Jan 14, 2010

Posted by Rain in Troubleshooting, Web Software | 3 Comments

Cute News on my server

Cute News on my server

I have someone from my hostee asking me about Cute News on my server isn’t working. I have come to go through her site cpanel and and see for myself where she made a mistake or maybe she forgot or doesn’t know the correct path to include cutenews. I went to her index.php ofcourse which is the base of her design and where the inclusion happens. Found this:

Where?
$number=3;
$template = "default";
include("/public_html/cutenews/show_news.php");
?>

Replace:
$number=3;
$template = "default";
include("/home/user*/public_html/cutenews/show_news.php");
?>

user* stands for your cpanel username. Some peeps really forgot about some small code to be replaced. Modifying will solve the problem. ^.^

I used CuteNews before, that’s why I’m pretty sure I knew how the coding and integration is done in one see. The software was awesome for beginner’s in php since it teaches the basic includes that everyone needs to know. But the fact that CuteNews was abandoned a long time ago, features aren’t as updated as other version.

The most updated CuteNews version that I’ve seen from the past is CuteNews.ru. Before I left the CuteNews system for Wordpress, Cutenews.ru released its Strawberry version which has more features and has the ability to store data on MySQL. It also has version 2.5.4 which is actually the upgrade of the said software.

However, before, the difficulty on translating Strawberry has been a problem since the language is not at all English. I’m still not sure if they already catch up with the translation thingy but it is still good to upgrade to a newer version of it as it has better functions in general. Well, depends on how you wanted to learn more about on the coding side and if you wanted to have some sort of new features ;p

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  1. I’ve abandoned Cutenews when it started screwing up with my blog. ^_^~ Cutenews.ru is better (didn’t try Strawberry at all ’cause of the language barrier) but as you said, it’s been left out with no upgrades so it can’t keep up.

    *siiiigh* and I’m too lazy to deal with Wordpress. lmao – So I made my own blogging system for my blog. Haha~ ^_________^

  2. I use UTF-8 Cutenews (http://korn19.ch/coding/utf8-cutenews/).

    English mother-language developers fixed some of the major security bugs of old Cutenews script (not spam problems, though, sadly).
    I’ve had no problem whatsoever until now, and I think it’s way easier for newbie like me than FanUpdate and Wordpress.

  3. whoaaa… lol when you said redo this domain, you weren’t kidding. lol it’s really redone. i love it :D so professional