News section, like on FABO

Joey (mailed the mail the mail he mailed) -

How do you set up a "news" section like you have on FABO? The "automotive news" section is what I'm talking about. Is that a hack or something you wrote?

I wrote it but it's not published.

I wrote it but it's not published.

Can you share it? Or do you know of one that does something similar?

It's not automated at all and I really don't have a how to or the time to support how to use it. Joe hired me to set that site up to spec.

FABO?

Isn't he that male model?

FABO?

Isn't he that male model?

FABO = ForABodiesOnly.com

How can I tell if I have an A body or a B or C body?

...other than asking my girlfriend... :eek:

How can I tell if I have an A body or a B or C body?

...other than asking my girlfriend... :eek:

It's all Mopar stuff...

A-Body: 1964-1969 Barracuda, 1963-1976 Dart, 1971-1972 Demon, 1970-1976 Duster, 1961-1962 Lancer, 1971-1976 Scamp, 1960-1976 Valiant
B-Body: 1963-1964 220, 1979 300, 1963-1964 330, 1963-1964 440, 1962-1970 Belvedere, 1966-1978 Charger, 1975-1979 Cordoba, 1965-1976 Coronet, 1962 Dart, 1962-1964 Fury, 1975-1978 Fury, 1967-1974 GTX, 1978-1979 Magnum, 1977-1978 Monaco, 1962-1964 Polara, 1968-1975 Road Runner, 1965-1974 Satellite, 1962-1964 Savoy, 1969-1971 Super Bee
C-Body: 1965-1971 300, 1965 Custom 880, 1965-1974 Fury, 1970-1977 Gran Fury, 1974-1975 Imperial, 1965-1976 Monaco, 1965-1978 Newport, 1965-1978 New Yorker, 1965-1973 Polara, 1975-1980 Royal Monaco, 1966-1969 VIP
E-Body: 1970-1974 Barracuda, 1970-1974 Challenger
F-Body: 1976-1980 Aspen, 1979-1980 Duster, 1976-1980 R/T, 1976-1980 Volare

It was a pun.

No, not a pun. That other thing.

Yeah, that's it... a palindrome.

"The palindrome of Bolton would be Notlob."

-- Monty Python, Dead Parrot Sketch

I guess I've got to build my own, then...

Here's a start... Needs some more work, hopefully I'll have it done later tonight:

http://www.discusscareers.com/news.php

Looks real good, nice work.

Looks real good, nice work.

This is just the beginning! ;-)

Now that I've figured out the stupid "bits" things with vB's templates, I can move forward and make it work the way I want it to.

bit's are cool. :)

bit's are cool. :)

(Butthead voice on)

Hehe, hehe, you said "bits".

(Butthead voice off)

Just about done... Have a look, let me know what you think:

http://www.discusscareers.com/news.php

I've still got one or two things I want to clean up, but the major work is done.

I guess I've got to build my own, then...

Here's a start... Needs some more work, hopefully I'll have it done later tonight:

http://www.discusscareers.com/news.phpWhat you've done there would be a useful hack if it were automated. I'm going to work on creating that as a vBadvanced template and php file. If you want something like that, ask for it on vBulletin.org (http://www.vbulletin.org) in their requests section.

- Sid

What you've done there would be a useful hack if it were automated. I'm going to work on creating that as a vBadvanced template and php file. If you want something like that, ask for it on vBulletin.org (http://www.vbulletin.org) in their requests section.

- Sid

It is automated... A cron job runs once every 4 hours, retrieves & parses the news and dumps it into the database.

I'm just about done with it. I've got one more thing I want to do, but otherwise it's finished.

From the main page, a count of the articles since your last visit is displayed, like new threads, along with a link to those new articles.
From the new page, all of the feeds are broken down by channel, each channel is then linked to it's own page with the newest articles listed first.
Each article is a link that opens in it's own window. I was going to track the number of times a user clicks on a particlular article... but why?

The only thing I still need to do is add pagination for those feeds that have many articles.

Anyway, check it out, let me know what you think.