fusion news 3.5

Whats new in 3.5? | Installing | upgrading | getting the news on your page | Fusion code | online help
Safe mode installation

if you get open_basedir errors after installation, edit the following line 6 in your config.php file.

from $fpath = "c:/apache/htdocs/www.fusionphp.com/news/";

to $fpath = "";

and make sure installer.php and installpack.fus are not in the same folder anymore.

If safe_mode is turned OFF on ur server, you should get none of these problems.

new in 3.5

- cleaned up code
- new smilies
- loads of Bug fixes
- Comments system with BBcode, Html, and smilies support.
- Javascript shortcuts
- Full news opens in pop-up window (optional)
- No need for SQL databases, everything is done through text files.
- easy set up
- Brand new kind of Installer, it installs and chmods all of the files.
- Optional full story link
- Optional send to a friend link
- Optional icon
- Smilies, html, bbcode can be used in posts
- online admin/control panel
- Secure anti-hack online control panel
- Sessions are used now, instead of Cookies.
- open source
- Archive old news
- full news is optional
- Edit the way your posts look.
- add/make your own skins for the control panel
- add/make your own language database
- no news building after posting
- multiple users
- 3 user levels
- edit posted news
- delete posted news
- edit/delete users
- An improved Admin control panel.
- A wordfilter to filter bad words
- Anti flooder
- Wordwrap
- You can now search old news(posts).
- Time-off set feature
- Edit posted comments
- Delete posted comments
- Ban Ip's from posting Comments on your site.
- Password protected Username in comments.



Installing

if you are installing fusion news for the first time, follow the steps below.

Step 1) Create a new folder/directory on your website (e.g. call it fusion or news).

step 2) Upload the content of the subfolder "install" to your new folder.

Step 3) Go to www.yoursite.com/new_folder/installer.php and follow the instructions.

step 4) after setup delete installer.php for security purposes.


[Windows/advanced setup]


The powerul admin feature is for changing paths that are incorrect when installed on Windows and editing the configuration of Fusion news. There are other admin settings there too.


upgrading

If you are upgrading from a previous version of fusion news (3.4), follow the steps below.

step 1) upload "upgrade34_2_35.php" located in the upload subfolder.

step 2) copy the news.db from your Fusion news 3.4 folder to your newly installed 3.5

step 3) run the upgrade script, a new file will be created: "updated_news.db".

step 4) rename "news.db" to "news.db.backup" and rename "updated_news.db" to "news.db".

step5) build news.

getting the news on your page

To make the news show on your page, you need to use either .php, .shtml, or .html extensions.

if you use .php extensions, use:

1) to show the news
<?php include "news/news.txt";?>

2) to show headlines
<?php include "news/headlines.txt";?>

3) to show the archive
<?php include "news/archive.txt";?>

if you use .html, or .shtml extentions, use these

1) <!--#include virtual="news/news.txt" -->
2) <!--#include virtual="news/headlines.txt" -->
3) <!--#include virtual="news/archive.txt" -->

Fusion code (copple examples)

[b]Text here[/b] (Bold Text):
Text here

[i]Text here[/i] (Italicized Text):
Text here

[u]Text here[/u] (Underlined Text):
Text here

[url]http://www.sugarfreenet.com[/url] (Link):
http://www.sugarfreenet.com

[url=http://www.sugarfreenet.com]sfn[/url] (Link):
sfn

[email]mailto:email@email.com[/email] (E-Mail Link):
email@email.com

[email=mailto:email@email.com]E-mail Me![/email] (E-Mail Link):
E-mail Me!

[quote]Text here[/quote] (Quoted Text):
quote:
Text Here

[img]http://www.fusionphp.com/icon.gif[/img] (Image):


[img=60x60]http://www.fusionphp.com/icon.gif[/img] (Resized Image):


[color=red]This color is red[/color] (Colored Text):
This color is red

[size=3]This font size is 2[/size] (Sized Text):
This font size is 2

[font=Tahoma]This font is Tahoma[/font] (Different Font to Default):
This font is Tahoma

[align=Center]This is centered[/align] (Aligned Text):
This is centered