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Description:
The definitive version 1.44 of the news module.
This module is compatible with Php 5.
Short feature list:
- The module respects, everywhere, ALL the permissions.
- A new page "News by the same author"
- Two new links are availables for the article's page,
"Previous article" and "Next article"
- You can also add a "Summary table"
- Possibility to rate news
- Authors can edit their posts
- New RSS feeds per topic
> The topics manager has been completly rewrited
> It's now possible to include topics as sub-menus of the main menu
> You can use the Spotlight in two blocs ("Top news" & "Recent Articles")
You can even select between a classical view and a tabbed view
> You can set a description for each topic
> For each topic you can select if you want to see it on the
front page or not.
> The topics titles are longer (255 characters)
> From the admin part of your site, you can remove (prune) news
> You can export news to the xml format
> When editing or creating a new article, Approvers and Administrators
can modify and select the author
> According to a module's option, you can ask the approvers to enter
the meta keywords and description for each article
> The block to navigate thru topics has a new option to show
the number of news per topic.
> You can use a new block, "random news", all is in the title.
> You can use the module to create a newsletter's content.
> You can see (from the admin panel) some statistics
about your topics, news and authors.
> You can assign a color to each topic
> Your visitors can now see your articles in pdf
> You can select the editor to use (dhtml area, spaw, fck editor,
htmlarea, simple text area and kiovi)
> A new module's option enable you to highlight (in the articles)
the words used in the Xoops search.
> You can use tooltips in your links and title. They contain
the first (x) characters of your news.
> For your visitors who are using Mozilla, Firefox and Opera,
you can create the content of the site navigation's bar
Changelog for 1.44
> For security reasons, I have removed the Xoops version
from the printed version of an article
> I have corrected an error in the block called
"Navigate thru topics", the number of news was false,
it was counting expired articles (thank you Solo71)
> I have modified the backend.php script so that it uses
every news (not only those who are described to be only
visible on the homepage)
> The four tables visibles in the module's admin and
containing news will now use a pagenav
> I have removed all the htmlentities for multibytes languages
> The number of sql queries of the "top news" and
"recent news" blocks was reduced
> There was a minor problem in the pdf generated from
a news with its topic's title
> There was a bug when you was editing a news from
the admin site (thanks you jlz78)
> I have reduced the count of sql queries in the
module's index page
> I have corrected a bug in the option
"Enable authors to edit their posts"
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