vBulletin CMS Widgets - Widget: Latest Articles In Section

Latest Articles In Section

What is does:
vBCMS only has one option for latest articles and that is all sections and categories. This widget will allow you to display the latest articles in a specific section.

Change Log:
1.0 - Initial Release
1.1 - Updated to allow more than one section & display published date.
1.2 - Small update, no need to update unless you are using a table prefix.
1.3 - Added full page text if no previewtext row exists.
1.4 - Updated to not show unpublished articles.
1.5 - Updated read more link to look more vBulletin related.
1.6 - Small change to fix 4.0.2 [ATTACH] showing in text.

Installation:

• Goto AdminCP-vBullietin CMS-Widgets->Create New Widget
• Choose PHP Direct Execution as Widget's Type
• Enter A Title IE: "Latest (Insert Your Section Name Here)"
  
• Click Save
• Click Configure
  
• Remove all the default code.
  
• Copy and Paste the code below first editing $section and $limit to your liking
  
• Click Save
• Goto AdminCP-vBullietin CMS-Layout Manager
• Add the Widget to your Layout
• Click Save

How do I find my section id?
When clicking on your section you should see something like this:

http://www.domain.com/content.php?11

The number after ? in this case 11 is your section id.

Can I enter more than one section id?
Yes simply change $section = '11' to something like $section='11, 12, 13'

Code to copy(make sure you change $section and $limit!)

PHP Code:

// Set Your Section ID Here
$section = '11';
// Set The Number of Articles To Display
$limit = '1';
// Set The Height of The Thumbnail Image
$height = '250';
// Set The Width of The Thumbnail Image
$width = '250';

$articlegrab = vB::$db->query_read("
SELECT ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_nodeinfo.nodeid
    , ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_nodeinfo.title
    , ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_article.previewimage
    , ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_article.previewtext
    , ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_article.pagetext
    , ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_article.contentid
    , ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.nodeid 
    , ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.parentnode
    , ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.contentid
    , ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.url
    , ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.publishdate
    , ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.setpublish
  FROM ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_article
, ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_nodeinfo
, ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node
  WHERE (".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_nodeinfo.nodeid = ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.nodeid)
    AND (".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_article.contentid = ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.contentid)
    AND (".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.parentnode IN ($section))
    AND (".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.setpublish != 0)
  ORDER BY ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.publishdate DESC LIMIT $limit
");


while($articleinfo = vB::$db->fetch_array($articlegrab)) {

    $title = $articleinfo['title'];
    $image = $articleinfo['previewimage'];
    $text = $articleinfo['previewtext'];
    $nodeid = $articleinfo['nodeid'];
    $url = $articleinfo['url'];
    $unixdate = $articleinfo['publishdate']; 
    $date = date("F j, Y, g:i a", $unixdate);  
    $fulltext = strip_bbcode($fulltext);
    $text = preg_replace('/\[ATTACH\=CONFIG\]\d\d\[\/ATTACH\]/', '', $text);
    $text = strip_bbcode($text);


   if($text == '') $text = substr($fulltext, 0,150);
    
    $output .= '<center>';
    if($image != '') $output .= "<img src='".$image."' width='".$width."px' height='".$height."px' /><br />";
    
    $output .= "<a href='content.php?".$nodeid."-".$url."'>".$title."</a><br /><p>Publish Date: ".$date."</p></br></center><p>".$text." <a href='content.php?".$nodeid."-".$url."'> <img alt='Read More' src='images/cms/read_more-right.png' title='Read More' border='0'></a></p><br />";
} 

Preview:



For Category Mod See Here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=232440

[sisterhood]

not working database error

[kingMOB]

Thank you very much OcR Envy, works perfectly.

Any chance to get one for most viewed and one for most commented articles per sections and/or categories?

=)

[OcR Envy]

Originally Posted by sisterhood

not working database error

What is the database error sisterhood?

Originally Posted by kingMOB

Thank you very much OcR Envy, works perfectly.

Any chance to get one for most viewed and one for most commented articles per sections and/or categories?

=)

Sure I could work on that King.

1.2 Updated - Small update for people using a table prefix should resolve any database errors.

[sisterhood]

my box show nothing id have to change in my id

i use vbseo

[OcR Envy]

Originally Posted by sisterhood

my box show nothing id have to change in my id

i use vbseo

So you aren't getting any database errors just nothing is showing in the widget?

There are other ways to find the Section ID.

Go to your AdminCP-vBCMS-Section Manager.
Hover over the section you want. The link should look like this:

http://www.domain.com/admincp/cms_content_admin.php?do=filter&sectionid=116&contenttypeid=17

sectionid=116 is the part you'd want 116 would be your section id in this example.

[Datenpapst]

Hi,
whats the 150px image for?
It also seems like that the preview text code does not work

[kingMOB]

OcR Envy, there's a way to print the section, subsection and/or categories from the article in the widget?

Thanks =)

[tazattitude]

I also got an error.
I changed the section to one of my sections

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /usr/www/users/saj716/a_customxxxxxxxxx/forum/packages/vbcms/widget/execphp.php(171) : eval()'d code on line 44

Also, to add, I do have a prefix "vbull"

[Spiritvn]

Could u make it automatically get the section ID from the section clicked?