[ABD] News Mod

[cruddpuppet]

http://uranet.net/downloads/mod.zip
http://uranet.net/downloads/mod.zip
http://uranet.net/downloads/mod.zip
http://uranet.net/downloads/mod.zip

http://uranet.net/file.php?dl=mod
http://uranet.net/file.php?dl=mod
http://uranet.net/file.php?dl=mod
http://uranet.net/file.php?dl=mod

Note: For 5$ through paypal, I will install your mod, and configure everything the way you want it.

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MOD Title: News Mod
MOD Description: Grab News (or simply posts) from a given forum.
MOD Version: 2.0
MOD Download: http://uranet.net/file.php?dl=mod
Demo Board: http://uranet.net/mod.php

Features:
-Parse BBCode without the use of 3rd party code
-Parse emoticons/smileys
-Choose which forum where to grab the posts
-Choose how many to display
-Code is xhtml compliant (assuming the rest of the include page is also xhtml compliant)
-Choose whether or not to display avatar
-Choose how many characters to display, with a link to full post
-Seperate Config file
-Grab news from multiple forums
-Seperate Template File

Working demo:
-http://n-etwork.com/

Tested and working on RC1-RC5.

If you hadn't noticed the lack of features, that's why I'm here. I'm looking for feedback and more ideas on features to add, to help more people since this was a common mod but was not compatible with PHPBB3.

(* denotes a feature not completed // bold denotes a new feature added in the latest version)

Note: For 5$ through paypal, I will install your mod, and configure everything the way you want it.

( Not trying to be greedy :/ )

[saz3rx]

when will the mod be available for download?

[cruddpuppet]

I gave the source up there, if you hadn't noticed already.

I'm not quite familiar on how things work here, am I supposed to host the mod on an off-site server? Because the source to the mod (it's only one file) is already in the first post.

[saz3rx]

I didnt understand. Can you tell me how to use this file. Its a php file, right? Now I just copy-paste in notepad++ and save it as .php and run it on the forum?

[cruddpuppet]

Basically. I tried making it simple as possible by putting it all in one file.

Just read through the comments and modify what's needed to suit you best.

[ac_roma]

realy its useful mod but when it will be avaliable to download?

[saz3rx]

*lol* I asked the same Q. The info is in the code. Read that!

[cruddpuppet]

Okay, I left a message saying that the code is in the box, already available for download.

[saz3rx]

btw I still didn't get it. Can you gudei me step by stepm. I know that this is a php file. Now how to use it? I dunno much abt php

[cruddpuppet]

First of all, if you're using a free phpbb forum (free as in invisionfree.com is for IPB) it won't work.

Let's start off here.
$dbms = 'mysql';
$dbserver = 'localhost';
$dbport = '';

Leave those three alone, unless your host specifies otherwise.

$dbname = 'Database Name';
$dbuser = 'Database Username';
$dbpasswd = 'Database Password';

Replace the proper information in the proper spot. If your database name was 'phpbb_db', then you would replace 'Database Name' with 'phpbb_db'.

Same for the username, and password.

$table_prefix='phpbb3_'

phpbb3 is the default one, so if you don't remember what you put, then use that. It's the same one you used at installation.

If you want the comments/replies links to work, then you have to set the following variable correctly:

$forumpath = "nforum";

On the demo site, the script was on 'http://www.n-etwork.com/' and the forum was at 'http://www.n-etwork.com/nforum'. The forum path would then be 'nforum'.

Last thing to be modified, is forum id.

$forum_id = "1";

That was what I used because my news forum is the first, with the id being 1. you can easily get the forum id from the url of the section you want to get the posts. If my url was viewforum.php?f=4, then my $forum_id should equal "4".

If you need me to go in-depth with anything else, just ask.

[NicknameHere]

Also, just to clarify, to use this mod, replace everything CP just went into detail with then use an include on the page you want the news to show on, like so:

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<?PHP
include("http://yoursite.com/news.php");
?>	

yoursite.com being whatever domain you're using and news.php being the mod under whatever name you saved it as.

[cruddpuppet]

I'm going to be making a newer version of this, with multiple files; a config file, the main include file, and the xml generated by a script, sort of acting like a live feed, getting posts from the designated forum, of course.

Er, thanks dragunzyphyr. I didn't know that's what they needed help with >__>

[dingclancy]

This is perfect. I have been looking something like this for a while =)

Is this in the mod already? --> -Choose how many characters to display, with a link to full post*
Also do you think you can have multiple includes?

[dingclancy]

Also maybe an easier way to change the template of the news items.

[saaiberke]

Also, just to clarify, to use this mod, replace everything CP just went into detail with then use an include on the page you want the news to show on, like so:

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<?PHP
include("http://yoursite.com/news.php");
?>	

yoursite.com being whatever domain you're using and news.php being the mod under whatever name you saved it as.

This doesn't seem to work on my website. So I created a test.html with

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<?PHP
include("http://mydomain/forum/news.php");
?>	

in it but nothing show up. When I go directly to http://mydomain/forum/news.php I see the postings that I want.

Any clue on this please?

Grtz,

Nic