Simple Forumhome/standalone news hack.

[d3f]

Here is my really simple/rough news hack, there is no caching no acp administration, just a really simple news hack, there is probally some error as I have only tested this on my live board and it was writen within a period of serveral minutes.

An exsample can be found here under the welcome box. (http://www.methlabs.org/forums/)

Anyways all try and improve it in the future Anyone and everyone is free to modify this hack to his hearts content, no props are needed (or wanted).

[Lionel]

Nice and simple. However you might want to fix the templates, the two tables below are not aligned. I think that is currently determined by news length. At your site it is the first 2 tables.

[GamerJunk.net]

So how would it look like on a normal board?

[d3f]

yes the length of the box is detirmined by the character post, all put of a screenshot in a few minutes, using the default skin.

[dfmafia]

need BB code active...its showing my bb code

(ie. [b],
[list], [i]...)

works good though


http://df+++++.net/forums/news1.php what im talking about



also im going to edit this script just a bit to fit my needs...im going to make it in 1 collum instead of the 2 you have currently...if any1 wants me to ill post it when i finish it

[dfmafia]

edited to make 1 collum

edited for longer preview text

BB Code works but some of the html ive added in my news whacks out


other than that it works great

to make a collum just edit the "news" template and put

Code:
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Code is only visible to licensed users, and only when logged into the forums.
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before each

Code:
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Code is only visible to licensed users, and only when logged into the forums.
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* being the number of the arcticle

mine is set up for 10 arcticles

to set that up its in the directions provided in the "simplenews.txt"

also i set up my collums to be 30% width and not 100%

[dfmafia]

also im trying to get this to work on a non-vB page but running into problems

when i insert the code i loose the content on my site on the right side and footer...basically everything after the script...

looks like i have an open table script but i cant find it...

[draculanowaday]

Hix. I want to take news from many forum (not only one). And each forum only take the newest thread. Can you help me? :-S

[d3f]

change thread.forumid=4 to

thread.forumid IN (1,2,3,4)

to draw from more then one forum.

Not as easy to do newest thread from each forum.

[tilight]

Ive dnoe everything correctly (atleast I think) but my page shows up blank. Im doing the FORUMHOME version.

[HiDeo]

Nice, I'll look at this !

[tilight]

Found my problem!!! I needed

require_once('./includes/functions_bbcodeparse.php');

In index.php

Enjoy everyone!

[Xtrm2Matt]

Hi,

Could anyone help me with this? I've done everything it's told me to (using the "Standalone method") but, when I goto news.php, alls it does is show me the 4 boxes with "posted by" and "comments"?

Thanks
Matt