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News 2.6.2

Extension type: Module
Extension originally created by espaan on Jan 04, 2009

Description
Provides the ability to add, edit and delete news articles published on the News index page or displayed in the various blocks.
News has a simple, but effective workflow. Articles submitted by users become Pending Review and admins can view and approve these articles. Furthermore articles can be published directly or scheduled with a publication date in the future.

News works together with Scribite!, that provides a nice wysiwyg editor for your articles.

Erik & Mateo
(and all the others having worked on News icon_smile )
Screenshots


Support Info
http://code.zikula.org/news is the location of the News Publisher module.
TargetGroup
All
Status
Normal

News 2.6.2

Options


Technologies

  • pnRender
  • pnForm
  • DBUtil
  • ObjectUtil
  • PNObject
  • Workflows
  • PageLock

Translations

  • deu German
  • eng English
  • spa Spanish
  • nld Dutch
Version created by espaan on Aug 22, 2010
Core support
Zikula 1.2.1 (not supported)
Zikula 1.2.2 (not supported)
Zikula 1.2.3 (not supported)
Zikula 1.2.4 (supported)
Changelog
This is a minor bugfix release for the 2.6.1 release. There are some small enhancements as well.

The 2.6.x serie contains database changes: backwards compatibility fields have been removed. This is because of the compatibility with Zikula 1.3. Check your templates for usage of old redundant fields that are not there any more
(so now use cr_uid instead of aid, from instead of time, contributor instead of informant, hideonindex instead of ihome, disallowcomments instead of withcomm)
  • Most important is that the picture uploading is more robust and final bugs should be gone
  • You get more detailed feedback when an upload of pictures was not ok
  • The picture upload directory presence and writability is being checked with ajax in the admin interface
  • An htaccess file (restricting access to only images) is written in the picture upload folder when you click the checkbox to make this folder automatically. This to increase security.
  • The pagevar description can be filled with the index page teaser text up to a specified nr of characters. configurable in the admin interface
  • The Content module plugin has a configurable template in the settings. With this you can have a different look and feel of the News articles plugs in Content
Status
Normal
Code conformance
5/10
Supported hooks
Custom and other Hooks
Module Configuration Hooks
Item Modify Hooks (GUI)
Item New Hooks (GUI)
Item Delete Hooks (API)
Item Update Hooks (API)
Item Create Hooks (API)
Item Display Hooks (GUI)
Item Transform Hooks (API)
Provided hooks
This module does not provide any hooks.
Language system
Gettext
Categories
Uses core categories
Dependencies
EZComments (Recommended, Versions: all )
scribite (Recommended, Versions: all from 4.1 )

2.6.1

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Technologies

  • pnRender
  • pnForm
  • DBUtil
  • ObjectUtil
  • PNObject
  • Workflows
  • PageLock

Translations

  • deu German
  • eng English
  • spa Spanish
  • nld Dutch
Version created by espaan on Aug 13, 2010
Core support
Zikula 1.2.1 (not supported)
Zikula 1.2.2 (not supported)
Zikula 1.2.3 (not supported)
Changelog
a bugfix version for 2.6.0
See all the tickets solved with milestone 2.6.1 and milestone 2.6.0 in the code.zikula.org project page.

  • The templates for the Printer, rss and Atom themes are now up to date
  • Picture uploading has been made more robust.
    • The admin settings now checks with Ajax if the specified folder already exists and if it is writable.
    • A checkbox is added to choose for creation of the upload folder.
    • The error messages have been made more specific (too big, wrong extension etc).
    • I switched to jpg files. I suddenly noticed that the thumbs were created in png, which gives much larger files. If you already have a large number of images, you have to convert them by hand, sorry about that icon_frown
    • If you have ADD permission, the article becomes Draft if one of the pictures is not correctly uploaded.
    • The allowed extension list (comma seperated) is now without spaces.
Status
Obsolete
Code conformance
5/10
Supported hooks
Custom and other Hooks
Module Configuration Hooks
Item Modify Hooks (GUI)
Item New Hooks (GUI)
Item Delete Hooks (API)
Item Update Hooks (API)
Item Create Hooks (API)
Item Display Hooks (GUI)
Item Transform Hooks (API)
Provided hooks
This module does not provide any hooks.
Language system
Gettext
Categories
Uses core categories
Dependencies
EZComments (Recommended, Versions: all )
scribite (Recommended, Versions: all from 4.1 )

2.6.0

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Technologies

  • pnRender
  • pnForm
  • DBUtil
  • ObjectUtil
  • PNObject
  • Workflows
  • PageLock

Translations

  • deu German
  • eng English
  • spa Spanish
  • nld Dutch
Version created by espaan on Aug 05, 2010
Core support
Zikula 1.2.1 (not supported)
Zikula 1.2.2 (not supported)
Zikula 1.2.3 (not supported)
Changelog
New version with fixes and enhancements
See all the tickets solved with this milestone here in the code.zikula.org project page.
A big thanks to all the people helping out in testing !

