Slashdot.org-style news posting system

I'd like to have certain memebers of my forum, Admins, moderators and SuperModerators, be able to post news to the front page of my site, and have a 'comments' link at the bottom of the summary that links through to a new thread that was generated when the news article was posted. Then other members of the site can comment on the story from within the regular vB system.

Stallion and others talk about it in the Suggestions forum: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...?threadid=2746 and he says it would be a pretty easy hack to do.

One other thing about the initial news post. I'd like it to show a small mugshot of the news poster (here's mine: ) much like the ones used at http://www.highervoltage.net.

Also, since my forum is based on individual games, it would be cool if the news thread was created in the corresponding forum. Quake news goes to the Quake forum and such. Plus, a special icon, color or title should distinguish the news thread from the regular threads in the destination forum.

What do you think?

-Nathan

I've been looking for something similar. I could probably handle the basic coding myself...however I would need someone to point me to some of the SELECT/INSERT statements and echo commands...

slashdot provides all of the source to the news system at their site, although it looks like a beast of a task to set the bugger up. Anyway, just thought I'd mention that the source is readily available.

Yup, found at http://www.SlashCode.com - all well and good, but I think it's in Perl/SQL, rather than PHP.

I think a hack for vBulletin would be much easier.

All I really want is to be able to let users login and post comments normally...I can add the news stories with my own PHP script and all...just need to know what commands I can put to allow for SlashDot-style comments after the story/review/article.

Check out phpSlash at:
http://phplib.netuse.de/

Its PHP/mySQL based. I don't personally have it installed on my site (I tried - I'm dumb when it comes to creating tables.... esp. without telnet)....

But I saw it on someone else's.... can't remember who's....

It look cool though...
Might be easier to integrate with vbulletin than regular Slash...

Check it out...

rockergrrl

Originally posted by rockergrrl
Check out phpSlash at:
http://phplib.netuse.de/

Its PHP/mySQL based. I don't personally have it installed on my site (I tried - I'm dumb when it comes to creating tables.... esp. without telnet)....

But I saw it on someone else's.... can't remember who's....

It look cool though...
Might be easier to integrate with vbulletin than regular Slash...

Check it out...

rockergrrl

i believe phpslash is used intergrated into the highvoltage.net site ?

I am implementing a Frontpage Weblog (News)feature on my site http://oldamigos.com I tried alot of the Slashdot type and gave up, I got the hack from this forum, If interrested I'll look it up again. Since it's vB hacked up, it's easy to make changes.

yes, but highervoltage is not a smooth integration. You have to click through twice to actually join the discussion.

[Edited by Nathan on 09-01-2000 at 10:13 PM]

there was a hack for this before, but I could never get it, the URL was down or something, I don't remember, and when I replied to its topic I never got a response

I have put Paul Youngs Weblog Hack at ftp://ftp.oldamigos.com/pub/bfc_ws.zip for you if you want it. I'll leave it there for a couple days if anyone wants it.