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...*

[TWTCommish]

Sorry, I posted this elsewhere, but think it might be better here:
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Hmmm, something's wrong. I started getting errors, so I tried to use chdir() to fix them. Here's what I'm using now. I have these two lines:

chdir("/usr/home/web/path/to/forums");
require("/usr/home/web/path/to/forums/global.php");

And then, I do this:

$comments = bbcodeparse2($comments,"1","1","1","1");

I get this error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /usr/home/web/path/to/forums/admin/functions.php on line 75

Any idea what's wrong? Thanks for your help either way!

[webhost]

ok guys couple of questions I have hack installed and it is running alright. Questions?

1)On the news page at the bottom when you select view all
posts should it pull up the entire forumid that you have set or
just new post in that forumid? Mind pulls up the entire forumid.

2) Is there a way to put a link on the headlines page that will
bring up the news page.

3) With this version are we able to pull from more than one
forum if so how?
4) Would there be away to add current active users in the forum
on the headlines page?

Thanks For the hack

[Kayn]

Originally posted by webhost
ok guys couple of questions I have hack installed and it is running alright. Questions?

1)On the news page at the bottom when you select view all
posts should it pull up the entire forumid that you have set or
just new post in that forumid? Mind pulls up the entire forumid.

2) Is there a way to put a link on the headlines page that will
bring up the news page.

3) With this version are we able to pull from more than one
forum if so how?
4) Would there be away to add current active users in the forum
on the headlines page?

Thanks For the hack

1) I set it up to pull up the entire forumid. 'View all News' was meant to just be a link to the news forum that was specified.

2) Sure is. You have to go in and add the HTML. If you need specifics on how to do this just let me know.

3) Multiple news forums is currently in the works. It's a good idea to have...

4) That is an entirely different hack that I use on my page (http://pluh.com - under latest reviews). I forget exactly where to get it, but this hack is available somewhere in these forums. Try searching for it. If you can't find it, email me and I'll send you the code.

[Kayn]

Originally posted by TWTCommish
Sorry, I posted this elsewhere, but think it might be better here:
--------------------------
Hmmm, something's wrong. I started getting errors, so I tried to use chdir() to fix them. Here's what I'm using now. I have these two lines:

chdir("/usr/home/web/path/to/forums");
require("/usr/home/web/path/to/forums/global.php");

And then, I do this:

$comments = bbcodeparse2($comments,"1","1","1","1");

I get this error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /usr/home/web/path/to/forums/admin/functions.php on line 75

Any idea what's wrong? Thanks for your help either way!

Hmm...I'm stumped...

It should work. Anyone else here have suggestions?

[webhost]

PHP Code:

chdir("/home/username/public_html/forums/");
require("./global.php"); 


Guessing you might try something like this and replace username with yours for your ftp account.

Maybe?

[Dark_Wizard]

With this version are we able to pull from more than one
forum if so how?

This would work well with categories in that each forum would be a category....I think I have some code from awhile back when I started this and never completed it...hmmm (as he looks through his files)...I'll get back to you on this

[webhost]

Thanks, Wanting to pull from about 7 or 8 forumid's.

Joey

Forgot a question?

Is it possible to somehow incorporate the include script in the install.txt into a html document. Tried putting it in there but it didn't wotk very good. Would like to pull the new files from one website to another site if possible?

[webhost]

Another recommendation.

Say you have your news script setup to pull 10 messages or 40 . Any way say when someone views this page is there away to add views back to total view counts for each thread on the list back in the forum columns . I need this if possible to keep up with views.
???

[Kayn]

yes yes, all of that is possible. I can put this on a 'request' list if you like for the next release!

[webhost]

yes yes can not wait.

Thank You

[webhost]

is it possible to setup the PluhHeadlines on a different domain rather than your own where some other site could pull the headlines from you?

[Kayn]

I think you can. Try this:

PHP Code:

<? include("http://thenameofyourdomain.com/nameofforums/PluhHeadlines.php"); ?>

[webhost]

try mind if you don't mind and see if it works

http://www.realwebhost.net/forums

or you might try http://forums.realwebhost.net

[jarvis]

Okay, I've really been wanting to get something like this. I'm not so interested in the thread creation part of this hack, but I am really wanting to link to my threads from my home page and be able to display information like the following:

"e.g. www.mhogaming.com News article here"

20 comment(s) Last post by Jarvis

I would think that there is a line of code from this hack that I should be able to use and just manually put in the forumid and thread strings, but my question is, where would I have my MySQL user information to pull this data. My main page is HTML-based, but PHP-parsed. I'm a bit nervous about embedding my user information in my homepage. Can this or any other hack do what I am asking?

Newbie questions I'm sure, but any help is greatly appreciated!!!

Thanks!!

[webhost]

This works had someone try it today with mind.

PHP Code:

<? include("http://thenameofyourdomain.com/nameofforums/PluhHeadlines.php"); ?>