CuteNews README
 

 Information About The Script

 

CuteNews v1.2 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 open-source and you can use the code for anything you want but if make some major changes please
 contact us

 

 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.1.2.zip to the directory you created in step 1
 3) CHMOD folder_from_step1 and all files/subfolders in it to 777 
 4) Go to http://yoursite.com/folder_from_step1/index.php with you favorite browser
 5) After installation of CuteNews it is recommended that you delete the ./inc/install.mod from your server  

 

 Getting The News On Your Page...

 

You can show the news, headlines, 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


General

when showing news/headlines/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. 

when you want to display news and headlines on one page and want when a headline is clicked, the article to be displayed on the place of the news you must use $static_headlines = TRUE; before including headlines.
 

Showing Active News

 

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

 
 

Showing Headlines

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

Showing Archives

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

Showing 5 Latest News

  <?PHP
 $number = 5;
 include("./path/to/show_news.php");
?>
 
 

Showing 8 Latest Headlines 

  <?PHP
 $number = 8;
 include("./path/to/show_headlines.php");
?>
 
 

Showing All Headlines And The Latest News Article  On One Page

 

<?PHP
 $static_headlines = TRUE;
 include("./path/to/show_headlines.php");

 $number = 1;
 include("./path/to/show_news.php");
?>

 
 

Remember that:

  • in all of the above examples you must replace ./path/to/... to with your path where you installed CuteNews.
  • in most cases when you include news and headlines in one page, you must use $static_headlines = TRUE; .
  • 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 or email us