BTW. The support posts that you can't get at from the front page, aren't accessible by anybody. I believe that they point to an old forum system that no longer exists and that the messages you're getting are misleading and are the current forum's way of saying that it thinks there may have been something here once, but can't find it now - rather than that these have been deliberately closed off.

Hi all,

I know this has been asked befor, but is there any solucion so I can have categories?

Seached in post and cannt find anything...

Thx!

i have installed this mod and ultimate seo url .

my htaccess include this :

# For dreamscape's News & Articles Manager
RewriteRule ^news/?$ index\.php?main_page=news&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/rss.xml$ index\.php?main_page=news_rss&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/archive/?$ index\.php?main_page=news_archive&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2}).html$ index\.php?main_page=news&date=$1-$2-$3&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/archive/([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2}).html$ index\.php?main_page=news_archive&date=$1-$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/(.*)-a-([0-9]+)-comments.html$ index\.php?main_page=news_comments&article_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/(.*)-a-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=news_article&article_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

but no effect of url .

the other pages / products is - ***.html

my website - https://www.king-magic.com/

another q -
how can creat xml for this mod ?

i have the mod - Google XML Sitemap

how to make summary for news ?

like this -
http://www.king-magic.com/index.php?main_page=news_article&article_id=2

need only 50 words . and than - read more ...

dmagic:

how to make summary for news ?

like this -
http://www.king-magic.com/index.php?main_page=news_article&article_id=2

need only 50 words . and than - read more ...

when the post cut and show . read more ... ?
i have long story , but can't show all in main page .

thanks ,

Hi. I've placed this module on my test WAMP server which is offline.

After trying to make it show on my home page, re-reading what appear to be instructions and Admin controls, I have come to the conclusion that there is some purpose in having the modules to show articles in a sidebox "optional."

How would one find articles without the optional sideboxes? Is this designed for a Google search on the topic?

I have not figured out the purpose of the summary images, etc., but if I have the time to continue, and after I install an "optional" sidebox, maybe I will be able to understand this module.

It would be so nice if someone just explained what this module is designed to do without the sideboxes, and how the titles, summaries, images of titles and summaries, all work.

I thought there would be a function for adding a video to an article, but perhaps that is just done by adding a link somewhere.

Is there some overview that speaks to the people trying to make sense of and use this module in the most optimal manner for SEO?

If I have the time to keep trying to understand it, perhaps it will turn out to be so obvious, but I would certainly share that if I get that far.

Notageek

Has anyone done any social networking integration? I want to be able to insert ADD THIS so people can put a tidbit of my articles on their social network?

Hi all,

I just installed this on 1.3.9h and I am trying to figure out why I am not seeing any toggles as to whether to use the HTMLArea or fckeditor. Is there a function for this? I do have in Configuration/My Store fckeditor enabled and have even tried the HTMLArea and don't see any changes when trying to add news.

Not sure whats going on here. Everything else seems to be ok other then not seeing any signs of either editors to change font styles, colors, alignment, etc.

THanks much in advance.

KeystoneAirsoft:

Hi all,

I just installed this on 1.3.9h and I am trying to figure out why I am not seeing any toggles as to whether to use the HTMLArea or fckeditor. Is there a function for this? I do have in Configuration/My Store fckeditor enabled and have even tried the HTMLArea and don't see any changes when trying to add news.

Not sure whats going on here. Everything else seems to be ok other then not seeing any signs of either editors to change font styles, colors, alignment, etc.

THanks much in advance.

Anyone? I am still not able to see any kind of toggles for either fckeditor or the HTMLarea, or is this not a feature for this mod?

Thanks much in advance.

urgh iv did a huge mistake i forgot to back up mysql database and the installment sql included had errors and now my whole database is messed up..

is there a way i could unstall those sql querys? am really not experinced with sql and i dont wish to lose my work ..

