Cute News Tutorial

[-JT-]

Well i thought that i had enough of people asking for help with cutenews so i decided to make tutorial for you all to have a look at before you ask for help without even trying.

What you will need:

Hosting (This doesn't work if you don't have hosting which doesn't support php)
Cute News Click here to get it (http://cutephp.com/cutenews/)
An FTP program Click here to get one (http://www.coreftp.com/download.html)


ok, now that we have the things we need, we can upload to our server. Please not that that will NOT work if you are using most free hosts e.g. Free Webs however payed hosting (i recomend http://www.ax-hosting.com) will support php which enables you to do this. OK, here we go

1. Unzip cutenews. If you are using windows XP this will happen automatically, when the folder opens makesure you copy the folder inside the zip file to the desktop or the folder where you store your website.

2. Open the FTP program (Core FTP) and it should look like this:
http://www.lp-revolution.com/images/1.bmp

3. Fill in all the information that came with your welcome e-mail when you bought your hosting.

4. Your FTP interface should now look somthing like this:
http://www.lp-revolution.com/images/2.bmp

5. What you now have to do is drag the cute news folder (you will have to find it first) from the left to the right.

6. When that has finished you may close the FTP program

NOTE: MAKE SURE YOU UPLOAD TO PUBLIC_HTML!!!

7. Go to your hosting account and Log in, then go to the folder called cutenews

8. Now what we must do is CHMOD the files, which basically gives us permission to use cutenews and change it properties. To do this click the file and then choose "change permissions" we will do this to all the files in the"data" folder. See below:
http://www.lp-revolution.com/images/3.bmp

9. ALL the files under the data section MUST be changed so as the numbers say 777

10. Now you must go to http://www.yoursite.com/cutenews/config.php and fill in all the details.

11.

To add news to cutenews just go to:
http://www.yoursite.com/cutenews/index.php

To See the News go to:
http://www.yoursite.com/cutenews/show_news.php

If you would just like to have the news in an iFrame just use this code:



<iframe src="/cutenews/show_news.php"
width="580" height="518" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"
hspace="0" vspace="0" frameborder="0" scrolling=yes name="iframe">


however if you want it put on you page add this code where you would like the news to go and save the whole page as "whatever.php":



<?PHP
include("path/to/show_news.php");
?>



You may now continue to add news and change the look of the news boxes.

Now this is my first tutorial so not too much bad rep please *closes eyes*

[Mentor]

Its pretty good athogh alot of its in the read me, along with more info on how to chaneg the dispaplyed and incided news. Athogh for the considrable amount of people that for some reason never read the readme this shoudl be useful.

Athogh as an altentive way to upload, if you host supports it, you can simply upload teh zip file, and unzip it via your control panle, meaning its both quicker and puts less stran on the host, athogh u would have to delate the zip afterwards. :D

edit smartftps is probly easyer, simple windows like drag and drop upload functinalty :D

[-JT-]

Mentor, if people knew they could do that they wouldn't need this tutorial :p however i realise that alot of this is in the read me but many people refuse to read it for one reason or another. I only made this so that people who come here for cute news help can look at that first :D

[gregzilla]

through the bother of gettin all that and reading about 100 pages i'd rather just ask

[-JT-]

well basically, people will have no excuse to bother people with PM's because this tutorial is here now. So it helps us all, lol.

[Seacat]

Very helpful :)
*Adds rep* nice work :D

[G-flow]

:o cool cutenews guide :)

[-JT-]

thanks, it took me ages, lol. I tried to make it easy by explaining what c'hmod is

[iRoss]

At last! someone did it :D good 1 james :eusa_droo

[-JT-]

lol, thanks, if anyone notices any mistakes, please tell me, i did it at likr 2 in the morning so i would have been tired :P

[splintercell!]

I did it a different way but Thats a great help :P Might stop all the repeated Cutenews help posts there are !

[iRoss]

james, STICKY IT U F001 !

[-JT-]

officially sticked :)

[iRoss]

officially sticked :)

* claps * WOHOO after sticky party :D

[-JT-]

lol, i recon this will be a big help and if anyone has questions just ask :)

[Homosexual]

I don't get it lol :(

Can you do it for me?!?!

[-JT-]

i suppose i could, what bit do you not understand?

[Homosexual]

ANY OF IT ;(

[-JT-]

Its not particulary difficult, just read through it. Remeber you HAVE to have hosting before you can use it.

[Homosexual]

I know xoooooooooo

[Davisman]

Well i got to say James, u explain it the best!!!

Well done!!!!!!:D

[-JT-]

Thanks very much, i knew some one would like it :D

[Jamie]

10. Now you must go to http://www.yoursite.com/cutenews/config.php and fill in all the details.

the new version of cutenews (I think) is index.php, not config.php ;)

[splintercell!]

and then delete the install.mdu :D Otherwise you get hacked!

[-JT-]

sure do but its still config.php

[Anderman]

Ack get the images back!

[-JT-]

dam, i forgot about them, i deleted all those images when i re-vamped V4 :S

[Rix]

yeah but how do u put it on the acctual webpage

[iRoss]

don't they give u a php code when u get it? not that i have ever used php cutenews :-z

[-JT-]

<?PHP
include("path/to/show_news.php");
?>


Put that on your page and save the the page as "news.php" or whatever aslong as it ends with .php and then upload it to your server. It should then work.

