1.- Product Highlights

• Can be used as News Publishing, Article managment, Book Library
• Unlimited categories
• You can restrict posts in a category only to a usergroup
• Unlimited subcategories
• Powerful commercial HTML Editor in article body
• Commenting system
• You can add custom links to other parts of your site
• Pagination for long articles
• Chapters (with pagination) for very long posts (Books or Manuals)
• You can use your own header
• You can use your own footer
• You can use vbNews as your site's main page
• You can turn On/Off navbar display
• You can use special login box on left column (useful if you've turn navbar off)
• Lot's of configurations per usergroup, so you can easily turn it in a paid subscription module.
• Related News
• Related Forum posts
• Breaking News
• Newest News
• Print Article
• Email Article
• Report Article to Admin
• and many others.... check 'em out
• No Time Limit - Totally Free

2.- Additions in the Commercial version ($42.50)

• RSS support
• Search in news (Categories/Subcategories/Keywords)
• Banner support. You can setup different banner per category/subcategory. Imagine if you've 50 categories/subcategories, you can use 50 different banners. Great income if you marketing them well.
• You can transfer one or all news from an editor to someone else
• Advanced HTML Editor with Media uploads and YouTube code

3.- Installation

Step 1
Open vbnews.php and configure the 4 variables:
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$vbpath = '/home/mademary/public_html/forums/';
(// Path to your vB installation with slash at the end)
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$vbnewspath = '/home/mademary/public_html/';
(Path to vbnews.php file with slash at the end)
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$vbnewsurl = 'http://www.madebymary.com/';
(URL to vbnews.php file with slash at the end)
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$vbnewsname = 'vbnews.php';
// vbNews file name in case that you changed it
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Also but ONLY if you place vbnews.php in the root directory (with any name) open the files:

a.- vbnews/includes/editor_new.inc.php
Find:
Replace wth:
b.- vbnews/includes/editor_edit.inc.php
Replace wth:
*** ATTENTION ***
Please note that if in your navbar you use links (menu options) other than standard VB you must change all relative links to absolutes. eg (/testme.php must be change to http://www.mydomain.com/forums/testme.php)

Step 2:
- Upload the contents of /forums directory where your vBulletin installation exists
- Upload the contents of vbnews directory to that place that you've setup before
- If you've setup different name to vbnews.php don't forget to rename it !!!

Step 3:
CMOD following directories to 777
/photos (inside vbnews directory)
/tmp (inside vbnews directory)
/thumbs (inside vbnews/photos directory)
/assets (inside vbnews/editor directory)
/audio (inside vbnews/editor/assets directory)
/flash (inside vbnews/editor/assets directory)
/photos (inside vbnews/editor/assets directory)
/video (inside vbnews/editor/assets directory)

Step 4:
For security reasons backup your database AND turn your board off

Step 5:
Check at your AdminCP->vBulletin Options->Plugin/Hook System that Plugin system is enabled.

Step 6:
From your AdminCP->Plugin System->Manage Products choose Add/Import Product and import the product: product_news.xml

Step 7:
If you want to add a link to your nav bar then you must edit the NAVBAR template:
Search For:
Add Below:
....or use any other word you want

Step 8:
By default none usergroup has permissions to use vbarticles, so you need to give permissions to any group. Goto AdminCP->Usergroups->Usergroup Manager and edit any usergroup you like to give permissions.
*** IMPORTANT ***
vbNews supports the feature that a specific usergroup can only post in a specific category. That's why setup any usegroup you want for this case.

Step 9:
In your adminCP, under vbNews, choose vbNews options and configure it depending on your needs. If you can't see vbNew's menu, then logout and login again to your admincp or press F5 to refresh the page.

4.- Copyright

This script cannot be redistributed, reproduced, or published in any way. Modifying this script and sharing or publishing your modification A-N-Y-W-H-E-R-E (including here) without the author's written permission is strictly prohibited. The sane applies for writting addons or integrading it with any other software or module (eg vbAdvanced).

Copyright removal, editing or replacement PROHIBITED !! My copyright text and link must remain visible. If your template has colors that makes my copyright invisible you're responsible to change the color of my copyright to be straight visible.