Some highlights of this release:
  • Compatibility with Zikula 1.3.0
  • A lot of minor and major bugs have been solved, check out the link above
  • The old permission scheme Stories::Story is now only News:: (will be updated automatically)
  • Some changes to the PDF display possibilities (thanks nikp)
  • New functionality for picture(s) upload with thumbnail generation (phpthumb) and automatic display in the teaser text and full article, see for more info this ticket (thanks msshams). This is new functionality, so use with a little caution.
  • Optimizations for less SQL queries when using shorturls and category based permissions (with a new switch)
  • Some new permission options are added for the situation where you would normally require ADD permission:
    • News:pictureupload: | :: ADD can be used to enable picture uploading for users with COMMENT rights
    • News:publicationdetails: | :: ADD can be used to enable publication details access for users with COMMENT rights
  • News templates for the printer, atom and rss themes are now included in the package
Status
Obsolete
Code conformance
5/10
Supported hooks
Custom and other Hooks
Module Configuration Hooks
Item Modify Hooks (GUI)
Item New Hooks (GUI)
Item Delete Hooks (API)
Item Update Hooks (API)
Item Create Hooks (API)
Item Display Hooks (GUI)
Item Transform Hooks (API)
Provided hooks
This module does not provide any hooks.
Language system
Gettext
Categories
Uses core categories
Dependencies
EZComments (Recommended, Versions: all )
scribite (Recommended, Versions: all from 4.1 )

2.5.2

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Technologies

  • pnRender
  • pnForm
  • DBUtil
  • ObjectUtil
  • PNObject
  • Workflows
  • PageLock

Translations

  • deu German
  • eng English
  • spa Spanish
  • fra French
  • nld Dutch
  • pol Polish
Version created by espaan on Mar 11, 2010
Core support
Zikula 1.2.1 (not supported)
Zikula 1.2.2 (not supported)
Changelog
Bugfix release
  • #183, submitting in IE6 and IE7 was not ok
  • #192, minor template error
Status
Obsolete
Code conformance
5/10
Supported hooks
Custom and other Hooks
Module Configuration Hooks
Item Modify Hooks (GUI)
Item New Hooks (GUI)
Item Delete Hooks (API)
Item Update Hooks (API)
Item Create Hooks (API)
Item Display Hooks (GUI)
Item Transform Hooks (API)
Provided hooks
This module does not provide any hooks.
Language system
Gettext
Categories
Uses core categories
Dependencies
EZComments (Recommended, Versions: all )
scribite (Recommended, Versions: all from 4.1 )

2.5.1

Options


Technologies

  • pnRender
  • pnForm
  • DBUtil
  • ObjectUtil
  • PNObject
  • Workflows
  • PageLock

Translations

  • cat Catalan
  • deu German
  • eng English
  • spa Spanish
  • fra French
  • nld Dutch
  • pol Polish
Version created by espaan on Feb 02, 2010
Core support
Zikula 1.2.1 (not supported)
Zikula 1.2.2 (not supported)
Changelog
A bugfix release for News 2.5:

There was a language string error in the big block (today's most read article), so I've re-uploaded the package, since it was just released some hours ago. Instead of making a whole new version. If you have already downloaded the package, please do so again. Sorry about that.

