Information About The Script
CuteNews v1.3.6 by CutePHP Team.
Cute news is a powerful and easy for using news management system that use flat files to store its database. It supports
comments and archives that can be organized by months.
This script is licensed under GNU GPL license and you must leave any copyright notices that come with it. You can use, modify and distribute the script but you can charge for it only the distribution taxes. If you have questions please contact us (not for problems and issues)
Installing CuteNews
The installation of CuteNews is really easy and you should do it without any problems if you fallow these steps:
1) Create a directory on your server ( e.g. cutenews )
2) Upload the content of the cutenews.1.3.6.zip to the directory you created in step 1
3) Now You must CHMOD the the directory cutenews/data/ and all files and
folders under the data/ directory must be also chmod'ed to 777.
4) Finally, go to
http://yoursite.com/cutenews/index.php with you favorite browser and fallow the instructions.
Getting The News On Your Page...
You can show the news, archives on your page by using some of the following php codes in your page.
The page where you include news, should be with extension .php
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General
when showing news, archives you can use $number = x; to limit the to x the number of maximum showed news on one page. If you use $number, "next >>" link to remaining news will be displayed.
if you want to show news, archives from certain category you can use $category = "ID"; where ID is the id of the category, you can choose and more that one category like this: $category = "ID1,ID2,ID3";
when you want to display news and headlines on one page for example, and want when a headline is clicked, the article to be displayed on the place of the news you must use $static = TRUE; before including headlines.
Showing Active News
<?PHP
include("path/to/show_news.php");
?>
Showing with Different Template
<?PHP
$template = "YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME";
include("path/to/show_news.php");
?>
Showing Archives
<?PHP
include("path/to/show_archives.php");
?>
Showing 5 Latest News
<?PHP
$number = "5";
include("path/to/show_news.php");
?>
Showing 5 News from Category with ID 2
<?PHP
$number = "5";
$category = "2";
include("path/to/show_news.php");
?>
Showing All Headlines And The 1 Latest News Article On One Page
<?PHP
$static = TRUE;
$template = "Headlines";
include("path/to/show_news.php");
$number = "1";
include("path/to/show_news.php");
?>
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Remember that:
in all of the above examples you must replace path/to/... to with your path where you installed CuteNews
and not to use the URL but the path
WRONG: include("http://site.com/cutenews/show_news.php);
CORRECT: include("cutenews/show_news.php);
in most cases when you include news and headlines in one page, you must use $static = TRUE; .
when you use $number, $category, $template or any other variable, it must be BEFORE include("show_news.php");
if you have any problems, you can always go to our support forums and we'll be more than glad to help you
Help & Support
If you have some problems with CuteNews you can go to our support forum.
But before posting your problem on our forums, please look at the included Help Documentation with CuteNews. You can access it through CuteNews > Help > CuteNews internal Help Documentation