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Step 1. Create simple image to be used to as your Latest_news image as you would any other image. Step 2 Log into your sites Admin Control Panel Step 3 Create a New Category called something like "News Updates"and set all Permissions to "Private" Step 4 If you want others to add news then you can update their user settings to give them permissions to this new category. Step 5 Add the image you created (in step 1) to this category as you would any other image. Step 6 In your templates directory CREATE NEW TEMPLATE FILE called news_comment_bit.html. 
<tr>
<td class="row2" ><div align="right"><small>(Date Posted: {news_comment_date})</small></div><b>Headline: {news_comment_headline}</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="row1" align="left">{news_comment_text}</td>
</tr> Step 7 Edit index.php //-----------------------------------------------------
//--- Print Out ---------------------------------------
//----------------------------------------------------- //--------------------------------------------------------
// Latest and Archive News Mod --
// --
// User configurable variables --
// You must change the first 4 variables to meet --
// your requirements: (see notes below) --
// $display_by_count --
// $latest_news_day --
// $show_news_articles --
// $news_image --
//--------------------------------------------------------
$display_by_count = "0"; // values 0 or 1 ....
// .... change this to 0 if display by days posted
// .... or 1 to display fixed number of news articles as Latest
$latest_news_days = "31"; // Number of days news displays at Latest ....
// .... change This to the number of days news shows as Latest
$show_news_articles = "5"; // Number of news articles to show ....
// .... change This to fixed number of articles to display for latest news
$news_image = "*****"; // Change This to your Latest news image id
//----------------------------------------------------
$new_news = (time() - 60 * 60 * 24 * $latest_news_days);
if ($newstype == "latestnewsall"){
$news_type = "latestnewsall";
}
else {
$news_type = "latestnews";
}
$additional_sql = "";
if ($news_type == "latestnews") {
if ($display_by_count) {
$additional_sql .= " c.image_id = '".$news_image."'";
$additional_sql_2 .= " LIMIT ".$show_news_articles;
}
else {
$additional_sql .= " c.comment_date > '".$new_news."' AND c.image_id = '".$news_image."'";
$additional_sql_2 .= "";
}
}
else {
$additional_sql .= " c.image_id = '".$news_image."'";
$clickstream = "<a href=\"".$site_sess->url(ROOT_PATH."index.php")."\">".$lang['home']."</a> / Archived News";
}
$sql = "SELECT c.comment_headline, c.comment_text, c.comment_date, c.image_id
FROM ".COMMENTS_TABLE." c
WHERE ".$additional_sql."
ORDER BY c.comment_date DESC" .$additional_sql_2 ;
$result = $site_db->query($sql);
$num_rows = $site_db->get_numrows($result);
$news_comment_row = array();
while ($row = $site_db->fetch_array($result)) {
$news_comment_row[] = $row;
}
$site_db->free_result($result);
// This is the Paging stuff
if ($newstype == "latestnewsall") {
include(ROOT_PATH.'includes/paging.php');
$perpage = $show_news_articles;
$link_arg = $site_sess->url(ROOT_PATH."index.php?newstype=latestnewsall");
$getpaging = new Paging($page, $perpage, $num_rows, $link_arg);
$offset = $getpaging->get_offset();
$site_template->register_vars(array(
"paging" => $getpaging->get_paging(),
"paging_stats" => $getpaging->get_paging_stats()
));
$sql = "SELECT c.comment_headline, c.comment_text, c.comment_date, c.image_id
FROM ".COMMENTS_TABLE." c
WHERE ".$additional_sql."
ORDER BY c.comment_date DESC" .$additional_sql_2."
