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es4725
Junior Member

205 Posts

Posted - 22 September 2002 :  13:58:50  Show Profile
I'm looking for a news mod if someone would be interested in helping me out here. What I want is to have one forum for news posts that I can post on the front page of my site (as opposed to the front page of my forum). I want the initial forum posts to be limited to those on the Allowed List in the forum, but I want any user to be able to post replies so that they may discuss the news post.

On the front page I'd like to be able to post the news in the following format:

Title
Posted by <name> on <date>
...news...
Discussion <-- Link to the forum post.]

I've looked around the forums, searched, and I've seen a few mods similar to this (content display, etc) but I can't find something quite like what I'm looking for.
Thanks

@tomic
Senior Member

USA
1790 Posts

Posted - 22 September 2002 :  15:29:10  Show Profile  Visit @tomic's Homepage  Send @tomic an ICQ Message
Content Display MOD does this exactly this and is designed to do this.

@tomic

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@tomic
Senior Member

USA
1790 Posts

Posted - 22 September 2002 :  17:19:57  Show Profile  Visit @tomic's Homepage  Send @tomic an ICQ Message
quote:
I've looked around the forums, searched, and I've seen a few mods similar to this (content display, etc) but I can't find something quite like what I'm looking for.


Check it again. I just added a couple new news diplay modes and a page called news.asp. The join the discussion link has a target that, when clicked, takes you directly to the discussion.

@tomic

SportsBettingAcumen.com
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es4725
Junior Member

205 Posts

Posted - 23 September 2002 :  14:25:01  Show Profile
My apologies. I had read about the content display mod, but from what I read I got the impression that it served a different purpose. I will check it out though. Thanks @t
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es4725
Junior Member

205 Posts

Posted - 26 September 2002 :  14:12:18  Show Profile
Hey man, I messed around with it a bit. My only thing about this mod is that the MSGICON mod and AVATAR mod are listed as necessary, is it possible to use this mod w/o those?
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@tomic
Senior Member

USA
1790 Posts

Posted - 26 September 2002 :  14:24:08  Show Profile  Visit @tomic's Homepage  Send @tomic an ICQ Message
Yes, it can be. The references to message icons and avatars should be commented out of the queries althouugh you can install message icons for use only with the content display MOD as well. Just add an if mlev > 3 or something to where they appear on post.asp so moderator could also post or just not use them at all. Then you would need to remove all instances of Call WriteSpecial, Call WriteOrnament and Call WritePhotoAvatar. Or you could change Function WritePhotoAvatar to:
Sub WritePhotoAvatar()
	strPhotoURL = rs("M_PHOTO_URL")
	if Trim(strPhotoURL)="" or isnull(strPhotoURL) or lcase(strPhotoURL)="http://" then"
Response.Write "		<img align=""left"" width=""" & intPhotoAvatarWidth & """ height=""" & intPhotoAvatarHeight & """ src=""nophoto.gif"" border=""0"" hspace=""2"">" & vbNewLine
   else
Response.Write "		<img align=""left"" width=""" & intPhotoAvatarWidth & """ height=""" & intPhotoAvatarHeight & """ src=""" & strPhotoURL & """ border=""0"" hspace=""2"">" & vbNewLine
	end if 
End Sub


This will grab the profile photo or display a generic nophoto.gif image you would need to provide.

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@tomic
Senior Member

USA
1790 Posts

Posted - 26 September 2002 :  14:41:31  Show Profile  Visit @tomic's Homepage  Send @tomic an ICQ Message
I have added quite a bit of new functionality to this that is not in the current zip but i should have a much more robust news system included in a few days.

@tomic

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Bookie
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USA
856 Posts

Posted - 26 September 2002 :  15:50:26  Show Profile  Visit Bookie's Homepage  Send Bookie an AOL message  Send Bookie a Yahoo! Message
quote:
Originally posted by @tomic

I have added quite a bit of new functionality to this that is not in the current zip but i should have a much more robust news system included in a few days.

@tomic



Cool. I'm looking forward to it. Except I'll lose all the changes I've made to the content.asp file. That's ok. It's nothing I can't do over again... that's the nature of Snitz.

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@tomic
Senior Member

USA
1790 Posts

Posted - 26 September 2002 :  16:06:42  Show Profile  Visit @tomic's Homepage  Send @tomic an ICQ Message
Actually the new functionality is in article.asp and news.asp and the new category.asp page that serves as a sort of table of contents much like forum.asp but the links don't go to topic.asp, they go to article.asp or news.asp depending on where you can from.

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es4725
Junior Member

205 Posts

Posted - 28 September 2002 :  00:41:04  Show Profile
Guess I'll wait til that version then - thanks again for your help
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es4725
Junior Member

205 Posts

Posted - 04 October 2002 :  12:09:26  Show Profile
any news on when this new version comes out? I'm looking forward to it @tomic.
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@tomic
Senior Member

USA
1790 Posts

Posted - 04 October 2002 :  12:53:02  Show Profile  Visit @tomic's Homepage  Send @tomic an ICQ Message
Very soon. I converted it all to getrows the other day and I am going to make a stored procedure version and then I will release that for more testing. Let's hope this weekend.

@tomic

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es4725
Junior Member

205 Posts

Posted - 04 October 2002 :  16:01:05  Show Profile
sounds good - I'm looking forward to it.
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