Sidebox_Ticker_v1.000
Sidebox_Scroller_v1.000
News_Articles_Management_v2.110

i wish to unstall those sql querys
this is the sql installation i had

Configuration

INSERT INTO configuration_group VALUES ('', 'News & Articles Management', 'The options which configure News & Articles Management', '1', '1');
UPDATE configuration_group SET sort_order = last_insert_id() WHERE configuration_group_id = last_insert_id();
INSERT INTO configuration VALUES ('', 'Display News Summary', 'DISPLAY_NEWS_SUMMARY', 'true', 'Display the news summary on the main index page (part of the optional install)?', last_insert_id(), '0', NULL, now(), NULL, 'zen_cfg_select_option(array("true", "false"),'),
('', 'News Summary Cutoff Days', 'DISPLAY_NEWS_SUMMARY_DAYS', '7', 'Only display the news summary if there was news in the past xx days', last_insert_id(), '1', NULL, now(), NULL, NULL),
('', 'News Summary Length', 'DISPLAY_NEWS_SUMMARY_LENGTH', '300', 'If no news summary is present for the article being displayed by the summary module, truncate the main article content to no more than this number of characters (will truncate at the nearest whole word)', last_insert_id(), '2', NULL, now(), NULL, NULL),
('', 'Comments Require Customer Login', 'NEWS_COMMENTS_REQUIRE_CUSTOMER', 'false', 'Require a user to be logged in to post comments on news articles?', last_insert_id(), '3', NULL, now(), NULL, 'zen_cfg_select_option(array("true", "false"),'),
('', 'Comments Name Min Length', 'ENTRY_NEWS_NAME_MIN_LENGTH', '3', 'Minimum length for the name input of news comments', last_insert_id(), '4', NULL, now(), NULL, NULL),
('', 'Comments Text Min Length', 'ENTRY_NEWS_COMMENTS_MIN_LENGTH', '25', 'Minimum length for the comments text input of news comments', last_insert_id(), '5', NULL, now(), NULL, NULL),
('', 'Email Admin Comments Notice', 'NEWS_COMMENTS_EMAIL_ADMIN_NOTICE', 'true', 'Email a notification to the store admin when comments are posted?', last_insert_id(), '6', NULL, now(), NULL, 'zen_cfg_select_option(array("true", "false"),'),
('', 'News RSS Feed Days', 'NEWS_RSS_FEED_NUMBER_OF_DAYS', '7', 'The RSS feed will only contain news from the past xx news days', last_insert_id(), '7', NULL, now(), NULL, NULL);

Table structure for table news_articles

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS news_articles;
CREATE TABLE news_articles (
article_id int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
authors_id int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
news_image varchar(64) default NULL,
news_image_two varchar(64) default NULL,
news_date_added datetime NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
news_last_modified datetime default NULL,
news_date_published datetime default NULL,
news_status tinyint(1) NOT NULL default '0',
sort_order tinyint(6) NOT NULL default '0',
PRIMARY KEY (article_id),
KEY (news_date_published)
) TYPE=MyISAM;

Table structure for table news_articles_text

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS news_articles_text;
CREATE TABLE news_articles_text (
article_id int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
language_id int(11) NOT NULL default '1',
news_article_name varchar(64) NOT NULL default '',
news_article_text text,
news_article_shorttext text,
news_article_url varchar(255) default NULL,
news_article_url_text varchar(64) default NULL,
news_article_url_2 varchar(255) default NULL,
news_article_url_2_text varchar(64) default NULL,
news_article_url_3 varchar(255) default NULL,
news_article_url_3_text varchar(64) default NULL,
news_article_url_4 varchar(255) default NULL,
news_article_url_4_text varchar(64) default NULL,
news_article_url_store int(11) default NULL,
news_article_url_store_2 int(11) default NULL,
news_article_url_store_misc varchar(255) default NULL,
news_article_url_store_misc_text varchar(64) default NULL,
news_article_url_store_misc_2 varchar(255) default NULL,
news_article_url_store_misc_2_text varchar(64) default NULL,
news_image_text text,
news_image_text_two text,
PRIMARY KEY (article_id,language_id),
KEY (news_article_name)
) TYPE=MyISAM;

Table structure for table news_authors

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS news_authors;
CREATE TABLE news_authors (
authors_id int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
author_name varchar(64) default NULL,
author_email varchar(96) default NULL,
status int(1) NOT NULL default '1',
PRIMARY KEY (authors_id)
) TYPE=MyISAM;

Dumping data for table news_authors

INSERT INTO news_authors VALUES (1, 'Administrator', '[email protected]', 1);

Table structure for table news_comments

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS news_comments;
CREATE TABLE news_comments (
comments_id int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
article_id int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
customers_id int(11) default NULL,
customers_name varchar(64) NOT NULL default '',
date_added datetime default NULL,
last_modified datetime default NULL,
approved tinyint(1) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
PRIMARY KEY (comments_id)
) TYPE=MyISAM;

Table structure for table news_comments_description

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS news_comments_description;
CREATE TABLE news_comments_description (
comments_id int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
language_id int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
comments_subject varchar(64) default NULL,
comments_text text NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (comments_id,language_id)
) TYPE=MyISAM;

