News

[Hialls]

While remaking my website due to major server problems *sigh*
i realised that news posting use's the users avatar as the image, so i have added categories and category images to the news. so now a news image is displayed rather than an avatar. Just wondering if anyone else would be intrested if so ill release it here.

[Bambi]

I'm interested

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[ttnb]

I am interested too!

[C_P]

ME ME ME!
We have a Free PC Assistance site and post news articles almost daily!
Would love this!

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[hani]

Me too
Please please please

[hani]

Any news about the News? :)

[Artayick]

simple way to do this would be to turn off the avs and use an image in the post.. just get you a format you like and poof news icons.. yes it is ghetto but it works..

[C_P]

I use this method and it does the trick. However, selecting topic categories with images that correspond with them is how you "manage your content" of a Content Management System.

[hani]

Any news about the News???

[Darax The Good]

what I did was made a directory and put .gif files in it with the forum id for my news forums-then hacked cmps to use that instead of the avatar. Not elegant but it did the trick for me.

[Nathan]

I need this, too. The old vbportal software did tis and I need it if I'm going to make the switch.

[Blue Moose Aaron]

I just did IF statements with the forum ID in the HTML

<if condition="$news[forumid] == '52'">
<img src="/images/newspictures/smallvilleepisodes.jpg" align="$stylevar[left]" vspace="3" hspace="3" border="1" style="border: $stylevar[cellspacing]px solid <bordercolor>" />
</if>

[theMusicMan]

Hey Ted - in which template did you put that conditional...? I currently use a left-aligned image and would be interested to see this in action.

[Blue Moose Aaron]

adv_portal_newsbits

[Nathan]

but this requires a different forum for every category, right?

[Blue Moose Aaron]

Yes, so you could either do sub categories in one forum or install my mark thread as news hack and have every forum be pretty much a news forum.