News Feed Mod

[phin]

Question, i am currently working on a script to post news to my front page.  i currently have it working correctly, whut i did was made a hidden forum that only mods can see or designated ppl, and they post the news.  then a script on my front page goes in and pulls the post.  this works well.  but there are a few issues i am having.

1) how do i get the times to display right? i included the Subs.php file so i could use the timeformat function but it just displays a defualt of December 31, 1969.  any way to fix?

2) is it possible for me to make a forum that only mods can post in, BUT anyone can reply?  so i can add comments to my news post.

thouse are the only 2 issues i have for now.  i am making this mod userfreindly so i can post the code to whoever wants it.

thanks in advance

--phin

[Spaceman-Spiff]

YaBB SE has a built in news script (kinda): read the NewsPHP_ReadMe.txt file or -> http://www.yabbse.org/community/NewsPHP_ReadMe.txt

what u can do is set up an annoucement board, and let the posters post there
currently only Admins and Global Mods can post in an annoucement board, but there's a mod from nemesis to allow another membergroup (News Poster) to post there. i think the mod is made for 1.4.1 tho...

another alternative (besides the news poster mod) is to use a hidden board (like the one u're using now), and let the posters post there, then the admin moves the topics to the announcement board

[phin]

im not talking about the front page of my yabb board. im talking about the home page of my site in general.

[phin]

oh sh!t i see now thanks alot! thats sweet

[phin]

wish there was a way to allow it so only a certain group can start a thread but anyone can reply, that would work out great.

[phin]

ok one last thing.  anyone know why i get this error...

Warning: main() [function.main]: stream does not support seeking in http://www.blah.com/forums2/index.php?action=news;board=4;limit=7 on line 0

??

[phin]

ok sorry to keep posting but the readme for news.php needs to be updated.  the include will not work it seems for alot of newer php setups.  i did figure out a fix thou.

Code Select Expand


<? include("http://www.yabbse.org/community/index.php"); ?>


should now be

Code Select Expand


<?
$news = file_get_contents("http://www.yabbse.org/community/index.php");
echo $news;
?>


[[Unknown]]

ok sorry to keep posting but the readme for news.php needs to be updated.  the include will not work it seems for alot of newer php setups.  i did figure out a fix thou.

It works as-is for me.  I'm running PHP 4.3.0, IIS 6.0.  Is that not newish?

-[Unknown]

[phin]

hmmm not sure then..

but i know i was having problems no matter whut i tried

my setup is freebsd apache/php 4.3.1

so who knows... but the way i put it works 100% and it seems to be the way it should be done now, according to all the googleing i did.

[[Unknown]]

hmmm not sure then..

but i know i was having problems no matter whut i tried

my setup is freebsd apache/php 4.3.1

so who knows... but the way i put it works 100% and it seems to be the way it should be done now, according to all the googleing i did.

We can't put that way in the readme anyway, file_get_contents() only exists in 4.3.x.  (riht now, PHP 4.1.0 is the minimum requirement...)

-[Unknown]

[phin]

ahh ok then, well maybe offer it as an alternitive, but either way it is now in this board for ppl looking for help on it

[David]

wish there was a way to allow it so only a certain group can start a thread but anyone can reply, that would work out great.

Annoncement boards

[Tenkoy]

YaBB SE has a built in news script (kinda): read the NewsPHP_ReadMe.txt file or -> http://www.yabbse.org/community/NewsPHP_ReadMe.txt

what u can do is set up an annoucement board, and let the posters post there
currently only Admins and Global Mods can post in an annoucement board, but there's a mod from nemesis to allow another membergroup (News Poster) to post there. i think the mod is made for 1.4.1 tho...

another alternative (besides the news poster mod) is to use a hidden board (like the one u're using now), and let the posters post there, then the admin moves the topics to the announcement board

Is there a way to make this script organize into pages. I'm going to use it to list reviews for stories as a list and it would be great if I could make it have a way to go page to page instead of seeing it all at once.

[Spaceman-Spiff]

u can do that if u alter the LIMIT statement
example. if u want it to show 10 news item every page, use:
LIMIT 0, 10; (where 0 is the start of the record, and 10 is the limit)
then at the next page:
LIMIT 10, 10;
u'll need to code the page where u show the news a bit if u want to do it automatically

[Tenkoy]

Thanks, however, I have no idea how I would go about doing that. Thanks anyway, I'll look into php and see if I can figure it out.