  • Fixed javascript errors while editing articles
  • Several gettext language updates
  • Content module newsarticles plugin templates fixed
  • Fixed pnmailzapi plugin
  • Attributes itemlist now uses the Core itemlist in Zikula 1.2
Thanks for testing and Carsten for several updates !
PS. if you are using PendingContent don't forget to update the tablename (stories -> news) for News 2.5 and 2.5.1.
Status
Obsolete
Code conformance
5/10
Supported hooks
Custom and other Hooks
Module Configuration Hooks
Item Modify Hooks (GUI)
Item New Hooks (GUI)
Item Delete Hooks (API)
Item Update Hooks (API)
Item Create Hooks (API)
Item Display Hooks (GUI)
Item Transform Hooks (API)
Provided hooks
This module does not provide any hooks.
Language system
Gettext
Categories
Uses core categories
Dependencies
EZComments (Recommended, Versions: all )
scribite (Recommended, Versions: all from 4.1 )

2.5

Options


Technologies

  • pnRender
  • pnForm
  • DBUtil
  • ObjectUtil
  • PNObject
  • Workflows
  • PageLock

Translations

  • cat Catalan
  • deu German
  • eng English
  • spa Spanish
  • fra French
  • nld Dutch
  • pol Polish
Version created by espaan on Jan 20, 2010
Core support
Zikula 1.2.1 (not supported)
Changelog
News 2.5 has some major changes with respect to the 2.4.1 version.
Check out the changelog in cozi here. Several highlights are listed below.

  • The module is now Gettext based and has had a major language review (thanks Drak and David). This means the module can only be used in Zikula 1.2 and beyond.
  • Database table renamed to prefix_news and permission scheme is now using News:: as Component. The upgrade script will take care of the renaming.
  • There is a new Draft status for an article. In the administrators new form, AJAX is being used for saving the draft article on the fly. This will be worked on further for the next version(s).
  • Articles contain a new weight field. This field can be used in sorting in the index page and the various blocks.
  • First set of documentation available here.
  • The user-id that approves a Pending Review article is now being stored.
  • A lot of layout and interface improvements in the various News areas (also thanks to Carsten)
  • A mailz plugin is available
  • Multihook needle is now available, using NEWS{article-id}.
  • Ajax editing works again with scribite 4.1 and Xinha.
  • You can switch on E-mail notification for a new Pending Review article.
  • You can switch on the display of "More Articles in this category" for an article.
  • PDF display of an article is available with the use of TCPDF open source PHP class. More information here.
  • When News is installed for the first time an introductory article is present.
  • News (link Submit an article) is shown in Profile overview (thanks Ralf)
  • Date selection with popup calendar (date/time picker)
  • Improvements to the upgrade script (thanks for testing guys !)

Erik & Mateo

Status
Obsolete
Code conformance
5/10
Supported hooks
Custom and other Hooks
Module Configuration Hooks
Item Modify Hooks (GUI)
Item New Hooks (GUI)
Item Delete Hooks (API)
Item Update Hooks (API)
Item Create Hooks (API)
Item Display Hooks (GUI)
Item Transform Hooks (API)
Provided hooks
This module does not provide any hooks.
Language system
Gettext
Categories
Uses core categories
Dependencies
EZComments (Recommended, Versions: all )
scribite (Recommended, Versions: all from 4.1 )

2.4.1

Options


Technologies

  • pnRender
  • pnForm
  • DBUtil
  • ObjectUtil
  • PNObject
  • Workflows
  • PageLock

Translations

  • deu German
  • eng English
  • fra French
  • ita Italian
  • nld Dutch
  • spa Spanish
Version created by espaan on Jun 21, 2009
Core support
(not supported)
(not supported)
(not supported)
(not supported)
(not supported)
Changelog
Several tickets solved. Check out the full list here. Most important fixes are:
  • submitted text (so when not using html) not formatted correctly #33
  • new submitted news with status waiting appear in archive #90
  • access to non published stories #93
  • commenting for new (user submitted) articles is set of after the article is published #98
  • Change "No News Articles found." from success message to info message #79
  • Templates -- add titles for some pages #100
Do make sure that you also read the comments in 2.4 on template changes.
Status
Obsolete
Code conformance
5/10
Supported hooks
Custom and other Hooks
Module Configuration Hooks
Item Modify Hooks (GUI)
Item New Hooks (GUI)
Item Delete Hooks (API)
Item Update Hooks (API)
Item Create Hooks (API)
Item Display Hooks (GUI)
Item Transform Hooks (API)
Provided hooks
This module does not provide any hooks.
Language system
Classic style
Categories
Uses core categories

2.4

Options


Technologies

  • pnRender
  • pnForm
  • DBUtil
  • ObjectUtil
  • PNObject
  • Workflows
  • PageLock

