News Box Manager v2.0.0 [Support Thread]

I'm preparing to upload the subject plugin to the Zen Cart Plugins for review. The plugin represents a re-structuring of the plugin News Box Manager with support for Zen Cart v1.5.1 through v1.5.4 as well as current PHP versions.

Once I receive the download link, I'll post it back here.

Once approved, the plugin can be downloaded here: http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1968

The plugin is now available for download.

v2.1.0 is now available for download:

• Add configuration switches to control article content display on home-page and news_archive page.
• Update language file
• Correct admin-side processing when an error is detected during an article's save/insert action.

v2.1.0 is compatible with Zen Cart v1.5.5!

Hi, I tried to install this on Zen Cart v1.5.5, but after installing the admin files only as per instruction, I pressed the 'Admin Home' link in my admin header, but an error message appeared and I couldn't get any further. Refreshing didn't help.

"WARNING: An Error occurred, please refresh the page and try again."

So I deleted the files, and all was working again. Does this mean that it's not compatible with v1.5.5 therefore?

I don't know what "error" was being reported, so can't help much. If you look in your /logs folder, there will be a couple of files named myDEBUG-adm-*.log. One of them will contain the details of the error you experienced.

If you post a log's contents, use the "CODE" tags (the big # in the menu-bar when you're writing your post) and make sure to xxx-out your admin folder's name.

Hi, I have News Box Manager version 2.1.0 (2015-03-31) installed on Zen Cart version v1.5.5a but all html tags are being converted to html entities when saved to the database box_news_content table e.g. <p> becomes <p and <strong> becomes <strong> ...etc

This happens with both Plain Text and CKEditor and only happens in News Box Manager, all other editing instances such as products, category descriptions, banners, define pages, etc are unaffected and work as normal.

Any help to resolve this would be helpful?

Thanks

Have you updated ZC 1.5.5a with these security patches: https://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.php?219732-Trustwave-Security-report-Patch-Included-TWSL2016-006&p=1311680#post1311680

Thanks for the quick reply.

I updated the sanitize files but no change in the html entities issue.

If I edit the database and add the correct html to news_content then it displays correctly when previewing or editing the news item but as soon as update is pressed the html tags are converted back to html entities again.

@lmrsdn, this issue is being tracked on the plugin's GitHub repository: https://github.com/lat9/news_box_manager/issues/4

v2.1.1 has just been submitted to the Zen Cart plugins for review, adding an admin-level sanitization script so that the "htmlentities" in an article's title and/or contents aren't improperly converted.

v2.1.1 is now available for download from the Zen Cart plugins: https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1968

I love news box manager and am using it on a clients site here. We use it to show upcoming scheduled classes. The problem we have is: This program labels the date when the news item is submitted. We would really love to select the date shown on the image, instead of it showing the date the item is submitted but don't know how to do this.

For instance we have this class which starts on January 7th. But the date that is labeled onto this is December 13, 2016 which is the date the news item was created. This is confusing to our visitors as the date the item was created is not the best date for us to display (that would be the class date). I know we can likely hide this date via CSS but is it possible to display a date we determine? The date of the actual class in the future yet still show the news item?

@sportsguy, I don't think that's as-distributed behavior. The "more_news" page should show the starting date (and ending date, if specified) as its header. Check for any customizations you've made to /includes/modules/pages/more_news/header_php.php.

I have the News Box Manager installed on our site. Is there a way of integrating it with "Ceon URI Mapping" so that we can have for example: https://www.welsh-lovespoons.co.uk/news/lovespoons-booklet instead of ```
https://www.welsh-lovespoons.co.uk/index.php?main_page=more_news&news_id=2

bonheddwr:

I have the News Box Manager installed on our site. Is there a way of integrating it with "Ceon URI Mapping" so that we can have for example: https://www.welsh-lovespoons.co.uk/news/lovespoons-booklet instead of ```
https://www.welsh-lovespoons.co.uk/index.php?main_page=more_news&news_id=2

My guess is that the answer is "Yes", but you'll need to ask in the ***Ceon URI Mapping*** plugin's support thread: <https://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.php?184548-Ceon-URI-Mapping-v4-x>

lat9:

My guess is that the answer is "Yes", but you'll need to ask in the Ceon URI Mapping plugin's support thread: https://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.php?184548-Ceon-URI-Mapping-v4-x

Thank you, I have now done so and await a reply.

One more question. Is there a way of getting the title that you include when writing an article to appear as the page title, and also the content of the article as the meta description?

At the moment it simply uses the general website title as the meta title for all articles, and the meta description is the list of categories, again the same for all articles. is there a way of deciding the meta tags I want to use for each individual article? Should this happen automatically?

e.g https://www.welsh-lovespoons.co.uk/index.php?main_page=more_news&news_id=5

Thanks for any advice.

I've created a GitHub issue (https://github.com/lat9/news_box_manager/issues/5) for your request to add meta-tag support (great idea, by the way). I'll post back when the change has been made.

Hi, I've posted this general question elshwere regarding the meta tags issue. If anyone knows how this can be done manually in the meantime whilst you are looking into including it with the News Box Manager as default that would be great! Thanks for any advice.

https://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.php?221984-Meta-Tags-by-parameter-and-ID-s