Fusion News v3.9.6-p1

The script can easily be integrated into any other CMS as a news publishing platform.

Installation:

Upload all of the files located in the 'upload' directory to a directory on your website.
The installation script has been create to make it as easy to use as possible, and with the least amount of user input necessary. To begin the installation process, go to the install.php file through your web browser. If your domain name is http://www.mydomain.com, and you uploaded Fusion News to a directory called 'news', you would type in the address http://www.mydomain.com/news/install.php. From there, you can follow the instructions.
Once you have installed Fusion News, please make sure you delete the install.php file to prevent any one from attempting to reinstall Fusion News.

Here are some key features of "Fusion News":

Posting:
· News preview
· Short (introduction) and full (continued) news
· Categories
· Multiple category placement per news item
· Edit news posts
· BBCode
· HTML in posts
· Smileys
· Image uploading
· Word filter

Users and Permissions:
· 3 different levels of user access/posting rights
· Unlimited number of users

Administration and Moderation:
· Restrict use of BBCode/Smileys/HTML in posts (individually)
· Template editing
· Ban by single IP or IP range
· Customize smileys available (add/change/remove)
· Manage uploaded images for posting
· Customize look and feel of everything
· Validate comments in any news item
· User management

Community and Interaction:
· News commenting system
· CAPTCHA (visual confirmation)
· Comment pagination
· Word filter
· Smileys
· BBCode
· HTML in comments
· Comment-length restriction
· News editors' username protection
· Optional moderation queue
· Tell a friend system

News Publishing:
· Can be displayed anywhere
· News pagination
· Group news by day posted
· Display news by category or categories
· Display only headlines
· News archive grouped by month of posting
· Simple search facility for specific news items
· RSS feeds
· Per-category RSS feeds

Other:
· Customizable skin for control panel
· XHTML compliant

Requirements:

· PHP 4.3 or better
· GD Library 2.0 or better to generate visual confirmation for comments to prevent web bots from posting spam.
· File uploads enabled. Allows images to be uploaded when adding a new post, so they can be shown in the post.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Fixed bug where the WYSIWYG editor didn't show.
· Fixed bug where smileys inserted by the WYSIWYG editor produced a broken image when displayed on website.