to the root of the site so we could access it at http://www.aqua-soft.org/index.php Hope that helps.

[Joshyyy]

is there a way to edit the name of the mod, when displaying it on your forums?

Example atm its:

NAME OF FORUMS
--- vB News CMS

is there a way to edit the vB News CMS bit?

[davidw]

You can edit the vbnews.php file and find around line 499 (near the bottom):

$navbits[$parent] = 'vB News CMS';

and change it there. Save then reimport.

[Blindchild02]

Can this just do the newest threads from said forums, rather than newest threads per group?

Does that make sense? lol

I just want it to feed from all the forums I chose in order of date, rather than order of date within a group.

[Millenium IT]

BBcode doesnt work :/

[davidw]

Originally Posted by Blindchild02

Can this just do the newest threads from said forums, rather than newest threads per group?

Does that make sense? lol

I just want it to feed from all the forums I chose in order of date, rather than order of date within a group.

Are you wanting this to encompass all your forums altogether, rather than individual forums?

Originally Posted by Millenium IT

BBcode doesnt work :/

Where is this not working?

Btw, don't forget to click install.

[Blindchild02]

Originally Posted by davidw

Are you wanting this to encompass all your forums altogether, rather than individual forums?

no no, I still want the option to choose which forums, but I dont want them organized in categories, I'd rather them all be in 1 category and by date.