I'm gonna have to back up Romplayer on this one.

When you make 4 post back to back within 3 mins i can be a bit much.

I think so!

THANK YOU MICHAEL!  


(sometimes ... someone reads what you have post; then you can "edit" it but the person you want to see it just thinks have read it... anyway, I´ll do my best to integrate everything  )

Hi Michael,

great mod, i'm using a self-modded 1.x version for example to post news in a blog style.

V.2.0 features looking great.

To reduce server-load i'm caching the output of your news-script with a simple php-script, that stores the output and - once called - compares the file-date of this written output with the actual time. (I don't think that news have to be actual each and every minute ...)


Of course i have some wishes  

1. outsourcing of settings - i'm using this in my modded news.mod with a new parameter -settings, because i want to be able to execute your news.pl in several ways with different parameters (blog-style, generating newsletter-links to threads and so on).

if ($INFO{'settings'} ne "" && -e $INFO{'settings'}) {
			require $INFO{'settings'};
        } else {
			# default settings ...
			$display = 10;          # number of news to display
			$sort_news_by_last_comment = 0; # 0/1 - if set to 1, news will be sorted by last comment, not by creation time
			$max_number_of_words = 500; # set to 0 to disable cut-off of long messages
			$only_first_paragraph = 0;  # 0/1 - if set to 1, only the first paragraph will be displayed. Set to 0 to disable (note: this will disable $max_number_of_words)
			$link_target = "_top";  # if set to "_blank", all links will open in a new window. Leave empty to let links open in the current window
			$show_older_news_link = 0;  # 0/1 - set to 1 to display a link to the news board at the bottom, 0 to disable
			$older_news_link = qq~<center><a href="$scripturl?board=$currentboard" target="$link_target"><b>Older News</b></a></center>~;
        }
 

Maybe you could alter the static cache-filename to the optional settings-filename in your V.2.xx-mod, if this multiple-usage-feature interferes the principle of your cache-system (dunno).


2. option to write news-mod output to file (so one can manage the caching self or manipulate the output in other ways)

Great mod and everything works as planned but is there a way to get the news text to scroll when the page is being resized instead of being cutoff. I only want the iframe to take at most 15% of the side of the page. and how do I remove/replace the poster's avatar that is to the right so that it is placed at the bottom of the news post or to the left of the subject

If I reduce the width to anything less than 35% the avatar gets cut off and further reductions in size start to cut the text off. the text doesn't want to scroll.

thanks Michael , I have here a test web page up to show that it still doesn't work even with a table. Sorry for being so retarded on this seemingly simple problem.

http://nbvrl.servebeer.com/~nascar/test2.htm

maybe I wasn't clear, I want to text in the news feed to auto-wrap.

ok that makes sense. Ithis should work now, I'll try that, thanks for the ultra quick response