Approved on main page

[Saszoo]

sorry for the bad title of this topic...

What I thought would be cool was to have a main page where all the admin posted news items would go, ALONG with all the news items of other users which the admin (me ) had approved.
The clue is I still want the news items posted by other users to show up in domain.com/username wether or not they had been approved.
Any ideas?

[FI-DD]

What I thought would be cool was to have a main page where all the admin posted news items would go, ALONG with all the news items of other users which the admin (me ) had approved.

I don't understand.

The script shows all approved news items (posted by you or your users) by default. What's the difference to your suggestion?

[scottdallas]

What about the protected post thing?

[Saszoo]

Ok, maybe I'm wrong, which is likely since it's too long since I was working with this script.
What I was "afraid of", and the reason for my post, is that I thought that if I installed the approved plugin, the news users posted would not be viewable if I didn't approve them.
That's not what I want. I do want their news to be displayed wether I approve them or not, but if I don't approve them, they will only show in something like domain.tld/username.
If I do approve them, they will in addition show on the main page alongside "my" news.

Sorry for not making myself clear, not my native language and so on...

[FI-DD]

Ok, you want to show only approved news on your main page. That's the default setting - nothing to change in this area.

And you want to show approved and unapproved news on the user's page. We have to make some changes to achieve this.

1. Open show_users.php and add this to the include code:

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$show_unapproved = true;

2. Open inc/show.news.php and change this:

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   if (!$is_logged_in or $is_logged_in and $member['level'] == 4){
      $where[] = 'hidden = 0';
      $where[] = 'and';
   }

to this:

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   if(!$show_unapproved){
      if (!$is_logged_in or $is_logged_in and $member['level'] == 4){
         $where[] = 'hidden = 0';
         $where[] = 'and';
      }
   }

[Saszoo]

Very nice, thank you

[samiro]

I have a big problem!!!
All the news - even the unapproved ... are shown in my homepage.... (for me [admin] and for gusts...)

What can I do - or check?

[FI-DD]

Go to the "news"-table in the database and check the "hidden"-field of an unapproved article. What does it say?

[samiro]

this what i see...

[Ned Flanders]

Go to the "news"-table in the database and check the "hidden"-field of an unapproved article. What does it say?

Hi, I'm having the vrey same problem: unapproved articles are just being published. My hidden field is showing "1" for unapproved articles (and 0 for approved ones). Hmmm annoying.

System settings seem okay:
Approve news
Writer's stories must be approved first Yes

And cache have also been cleared...

[Ned Flanders]

Go to the "news"-table in the database and check the "hidden"-field of an unapproved article. What does it say?

Hi, I'm having the vrey same problem: unapproved articles are just being published. My hidden field is showing "1" for unapproved articles (and 0 for approved ones). Hmmm annoying.

System settings seem okay:
Approve news
Writer's stories must be approved first Yes

And cache have also been cleared...

Just logout, that's it

[scottdallas]

lol that IS most likely it.. an age old question solved by a simple log out (too bad i can never log out anymore without clearing my history and cache.. can someone help me figure that out? im sure im just forgetting something someone posted to fix this over the years)

[samiro]

All the news - even the unapproved ... are shown in my homepage.... (for me [admin] and for gusts...)
even if i log out...