News and PR
The "News" function within accommres is a useful tool so that you can publish news and special offer information online. A function is available within the " webkit" which can be plugged into your website. You can create your own RSS feed using this product. You enter the news item in accommres and it automatically appears online within a few seconds. If you then change the article, that change is immediately applied online.
This option is integrated to the Notes function so you can keep a record of what you have done with the article. Notes may be used with regard to Journalists or third parties you have sent the News item to.
Information stored
Click Ok to save or add a new news article. Every article is added to the drop down at the top of the page "News" for future editing or addition of Notes.
Use the delete button (the one with a trash can) to delete a news item.
B2B/B2C
There are two markets which are identified for your news articles. All articles are stored in the same database, but the online functions split them so that you can provide two different "news feeds".
B2B - Business to Business
Configuration
http:// - the website on which the news articles will appear.
Number of lines - the number of news articles which appear in the "latest news list online"
About - A standard block of text which can be included in news articles to describe your company or organisation.
Online
When you add, amend or delete a news item the "sync" updates your online area within a few seconds.
Above is a snapshot of the www.e21software.com home page. The white box is automatically generated every time you add/update/delete a news article. The first item is the most recent and the last is the oldest or derived by the "Number of lines" number in the configuration option.
When each of the individual items is clicked a page is delivered which contains the full news article. This page is one of your existing site pages onto which your webdesigner "plugs-in" code and the page is presented.
If an image was supplied with the article then that is presented underneath the text.
All other news articles are listed which can be selected. All the code to do this is provided so you can re-format the page to your own requirements.
Your Web designer
This function/product is available as part of our "accommres" product or as a stand alone product "SoftPrNews ". You need to know/do different things depending on which product you have. You can use both products at the same time if you want to, but not on the same website.
SoftPrNews
These files are supplied with the product and must reside in the root folder of your website.
e21xml.php - updates your database from information supplied by the SoftPrNews application.
news.php - populates a page on your website with news results
jquery-min.js - library of functions used by news.php
template.html - this is a "blank page" which contains <div id='main_text'></div>. news.php populates the "main_text " div with results. By default we use template.html, you can modify news.php to define a different page.
For "e21xml.php" the parameters defined at the beginning of the module will need setting:
$mySQL='theDBname'; #--- database name ---#
$Domain='localhost'; #--- host look-up default to localhost ---#
$User=userloginid'; #--- user login to database ---#
$Pwd='userpasswd'; #--- password to login ---#
And for "news.php" again the parameters defined at the beginning of the module need setting too:
$mySQL='theDBname'; #--- database name ---#
$Domain='localhost'; #--- host look-up default to localhost ---#
$User='userloginid'; #--- user login to database ---#
$Pwd='userpasswd'; #--- password to login ---#
$Template='template.html'; #--- html with the main_text div ---#
eng='eng'; #--- used if multi-lingual site ---#
$defaultLanguage='eng'; #--- default language to be used ---#
The template.html (or equivalent) file must contain the following in the <head> section.
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="newsb2c.js"></script>
The style sheet for the template.html must contain a definition for .bTn-W
.bTn-W {font-size:10pt;text-align:center;color:#000;height:27px;cursor:pointer;}
accommres
If you are using accommres then most of the code is included in the online module and requires no configuration. However you may want to configure news.php to modify the appearance of the news page.
news.php - populates a page on your website with news results
template.html - this is a "blank page" which contains <div id='main_text'></div>. news.php populates the "main_text" div with results. By default we use template.html, you can modify news.php to define a different page.
The template.html (or equivalent) file must contain the following in the <head> section.
<script type="text/javascript" language= "JavaScript" src="newsb2c.js"></script>
The style sheet for the template.html must contain a definition for .bTn-W
.bTn-W {font-size:10pt;text-align:center;color:#000;height:27px;cursor:pointer;}
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