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Topic: News Generator - Feature ?

Ok, I´m using the news generator for my index.php file at a website I´m doing, can I add this to other pages with different content ? If yes, how?

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Re: News Generator - Feature ?

just use extern.php instead. look in the forum root for it and read how to use it in the file itself.

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Re: News Generator - Feature ?

But the extern file can only show the titles, I need titles and text.

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Re: News Generator - Feature ?

The News Generator works great, but it would be cool to able to show different content from the forum to the website on different pages. This way, I can use Punbb as a CMS.

Any ideas on how to this? I did try to rename the plugin different names for different sections of the website, but the forum only see the plugin when it has the original name.

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Re: News Generator - Feature ?

http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=3868

try this.

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Re: News Generator - Feature ?

Still the same problem as extern.php

What I need is exactly like the New Generator, just one for each section of my site.

Page 1 = News Generator 1
Page 2 = News Generator 2
Page 3 = News Generator 3
Page 4 = News Generator 4

I wouldn´t mind having to click on 4 different News Generators for my 4 pages.

So my question is - is it possible to use multiple News Generators to create 4 independant news for use in 4 non-forum pages? If yes, how?

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Re: News Generator - Feature ?

rename the plugin files to have 4 different copies of the news generetor, then config each to suit your needs, i think that should work
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Re: News Generator - Feature ?

Yeah, that would be the obvious choice, but unfortunately it doesn´t work when I rename the file.

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Re: News Generator - Feature ?

wii wrote:

Yeah, that would be the obvious choice, but unfortunately it doesn´t work when I rename the file.

Did you remember to edit this code so that each copy of the plugin has its own directory for storing the generated news?

/ Path to news item template
$template_path = PUN_ROOT.'plugins/AP_News_Generator/news.tpl';

// Directories in which plugin will save generated markup (must end with slash)
$output_dir_latest = PUN_ROOT.'plugins/AP_News_Generator/';
$output_dir_archive = PUN_ROOT.'plugins/AP_News_Generator/archive/';
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Re: News Generator - Feature ?

I will check that - thanks.

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Re: News Generator - Feature ?

Ok, I renamed it to

AP_News_Generator1
AP_News_Generator2

But getting this error - please note that the directory is 777 full access.

Error: Unable to write news to ./plugins/AP_News_Generator2/main.html. Please make sure PHP has write access to the directory ./plugins/AP_News_Generator2/.

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Re: News Generator - Feature ?

Got it - it was a permission issue in the file itself.