News Box Manager -- v3

Description
v3.0.0 (and later) of News Box Manager builds on the previous versions of the plugin, adding the following features for Zen Cart 1.5.8a and later:

- Enables the creation of up to four (4) different types of 'news', each separately manageable.
- Separate admin tools for each type, enables different admin profiles to manage each news type.
- An additional tool enables the management of all news types.
- Two (2) storefront sideboxes are now provided, enabling different news types' to be displayed in different locations.
- Uses the zc156 admin's bootstrap support for its admin-tool displays.
- Adds search and sort controls to the admin-level tools, making it easier to manage your news articles.
- Adds controls to the admin's article-listing, enabling you to make a copy of an article and/or to move an article to a different news-type.
- Changes the storefront news_archive and more_news pages to be all_articles and article, respectively.
- Previous pages' header-processing remains to redirect access to those pages (permanently) to their new homes!
- Watches for admin-level language-addition and -removal actions, adjusting the articles' news-content accordingly.

Additional changes:

- An article must have non-blank title and content in all the store's languages (previously only one language was required).
- On installation, any article found to have a blank title or content in any of the store's languages is disabled.
- Due to the significant changes to the various language files, the German language files have been removed from the distribution.

GitHub repository: https://github.com/lat9/news_box_manager_v3
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Zen Cart® Versions v1.5.8, v2.0.0
Original Author lat9
Last Updated by lat9 - 6 Feb 2024
Downloads 568

Version History

News Box Manager -- v3   -   Version: v3.2.0
This release contains changes associated with the following GitHub issues:

#15: Provide a sort form for the display on the all_articles page.
#17: Enable article content search on the all_articles page.
#29: Correct PHP Warning on a new-article preview.
#30: Make the "See All" text a language constant.
#31: Minimum Zen Cart version is now 1.5.8a; adding Bootstrap template support.
#34: Remove template-override of the index page from the distribution; refer to the readme.html.
#35: Use zen_cfg_read_only as the setting function for the plugin's configured version.
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Zen Cart® Versions v1.5.8, v2.0.0
Date Added 6 Feb 2024
Author lat9
File Size 68.2 KB
PHP 5.3 Safe? No
Downloads 15
 
News Box Manager -- v3   -   Version: v3.1.1
This release contains changes associated with the following GitHub issues:

#25: Clean up multi-use variables, previous settings being applied to follow-on renderings.
#26: Correct MySQL error when home centerbox display uses Categories setting (for strict MySQL installations).
#27: Correcting 'no description included' when a sidebox uses GridTitleDateDesc layout.
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Zen Cart® Versions v1.5.6, v1.5.7
Date Added 27 May 2021
Author lat9
File Size 69.6 KB
PHP 5.3 Safe? No
Downloads 142
 
News Box Manager -- v3   -   Version: v3.1.0
This version enables your news articles to be 'published' via SiteMapXML.   + Download
Zen Cart® Versions
Date Added 22 Jan 2021
Author lat9
File Size 69.4 KB
PHP 5.3 Safe? No
Downloads 86
 
News Box Manager -- v3   -   Version: v3.0.5
This release contains changes associated with the following GitHub issues:

#20: zc157, missing admin's $template_dir.
#21: Correct admin duplicate-constant notice.
#22: zc157, admin-tool 'action' icons don't display correctly.
#23: Individual-article title overwritten if left-sidebox is enabled.
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Zen Cart® Versions v1.5.6, v1.5.7
Date Added 2 Jul 2020
Author lat9
File Size 67.8 KB
PHP 5.3 Safe? No
Downloads 78
 
News Box Manager -- v3   -   Version: v3.0.4
This release contains changes associated with the following GitHub issue:

#14: "Incorrect datetime value" on install/upgrade for strict MySQL installations.
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Zen Cart® Versions v1.5.6
Date Added 29 Mar 2020
Author lat9
File Size 67.4 KB
PHP 5.3 Safe? No
Downloads 58
 
News Box Manager -- v3   -   Version: v3.0.3
This release contains changes associated with the following GitHub issue:

#12: PHP 'missing constant' warning, when updating a specific article type.

The documentation's also been updated to accurately reflect the files present in the plugin's distribution.
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Zen Cart® Versions v1.5.6
Date Added 2 Mar 2020
Author lat9
File Size 68.0 KB
PHP 5.3 Safe? No
Downloads 42
 
News Box Manager -- v3   -   Version: v3.0.2
This release contains changes associated with the following GitHub issue:

#11: Correct PHP warning on all_articles page.
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Zen Cart® Versions v1.5.6
Date Added 12 Feb 2020
Author lat9
File Size 67.9 KB
PHP 5.3 Safe? No
Downloads 51
 
News Box Manager -- v3   -   Version: v3.0.1
This release contains changes associated with the following GitHub issues:

#9: Correct PHP error on 'news_archive' redirect. Already included in the initial Zen Cart download.
#10: Correct MySQL error on initial install.
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Zen Cart® Versions v1.5.6
Date Added 19 Nov 2019
Author lat9
File Size 67.8 KB
PHP 5.3 Safe? No
Downloads 46
 
News Box Manager -- v3   -   Version: v3.0.0
v3.0.0 (and later) of News Box Manager builds on the previous versions of the plugin, adding the following features for Zen Cart 1.5.6 and later:

- Enables the creation of up to four (4) different types of 'news', each separately manageable.
- Separate admin tools for each type, enables different admin profiles to manage each news type.
- An additional tool enables the management of all news types.
- Two (2) storefront sideboxes are now provided, enabling different news types' to be displayed in different locations.
- Uses the zc156 admin's bootstrap support for its admin-tool displays.
- Adds search and sort controls to the admin-level tools, making it easier to manage your news articles.
- Adds controls to the admin's article-listing, enabling you to make a copy of an article and/or to move an article to a different news-type.
- Changes the storefront news_archive and more_news pages to be all_articles and article, respectively.
- Previous pages' header-processing remains to redirect access to those pages (permanently) to their new homes!
- Watches for admin-level language-addition and -removal actions, adjusting the articles' news-content accordingly.

Additional changes:

- An article must have non-blank title and content in all the store's languages (previously only one language was required).
- On installation, any article found to have a blank title or content in any of the store's languages is disabled.
- Due to the significant changes to the various language files, the German language files have been removed from the distribution.

GitHub repository: https://github.com/lat9/news_box_manager_v3
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Zen Cart® Versions v1.5.6
Date Added 28 Oct 2019
Author lat9
File Size 70.3 KB
PHP 5.3 Safe? Unknown
Downloads 50
 


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