Need help finding a news script

[mpoyner]

Hi. I hope I'm not posting this question in a wrong area. I wasn't sure where else to ask the question in these forums.

I've recently purchased the calendar system and LOVE it. I have it fully integrated into the site and couldn't be happier. I thought maybe the developers or customers of a great script like this might know of one that will fit some other needs I have.

Currently, I'm on the lookout for something that similarly can be fully customized to whatever look I need for my site. It needs to be able to display news items on our front page (by placing a few lines of code into the existing page to call in the news items), and possibly to archive them.

I have looked at things like PHP-Nuke and other blogging-type tools but they seem like overkill for what I want. I need a secretary at our church to be able to post a headline, some text, links, and a photo for each "feature news story" type post through an online admin form. I'd like an archive page that contained all of the previous stories, but I don't want this to necessarily look like a blog. I want the stories (up to 4-5 of them at a time, but less sometimes) to appear on the homepage until we want them archived, then they would appear only in the archive. There would be a single link to "archived news" at the bottom of the homepage.

Does anyone know of a PHP script out there that can do just this? Or can I use something like PHP-Nuke or Wordpress to do this? I want to just be able to add some lines of code to my existing homepage to call in the news items.

Thanks for any help and sorry for the novel-length post.

[ve9gra]

This is not the best place to post as it is not related to PHP-Nuke, but whatever.

A long time ago, before I got into CMSes, I was looking to do exactly the same thing as you. At the time, we were already using phpBB for our forum software. There was an API (function that connects to the backend) that allowed me to pull a number of posts out of one specific forum. That forum was locked out and only administrators were allowed to post in it. So the news were posted on the forum and automatically "posted" to the front page as well.

You can still view it in action here (http://old.chaotic-concepts.org/) although that website has been abandoned and the club disbanded. Look at the front page, and then go to the Forum link, in the Announcements forum... you'll see the same posts.

Now, I'm assuming that you're not using phpBB, so this might not be all that helpful, but then again... PhpBB is really easy to get used to, easy enough to setup, and definitly not as complex as a full CMS.

Hope this helps.

[mpoyner]

Hope this helps.

Hey thanks ve9gra. I'll take a look.