News Box Manager v3.0.0 [Support Thread]

chuckrey:

I have a couple of questions.. I am using 1.5.7 v3.1.1.
I am trying to change the wording at the top of the "All Articles" page. The heading currently says: "ALL TYPE4 ARTICLES". Can you please tell me how I can change this? The url is:https://coolintentions.com/index.php?main_page=all_articles&t=4.

Also, for some reason the articles use to display at the bottom of the home page and when I upgraded to the more recent version of this module, it no longer will display. Any help would be awesome. Thank you.
The "Type1" through "Type4" text is changed via edit to your template's override of /includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/news_box_manager_defines.php.

P.S. I've no clue as to why those articles aren't being included as a homepage centerbox.

lat9:

The "Type1" through "Type4" text is changed via edit to your template's override of /includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/news_box_manager_defines.php.

P.S. I've no clue as to why those articles aren't being included as a homepage centerbox.

Thank you for your response.:smile:

Hi,

Thanks for this great plug in as it provides such a great blog like highlight for items!!

I had one question that I couldn't find if it had been answered. I am running zen cart v.1.5.7 and when I post a new news post, the date it displays on the post is always incorrect. I made a new post today and the date shows as Sept. 23.

I am wondering where I could change this?

Thanks for your help,

Jeff

NWCE:

Hi,

Thanks for this great plug in as it provides such a great blog like highlight for items!!

I had one question that I couldn't find if it had been answered. I am running zen cart v.1.5.7 and when I post a new news post, the date it displays on the post is always incorrect. I made a new post today and the date shows as Sept. 23.

I am wondering where I could change this?

Thanks for your help,

Jeff
I'm in the middle of a bunch of stuff right now, but I've created a GitHub tracking issue (https://github.com/lat9/news_box_manager_v3/issues/28) to remind myself to come back when I've got time.

Thanks lat9 for your help and reply! I appreciate it!

Jeff

Hi lat9,

I have solved my own problem when working on this over the last day or so. It deals with the custom code that the company who made my template have inputted and incorrectly formatted.

Thanks again for your reply and help,

Jeff

NWCE:

Hi lat9,

I have solved my own problem when working on this over the last day or so. It deals with the custom code that the company who made my template have inputted and incorrectly formatted.

Thanks again for your reply and help,

Jeff
Thanks for the update (and timesaver)! I appreciate that.

v3.2.0 of News Box Manager - v3 is now available for download: https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=2264

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.

Greetings!

I'm having a problem or 2 with my newsbox (3.2.0)

1. The date showing for my article is not showing correctly on my homepage nor on my all articles page nor on the article page itself. I'm sending screenshots of the correct date shown in my admin news box manager (all articles) and from the homepage of my site (https://www.cedargroveherbs.com), all articles page and the article page. The date is correctly shown in my sidebox though (https://www.cedargroveherbs.com/discount_coupon.html)

2. When creating an article how do I add the image I want for the article on the home page, side box and the article itself. I ended up taking a rather long route to do it this time but I wonder if there's a better way - like being able to add the picture in the admin>tools>news box manager...

I got it fixed

If your news comes out on the storefront side showing html tags:

This means the plugin was installed without admin sanitization rules, so when you show it on the storefront, you will have to use something like:

<div class="news-content"><?php echo htmlspecialchars_decode(stripslashes($news_content)); ?></div>

In includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_article_default.php instead of just

<div class="news-content"><?= $news_content ?></div>

In 1.5.8+/PHP8+, going to admin/news_box_manager1.php (or 2, 3, or 4) will fail because the underlying language file defines are not pulled in.

Change

require DIR_WS_LANGUAGES . $_SESSION['language'] . '/lang.news_box_manager.php';

to:

global $languageLoader;
$languageLoader->loadExtraLanguageFiles(DIR_WS_LANGUAGES,  $_SESSION['language'], FILENAME_NEWS_BOX_MANAGER . '.php', '/');

swguy:

If your news comes out on the storefront side showing html tags:

<p>Bla bla bla</p><p>We are pleased to announce ...

This means the plugin was installed without admin sanitization rules, so when you show it on the storefront, you will have to use something like:

<div class="news-content"><?php echo htmlspecialchars_decode(stripslashes($news_content)); ?></div>

In includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_article_default.php instead of just

<div class="news-content"><?= $news_content ?></div>

That begs the question: How did the plugin get installed without its distributed sanitization rules (admin/includes/extra_datafiles/news_box_manager_sanitization.php)?

swguy:

In 1.5.8+/PHP8+, going to admin/news_box_manager1.php (or 2, 3, or 4) will fail because the underlying language file defines are not pulled in.

Change

require DIR_WS_LANGUAGES . $_SESSION['language'] . '/lang.news_box_manager.php';

to:

global $languageLoader;
$languageLoader->loadExtraLanguageFiles(DIR_WS_LANGUAGES,  $_SESSION['language'], FILENAME_NEWS_BOX_MANAGER . '.php', '/');

See this GitHub issue for resolution forthcoming in v3.2.1: https://github.com/lat9/news_box_manager_v3/issues/39

v3.2.1 of News Box Manager v3 is now available for download: https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=2264

This release contains changes associated with the following GitHub issues:

#36: article page, breadcrumbs don't include current article name
#37: SitemapXML addition: Fatal error due to missing $
#39: Correct type-specific admin tools language loading

That begs the question: How did the plugin get installed without its distributed sanitization rules (admin/includes/extra_datafiles/news_box_manager_sanitization.php)?

This is a great question. Here's the answer: some of the Perfectus templates come bundled with an incomplete copy of this plugin.

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2.0.1
Lotsoplugins

I installed this recently and mostly love it.
It seems to be working on the front end of the shop, but on the back end it's throwing errors:

[01-Sep-2024 03:50:16 UTC] Request URI: /index.php?main_page=all_articles, IP address: MY IP, Language id 1
#0 /includes/templates/MY TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_all_articles_default.php(114): zen_debug_error_handler()
#1 /includes/templates/MY TEMPLATE/common/tpl_main_page.php(178): require('/home/alchem44/...')
#2 /index.php(94): require('/home/PATH/...')
--> PHP Warning: Undefined array key "news_content" in /includes/templates/MY TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_all_articles_default.php on line 114.

The errors appear when I hit the "view all" link on the front page, or the "news" link on the breadcrumb trail on the invidual article pages.
Help?

Yep, if you've configured the storefront listings to show no content (only title and date); GitHub issue created for tracking: https://github.com/lat9/news_box_manager_v3/issues/40

lat9:

Yep, if you've configured the storefront listings to show no content (only title and date); GitHub issue created for tracking: https://github.com/lat9/news_box_manager_v3/issues/40

'kay...so how and where do I fix that?

On the News Box Manager page there isn't any field or prompt asking what to display -or not.
Is it the "content length" option under configuration? I assumed that meant the limit to the size of content of an article? Increasing that number from the default "0" to "100" doesn't seem to change anything on the front page or on the "all articles" page; nor has it stopped the errors from appearing.

Thanks again for your help. :)

Or, maybe...just maybe I spoke too soon.
Changing content length to 100 and changing from "list" back to the default "table" under configuration may have fixed the problem. I'm scared to jinx it by posting too soon but don't want to waste anyone's time looking for an issue that has been fixed. o.O