Translations

  • deu German
  • eng English
  • fra French
  • ita Italian
  • nld Dutch
  • spa Spanish
Version created by espaan on Apr 11, 2009
Core support
(not supported)
(not supported)
(not supported)
Changelog
Overview of major changes:
BTW people thanks for testing, submitting tickets, translating. Most welcome.
  • Large number of Tickets (bugs and enhancements) is solved, check out all 2.4 tickets that are solved.
  • Improvements and fixes in the scheduling and ordering of articles. #10, #13
  • Much improved administrator interface, easier display of Published, Scheduled, Pending Review articles etc. Thank you Wordpress for some great ideas!
  • Import from the pn764 autonews (becomes Scheduled) and queue (becomes Pending Review) tables is now working. #7
  • A new listing of the available News Categories (with the number of self-written articles and RSS feed link). #20, #31
  • Switching off commenting per article is now possible (using EZComments). #66
  • Attribution support is added. Some showcases have yet to be made. #43
  • Inline AJAX editing of an article is updated and a setting for disabling AJAX editing is added. Scribite is not working yet with the AJAX edit. On the list for News 2.5. #14, #24, #68
  • Cleanup of legacy database fields and (legacy) code on several places. #15, #17, #36
  • The extended stories block (v2.6) and Content newsarticles plugin (v1.3) are from now on integrated into News.
  • A first version of a Tour module page is made.

Make sure that you check/update your own Theme Templates (YourTheme/templates/modules/News/) for this release:
  • The hard coded "images/topics" image path for category images is replaced with the catimagepath setting. Check out the pntemplates/news_user_articlecontent.htm template in News on the usage.
  • If you want to make use of the possiblity to switch off commenting for an article, make sure then that you update the part where the hooks are called in your theme templates. Check out pntemplates/news_user_article.htm on how to update the pnmodcallhooks line.
  • When you use scheduling (future publication), make sure that you are update any calls to $info.time and $info.cr_date (are the same in the db) into $info.from in your tempates. This ensures that the publication date gets used and not the original creation date.
  • When you are using Scribite and you want Scribite to work also on article updates, make sure that you switch off AJAX editing by unchecking the Enable AJAX Editing setting.
  • When using Zikula 1.0.3 make sure that you manually copy the assignedcategorieslist plugin. Check out #70 for more information.
Erik (espaan), Mateo (nestormateo)
Status
Obsolete
Code conformance
5/10
Supported hooks
Custom and other Hooks
Module Configuration Hooks
Item Modify Hooks (GUI)
Item New Hooks (GUI)
Item Delete Hooks (API)
Item Update Hooks (API)
Item Create Hooks (API)
Item Display Hooks (GUI)
Item Transform Hooks (API)
Provided hooks
This module does not provide any hooks.
Language system
Classic style
Categories
Uses core categories

2.3

Options


Technologies

  • pnRender
  • pnForm
  • DBUtil
  • ObjectUtil
  • PNObject
  • Workflows
  • PageLock

Translations

  • deu German
  • eng English
  • fra French
  • nld Dutch
Version created by espaan on Jan 04, 2009
Core support
(not supported)
Changelog
News is not longer part of the core
Status
Obsolete
Code conformance
6/10
Supported hooks
Custom and other Hooks
Module Configuration Hooks
Item Modify Hooks (GUI)
Item New Hooks (GUI)
Item Delete Hooks (API)
Item Update Hooks (API)
Item Create Hooks (API)
Item Display Hooks (GUI)
Item Transform Hooks (API)
Provided hooks
This module does not provide any hooks.
Language system
Classic style
Categories
Uses core categories

Comments

Write us your opinion about News. Bug reports and feature request should be submitted at the project's tracker though.

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Comment by:
ToonDawg's Avatar
ToonDawg
23 Feb 2009 - 07:04AM
[Version: 2.3]
So to clarify...
...are there any changes from 2.2 to 2.3 other than being moved from core to parked?
Comment by:
espaan's Avatar
espaan
23 Feb 2009 - 08:15AM
[Version: 2.3]
yup, no new functionality yet.
Comment by:
espaan's Avatar
espaan
01 Mar 2009 - 07:13AM
[Version: 2.3]
Towards 2.4
The News module is moved to [http://code.zikula.org/news] from the Parked location and Mateo and I are working towards 2.4, where several bugs will be solved and some new functionality will be added.
Comment by:
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viking
10 Apr 2009 - 11:04AM
[Version: 2.3]
So...

