Guests can add news

[FI-DD]

With this file you can allow your guests to post news without being a user of your page.

Of course, the news only appear on your page after you approved them.



Installation:

Put the file into your main CuteNews.RU directory and change the configuration in the head of the file.

Pay attention to the installation instruction in the head of the file.



Edit:

This hack now supports the captcha hack.

[joshers]

Its working great.

Preview: http://readourpapers.com/submit



thanks FI-DD

[Falconer]

Yup, works good, but... Has a bug when used in conjuntion with the Multiple Authors mod: The authorname is changed into whoever is listed at the top of the pull down menu of authors.

[afxback]

It is very usefull but one bug said in the previous post. The other important thing is it dose not mail the news posts to admin. while it is too necessary to recieve an email from guest posters when the item posted.



Thanks

[FI-DD]

1. Bug:

I changed the multiple authors plugin (download it again) - it should work now.



2. Mail:

You can add a simple mail(); command right above the thank you message in guest.php:

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mail("mail@yourdomain.com", "New guest news", "There's a new guest news", "From:mail@yourdomain.com");

[afxback]

dear FI-DD!

you'r very helpnig people! ok. all fro free!

Thanks. it works well.

can I add also the command to track guest Ip who posts news as is implemented in commenting section?

and how can prevent from flood posting?

could you explain it here if possible?

I realy need this script but now I fear if guest feel free to post too much since I have high trafic.

regards

[FI-DD]

That's already part of the hack. Please, have a look at the head of the file:

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//Config maximum unapproved

$max_unapproved = 50;

///////////////////////////

[afxback]

sorry!

that is fine.

sory for asking again.

why It dose not display the "default value" of xfields?

[scottdallas]

i dont know how i skipped this little gem. this is fantastic for submitting videos to flixrating.com

[scottdallas]

If I set max unapproved to 0 does it translate to unlimited? I got 999 for now just in case. Do you think spammers would spam on this? Does captcha work on this? Not necessary? Mostly I was interested in the 0/unlimited thing though..

[FI-DD]

0 doesn't work as unlimited.



Captcha (with modifications) should work.

[FI-DD]

This hack now supports the captcha hack. If you don't have it yet you can download it in the captcha thread.

[scottdallas]

wow! fantastic work fi-dd. i hope you make lots of money for how smart you are. thanks for lettin me know about the '0'. i put it at 9999999999999999 now i figured that would be plenty of room. im stickin captcha in right now.

[afxback]

an it configure so that in a separate file with another name you can post through it as admin, without approval?

I mean concerning security isuess as well

[scottdallas]

it looks like it's a pretty basic submission form. i dont think it even pays attention to what username you put in there. i usually make an 'admin' account standard on every cutenews.ru installation and i can say im admin with the guest can add news and i have to go check it out as the REAL admin and be like.. ok that's not really from the admin.. then i use my multiple authors hack and put the correct person on it.. or just change the name all together to something else. i dont think there is anyway to use this guest can add news hack to submit news without approval first. if you're going to do that just add news regular style logged in. although i noticed if i really ripped apart pieces of cutenews that i shouldn't have such as the stylesheet or the nav bar at the top of cutenews, i can make it look like the add news page is the guest can add news page.. then i can have a more powerful submit news area that recognizes usernames and whether or not you're logged in.