News Block - Revision history

Dirk: Added category

2009-05-12T18:13:10Z

Added category

Dirk: fixed headline and formatting

2009-05-07T13:22:45Z

fixed headline and formatting

Dirk: merged all the separate pages into one page

2009-05-07T13:16:55Z

merged all the separate pages into one page

Tomw at 19:18, 2 July 2004

2004-07-02T19:18:11Z

Tomw at 19:17, 2 July 2004

2004-07-02T19:17:47Z

Tomw at 19:10, 2 July 2004

2004-07-02T19:10:56Z

Robert at 12:03, 2 July 2004

2004-07-02T12:03:16Z

New page

;[[Introduction]]
;[[Features]]
;[[List of files with descriptions]]
;[[Instructions - New install]]
;[[Notes]]
;[[Changes]]

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-= Features
+= Features =
 Headline News block features are as follows:
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 * The block also has a built in timer.  To enable the timer, uncomment the following lines in lib-custom.php:
-;//$_NEWS_TIMER = new timerobject();
+<pre>
-;//$_NEWS_TIMER->startTimer();
+//$_NEWS_TIMER = new timerobject();
 ;AND uncomment the lines in display_news.php
-;<nowiki>//$boxtitle.= "<small><br>Created this block in <b>";</nowiki>
+<pre>
-;<nowiki>//$boxtitle.= $_NEWS_TIMER->stopTimer();</nowiki>
+//$boxtitle.= "<small><br>Created this block in <b>";
-;<nowiki>//$boxtitle.= "</b> seconds.</small>";</nowiki>
+//$boxtitle.= $_NEWS_TIMER->stopTimer();
 * You can adjust the cache values by editing the display_news.php file.  By default, cache is stored for 30 minutes. To change the value, edit the following lines of code and replace 30 with your preference:
-;if ($age_minutes > 30) // if cache is more than 30 minutes old
+<pre>if ($age_minutes > 30) // if cache is more than 30 minutes old</pre>
-;if ($user_age > 30) // if cache is more than 30 minutes old
+<pre>if ($user_age > 30) // if cache is more than 30 minutes old</pre>
 ;You will need to do this in two places in the display_news.php page, once for logged in users and once for anonymous users.
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 * You can turn on a message that displays the last update time of the cache.  By default this message is turned off.  To enable the message uncomment the following lines of code in display_news.php (lines below shown without comments):
-;// ADD cache age message is more than 1 minute old -- off by default
+<pre>
-; if ($user_age > 2)
+// ADD cache age message is more than 1 minute old -- off by default
-;   {
+if ($user_age > 2) {
-;	$boxtitle.= "<font size=\"-2\"><br>Last updated $user_age minutes ago</font>.";
+    $boxtitle.= "<font size=\"-2\"><br>Last updated $user_age minutes ago</font>.";
-;   }
-;// ADD cache age message is more than 1 minute old -- off by default
+// ADD cache age message is more than 1 minute old -- off by default
-;if ($age_minutes > 2)
+if ($age_minutes > 2) {
-;  {
+    $boxtitle.= "<font size=\"-2\"><br>Last updated $age_minutes minutes ago</font>.";
-;	$boxtitle.= "<font size=\"-2\"><br>Last updated $age_minutes minutes ago</font>.";
-;  }
+</pre>

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-;[[IntroNewsBlock|Introduction]]
+= Introduction =
-;[[Features News Block|Features]]
-;[[List of files with descriptions]]
+The '''Headline News''' block is a Geeklog phpblock for displaying links to featured news stories made available from ANY RDF/RSS compatible content feed.  Included in the source code is a list of many popular RDF/RSS feeds.  These feeds are available for public use on Moreover:
-;[[Instructions - New install]]
+http://w.moreover.com/categories/category_list_xml.html.
-;[[Notes News Block|Notes]]
-;[[Changes News Block|Changes]]

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 ;[[Instructions - New install]]
 ;[[Notes News Block|Notes]]
-;[[Changes News Block|Notes]]
+;[[Changes News Block|Changes]]