vBulletin LTS

A Better News Module Fix for vBadvanced CMPS 2.2.1
Mod Version: 1.00, by voteforbird

http://www.vbadvanced.com/ has released http://www.vbadvanced.com/products.php?do=productinfo&p=4 2.2.1 with a substandard fix to the News module bug that has plagued many vBulletin forums for months.

http://www.volconvo.com/ and developer http://www.volconvo.com/cmps.php?page=newsmodulefix#sillysoft are offering a free and better fix.

BACKGROUND

In version 2.2.0, the problem occurred when when the maximum characters variable was set at such a number that it precluded the display of closing BBCode tags. (thumb: news_verybad.png)

Version 2.2.1 "resolved" the issue by ending quoted material prematurely, effectively ignoring the actual maximum character value. (thumb: news_bad.png)

http://www.volconvo.com/ and developer http://www.volconvo.com/cmps.php?page=newsmodulefix#sillysoft have partnered to offer the following better fix for vBadvanced CMPS that respects your personal settings. (thumb: news_good.png)

INSTALLATION

1. Find this line in [forumdirectory]/modules/news.php:
   PHP Code:

    $news['message'] = substr($news['message'], 0, strrpos(substr($news['message'], 0, $mod_options['portal_news_maxchars']), ' ')); 

   Replace with the following code:
   PHP Code:

   // START BUG FIX
// Provided by Volconvo.com and Sillysoft
// http://www.volconvo.com/cmps.php?page=newsmodulefix
// Original code:
// $news['message'] = substr($news['message'], 0, strrpos(substr($news['message'], 0, $mod_options['portal_news_maxchars']), ' '));

                    $rawdata = $news['pagetext'];
                    $newspart1 = substr($rawdata,0,$mod_options['portal_news_maxchars']);
                    $newsposition = strrpos($newspart1,' ');
                    $newspart1 = substr($newspart1,0,$newsposition);
                    
                    $rawdata = $rawdata .'.';
                    $newspart2 = substr($rawdata,$newsposition,-1);
                    
                    preg_match_all('#(\[(.*?)\])?.*?(\[\/(.*?)\])?#',$newspart2,$newspart2tags); 
                    $numtags = count($newspart2tags[0]);
                    $tags = '';
                    
                    for($i = 0; $i < $numtags; $i++)
                    { 
                        
                        $tags .= $newspart2tags[1][$i] . $newspart2tags[3][$i];
                             
                    }
                    
                    $shownews = $newspart1 .'...';
                    $news['message'] = $bbcode_parser->do_parse($shownews, $mod_options['portal_news_enablehtml'], $news['allowsmilie'], $mod_options['portal_news_enablevbcode'], $mod_options['portal_news_enablevbimage']);

// END BUG FIX 

2. Click .

CHANGE LOG

11/6/06: Update to better handle images as provided here

Spoiler (click to open)

This works well, but one issue.

Fix this line:

Code:

$shownews = $newspart1 .'...' .$tags;

and replace with:

Code:

$shownews = $newspart1 .'...';

Otherwise a post with lots of images prints all the image tags in a row and stretches out the theme.....

Close

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CREDITS

This fix was developed by Sillysoft in partnership with http://www.volconvo.com.

You may contact Sillysoft at liquidchaoss (at) yahoo.com or via AIM at "Sillysoft".
The Volconvo administrator may be contacted http://www.volconvo.com/forums/sendmessage.php.