Add-On Releases - vB News CMS

Built on the foundation of the 3.6 version, I've rewritten a lot of code and added a few things.

What does this do? It allows you to take your news from your news forums (up to 9 news forums) and display them in a category-style fashion with the ability to add new content, reply to the original story, send to a friend, and print.

Install Instructions

Located in the zipped readme.txt file.

New Features
- Allow usergroups to be able to add/reply to news/content.
- Give the ability to show archives (more than the initial x amount on the vbnews page). The archive page shows only the news/content for that specific forum and is however many you decide.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the forumid?
The forumid is the id of the forum you have created. Each forum has its own unique number assigned to it. When you click on a forum link you can see a number that is assigned to it. This will show up in the URL of the page you are browsing. Another way of seeing the forumid is to go to your admin control panel => Forums & Moderators => Forum Manager => Click on [Expand All] and then move your mouse over (hover) any of the forums you've created. Your status bar (bottom of screen) should display your forumid (number at the end of the link/url).

What if I don't like the archive name for the forum?
.../archives.php?&do=forum1
you can change this only in the vbnews.php file
Find each instance of

$archivetext			=	'forum1';

and change the forum1 to whatever you want it to say, but keep in mind that you will want to ensure each one is different (just as it is there).


Changes

none for 3.7


See screenshots for how it works. Sorry, no demo available at the moment.

[Zaiaku]

Looks good will have to give this a test to see how much I could use this.

[cygy2k]

Can you add to the description at some point? Thanks!

[davidw]

Added - When I copied the notes from 3.6's version, for some reason I deleted them.

[mktrilogy]

hmm, looks interesting, will give it a shot

[John3971]

just wanna report that when you look at it in internet explorer it won´t show up right it will go far out to the right >>

[davidw]

If for some reason 100% isn't working right, you can change it from fluid to fixed by altering template vbnewscms_articlelist.

Find:

<table align="center" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%">

and change 100% to whatever number you need to (such at 600 or 800)

[John3971]

Originally Posted by davidw

If for some reason 100% isn't working right, you can change it from fluid to fixed by altering template vbnewscms_articlelist.

Find:

<table align="center" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%">

and change 100% to whatever number you need to (such at 600 or 800)

that does not work i have tried but i figured the problem out and it was nothing like that. you had to add something to the template

[flOid]

Exactly what I needed, tnx!

Only two things that I think need improvement:

- the last "read on" link for each section isn't working
- I think it would be a good idea to separate the archive into different pages of X articles, so that all threads of a forum can easily be displayed at a whole, instead of limiting the total number of threads to be displayed in the archive. That would make the mod perfect!

[davidw]

On the first improvement bulletin - I'm not seeing any issues there. What I am seeing however, is that when I click on the last "read on" link - it opens up in the same page as previously last opened page. It reuses that page. Of course, that is on my 3.7 development site with very little mods installed.
On the second issue, can you PM me more details? This could be an option that I could add and update.