Forum News in block

[YahMan]

Is it possible to put the forum news in a block instead of somewhere at the top of the page? Like an SSI function?

[IchBin]

You should be able to put something like this in a phpbox. Just copied it out of the techhead theme. Any problems let me know.

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       // Show a random news item? (or you could pick one from news_lines...)
        if (!empty($settings['enable_news']))
                echo '<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" width="100%" style="padding: 0px;"><tr><td style="width: 12px;" valign="top">
                         <img  src="' .$settings['images_url']. '/mydot2.gif" alt="*" border="0" style="margin: 2px;" /><br />


                            </td><td valign="top" style="padding-left: 8px;padding-right: 8px;">
                         <div style="text-align: left; overflow: auto; height: 60px;" class="smalltext">', $context['random_news_line'], '
                          </div></td></tr></table>';

[bloc]

There is also the built-in news blocktype.... 

[IchBin]

 

[bloc]

lol

[TwinsX2Dad]

There is also the built-in news blocktype.... 

I can't seem to get that to work.

Instead, since I have a number of themes and I don't want to be changing settings on all of them, I placed this in a phpbox:

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                echo '<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" width="100%" style="padding: 0px;"><tr><td style="width: 12px;" valign="top">
                                                     </td><td valign="top" style="padding-left: 8px;padding-right: 8px;">
                         <div style="text-align: left; overflow: auto; height: 100px;" class="smalltext">', $context['random_news_line'], '
                          </div></td></tr></table>';

But if using a news blocktype is better, I'd be thrilled to get an explanation drilled into my thick skull. 

[bloc]

Just add the blocktype to your active blocks, and it will simply show random news.