Add-On Releases - CES Site News

CES Site News
Version: 1.6.3
vBulletin 3.7.x, 3.8.x supported

*** NEWS ***
5/15/2008 - v1.6.3 released
5/5/2008 - v1.6.2 released
5/2/2008 - v1.6.1 released
4/17/2008 - v1.6.0 released
11/7/2007 - v1.5.1 released
9/9/2007 - v1.5.0 released
4/12/2007 - v1.4.1 released
4/5/2007 - v1.4.0 released
4/1/2007 - 4/2/2007 - v1.3.1 through v1.3.2 released
3/30/2007 - v1.3.0 released
3/23/2007 - 3/26/2007 - v1.2.0 through v1.2.4 released
3/14/2007 - v1.1.1 released
3/12/2007 - v1.1.0 released
2/9/2007 - v1.0.8 released
1/29/2007 - v1.0.7 released
1/23/2007 - 1/27/2007 - v1.0.0 through v1.0.6 released

Known Issues:
- none

What It Does:
This allows you to turn one of your forums into a news blog.

Live Installation: http://www.crackedeggstudios.com/news.php
This site is usually an update or two ahead of what's available in this thread, because that's where we do all our testing.

Products to Install: 1
Plugins Included: 14
Files to Upload: 7
Files to Edit: 0
New Templates: 8
Template Edits: 0

Mod Features:
- adds options to the Forum Manager
- uses forum permissions
- threads in the given forum become articles
- pull articles from other forums
- full-text articles are displayed in a customized forumdisplay
- post replies are added as comments
- set number of articles and comments per page
- turn on/off announcements in news display
- turn on/off attachments in news display
- turn on/off last comment in news display
- ajax quick edit in news display (basically, quick edit in forum display)
- display articles on every comments page
- limit size of article preview
- additional BB-Code tags for articles

BB-Code Tags:
[previewlength]value[/previewlength]
Placing this anywhere in an article overrides the preview limit for that article only. Multiple [previewlength] tags are cumulative. A "Read More..." link will appear if this tag is used.

[preview]value[/preview]
Placing this anywhere in an article defines text that will only show on Newsdisplay. Text contained in this tag completely replaces the post text on Newsdisplay. Multiple [preview] tags are cumulative. A "Read More..." link will appear if this tag is used.

[more]value[/more]
Placing this anywhere in an article defines text that will only show on Shownews. Text contained in this tag does not replace the post text on Shownews. It only hides text from Newsdisplay.

*** Changelog ***
As of Version 1.6.3:
- bug fix: preview functions do nothing since alias support added
- bug fix: preview functions never worked on editpost or newthread
- bug fix: inconsistent postbit after quick edit
- updated files: news.php, shownews.php, ces_news_bbcode.php,
ces_news_quick_edit.js

As of Version 1.6.2:
- bug fix: more database errors in vB 3.6.x
- bug fix: post controls hide on news display in IE7
- bug fix: threadbit and postbit widths inconsistent
- updated templates: ces_news_postbit, ces_news_threadbit
- updated files: shownews.php

*** Screenshots ***
1. New Forum Manager Option
2. Site News Settings
3. News Articles (forumdisplay)
4. Comments (showthread)

[Chadi]

Sorry, where should I look in the styles exactly? I don't want to mess anything up

[thincom2000]

AdminCP -> Styles & Templates -> Style Manager -> All Style Options -> Sizes and Dimensions -> Main Table Width.

If this is a value larger than you might have specified maybe in the showthread template or something, that's what's causing your problem. I know whenever I change the layout of my site and then nothing matches in width anymore, Main Table Width is usually the culprit.

[dizzy100]

Originally Posted by dizzy100

I tried this hack out too. I get exactly the same issues as others are reporting i,e, trying to find news.php in my webserver root when my vbulletin forum is in forums/ and yes the white text over the username as well. Rather weird.

Apart from these teething issues it seems a great hack. I wonder if we could have an option to only show the first X amount of words or letters (as a spoiler) with a link to the full article. Long news takes up an enormous amount of space using this hack

Still testing but pretty pleased with what i have seen (if i can get both the new option, if possible, and the two bugs squashed).

Is this hack supported anymore ?

And does anybody have any ideas how to limit the output with a readmore link ?

[thincom2000]

Yes, this hack is still supported, I must have just missed your post in there. I'm a bit confused as to why it is looking in your web server root.

Do you have $vbulletin->options['bburl'] set to your domain name instead of your board url?
For the white text over the username, could you please link to your news section so I can look at that?

Regarding your suggestion for only showing X words or letters, that sounds like a doable addition for the next update, and thank you for suggesting it because I've been holding 1.1.0 back until I could add to the feature list (had been mainly bug fixes).

[SnitchSeeker]

Anxious to see a demo. How's that coming along? I just want to see what this looks like when the thread has posts and how it looks from a regular user's pov.

More screenshots would work too I guess.

This might be just what i am looking for but i won't install until I can see a bit more about it.

[thincom2000]

Live demo: http://www.crackedeggstudios.com/news.php

[dizzy100]

Originally Posted by thincom2000

Yes, this hack is still supported, I must have just missed your post in there. I'm a bit confused as to why it is looking in your web server root.

Do you have $vbulletin->options['bburl'] set to your domain name instead of your board url?
For the white text over the username, could you please link to your news section so I can look at that?

Regarding your suggestion for only showing X words or letters, that sounds like a doable addition for the next update, and thank you for suggesting it because I've been holding 1.1.0 back until I could add to the feature list (had been mainly bug fixes).

As regards the $vbulletin>options['bburl'] im not sure where to check on that ? But this is the only hack ive installed (have 20+ enabled) that does this ?

Glad you appreciate ideas. I think a limited wordage per news with a read more link would be great. And if possible, a bbcode tag to add to override that limit. So say you set a limit of 50 words per article but on one article 50 won't cut it (needing more), you add a bbcode tag that overrides that 50 words with a user defined word limit for that article. What do you think ?

[thincom2000]

I will remove the references to the bburl in 1.1.0, but you really should not have any problems there UNLESS AdminCP -> vBulletin Options -> Site Name / URL / Contact Details -> Forum URL is NOT set to your forum base directory and is instead set to your webserver root.

I'm pretty sure bb-codes weren't originally designed to do that. Doing what you suggest with a tag (overriding a vbulletin setting) may prove impossible without serious file edits, unless it was the tag itself that acted as a setting.

[dizzy100]

My forum url is set correctly so its not that I know locally i edited your plugin and removed that bburl code in it and it worked well after that.

As regards bbcode, i actually meant a tag. Could you not get the plugin to look at the body of the text and if a tag exists break there instead of the default in the admincp option of your plugin ? Would seem the likely solution.

So check if $tag exists else $mydefaultbreaksetting ?

[thincom2000]

Ah yes, much easier if not bbcode related. Maybe using the hook threadbit_display...