vBulletin CMS Widgets - Central What's New Widget

Central What's New Widget 2.0
Tested with vBulletin Suite 4.0.0 up to 4.1.7


This modifications collects in one central widget all data relevant to your forum. You can select how many streams, how many days it should look back and the length of the preview text.

A version that displays streams in user profiles can be found here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=256071

With v2.0.2 there is support for collecting streams from this:
- Blog
- Blog comments
- CMS Articles
- CMS comments
- vBExperience achievements
- vBExperience awards
- Group discussions
- Group messages
- Album Pictures
- Album Pictures comments
- Threads
- Posts
- Visitor Message
- Project Tools Issues
- iTrader Feedbacks


It can be easily expanded to display also data from Post Thanks, vBookie, Downloads, etc...


/***** Demo: *****\
http://www.insidesupcom.de/?langid=1


/***** How to install this? *****\
- Upload the content of the folder "upload_via_ftp" to your server.
- Install the product xml

- Create a new Widget:
Type: PHP Direct Execution
Title: Central What's New

Save!

- Configure the new Widget:
PHP Code: require_once('./cwnw/cwnw.php');
Template name: cwnw_wrapper

Save!

You can now add this widget to your favourite location in your layout.



Comments, suggestions, translations, bugs, etc... are very welcome! Support is only given to people who have clicked "Mark as Installed".



History:
2.0.3, 10th Oct 2011:
- Fixed issues with wrong linked avatars. Just replace cwnw.php and clear CMS cache.


2.0.2, 23th Oct 2010:
- Fixed style issues that appeared with vBulletin 4.0.8 - Please remember to clear your CMS Cache after importing the product.


2.0.1, 18th Aug 2010:
- Fixed wrong date on vBExperience Achievements

- Support now streams from:
-- iTrader
-- vBExperience Awards
-- CMS Entries
-- Project Tools Issues


2.0.0, 07th Aug 2010:
- First public release

1.x:
- Releases used for own websites

[The Coon]

Thank you!

[Steve_GB]

Thank you - this is great.

Installed and working well straight away.

All the links it produces seem great apart from the ones from the avatars. On my 4.7 system they link to member.php which is fine.. but then followed by the name of the area the widget is displayed in. So they are like this: http://www.website.com/vbulletin/member.php/29-testpage

As I say, all the other links to members are fine and use the correct member info... so a small code change looks to be all that is needed.

One request to make the system really useful on our site would be for us to be able to turn things on and off in the control panel configuration. So we could turn on only the streams we want checked.

Also a 'take out' or 'include' control that perhaps uses forum numbers so we could take out forums we want excluded. For instance, at present it is displaying a lot of forums where we get the content via RSS, and masses of those entries in the lists it creates stops it being really possible for us to use it live.

This is a great idea, and thanks again for developing it.

[Phalynx]

Originally Posted by Steve_GB

Thank you - this is great.

Installed and working well straight away.

All the links it produces seem great apart from the ones from the avatars. On my 4.7 system they link to member.php which is fine.. but then followed by the name of the area the widget is displayed in. So they are like this: http://www.website.com/vbulletin/member.php/29-testpage

As I say, all the other links to members are fine and use the correct member info... so a small code change looks to be all that is needed.

Will check this:
http://www.vbaddict.net/project.php?issueid=70

Originally Posted by Steve_GB

One request to make the system really useful on our site would be for us to be able to turn things on and off in the control panel configuration. So we could turn on only the streams we want checked.

Just delete the php file that is referencing that.

Originally Posted by Steve_GB

Also a 'take out' or 'include' control that perhaps uses forum numbers so we could take out forums we want excluded. For instance, at present it is displaying a lot of forums where we get the content via RSS, and masses of those entries in the lists it creates stops it being really possible for us to use it live.

This is a great idea, and thanks again for developing it.

Nice idea, added here:
http://www.vbaddict.net/project.php?issueid=71

[Steve_GB]

Just a small thing to report. Smilies are not being displayed in the teaser text from forum messages. You get the code to call them shown, like :laugh99: or whatever.

[LichtMann]

Hi Phalynx

Before, thank you for your greats mods. Are really useful.

Right now I am using Xperience and also this widget for the activity.

But with the widget I am having some problems with the time.

When I have activated the widget on the home page, it takes 13 seconds more to load!

So I wonder if there is any way in that the data can be store in the cache, instead of making the sql queries each time the page is loaded.

Or what du u think could be the source of this lack of time.

LG

[Phalynx]

CWNW is using the caching mechanism of the vBCMS. Please check if you have a cache time of 0 (=no caching).

[LichtMann]

Originally Posted by Phalynx

CWNW is using the caching mechanism of the vBCMS. Please check if you have a cache time of 0 (=no caching).

Thank you for your answer.

I know u think that I gotta be kidding, but i didn't found where to set this option, do u know?

Btw, LG von Dortmund

[Phalynx]

Go the the Widget and Configure it. There you have "Cache refresh time (minutes)"

LG aus Erlangen

[LichtMann]

Originally Posted by Phalynx

Go the the Widget and Configure it. There you have "Cache refresh time (minutes)"

LG aus Erlangen

I have this options on the Widget Settings:

Preview length
Items
Streams
Days cutoff

[Phalynx]

You are in the wrong place.

Go to vBulletin CMS in the AdminCP, Widgets, Search for the CWNW Widget and click "Configure" on the right side.