TechnocratTechnocrat’s Random Thoughts

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The news module is nearing completion. First thing to notice is that the news stories are stacked. They will only show as many as you set in the configuration. Default is 10. Anything past 10 will go into the archive (still being worked on) for displaying. Since everything is template driven you can change how it looks.

Email, PDF, and print all work now.

The RSS is also working so people can keep up on news (and everything else at some point).

Reads are now tracking. They are run by a cookie to keep them from showing to many reads per user.

You might also notice that there is the Add This! button. This will help your users control and send messages to all the sites out there such as Digg!.

Categories are now also functioning. The big difference is that categories will be SITE WIDE. Meaning if you setup a category for lets say WoW. You can have news, downloads, faq, etc all in that category. It will make is easier for your users to find everything having to do with specific items. Or you can be vague. It’’s up to you!

The final note is the main screen of the article is limited to 255 characters. Anything beyond that, or anything in the extended content will cause a read more to show up. The read more area is a Medium Text so it can hold A LOT of text.

This is the start of the user info bar. As you can see it’’s still pretty basic but it will get better as time goes on

There has been a lot more work done but most of it has to with non-visible items and core/backed coding. So there isn”t much else I can show you.

Once the News article is working it will be pushed up on www.phpbb-evolution.com and that site will start to take shape.

Obviously we have no alpha time set yet. But you can keep track of its pending release by watching the roadmap

Or you can see the SVN if your brave: http://forums.phpbb-evolution.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=42