Add news topics from multiple forums

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 Add news topics from multiple forums

 by Ange Tuteur on Sun 19 Oct 2014, 06:07

This is a test ! Bugs may be present and if found, should be reported to this topic !!

The current news widget only allows you to display topics from 1 subforum only. With this you should be able to display them from as many forums as you want ! Due note that getting topics from too many forums could cause you to hit the request limit, so use this in moderation ..! The HTML present in the script is only style for PHPBB3, this will have to be changed for other versions, but should still work.


Go to : Administration Panel > Modules > JavaScript codes management > Create a new script

Title : Your choice
Placement : In all the pages
Paste the code below :
CODE:SELECT CONTENT

Code:

$(function() {
  newsWidget('left', 1, 3, 12);
  newsWidget('left', 2, 3, 413);
  
function newsWidget(column, forum, topics, special_id) {
  if (localStorage.getItem('newsMod-'+special_id) && localStorage.getItem('newsExp-'+special_id) > +new Date - 4*60*1000) {
    $('#'+column).append('<div id="news-'+special_id+'"><span class="hiddenItems" style="display:none"></span></div>');
    $('#news-'+special_id).html(localStorage.getItem('newsMod-'+special_id));
 return;
  }
  $('#'+column).append('<div id="news-'+special_id+'"><span class="hiddenItems" style="display:none"></span></div>');
  $('#news-'+special_id+' .hiddenItems').load('/feed/?f='+forum+' item:lt('+topics+')', function() {
    var it = 0;
    while (it < topics) { 
      $('#news-'+special_id).append('<div class="module mod_news newsBox'+it+'"><div class="inner"><span class="corners-top"><span></span></span><div class="h3"></div><p class="dateAuthor"></p><span class="content"></span><p class="row3"></p><span class="corners-bottom"><span></span></span></div></div>'); 
      it += 1 
    }
    $('#news-'+special_id+' .hiddenItems item').each(function(){
      var box = '.newsBox'+$(this).index();
      $('#news-'+special_id + ' ' + box + ' .h3').html($(this).find('title').text()).wrap('<a href="'+$(this).find('guid').text()+'">');
      $('#news-'+special_id + ' ' + box + ' .content').html($(this).find('description').text());
      $('#news-'+special_id + ' ' + box + ' .row3').html('<a href="'+$(this).find('comments').text()+'">View comments</a>');
      $('#news-'+special_id + ' ' + box + ' .dateAuthor').html($(this).find('pubdate').text() + ' by <strong>' + $(this).find('dc\\:creator').text() + '</strong>');
    });
    if (window.localStorage) {
      localStorage.setItem('newsMod-'+special_id, $('#news-'+special_id).html());
      localStorage.setItem('newsExp-'+special_id, +new Date)
    }
  });
}
});

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To add new News widgets write : newsWidget(column, forum, topics, special_id)

Explained :

column : The column you want them to appear in ( left or right ) LOWERCASE ONLY

forum : The ID of the forum you want to load e.g. http://help.forumotion.com/f1-updates-and-new-features = f1 - f = 1

topics : The amount of topics you want to load (1, 2, 3, 4..)

special_id : It is important you use a UNIQUE ID for each news you add. It can be random numbers or letters, but make sure they are not identical.

You can modify the two I have in the script above already. To add more simply copy and paste them after. Example :
CODE:SELECT CONTENT
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Code:

newsWidget('left', 1, 3, 12);
  newsWidget('left', 2, 3, '41h3');
  newsWidget('left', 4, 3, 4123);
  newsWidget('left', 7, 3, 4113);

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Note : The topics loaded are cached for 5 minutes to prevent multiple requests.[/size]