About the News List 1.0 Block, News not in list but scrolling (MARQUEE) Options

[Vagelis]

Hi,

I downloaded the News List 1.0 Block and i want to ask you if it is possimble to show the news in one line scrolling with MARQUEE.
I tryed to edit the block but the news are scrolling all together and not in one line, one by one.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Vagelis.

[visiblesoul]

Hello Vagelis-

I do not have MKPortal installed anywhere so I can't test this. But this example should work (in some browsers) using the "marquee" tag. Just change the attribute values in the marquee tag to whatever you need.

CODE

<?
/*
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|   News List 1.0 Block for MKPortal 1.0 09.09.2005
|   by visiblesoul <Don K. Colburn>
|   Copyright (c) 2005 visiblesoul.net
|   http://www.visiblesoul.net
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|   This is a very simple block.
|   It displays only the news title and category with minimal formatting.
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/

$cutoff = 50; //how many characters to display in title
$limit = 5; //how many news items to display
if (!$limit) {
    $limit = 5;
}

    $content = "                    
                  <tr>
                    <td><marquee behavior= \"scroll\" align= \"center\" direction= \"up\" height=\"150\" scrollamount= \"1\" scrolldelay= \"5\" onmouseover='this.stop()' onmouseout='this.start()'>
                      <table>                    
        ";
$link_user = $mklib_board->forum_link("profile");

    $query = $DB->query( "SELECT id, titolo FROM mkp_news_sections ORDER BY `id` DESC");
        while( $row = $DB->fetch_row($query) ) {            
            $idcat = $row['id'];
            $categoria[$idcat]['titolo'] = $row['titolo'];
        }

    $query1 = $DB->query( "SELECT id, idcategoria, titolo FROM mkp_news WHERE validate = '1' ORDER BY `id` DESC LIMIT $limit");                  
        while( $row = $DB->fetch_row($query1) ) {        
            $idcategoria = $row['idcategoria'];
            $titolo = stripslashes($row['titolo']);
            $sezione = $categoria[$idcategoria]['titolo'];
            if (strlen($titolo) > $cutoff) {
                $titolo = substr( $titolo,0,($cutoff - 3) ) . "...";
                $titolo = preg_replace( '/&(#(\d+;?)?)?(\.\.\.)?$/', '...',$titolo);
        }

    $content .= "                    
                  <tr>
                    <td width=\"20%\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" style=\"padding-right: 3px;\">[$sezione]</td>
                    <td width=\"80%\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"index.php?ind=news&amp;op=news_show_single&amp;ide={$row['id']}\">$titolo</a></td>
                  </tr>                          
        ";
    }

    $content .= "                    
                      </table>      
                    </marquee></td>
                  </tr>                          
                  ";

        unset($row);
        unset($idcat);
        unset($categoria);        
        unset($query);
        unset($query1);
        unset($idcategoria);
        unset($titolo);
        unset($sezione);

?>

It's better to create scrolling using javascript but I don;t have any good code for that off the top of my head.

[Vagelis]

Hi and thanks for your answer.

That i need is something like ticker to show the latest news in one line one by one.
I want to replace the shoutbox with thi ticker script.
If you can do it for me, i will pay as much you want.
Just a script to replace the shoutbox with this.
Inform me if you can do it and how much you want me to pay.
Have a look on this http://www.madata.gr/ site ont the top the ticker.

Best Regards,
Vagelis.