Forum Post Promotion

Hi

Is it possible to promote a forum post to a Pro-News front page article ?

If so how ?

Cheers.

Good to hear from you!

As Admin or Forum Moderator, yes.

But you have to install the hack first, to provide the link in Forums/ForumsPro (different hacks) to give you a button to click on. When done there should be a 6th icon by the delete, move, lock, split and merge ones. Hack has several steps, but that's just because of the way img's are handled in forums/phpBB.

Instructions in CHANGES.txt, and 4_EXTRAS/FORUM PROMOTE MOD/ along with an icon for dragonfly and, of course, one for reDesign2.

Excellent I'll make the changes.

Whilst I'm at it I've upgraded to you latest version. Seems to be no issues with it . Apart from you still don't seem to have the Social Networking enabled on Headlines.

I'm now interested to note you have a Featured Content Slider, how do we go about using it ? Is it in one of the supplied templates ?

Or what should I be reading to find out ?

In reverse order:

CHANGES.txt

Changing from index2alb or index2gly to index2fcs template should get you the Featured Content Slider. Could not be easier!!! Note that you will need to hook to a Coppermine album, as the only differences between all 3 template is in how they handle photo albums.

Thought you'd done SN on headlines? I thought I added your code in - just not the actual SN links - but I may be mistaken. (But why do you want peeps to fav it before they've even read it? )

There is a problem with latest beta version: it doesn't handle article order per section override for headlines correctly in some combos, but as long as you stay clear of that it should be fine.

Well on the way to an better version - more clean up mostly - but I still have to address the above problem

- layingback

There is a problem with latest beta version: it doesn't handle article order per section override for headlines correctly in some combos, but as long as you stay clear of that it should be fine.

Well on the way to an better version - more clean up mostly - but I still have to address the above problem

And I'm looking forward to that!

- layingback

Thought you'd done SN on headlines? I thought I added your code in - just not the actual SN links - but I may be mistaken. (But why do you want peeps to fav it before they've even read it? )

I had added them in. And in answer to you question as some of my headlines are the entire story showing on front page.

- fishingfan

And in answer to you question as some of my headlines are the entire story showing on front page.

Ahhhh! ....

OK, so do you see your actual code changes in functions.php in the latest beta release? I know that the template doesn't support it, but I thought I added the extra template fields for you. Perhaps not...

Indeed I might be inclined to add it into a template under a !read-more conditional, which would then be a trivial change if you wanted it to always display.

No the changes that I outlined in this thread are not in the headline loop, I don't mind adding in the change manually if you don't want to add this in.

www.layingback.net/For...t=273.html

Hmm, dunno what happened, 'cos I obviously thought I'd added them.

Anyway, I've added them now for the next release. And in home display as well for good measure.

Not that for latest versions with more integrated social network the lines should now be

				'G_SOCIALNET' => $pnsettings['soc_net'],

				'U_SOCNETLINK' => urlencode($BASEHREF.getlink("&aid=".$row['id'])),

The urlencode cleans up the & issues and gives a clean xHTML validation.


EDIT: And committed it to CVS!

Great thanks. I'll update my files.