Pro_News CM v 3.4.1 Released!

Lots of minor improvements, detailed changes, and clean up in this release. But the bigger items are a dedicated Articles Search, which allows finer granularity of search criteria than the DragonFlyCMS search, and options to display as Articles or simple list. Full pagination supported for both.

Pinterest added to social network links. New template to allow long articles to be read in a virtual page format, but with no delay. Here's an example. Page splits selected manually with a custom BBCode - just type [page] when you want a page break (also supported in my extended nbbcode module available here.)

And if you are running Dragonfly v 9.3.3 then this is the release you want - versions earlier than 3.3 will not handle comments due to a change made in DF 9.2.3 which broke the discussThis link to Forums. This release will work with 9.2.1, or 9.1 or even 9.0.6.1 with an extra file (supplied), as well as 9.3.3.

This new version of Pro_News is available to Registered Members now, download from here.

The download has an extra folder called Pro_News which is a repeat of the whole zip...

In fact, judging by the cpg_inst file it is the directory within the directory that is the new version!

I really dislike CVS! Both versions are the same except for the version number (I forgot to update it, rename through CVS and got the Pro_News inside Pro_News as a result.

Rebuilt zip file now in downloads. If you downloaded this 3.4.1 version earlier (1 person other than rosbif may have), both sets of contents in the zip (!) were the same except for the version number. If after update your version of 3.4.1 stills says 3.4.0, then simply replace the cpg_inst.php and run update to correct the version number displayed. No need to do a full copy upload.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

A problem has been found in new Pro_News Articles posted by in Your Account. It will display restricted articles to all visitors.

The Download zip here has been updated to Pro_News v3.4.1.1.zip and includes this patch. But if you have version 3.4.1 please apply this patch asap.

To fix find at line 47 in modules/Your_Account/blocks/pro_news.php:

$result = $db->sql_query('SELECT a.id aid, a.title as atitle, c.id as cid, c.title as ctitle, s.id as sid, s.title as stitle FROM '.$prefix.'_pronews_articles as a LEFT JOIN '.$prefix.'_pronews_cats as c ON a.catid=c.id LEFT JOIN '.$prefix.'_pronews_sections as s ON c.sid=s.id WHERE postby="'.$username.'" ORDER BY aid DESC LIMIT 0,10');

and replace with the much shorter:

$result = $db->sql_query($sql);

Hint: If you would prefer the Articles to display before the other items in Your_Account then simply rename modules/Your_Account/blocks/pro_news.php to something like modules/Your_Account/blocks/a_pro_news.php to display it first.

Hint2: If you are on an earlier version of DragonflyCMS and do not want Your_Account to display user information to non-Registered Members, apply the patch described here as follows. In modules/Your_Account/userinfo.php around line 34 find:

 	} else if (!($userinfo = getusrdata($username)) || $userinfo['user_level'] < 1) {

and insert just before this:

	} else if (!is_user()) {
		$userinfo =& getusrdata('Anonymous');

which will simply display details of the generic Anonymous user to any visitor following a username link, without affecting registered users' access in any way. This fix is included in modules/Your_Account/userinfo.php versions 9.46 and later.