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News Plugin...
Ok...I'm looking at working on a Plugin that will allow the administrator to add news via the Plugins admin interface. The general features are going to be;

+ Admin option, where news can be deleted/added/modified
+ Tag that can be placed in templates to call last x news entries.
+ CGI Script which will let them view all the news feed that exists in the database..


If anyone has any ideas on what would be a cool addon for this pugin, please let me know. I've got about half of it done now...so we should see a completed beta version by monday or tuesday.

Cheers

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There is a great cgi script NewsPro, which could be used for this, we should just implement how to conect it through the plugin interface to LSQL.
A plugin would be fine to use, edit NewsPro from LSQL.
Just an idea.

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Ok...the plugin is now complete...I'm just putting it through some beta-testing. If you are interested in testing for me, please give me an email. I only need 2-3 people....just incase there are some bugs/features I missed Smile

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Hi Andy,



Does this have only local (admin) control or does it allow for outside sources to have access and if so, what are the controls?



Thanks!
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Only admin has control. The user can view the listings via news.cgi, or the admin can enter a tag, to show it in any of the templates.

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BTW: I'll try and get some demo screenshots and a feature list made up tomorrow....when I can find some time :p

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Thanks Andy!

Currently I need to use a slightly different type. But this sounds pretty slick. I look forward to seeing the screenshots, etc...
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There has been several threads on a calendar in the Gforum. I think being able to add events / news in a collective web calendar is what I would need for the moment. No one has public addressed this calendar thing yet (or I missed it), I know it would be appreciated by the GT community.

Just an idea,



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Well, I'm finally getting there. It took longer than I anticipated, but its more feature packed than I was expecting ;) Special thanks for webmaster33, who has helped me in my beta-testing. I still have a few more features that I would like to add, such as horizontal news listings (at the moment they are verticle), the option to include news via SSI, and some other stuff.

I may be releasing the current version today, as a beta to a select few people. If you are interested, please PM me. I'm just going to iron out a few bugs with the CSV import/export feature, and then we should be ready for a release Smile

I'll keep you updated...

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