Advanced News Widget

Technical Details

Forum version : #phpBB3
Position : Founder
Concerned browser(s) : Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome
Who the problem concerns : All members
Forum link : http://onepiecegr.forum-pro.org/

Description of problem

Hello

As the title says i would like to create an Advanced news widget.
The widget will work like this:
One of the members of my forum shall have a special rank (news reporter) on the forum
This member will have the special privilege to choose the topic that will stick on the news widget himself

is a widget like this possible?

A way to do this is use the default news widget and set it for a certain forum on your forum.  Then set the member to be the only one who can post in that forum.

SLGray wrote:A way to do this is use the default news widget and set it for a certain forum on your forum.  Then set the member to be the only one who can post in that forum.

Well i thought so, but this person (the guy who i will make news reporter) wants to insert to the news widget other people's topics from various forums too, so a new news widget has to be made in the process

I am a little confused about exactly what you want.

Heartsealed wrote:

SLGray wrote:A way to do this is use the default news widget and set it for a certain forum on your forum.  Then set the member to be the only one who can post in that forum.

Well i thought so, but this person (the guy who i will make news reporter) wants to insert to the news widget other people's topics from various forums too, so a new news widget has to be made in the process

The news widget will only display the content from the forum it is assigned . Content can be added to it through the assigned forum

I believe there is a code that allows you to have more than one news widget.

I will look around to see if I can found it.

Edit:  Found one - http://fmdesign.forumotion.com/t229-add-news-topics-from-multiple-forums#1207 .

SLGray wrote:I believe there is a code that allows you to have more than one news widget.

I will look around to see if I can found it.

Edit:  Found one - http://fmdesign.forumotion.com/t229-add-news-topics-from-multiple-forums#1207 .

Didn't know that . Very cool .

I suppose I have to change this stuff below to use it ?

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

Note : The topics loaded are cached for 5 minutes to prevent multiple requests.

SLGray wrote:I am a little confused about exactly what you want.

ok let me be a little clearer.

I want to give one guy ONLY him the privilage to edit which news can be on the news widget. He will choose topics from all over the forum and will attach them to this new widget i suggest (advanced news widget) one by one. Got it?
(btw nice widget yuo linked there i will dave it for later)

i found out this thing i ask cannot be done without moderator-administrator privilages, thanks everybody for trying to help. This topic can now be locked