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Simple Machines News Post Module |
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Written by Ben
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Friday, 12 November 2004 |
This module requires the bulletin board software Simple Machines to be installed local to your Joomla! installation. When setup properly, it will display "News Posts" from any specified forum up to the maximum amount of topics specified in the parameters
INITIAL SETUP
Two things are REQUIRED for this module to work properly. The most obvious, of course, is that the module is to be installed as any other through your Administration Panel. The second is that the following code is needed to be placed BEFORE the first html tag. It also must be edited to reflect the correct path on your server.
Below are examples to help demonstrate what needs to be added to your template.
<?php require("/path/to/your/SSI.php"); ?> ex:<?php require("/home/username/public_html/forums/SSI.php"); ?>
The easiest way to get the exact code to add to your template is to edit the following url to reflect your site:
www.yoursite.com/yourforum/ssi_examples.php
There you will see the exact code needed to add in your template.
CONFIGURATION
Now that it is installed properly you will need to, of course, publish it in the desired location and setup the different parameters to give the desired look. Below we discuss the different parameters and what they do.
Post Icons
This will allow you to show or hide the post icon of the topic that is shown. No real benefit either way just whatever is cosmeticly pleasing to you and your users.
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Post Info
This will allow you to show or hide the topic information directly related to the date, time, and user who posted it. Can be usefull information for your users.
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Comment Link
This will allow your users to see how many replies has been made to the post and also allow them to directly reply to it as well as see it. Will also allow a direct link to the post made if the text shown is only an intro for the rest of the post.
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Forum Number
This will allow you to choose which forum to pull posts from that is designated as newsworthy. You can only choose one forum. To get the forum number, just visit the desired forum and look into the address bar. See the pic below for an example.
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If you notice in the image that "board,1.0 is highlighted. This means that the forum number is 1.
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Limit News Posts
This allows you to limit the amount of topics shown. This can be usefull to allow for space constraints in your template.
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Intro Text Length
This allows you to limit the amount of characters to be shown in the module from the forum. This is usefull for space constraints also.
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Using any combination of the above parameters will allow you to customize this module to best fit your site's style or necessary space constraints that you may have.
DOWNLOAD
If you would like to download this module you may do so here. |
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