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New Features

• New improved admin interface
  
  The entire admin area has been re-designed to give it a unique and more functional feel.
  
  
  
• RSS Feeds
  
  Now you have the ability to allow users to subscribe to your news articles with RSS Feeds
  
  
  
• Friendly URLs
  
  Now you can use Friendly URLs and have your news articles use search engine optimized URLs
  
  
  
• Ajax Comments
  
  Now you have the option to allow users to submit a comment and have it automatically added without the page having to refresh. Another option has been added to allow approval of comments before they are shown.
  
  
  
• Quite a few other fixes and changes for a complete list visit this page
  

Upgrading from 3.0

If you already have N-13 News 3.0 installed you can upgrade to 3.1. To do so download the 3.1 version of the script and upload everything except db.php, you can keep your own version of that file (you also don't need to reupload install.php). Once everything has been uploaded run 'update.php' from your browser, this will update the database with all the changes that have been made. If all has gone well you should be prompted with a message telling you the upgrade is complete and to also delete the update.php file.

Hi Chris,

Version 3.1 is excellent, I love the new features, thanks for the update.

I am not sure if I have a problem at my end though as I uploaded as described to replace ver 3.0 and ran the update.php and got a blank screen, no error message or otherwise ? When I checked the news page I had two mysql errors, so I deleted everything including my ver 3.0 database and started from scratch with ver 3.1 and ran install.php, everything now seems to work, other than If I copy (from elsewhere) and paste into the news add box, then preview or post, the news remains blank and only the title is shown ? News that is type and not copy & pasted works as normal !

Any ideas,

Andy B.

Ah the update file was a mistake on my part, I added a check to see if the version the user is currently using is older than the one upgrading to, but I didn't realise the user would have already uploaded all the new files so the updater would think its using the new version already, I'll fix that asap and include it in the download.

As for the copy/paste news thing, I'm not entirely sure how this would happen. If you login to the demo script I have here are you able to replicate the same problem?
username and password are both admin

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the quick response,

When I use your demo version and copy and paste the preview works, so I assume the actual post would work.

When I use an new account created on my news it works, as well !

However, if I use the account that was setup as the news system was installed then copy and paste then the preview or post only shows the title, which I typed, and not the copied and pasted content! Weird.

If I type the news content then it works fine ?

Andy B.

I have absolutely no idea whatsoever as to why its doing that, maybe its something to do with the place you're copying the news from, maybe its including some weird characters which is causing it to do that. With everything you've told me, it makes no sense why it would do that, the default account thats installed with the script is exactly the same as any other account so I'm completely lost I'm afraid.

What I'd suggest you do is create an additional account, login to it and delete the old account to see if it works fine then.

Created a new admin user and copied and pasted and it seems to be working fine,

Thanks Chris,

Keep up the good work

How am I able to use an old template from version 2.0?

The templates haven't really changed that much from v2 to v3.x, what I suggest you do is whilst logged into v3.x, create a new template that way it'll create all the necessary elements. Then start moving the code from your v2 template into v3.x, the only thing you'll need to watch out for is the Comments Form because the elements have changed a bit.

There are no "newsheader", "body" or "newsfooter" box in the 3.1 version, as it is in the 2.0 version. I tried to move the code, but with little luck.

What I'm really int. in is the N-13 template from v2.0, and the frame around each news. In v3.1 there is nothing that seperates the news other then breaks.

With 3.x the option News Struction is basically the News Header and News Footer rolled into one. If you expand that box you'll see {news} and {pagintation}, anything that you previously had in your News Header box you can put above those 2 tags, anything you had in the News Footer, put them below the tags.