LIMIT $offset, $perpage";
$result = $site_db->query($sql);
$num_rows = $site_db->get_numrows($result);
$news_comment_row = array();
while ($row = $site_db->fetch_array($result)) {
$news_comment_row[] = $row;
}
}
if (!$num_rows) {
$news_comments = " <b>No New News to report within the last ".$latest_news_days." days.</b>";
}
else {
$news_comments = "";
$bgcounter = 0;
for ($i = 0; $i < $num_rows; $i++) {
$row_bg_number = ($bgcounter++ % 2 == 0) ? 1 : 2;
$site_template->register_vars(array(
"news_comment_headline" => format_text($news_comment_row[$i]['comment_headline'], 0, $config['wordwrap_comments'], 0, 0),
"news_comment_text" => format_text($news_comment_row[$i]['comment_text'], $config['html_comments'], $config['wordwrap_comments'], $config['bb_comments'], $config['bb_img_comments']),
"news_comment_date" => format_date($config['date_format']." ".$config['time_format'], $news_comment_row[$i]['comment_date']),
"row_bg_number" => $row_bg_number));
$news_comments .= $site_template->parse_template("news_comment_bit");
}
}
$site_template->register_vars("news_comments", $news_comments);
unset($news_comments);
//-----------------------------------------------------
//---End of Show Latest News -------------------------------
//----------------------------------------------------- Step 8 at bottom of page Search for $site_template->print_template($site_template->parse_template($main_template));
if ($news_type == "latestnewsall") {
$site_template->print_template($site_template->parse_template(archive));
}
else {
$site_template->print_template($site_template->parse_template($main_template));
} Step 9 In the code you just added to your Index.php you need to change the 4 variables to meet your sites requirements. Step 10 Edit ./templates/your_template/home.html <table width="100%" border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1">
<tr>
<td align="left" class="head1" height="20" width="100%"> <img src="{template_url}/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="4" height="4" /><a href="./index.php">Latest News</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<table width="100%" border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4">
{news_comments}
</table>
</td>
<tr>
<tr>
<td align="right" class="head1" height="20" width="100%"> <img src="{template_url}/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="4" height="4" /><a href="./index.php?newstype=latestnewsall">News Archive</a> </td>
</tr>
</table> Step 11 By default 4images only allows 1 comment per image per ip address per given time period. This is to stop your site being spammed with loads and loads of comments. For the Private Latest News image though you may want to enter 2 or 3 news comments at once so to bypass this for just your Latest News Image do this... $sql = "SELECT comment_ip, comment_date
FROM ".COMMENTS_TABLE."
WHERE image_id = $id
ORDER BY comment_date DESC
LIMIT 1";
$spam_row = $site_db->query_firstrow($sql);
$spamtime = $spam_row['comment_date'] + 180;
if ($session_info['session_ip'] == $spam_row['comment_ip'] && time() <= $spamtime && $user_info['user_level'] != ADMIN) {
$msg .= (($msg != "") ? "" : "").$lang['spamming'];
$error = 1;
} if ($id != "****"){ //added for latest news mod
$sql = "SELECT comment_ip, comment_date
FROM ".COMMENTS_TABLE."
WHERE image_id = $id
ORDER BY comment_date DESC
LIMIT 1";
$spam_row = $site_db->query_firstrow($sql);
$spamtime = $spam_row['comment_date'] + 180;
if ($session_info['session_ip'] == $spam_row['comment_ip'] && time() <= $spamtime && $user_info['user_level'] != ADMIN) {
$msg .= (($msg != "") ? "" : "").$lang['spamming'];
$error = 1;
}
} Step 12 Create a new template page in your templates directory to show your news archive page and allow paging of old news. I suggest making a copy of your home.html file, renaming it archive.html, edit it and removing all the stuff you don't want to display on your news archive page. <table width="100%" border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1">
<tr>
<td align="left" class="head1" height="20">Archived News</td>
<td align="right" class="head1" height="20">{paging}></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<table width="100%" border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4">
{news_comments}
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" class="head1" height="20"> <a href="./index.php">Latest News</a></td>
<td align="right" class="head1" height="20">{paging} </td>
</tr>
</table>