Sidebox_Scroller_v1.000

News Scroller Config

INSERT INTO configuration VALUES ('', 'News Sidebox Scroller Days', 'NEWS_SCROLLER_NUMBER_OF_DAYS', '7', 'The news sidebox scroller will only contain news from the past xx news days', '2504', '100', NULL, now(), NULL, NULL),
('', 'News Sidebox Scroller Height', 'NEWS_SCROLLER_HEIGHT', '250', 'The height of the news sidebox scroller box', '2504', '101', NULL, now(), NULL, NULL),
('', 'News Sidebox Scroller Amount', 'NEWS_SCROLLER_AMOUNT', '2', 'The amount to scroll by', '2504', '102', NULL, now(), NULL, NULL),
('', 'News Sidebox Scroller Delay', 'NEWS_SCROLLER_DELAY', '100', 'The amount of delay when scrolling', '2504', '103', NULL, now(), NULL, NULL);
UPDATE configuration, configuration_group SET configuration.configuration_group_id = configuration_group.configuration_group_id WHERE configuration_group.configuration_group_title = 'News & Articles Management' AND configuration.configuration_group_id = '2504';

and

Configuration

INSERT INTO configuration_group VALUES ('', 'News & Articles Management', 'The options which configure News & Articles Management', '1', '1');
UPDATE configuration_group SET sort_order = last_insert_id() WHERE configuration_group_id = last_insert_id();
INSERT INTO configuration VALUES ('', 'Display News Summary', 'DISPLAY_NEWS_SUMMARY', 'true', 'Display the news summary on the main index page (part of the optional install)?', last_insert_id(), '0', NULL, now(), NULL, 'zen_cfg_select_option(array("true", "false"),'),
('', 'News Summary Cutoff Days', 'DISPLAY_NEWS_SUMMARY_DAYS', '7', 'Only display the news summary if there was news in the past xx days', last_insert_id(), '1', NULL, now(), NULL, NULL),
('', 'News Summary Length', 'DISPLAY_NEWS_SUMMARY_LENGTH', '300', 'If no news summary is present for the article being displayed by the summary module, truncate the main article content to no more than this number of characters (will truncate at the nearest whole word)', last_insert_id(), '2', NULL, now(), NULL, NULL),
('', 'Comments Require Customer Login', 'NEWS_COMMENTS_REQUIRE_CUSTOMER', 'false', 'Require a user to be logged in to post comments on news articles?', last_insert_id(), '3', NULL, now(), NULL, 'zen_cfg_select_option(array("true", "false"),'),
('', 'Comments Name Min Length', 'ENTRY_NEWS_NAME_MIN_LENGTH', '3', 'Minimum length for the name input of news comments', last_insert_id(), '4', NULL, now(), NULL, NULL),
('', 'Comments Text Min Length', 'ENTRY_NEWS_COMMENTS_MIN_LENGTH', '25', 'Minimum length for the comments text input of news comments', last_insert_id(), '5', NULL, now(), NULL, NULL),
('', 'Email Admin Comments Notice', 'NEWS_COMMENTS_EMAIL_ADMIN_NOTICE', 'true', 'Email a notification to the store admin when comments are posted?', last_insert_id(), '6', NULL, now(), NULL, 'zen_cfg_select_option(array("true", "false"),'),
('', 'News RSS Feed Days', 'NEWS_RSS_FEED_NUMBER_OF_DAYS', '7', 'The RSS feed will only contain news from the past xx news days', last_insert_id(), '7', NULL, now(), NULL, NULL);

Table structure for table news_articles

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS news_articles;
CREATE TABLE news_articles (
article_id int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
authors_id int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
news_image varchar(64) default NULL,
news_image_two varchar(64) default NULL,
news_date_added datetime NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
news_last_modified datetime default NULL,
news_date_published datetime default NULL,
news_status tinyint(1) NOT NULL default '0',
sort_order tinyint(6) NOT NULL default '0',
PRIMARY KEY (article_id),
KEY (news_date_published)
) TYPE=MyISAM;

Table structure for table news_articles_text

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS news_articles_text;
CREATE TABLE news_articles_text (
article_id int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
language_id int(11) NOT NULL default '1',
news_article_name varchar(64) NOT NULL default '',
news_article_text text,
news_article_shorttext text,
news_article_url varchar(255) default NULL,
news_article_url_text varchar(64) default NULL,
news_article_url_2 varchar(255) default NULL,
news_article_url_2_text varchar(64) default NULL,
news_article_url_3 varchar(255) default NULL,
news_article_url_3_text varchar(64) default NULL,
news_article_url_4 varchar(255) default NULL,
news_article_url_4_text varchar(64) default NULL,
news_article_url_store int(11) default NULL,
news_article_url_store_2 int(11) default NULL,
news_article_url_store_misc varchar(255) default NULL,
news_article_url_store_misc_text varchar(64) default NULL,
news_article_url_store_misc_2 varchar(255) default NULL,
news_article_url_store_misc_2_text varchar(64) default NULL,
news_image_text text,
news_image_text_two text,
PRIMARY KEY (article_id,language_id),
KEY (news_article_name)
) TYPE=MyISAM;

Table structure for table news_authors

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS news_authors;
CREATE TABLE news_authors (
authors_id int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
author_name varchar(64) default NULL,
author_email varchar(96) default NULL,
status int(1) NOT NULL default '1',
PRIMARY KEY (authors_id)
) TYPE=MyISAM;

