News Ticker
News ticker plugin
This plugin is my very first effort to write a plugin and it is also the only one written so far. The only I have used as a background was djot’s tutorial (simple and excellent tutorial). The plugin itself is written as simple as my knowledge had allowed. The idea was to have a plugin for a simple ticker placable either within the content or a template (find more in help file). Only later I found it’s usability also in form of a simple slideshow, linked slideshow or combined text/image ticker.
— Martin Sereday 2007/06/13 11:28
Download here: NewsTicker_v_1.1
or
Download: NewsTicker_v_1.1
New version 1.2 of the plugin is here. Changes: 1. Extended config variables 2. The message of the ticker/image-slideshow can be made different for various languages 3. Some values from the stylesheet have been moved into the config.php
Download here: NewsTicker_v_1.2
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Discussion
I would appreciate any comments or suggestion concerning the plugin. There are sure (or will rise up) improvements that would help me to learn more about plugin writing.
I was asked to eplaing how to change settings of the message in News Ticker. I have found it easier to include all possible settings into the admin code. Still - the whole code is very simple and sure with a lack of professional aproach. But for aome of users seems to be useful. The upgraded version is available at:
http://marsy.spisskepodhradie.sk/downloads/news_ticker_1_2.zip
Instead of this plugin, you may also use the functon
[”insertMarquee”,”Vlož Text Ticker”,”Vlož Text Ticker”],
Add this function into your langugage file in cmsimple/languages and create a button for it to appear in oEditor. Use this button on desired position. A box appears (in HTML mode visible as a simple <marquee></marquee> tag>). Click twice this box to enter your message. The message can then be styled directly in HTML mode if you know the syntax. You can define:
Align: left, right, top, texttop, middle, absmiddle, baseline, absbottom
Behavior: scroll, slide, alternate
bgcolor
Direction: left, right, up, down
Height: in px
Width: in px
Hspace: in px
Vspace in px
Loop: number of times to repeat the message (0 = infinite, default)
Truespeed: no value needed
ScrollAmount: horizontal space between each successive draw of text; 6px default
ScrollDelay: time between successive draws in miliseconds; 85 is default
Last two are the values you may play with to change the speed