Any news for latest realese ? ETA.. :)

For now.. is storiesec included here... or need to dowml separately ?
Comment by:
espaan's Avatar
espaan
10 Apr 2009 - 11:34PM
[Version: 2.3]
2.4 release is in preparation
Hi,
I'm actually busy with the release as we speak (uhm type icon_wink ), so tagging, making the text for the extdb etc.
Storiesext and the Newsarticles Content plugin will be part of the 2.4 release, so no worries there. Sometimes takes some time, since Mateo and I are in seperate parts of the world icon_wink
Release should be this weekend.
Comment by:
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craigh
12 Apr 2009 - 11:40AM
[Version: 2.4]
use in PN764->zk111 upgrade?
Would you recommend using this (instead of the provided) module during the PN764->zk111 upgrade? I mean in the INITAL upgrade, instead of waiting and upgrading after the inital...
Comment by:
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espaan
13 Apr 2009 - 04:48AM
[Version: 2.4]
Hi Craig, you can use the 2.4 version indeed
When you are using autonews and queue in pn764 then you certainly want to use the 2.4 version, since the import of those tables is fixed. Otherwise you could also upgrade afterwards, that shouldn't be a problem as well.
I have just been upgrading my pn764 site using the 2.4 version instead of the 2.2 icon_wink and that works fine.
Comment by:
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AragornSG
28 Dec 2009 - 09:59AM
[Version: 2.4.1]
Core 1.2
Erik, am I understanding correctly that Core 1.2 *is* supported with News 2.4.1 ?
Comment by:
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espaan
29 Dec 2009 - 03:09AM
[Version: 2.4.1]
Zk 1.2
Yes sure, you can use News fine with 1.2. Only thing is that News 2.4.1 is not gettext yet, but that still works fine in 1.2. News 2.5 will be fully gettext, so future proof icon_smile
Comment by:
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nunizgb
20 Jan 2010 - 03:36AM
[Version: 2.5]
Well done!
Thanks for yours hard works to bring out this version 2.5 icon_smile

BTW which is the best module for newsletter that go with this new version of news?

nunizgb
Comment by:
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espaan
20 Jan 2010 - 04:05AM
[Version: 2.5]
Newsletter
Hi, to be honest I don't really know. There is newsletter and mailz, but I don't know the differences.
Comment by:
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craigh
20 Jan 2010 - 09:19AM
[Version: 2.5]
work on 1.1.2?
does this work on zikula 1.1.2? (says not, but thought I would ask icon_smile )
Comment by:
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espaan
20 Jan 2010 - 09:22AM
[Version: 2.5]
Zikula 112
Nope. Only gettext based, so sorry Zikula >= 1.2 only. It was too much effort to maintain two version (gettext and langdefines).
Comment by:
Roadrunner's Avatar
Roadrunner
21 Jan 2010 - 12:07PM
[Version: 2.5]
Big thanks!!
Shouts out to you guys for this great release of version 2.5!!

Keep the good stuff coming...
Comment by:
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kyran
23 Jul 2010 - 06:10PM
[Version: 2.5.2]
Is there a simple way to remove 'News' from above the news articles?
Comment by:
HalbrookTech's Avatar
HalbrookTech
23 Jul 2010 - 07:28PM
[Version: 2.5.2]
Please use the Forums!
The comments are not for support, please ask for help in the forums.
Comment by:
damon's Avatar
damon
16 Aug 2010 - 10:51AM
[Version: 2.6.1]
2.6.1 Thanks
Thanks for switching to jpg's, wondered why the png's were used.
Comment by:
espaan's Avatar
espaan
17 Aug 2010 - 01:55AM
[Version: 2.6.1]
jpg's etc
I wonder myself as well icon_smile msshams had them in there, and I used his code to start and did not change the extensions. Saves a loooot of disk space.

A 2.6.2 will be released as well not to far away, since there are still some final bugs (error handling etc) with the uploading, enhancing the directory creation process, more security with a htaccess file and some other things.
Comment by:
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Herr.Vorragend
22 Aug 2010 - 06:56AM
[Version: 2.6.2]
Thank you...
... for this great module and all new features.

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Comment by:
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marc@marcpare.com
03 Jul 2009 - 03:51AM
[Version: 2.4.1]
Thanks for the update
I'll give it a good workout on one of my sites http://www.EarlyMusicNews.org

Looks good so far.

Marc

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