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

[deezelpope]

Originally Posted by thincom2000

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>

Originally Posted by ESADCG

I have gone through this thread and none of the solutions seem to work well. Couldn't the author rewrite this to work with all usergroups instead of all these hacks to the hack? It is pretty much worthless without the additional usergroups.

Originally Posted by ESADCG

Helllllo!!! Still need those double digit usergroups! This dude hasn't been online in a year! Someone needs to rewrite this thing!

Did you see this first post I quoted? It works to fix the issue.:up:

[cbiweb]

I have two styles: Default and Test 1. Neither of them is a parent to the other, they are two separate styles.
Test 1 has the $latest_news variable in its navbar template.
Default does NOT have it, yet it shows the latest news module as if it did.

Why would that happen?