Site News Ticker Block

Nuke Soldier Joined: Jun 26, 2003 Posts: 29

Hi, anybody know where to get the site news ticker block from?, Nuke Resources has it in downloads, but the link is broken, it's a small center block, that scrolls all your news you post in your home page, Thanks Exclamation

Nuke Cops Founder Joined: Nov 14, 2002 Posts: 5939

CS is out of town right now, he might know when he gets back. Make sure you PM him to this thread.

General Joined: Mar 22, 2003 Posts: 5233 Location: USA

He got back in last night Wink

Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 8:03 am

If you have clicked on the block's homepage link you'll notice the block's author seems to be reinstalling his server so let's wait awhile to see if he will bring back the site.

Nuke Soldier Joined: Jun 26, 2003 Posts: 29

Thanks, i found it, got it working, but can somebody tell me how to change the color of the text in it, it scrolling white, i would like it to be orange to match my site, here is the whole block code, i dont see anyplace to enter or change the 6 digit #color code at? my website url is: http://www.usnatoteam.vze.com

block code

<?php

/************************************************************************/
#based on block-scrollnews by DarkBoy (http://www.maax-design.de)
# developed by arabnuker@yahoo.com - Feb 2003
# see demo on www.arabnuker.net

if (eregi("block-News_Ticker.php", $PHP_SELF)) {
Header("Location: index.php");
die();
}
####################################
#Configuration
####################################
$behavior ='scroll'; // Marquee Behavior. You have 3 options: scroll , slide or alternate . default is scroll.
$dir ='right'; // options: right or left. default is right.
$align ='center'; //
$width ='100%'; // change width
$amount ='106'; // scrollamount.
$delay ='850'; // Scrolldelay.
$topic = '2'; //choose topics to read news from.
#
### End Of Configuration###########

global $locale, $storynum, $storyhome, $cookie, $categories, $cat, $prefix, $multilingual, $currentlang, $dbi, $new_topic, $sitename;

if ($multilingual == 1) {
if ($categories == 1) {
$querylang = "where catid='$cat' AND (alanguage='$currentlang' OR alanguage='')";
} else {
$querylang = "where (alanguage='$currentlang' OR alanguage='')";
if ($new_topic != 0) {
$querylang .= " AND topic='$new_topic'";
}
}
} else {
if ($categories == 1) {
$querylang = "where catid='$cat'";
} else {
$querylang = "";
if ($new_topic != 0) {
$querylang = "WHERE topic='$new_topic'";
}
}
}
$storynum = 109;// you can change the number of news to be displayed.
$boxstuff = " <A name= \"scrollingCode\"></A>
<MARQUEE align=\"middle\" behavior= $behavior align= $align direction= $dir width=$width scrollamount= $amount scrolldelay= $delay onmouseover='this.stop()' onmouseout='this.start()'>";
$result = sql_query("select sid, title, time, comments, topic from ".$prefix."_stories where topic = $topic order by time desc limit $storynum ", $dbi);
$vari = 0;

$r_options = "";
if (isset($cookie[4])) { $r_options .= "&mode=$cookie[4]"; }
if (isset($cookie[5])) { $r_options .= "&order=$cookie[5]"; }
if (isset($cookie[6])) { $r_options .= "&thold=$cookie[6]"; }

while(list($sid, $title, $time, $comments) = sql_fetch_row($result, $dbi)) {
$see = 1;

ereg ("([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{1,2})-([0-9]{1,2}) ([0-9]{1,2}) Sad

[0-9]{1,2}) Sad

[0-9]{1,2})", $time, $datetime2);
$datetime2 = strftime(""._DATESTRING2."", mktime($datetime2[4],$datetime2[5],$datetime2[6],$datetime2[2],$datetime2[3],$datetime2[1]));
$datetime2 = ucfirst($datetime2);
if($time2==$datetime2) {
$boxstuff .= "<a href=\"article.html$sid$r_options\">$title</a> &\n";
} else {
if($a=="") {
$boxstuff .= " $datetime2 &<a href=\"article.html$sid$r_options\">$title</a>\n";
$a = 1;
} else {
$boxstuff .= "$datetime2 &<a href=\"article.html$sid$r_options\">$title</a>\n";

}
}
$vari++;

if (isset($cookie[3])) {
$storynum = $cookie[3];
} else {
$storynum = $storyhome;
}
$min = $storynum;
$dummy = 1;
}

if ($see == 1) {
$content = $boxstuff;
}

?>

Nuke Soldier Joined: Jun 26, 2003 Posts: 29

I cant believe i installed php nuke all by myself, and cant fiquire out how to change text to orange from white -lol look at the block code, no color code in it, anybody have any ideas?

General Joined: Mar 22, 2003 Posts: 5233 Location: USA

It is controlled in the themes. But, you can override it with an in-line style, like this. I only did the first one as an example. there are other ways too, but this seemed like enough to get you started.

Code:

$boxstuff .= "<a href=\"article.html$sid$r_options\">$title</a>"> &\n";
} else {
if($a=="") {
$boxstuff .= " $datetime2 &<a href=\"article.html$sid$r_options\">$title</a>\n";
$a = 1;
} else {
$boxstuff .= "$datetime2 &<a href=\"article.html$sid$r_options\">$title</a>\n";

Nuke Soldier Joined: Jun 26, 2003 Posts: 29

Thanks, Raven but where do i put that code at? in the sitew news ticker block itself? or somewhere in my themes file?

General Joined: Mar 22, 2003 Posts: 5233 Location: USA

It's right out of the block code. I just added the

Code:

to the existing code.

Nuke Soldier Joined: Jun 26, 2003 Posts: 29

Cool it worked, Thanks Raven- you "Da Man" Cool

General Joined: Mar 22, 2003 Posts: 5233 Location: USA

You're welcome and the site looks good!