Logician NEWS: Drag Any Message to Your Main Page

This is a news script which will drag vb forum messages from your vb db to your non-vb main page/news page. There are a lot of good news script around but I needed a highly customizable main page news script with some special features and wrote it myself. I'm using it in my site's main page for a long time, but I was just too lazy to write installation/help documents to share it here, sorry!

FEATURES:

* This script simply pulls forum messages which you marked as "news" from your vb database and post them in your non-vbulletin (main/other) page.
* You can mark messages as "NEWS" in any forum you want (including private forums). You dont need to restrict your news to a specific forum.
* You can drag any message to your main page, regardless of its date. So news is NOT supposed to be the most recent messages in your board.
* You do NOT have to carry the whole message to your main page as news. You can import it all or simply take some part of it. So eg. you can drag a message's the first paragraph to your news page and link the thread for "Read More".
* Moreover you can insert invisible custom NEWS text which will be dragged to your main page to your board messages, but not shown in the original forum thread. So your original thread message and news text on your main page can be different than eachother.
* You can have sticky news in your main page (even if they are not sticky in your forum).
* News does NOT need to be the first message in the thread. You can tag any reply message as news and pull it to your main page either.
* Script parses ALL of your message icons/smilies (including your custom add-ons) and some of the important vBCode like: [url] [email] [img] [b] [i] [u]
* You can specify which members may post news.
* You can form your News' title seperately, apart from of the original thread/message title.
* You can set maximum number of news shown in your main page.
* You can set maximum number of characters that all shown news should not exceed. Some messages can be long and some can be short and if you set a character limit, the script will automatically compile enough news from your database to fit your web page's relevant part according to the limit you set.
* You can enable/disable:
News Poster Name
News Date
News Read Number
News 'Send to a Friend' Link
Comment number/Add comment button/Last commenter
Will viewing news increase the original thread's view count or not
News is sticky or not
for ALL your news INDIVIDUALLY.
* All news tags are invisible in the original thread. So forum readers do not notice any difference when you tag a message as news.
* Dragging a message to your main page as news is as simple as inserting a hidden [news]Title of My News[/news] tag to your forum message.

Well, these features are what I needed in my news script, so it should suffice to you too!

It's an easy to install script and will work with ALL vbulletin versions because it's an add-on, not a hack. I can give support as much as I have time, but please ask here, not via email or PM.

If you use the script, please click INSTALL. If you post the URL of your news page after installation, you can help other users see the script in action in different pages and in custom designs, thank you!

Logician

[Logician]

it is the post itself that should include tag [news]This is a News Title[/news] not its title, you are aware of this right?

[Solice]

yea, i made one post with it in the post and one with it in the subject...

[Logician]

well I'm not sure how I can help you more. This hack is an old one so tested for a long time by different users. Thus I believe that it should be something related to you, not the hack itself. But if you think that it is a hack bug and want me to debug, I can do it if I'm granted admin access/FTP access/PHPmyadmin access to your server.

[Solice]

Well it may be my server or something, but if you would be willing to debug, i think it would be worth the try and I can give you temporary access, do you have ICQ, AIM, MSN or Yahoo?

[Logician]

please send access details via email or PM

[Logician]

1 - checked
2 - checked
3 - checked

I've looked at everything twice and I can't figure out whats wrong

it is working ok.

Your mistakes were:
1- I couldnt find [news]news title [/news] tag in any of your messages. When I added one, it is dragged to the main page.

2- You didnt configure $news_posters variable in the options file correctly. You have to enter news posters USERNAMEs there to authorize them access. I added your username (Stellice) and it is all ok now..

You can remove my access to your board.

[SVTBlackLight01]

Great hack!

I got this to display on my home page fine. The only thing is that for some reason it underlines the posts I'm pulling from. I'm using [news][/news] and [intro][/intro]

An example can be seen here.

test page

I've gone over everything and can't seem to find what might be causing it.

[Logician]

Try to change these 2 vbcodes like this and lets see if it will work

vB Code tag: news
vB Code replacement: & nbsp;

vB Code tag: intro
vB Code replacement: & nbsp;{param}

(Remove space between & and nbsp; )

[SVTBlackLight01]

Great!! That fixed it!

--> clicks install

[soccerclue]

I would like to know if we drag a post to the main page, can we add picture for that post in the main page or do we need to edit the post and add the picture in order to have the picture displayed in the main page? I would like to install this one if it can have picture in it.