Would Like the NG Advanced Article News Module Used Here

Involved Joined: Apr 22, 2006 Posts: 356

Can anyone give me a download to the NG_Advanced_Article_News that is used on this site and montegos and others? I have tried registering with the developers site several times, and never get a confirmation e-mail. I have tried contacting them in regards to this via thier feedback form and have not heard back from them after several days.

registered · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 6:27 am

kevinkap, I am not using that on my site. Not sure what Raven's plans are with respect to providing a download. You would need to PM him and ask him to add a note here. I know that a few others have asked this as well.

Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 6:28 am

Hope you do not mind that I modified your post title. Might help others to find this too.

Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:22 pm

I do not mind at all.. I have finally been able to download it from the other site. After finding out that it is just a block, I guess the question I have, is how can the news articles be removed from the home page without having to change to something else in home? I just want the block to be there as on this site.

I will try nsn news and see if it works for what I am trying to do.

Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 5:47 am

Please post a link to where others may get this block.

Too funny. I had to look at how Raven did this because I did not know how to do this. You have to have ONE module be "Active in Home Page". Well, Raven created a blank (empty) module and set it to be the "In Home" module. Smile

He IS a crafty / handy one! Wink

NSN News will not help you here is what you want is the mentioned block and look like the site here. It is just a replacement news module (much, much better, but just different).

Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:50 pm

Thanks for the info. You can get the download here.

http://maysvillesports.com/nova-games_advanced_news_block.rar

Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:21 pm

montego wrote:

Please post a link to where others may get this block.

Too funny. I had to look at how Raven did this because I did not know how to do this. You have to have ONE module be "Active in Home Page". Well, Raven created a blank (empty) module and set it to be the "In Home" module. Smile

He IS a crafty / handy one! Wink

How do you create an blank module? I tried by just creating an empty folder but got an error..

Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:49 pm

In that folder under the modules folder, add an index.php script that looks like this:

Code:




<?php


if ( !defined('MODULE_FILE') )


{


   die("You can't access this file directly...");


}





define('INDEX_FILE', true);


include("header.php");


include("footer.php");


?>

Now, I have not tested this, but it should be close and if anything would only require very minimal "tweaking" to work properly.

Edited: NOTE that I had forgotten the question mark in the final php tag. I just tried this and it worked.

Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:53 pm

P.S. This approach will only work with patch level 3.1 and above I believe. Let me know if this works for you and if not, what you are getting.

Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:14 pm

Works great.. Thank you!!

Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 6:23 am