[Done 1.5.x] News Archive

[Spaceman-Spiff]

ID: News Archive

Version: 1.0

Mod Info:
This mod lists all the topic titles in a board, sorted by posted time (descending) and grouped by month and year.
To include it, basically you need to do the same thing as including news, just change the action with action=newsarchive:
http://www.site.com/forum/index.php?action=newsarchive;board=x
You can also use template= like in News.php to use a different template file. The only thing that's not available is limit=
The look is customizeable through the template file.

Since all of you that uses this mod uses News.php, I included my version of News.php that's more optimzed than 1.5.4 News.php. I removed some db connection and types to register crap, also changed the db queries. To use this version, just overwrite your current News.php with the one in the zip.
1.6.0 should have a more optimzed News.php though.

Demo:
• template 1 (simple view)
• template 2 (using tables)

Download:
• BoardMod file

Instructions:
1.) Apply this .mod file in BoardMod, or apply the change manually
2.) Upload index.php and the template file into forum directory, and NewsArchive.php into Sources directory

Changelogs:
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[Valconeye]

wonderful, installing it now  
i have it working here http://www.warcraftwars.com/?link=archives

[BiErLeEuW]

I am going to install him and make a dutch lang. file

[Spaceman-Spiff]

there's no language file changes here
there are some new words, but i wrote them in the template file

[BiErLeEuW]

i would like a Day in dutch before the date like

July

Saturday 5

[BiErLeEuW]

Your mod is not working   , he is going to include whole board 3.

Code Select Expand

<? include("http://www.onsforum.nl/yabbse/index.php?action=newsarchive;board=3") ?>

result:

http://www.onsforum.nl/main2.php

[Spaceman-Spiff]

i would like a Day in dutch before the date like

July

Saturday 5

open the template, and change:

Code Select Expand

function PrintArchive()
{
   global $news_icon, $news_date, $news_title, $news_poster, $news_comments, $txt;
   echo '
   ' . $news_date . ': ' . $news_icon . ' ' . $news_title . ' ' . $txt[525] . ' ' . $news_poster . ' (' . $news_comments . ')<br />';
}
into:

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function PrintArchive()
{
   global $news_icon, $news_date, $news_title, $news_poster, $news_comments, $txt, $news_day;
   echo '
   ' . $news_day . ' ' . $news_date . ': ' . $news_icon . ' ' . $news_title . ' ' . $txt[525] . ' ' . $news_poster . ' (' . $news_comments . ')<br />';
}
I added $news_day there
if you want the longer version for news_day, not the abbreviated day name, change in NewsArchive.php
$news_day = strftime("%a", $row['posterTime']);
into:
$news_day = strftime("%A", $row['posterTime']);
or take a look here: http://www.php.net/strftime

[BiErLeEuW]

very nice mod of you spaceman-spiff:

working here:
http://www.onsforum.nl/index.php?page=newsarchive

So if you wanna see a demo?

[Thomas]

Thanks again for a very Nice mod Spaceman-Spiff.

I have it now up and working here.

/Thomas

[Valconeye]

hmm any luck with a limit feature? cause my archive is getting a little big  

[[Unknown]]

Cool..

-[Unknown]

[Spaceman-Spiff]

i guess i can paginate it...
but im afraid i have no time to code it right now...

[Valconeye]

any luck with a limit? it would be really nice to limit by month, like just show 2 months, or 3 or 4 etc...

[crash5456]

I applied this mod yesterday and my news fader disappeared on me.

Can anyone tell me what might have happened and how to fix it.

Thx in Advance

[crash5456]

I need some help here, I applied this mod, and read these instructions:

This mod lists all the topic titles in a board, sorted by posted time
(descending) and grouped by month and year.

To include it, basically you need to do the same thing as
including news, just change the action with action=newsarchive:

http://www.site.com/forum/index.php?action=newsarchive;board=x

You can also use template= like in News.php to use a different
template file. The only thing that's not available is limit

I do not understand how or where I'm to make those changes I am definately new at this, applying with Board Mod I can do but when it comes to actual code changes I'm trying to understand