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Originally Posted by kagnew35
Is that news utility freely available, seems like it would be great for a dynasty?
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Short answer is YES.
Long answer is there are many ways to do it. All free... but all carry at least a little work and if you already have a forum... may take some tweaking of files OR module additions to get thing to work. There are a LOT of utilities available that will work with a forum to post certain pieces to the frontpage of a site... in the case of the APBL... I have seen the code... it basically takes all threads started in a certain section of the forum (usually titled "Team News") and posts it as a news piece on the frontpage as well... then people that want to comment on the piece are directed (by like) to the forum thread.
Both PHPBB and vBulletin (among a lot of other forum suites) have add-on/modules that will allow you to add this function to a site, without needing to know a lot of code.
Using Drupal CMS for the new BCBL site... we'll have a forum... but frontpage news pieces will be separate (although one login gets you into both fuctions)... then any GM can post a news story and a news moderator has to approve the piece. Once approved its published to the front page and comments can be left by anyone else with a login to the site. THEN I am hoping to tie into the OOTP8 generated news stories as well.. listing the titles with links to the OOTP generated content. We'll see. It's going to require a snooper software triggered to check for new news content after each sim OR a CVS dump.
Many years back (dating to OOTP 5) both the BCBL and CDBL used a news suite called
Coranto that was perl/cgi based and worked with YaBB (a perl/cgi based forum suite). Basically is did the same thing... taking new forum threads in a certain "Team News" section of the site and posting it to the front page of the site automatically using Coranto. The people of Coranto have since worked there news into an entire SQL based CMS... which is coming around but not complete as Drupal IMHO. I'm becoming a big Drupal fan more and more as I use it.