help

[daniel]

so once again im having another stab at installed this news script as I couldn't quite get the hang of it last time <_<

Its all installed and so first tried getting the generated script, wacking it on a new page and loading up that page (comes up with "Parse error: parse error in d:\program files\easyphp\www\news.php on line 27") and I have tried putting the code on the news.php which is in the forum-new folder and it comes up with "Parse error: parse error in d:\program files\easyphp\www\forum-news\news2.php on line 524"

Any ideas on what i'm doing wrong? And also with the absolute script, i'm running my site from my pc so when I click on the auto-detect it comes up with "d:/program files/easyphp/www/forum-news/" so would I use that or would I use just "forum-news/"

thanks for any help, hope I can get it running,

daniel

edit: what exactly is a parse error?

edit 2: YAY I got it working will this script automatically add the news on? Whats the rss feed? How do I put one on my site? And in the generate script menu, what does the "Select Post Number" do? Sorry if these are n00bish questions

[Patrick]

1. The script will automatically pull the news directly from all the forum categories that you specified.
2. Technically the script doesn't have an official rss feed, but it's template system does allow for one. Since the script supports multiple templates, you use one template to present your news in rss format. An example was included with the script, found in rss_example.php. You may need to open this file up and modify the absolute path to news.php:

modify:
include_once("news.php");

to reflect your absolute path, for example:
include_once("/my/abs/path/news.php");

3. Simply link to the rss_example.php from your site (you might want to rename it).

4. If you specify a post number on the generate code page (you do not have to), it will override the default post number setting that specifies how many posts are displayed.