Sent when an article is added.
Sent when an article is edited.
Sent when an article is deleted.
Sent when a category is added.
Sent when a category is edited.
Sent when a category is deleted.
This version of News is greater than the one supplied with the 1.1 branch of CMS Made Simple. If you use this version of News you must use extreme caution when upgrading CMS Made Simple to ensure that nothing in the modules/News directory is overwritten.
News is a module for displaying news events on your page, similar to a blog style, except with more features!. When the module is installed, a News admin page is added to administration menu that will allow you to select or add a news category. Once a news category is created or selected, a list of news items for that category will be displayed. From here, you can add, edit or delete news items for that category.
The user must belong to a group with the 'Modify News' permission in order to add or edit News entries.
As well, In order to delete news entries, the user must belong to a group with the 'Delete News Articles' permission.
In order to edit the layout templates, the user must belong to a group with the 'Modify Templates' permission.
In order to edit the global news preferences, the user must belong to a group with the 'Modify Site Preferences' permission.
Additionally, to approve news for frontend display the user must belong to a group with the 'Approve News' permission.
The easiest way to use it is with the {news} wrapper tag (wraps the module in a tag, to simplify the syntax). This will insert the module into your template or page anywhere you wish, and display news items. The code would look something like: {news number='5'}
{news number='5'}
Since version 2.3 News supports multiple database templates, and no longer supports additional file templates. Users who used the old file template system should follow these steps (for each file template):