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md3sign
05-23-2007, 04:46 PM
I'd like to do a couple things:

1) On the front page, I'd like to add a secondary news module. Basically I have site news and web news, both of which should have informatin fetched from a designated forum (this is set up and works great with the web news). How do I add another module that's essentially the same thing as web news, but fetches data from another forum, also shows up on the front page, and gets auto-archived after every post (i.e. only the most recent post shows up on the home page)?

2) One of my site features is an article database. These articles contain images and should be split up into several pages each (with page navigation at the bottom). Is there a module that I can use for these articles or some sort of hack? I'm guessing the articles would also be written in the forum, then fetched from there and posted on the site (kind of like the news), except with page splits and upon reaching the "articles archive" the user sees a list of say the 10 latest articles with links to each. There would also be a static page (updated by myself) with links to all the articles by category. How can I do this?

md3sign
05-23-2007, 05:00 PM
For #1, I guess I'm looking for a way to make a duplicate "news" module for use on the front page as well, with the news being fetched from a different forum.

md3sign
05-24-2007, 12:11 PM
no one?

Brian
05-24-2007, 12:53 PM
1). Edit the news module and use the "Copy" option to copy it.

2). Sorry, but I don't think any modules like that have been posted.

md3sign
05-24-2007, 01:26 PM
Thanks, got it working. I guess I'll have to think of something for #2. I could use a third news module for it, but that would still leave the page splitting up in the air. Anyone have any ideas?

rinkrat
08-20-2007, 03:23 PM
I wanted to do this for months and it took about 2 minutes to set this up. Thanks for the heads up.

Now I have Kings News being pulled from one forum and NHL news from another on the right side:

http://www.letsgokings.com

Thanks :)