Dumping data for table news_authors

INSERT INTO news_authors VALUES (1, 'Administrator', '[email protected]', 1);

Table structure for table news_comments

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS news_comments;
CREATE TABLE news_comments (
comments_id int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
article_id int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
customers_id int(11) default NULL,
customers_name varchar(64) NOT NULL default '',
date_added datetime default NULL,
last_modified datetime default NULL,
approved tinyint(1) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
PRIMARY KEY (comments_id)
) TYPE=MyISAM;

Table structure for table news_comments_description

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS news_comments_description;
CREATE TABLE news_comments_description (
comments_id int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
language_id int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
comments_subject varchar(64) default NULL,
comments_text text NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (comments_id,language_id)
) TYPE=MyISAM;

dmagic:

i have installed this mod and ultimate seo url .

my htaccess include this :

For dreamscape's News & Articles Manager

RewriteRule ^news/?$ index.php?main_page=news&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/rss.xml$ index.php?main_page=news_rss&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/archive/?$ index.php?main_page=news_archive&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2}).html$ index.php?main_page=news&date=$1-$2-$3&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/archive/([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2}).html$ index.php?main_page=news_archive&date=$1-$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/(.)-a-([0-9]+)-comments.html$ index.php?main_page=news_comments&article_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/(.)-a-([0-9]+).html$ index.php?main_page=news_article&article_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

> 
> but no effect of url . 
> 
> the other pages / products is - ***.html
> 
> 
> my website - <https://www.king-magic.com/>

 HI! Ive got the same problem. 
 Added the code to .htaccess and I see no effect. Ive seen on your website that at least the article URLs are friendly. 

 How did you achieve this?

Regards.

i can't find a solution in this thread - i am trying to make my home page have the news summary on it....

Has anyone got this working????

gazag:

i can't find a solution in this thread - i am trying to make my home page have the news summary on it....

Has anyone got this working????

I got is working on http://paladar.es/.

For a fresh Zen Cart Install, copy files from _optional_install to your Zen Cart install.
For all other installs, open your Zen Cart file includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_index_default.php and place the following code where you would like the news summary module to display: <?php include(DIR_WS_MODULES . zen_get_module_directory(FILENAME_NEWS_SUMMARY_MODULE)); ?>

regards

bunker0:

I got is working on http://paladar.es/.

For a fresh Zen Cart Install, copy files from _optional_install to your Zen Cart install.
For all other installs, open your Zen Cart file includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_index_default.php and place the following code where you would like the news summary module to display: <?php include(DIR_WS_MODULES . zen_get_module_directory(FILENAME_NEWS_SUMMARY_MODULE)); ?>

regards

Have you got any tips - i have installed this on two clean installs. Installed the optional files for showing on home page... And still can't get it to show up!!

I have tried manually inserting > <?php include(DIR_WS_MODULES . zen_get_module_directory(FILENAME_NEWS_SUMMARY_MODULE)); ?> into the define_main_page, the tpl_index_default, the index.php and more but still can't get it to work...

Did you have to adjust anything???

All i am trying to do is to get the summary showing on the home page!!

gazag:

Have you got any tips - i have installed this on two clean installs. Installed the optional files for showing on home page... And still can't get it to show up!!

I have tried manually inserting into the define_main_page, the tpl_index_default, the index.php and more but still can't get it to work...

Did you have to adjust anything???

All i am trying to do is to get the summary showing on the home page!!

make sure you've copied all needed files...
follow the instruccions...
report errors....

does ```

bunker0:

make sure you've copied all needed files...
follow the instruccions...
report errors....

does ```

i followed the instructions - it said if it is a clean install of zencart just copy the files so that is what i did - ran the SQL 

no errors...

if you go to the news page the info is there but it doesn't show up on the home page.

link to site is www DOT spotlightfunding DOT org/demo

:frusty:

gazag:

i followed the instructions - it said if it is a clean install of zencart just copy the files so that is what i did - ran the SQL

no errors...

if you go to the news page the info is there but it doesn't show up on the home page.

link to site is www DOT spotlightfunding DOT org/demo

:frusty:

OK I GOT IT :clap: :clap: :clap:

The problem is the tpl_index_Default.php is majorly different to the one i have one a clean install of 1.3.9h so i used my original and just added the line > <?php include(DIR_WS_MODULES . zen_get_module_directory(FILENAME_NEWS_SUMMARY_MODULE)); ?>

Thanks for your help Bunker

Has anyone got this working on version 1.50?

Gary

Installed the RSS Feed and it is not displaying all the information on the feed.
The price, Weight, Quantity, Model, Brand and ID not showing. It only shows the Product name, Picture, Descriptions.
Can someone please help.:frusty: