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
• An FTP program Click here to get one

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:


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:


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:


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.

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

[-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

[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

[G-flow]

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 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