Another News Mod

[Extensions Robot]

MOD Name: Another News Mod
Author: Janmarques
MOD Description: These add-on files allow you to add last announces in a frame on your main website.

MOD Version: 1.0.1
Tested on phpBB Version: 2.0.21

Download File: Another_News_Mod_1_0_1a.zip
mods overview page: View
File Size: 10862 Bytes



Support for this MOD needs to be asked within this topic. The phpBB Teams are not responsible or required to give anyone support for this MOD. By installing this MOD, the phpBB Support Team or phpBB MODifications Team may not be able to provide support.

This MOD has only been tested by the phpBB MOD Team with the phpBB version listed in the topic. It may not work in any other versions of phpBB.

[ycl6]

MOD Validated/Released

Notes:
This simple news MOD is displayed as an iframe on your forum. For admins, the configuration settings can be found in announcements.php.

[GHFSilva]

We have installed this mod on our website, the page did run cute news which is why it's a PHP extension, check it out.

http://www.gungho-fighters.com/news.php

But we have found a little problem and was after some advice.

The exported data stretches to the size of the table set, we've set ours to what suites our site best, and if you view under IE it stretches the IFRAME and fits it to the table, but under Fire Fox it just stays as a little box at the top of the Table.

Any ideas ?

[igorw]

Have you tried removing these attributes from the iframe:

Code: Select all

width="100%" height="100%"

[Janmarques]

Thank you dear phpBB Team for submitting my MOD
Here is a guide


Instructions and Guides
1) MOD Discription
2) MOD FAQ
3) Disclaimer

.0o:.

1) MOD Discription
This MOD produces a page, where all the last post of one or more specific forum are listed, this can be usefull to use in frame on your regular website, so it has a direct connection with the forum.

.0o:.

2) MOD FAQ

Q: Can I change the forum where the newspage gets his information from?
A: Of course...
Open announcements.php
Find

Code: Select all

$CFG['news_forum'] = '1';

and replace "1" with the forum number you want. If you want it from multiple forums, just put a "," inbetween.
EG: 1,2,5,10


Q: Can I change the length of the showed articles?
A: Yes, you can...
Open announcements.php
Find

Code: Select all

$CFG['news_length'] = '5000';

and replace "5000" with the number of characters you want to show.


Q: Can I change the number of showed aricles?
A: Also this is possible...
Open announcements.php
Find

Code: Select all

$CFG['number_of_news'] = '5';

and replace "5" with the number of articels to show you want.


Q: How do I install those additional languages with EasyMod?
A: Just load the folder "translations" up to phpbb-root/admin/mods/
Now, you can run in the adminpanel all the languages you have got installed.


End of FAQ - further addictions are always possible

.0o:.

3) Disclaimer
This MOD has been produced...
... based on Smartors- ezPortal
... with the help of Paul, on the phpBB.nl website
... with the help of Bee, on the phpBB.nl website

This MOD has been translated...
... into Dutch by myself
... into French by myself and a doublecheck by Weedom
... into German by Big_Wheely
... into German-Formal using the same translation as German
... into Danish by John Hjorth

Thanks all for using this MOD, have fun with it.

Kind Regards,
Jan

[Janmarques]

We have installed this mod on our website, the page did run cute news which is why it's a PHP extension, check it out.

http://www.gungho-fighters.com/news.php

But we have found a little problem and was after some advice.

The exported data stretches to the size of the table set, we've set ours to what suites our site best, and if you view under IE it stretches the IFRAME and fits it to the table, but under Fire Fox it just stays as a little box at the top of the Table.

Any ideas ?

Try to use

Code: Select all

<object style="width: 70%;height: 100%;" data="http://linktoforum/announcements.php" type="text/html"> 
   </object>

instead of the frames

Didn't test, but should work

[sir_wimelef]

i try to install it in my website, but i sems to doesn't work.

i made all the things listed in the .mod with some modifications

#-----[ COPY ]------------------------------------------
copy root/announcements.php to announcements.php
copy root/fetchposts.php to fetchposts.php
copy root/news_body.tpl to templates/wow/news_body.tpl
#-----[ OPEN ]------------------------------------------
language/lang_Spanish/lang_main.php on
#-----[ FIND ]------------------------------------------
$lang['Message'] = 'Message';
#-----[ AFTER, ADD ]------------------------------------------
//Start Another News Mod
$lang['Comments'] = 'Comentarios';
$lang['View_Comments'] = 'Ver comentarios';
$lang['Post_Comments'] = 'Postear comentario';
$lang['Home'] = 'Noticias';
$lang['Read_Full'] = 'Completa';
//End Another News Mod
#-----[ DIY INSTRUCTIONS ]------------------------------------------
Now you can add http://linktoforum/announcements.php into a frame on you website.
Use for this <iframe src="http://linktoforum/announcements.php" width="70%" height="100%"></iframe>
#-----[ SAVE/CLOSE ALL FILES ]------------------------------------------

and i made a blank php page with the iframe, and it apear only with the template background color and the footer
this is the link http://www.ccorpse.es/v2/foro/news.php
any idea?

[Saeru]

I recommend removing the iframe and putting it in a DIV tag. Iframes do not display the same on all browsers, and in some are not supported all that well. DIV pritty mjuch is and will look the same on all browsers.

[sir_wimelef]

ok but i supose that mustr apear somthing more on this http://www.ccorpse.es/v2/foro/announcements.php or no?
or how to add a anouncement?

[Saeru]

I meant for the mod author to rewrite the mod and make it in a DIV tag rather then an iframe for the above reasons.

[Janmarques]

Retry all actions, then: upload the news_body.tpl also to the subSilver template root, and check if that works

[emptycs]

We have installed this mod on our website, the page did run cute news which is why it's a PHP extension, check it out.

http://www.gungho-fighters.com/news.php

But we have found a little problem and was after some advice.

The exported data stretches to the size of the table set, we've set ours to what suites our site best, and if you view under IE it stretches the IFRAME and fits it to the table, but under Fire Fox it just stays as a little box at the top of the Table.

Any ideas ?

Try to use

Code: Select all

<object style="width: 70%;height: 100%;" data="http://linktoforum/announcements.php" type="text/html"> 
   </object>

instead of the frames

Didn't test, but should work

Same thing even when I use object

http://esclan.net/news.php

[Janmarques]

Please do also this:

Retry all actions, then: upload the news_body.tpl also to the subSilver template root, and check if that works

[Ramon Fincken]

Please don't add 13 users in a multi msn tab to show your MOD url.
If it is a good mod we'll see it in time.

good luck developping.

Rfn

ps: further discussion per PM

[Janmarques]

For those who want a spanish version:

Open

Code: Select all

language/lang_spanish/lang_main.php

Find

Code: Select all

?>

Before add

Code: Select all

$lang['Comments'] = 'Comentario'; 
$lang['View_Comments'] = 'Ver Comentario'; 
$lang['Post_Comments'] = 'Poner comentario'; 
$lang['Home'] = 'Sitio de noticias'; 
$lang['Read_Full'] = 'Leer entero';