[iRoss]

I have CHmoded all the data files but when i go 2 http://www.yoursite.com/cutenews/config.php ( i put my site URL in there obviously ) it doesn't work it just comes up page not displayed!! ahhh!

[Homosexual]

Lol. :P


Page not displayed lol.

[-JT-]

you dont actually go to http://www.yoursite.com/cutenews/config.php your meant to type in your own URL

[Homosexual]

I know ;p

[jamie5k]

Ross i think u go to the install file

[Homosexual]

Lol. You do

[iRoss]

where? :-z

[Anderman]

If youve upladed all the files to your server & chmodded them,
Go to - yoursite.com/cutenews/index.php and follow the installer

[iRoss]

Thanks Dude = Done :D James, u might wanna add that :)

[-JT-]

i did :s in the beginining

[iRoss]

Did you? Oh, okay

[-JT-]

its just a confuzing process

[Owen]

OMG, your a life saver! But do you have to pay for it to work of freewebs?

[-JT-]

i dont think it will work in freewebs full stop but i might beable to host it for you

[ghost.of.todd]

i dont think it will work in freewebs full stop but i might beable to host it for you
;o

[Owen]

;o

...?
I might need it, not sure yet :p

[splintercell!]

It wont work on freewebs because there is no way of getting php hosting..

[Owen]

It wont work on freewebs because there is no way of getting php hosting..

i know, i might buy hosting

[-JT-]

its worth it...http://www.ax-hosting.com :)

[Digital]

lmao u did make that i found a site with it on

http://www.astahost.com/info.php/need-help-with-cutenews_t4706.html

[-JT-]

i feel privelaged, someone opied my tutorial!!!!

[Digital]

i feel privelaged, someone opied my tutorial!!!!
lmao more like u copyed them :D

[-JT-]

i dont think so, i have done some enquiering into this and the webmaster of that site says he got the tutorial from his forum, it was posted by a user who has copied from here.

Also, people from way back will remember that this tutorial had images, which i took screenshots of to help people out, mentor and ross can vouch for that.

[Anderman]

Bump
Because i can ;)

[Rashelly]

Does anyone know how you do it on Brinkster hosting accounts?
I had one before and it worked fine (i didnt have to edit any files) then it stopped working a few months ago.
I cant see anywhere that says "change file permissions"
EDIT:Nevermind, i dont need it now

[Dan Williamson]

Pretty Good Tutorial ( Even Though I Know How To Use It ) It Gave Me A Few Good Pointers

[-JT-]

cheers mate

[iRoss]

i dont think so, i have done some enquiering into this and the webmaster of that site says he got the tutorial from his forum, it was posted by a user who has copied from here.

Also, people from way back will remember that this tutorial had images, which i took screenshots of to help people out, mentor and ross can vouch for that.

* vouches * :)

[-JT-]

cheers mate

[ED::]

i still cant use it tho lol

[Rix]

maybe people would help you if you didn't spam all the forums first

[-JT-]

someone bad repped me for this post and gave no reason

[Dan Williamson]

Ok, i know i said i knew how to use it, it worked fine on my old site but now on my new one, i saved the page i wanted the news to appear on as news.php and i inserted the code:
<?PHP
include("cutenews/index.php/show_news.php");
?>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Is that code right or wrong, if wrong please correct it. and where should i place the code in index.php or index2.php or news.php

Best Regards. Dan

[-JT-]

1. Make sure the whole thing is on-line including news.php
2.make sure the route path is correct

[Dan Williamson]

Cheers, Dude I Figured It Out Myself.

[dangreatrex]

Help I Despertly need a free php hosting site i am thinki9ng of putting a site together and getting co.uk but i wish to try it out first please PM Me A.S.A.P

[Acidude]

Stupid Question: What does FTP stand for?

XD I'm an idiot.

[Mentor]

Stupid Question: What does FTP stand for?

XD I'm an idiot.
file transfer protacol

[-JT-]

is it not file transmit protocal? anyway http is hyper text transfere protocal heche the rout path http:// :p


usless info :p

[Carlos]

All too much techie for me lol. Never used cutenews before, never need it :p :D

[Acidude]

Omgsh when I go on the index.php I get a white page, and I can't seem to add news any more :(
'Tis upsetting.

[DJ-Bahrami]

Thanks Very Much Very HelpFull 2 reps :d

[Bog]

I already knew how to set up news, but this is a great gide for the many people that don't know how too.

[-JT-]

your right

[Catchetat]

hmm sounds useful! I'll try it once i can. is cutenews free?

[Lycan]

Yes - Its a great free script

[-JT-]

however, you have to find hosting that supports PHP

[Implement!]

Do you now how to change the design of it plz ?:eusa_wall

[Jamie.]

Do you now how to change the design of it plz ?:eusa_wall
Jamie! <3!

[Implement!]

What :)

[Liam.]

Do you now how to change the design of it plz ?:eusa_wall

It's under options section then edit templates, need to know HTML, i don't use cutenews.

[Art]

10. Now you must go to http://www.yoursite.com/cutenews/config.php and fill in all the details.

When i try edit it, it comes up blank, with nothing to fill in? :(