XcNews - A Website News/Events Article Database
by XCENT - www.xcent.com
XcNews displays news/events on a web page. It can be fully
integrated into your website and maintain a 100% seamless
look. It utilizes an HTML document template to do this. You create a HTML document using any HTML editor you like and
insert a special COMMENT tag into the document where you want the article list or items to appear at. You put the XcNews.asp
file, and your custom HTML template, usually called XcNews.htm, in the same directory within your website.
Then, in the rest of your website, you just reference the XcNews.asp document, and the news/event database will automatically
work seamlessly within your website. Note: You create links to XcNews.asp,
not XcNews.htm.
XcNews can list articles in a variety of ways. You maintain and update news articles on your website using just
a browser! No HTML editors or programming is needed for users to maintain
information in XcNews.
Notice: Please read the enclosed license file before installing or running this application (XcClassified Pro). By using any of the enclosed files, you agree to be bound by the terms of the license agreement.
Since XcNews is a free product, technical support is not provided for XcNews. If you have any questions or issues regarding XcNews, you should consult the FAQ at www.xcent.com/products/xcent_faq.htm.
Requirements
XcNews is an Active Server Page script application for your website. It
utilizes a Microsoft Access MDB database file to store article information. An MDB file
can be used directly by the Microsoft Jet Database engine, or Microsoft Access. The Microsoft Jet Database engine should be installed on the
web server. It requires your website to be hosted on Microsoft Internet Information
Server, or equivalent. Ask your ISP if they support Active Server Pages. If they don't, find one that is. See our website for our recommendations.
For the latest version of the Access/Jet engine and the ADO data access library
that XcNews utilizes, see the Microsoft website www.microsoft.com.
XcNews is a totally free script. All that we ask is that you keep the link to XCENT at the bottom of the page (User License
agreement article 3B-D). If we find that someone has removed the link, or taken credit for the script themselves, they will be asked to remove the script from their site.
Creating the Template
Support
XcNewsl is a freely available script. You can freely use this script on your own
website in accordance with the license agreement. Since this script is provided
free, there is no inherent support provided for XcNews. However, questions or
issues you have with this script may be addressed via a message board or the FAQ
on our web site. Visit www.xcent.com/products.htm
Editing Articles
To edit articles directly on your website, you need to login to XcNews with an
Administrative login. To do this, you use the same base URL you would to reference the XcNews script, but add a parameter to it. You need to add
?cmd=admin to the base URL to do an administrative login to XcNews. The login should be
either your name, or your Email address. The password is "test" by default. See the Advanced section below on how to change the password.
For example, if you install the XcNews script into the root of your website, the URL to access it would be something like this:
You can change the behavior of the XcNews script by passing parameters to the script.
Some example are:
?cmd=showtop |
By using the above parameter, XcNews will display the most
recent article, the list all the other available article
below it. |
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?cmd=detail |
By using the above parameter, XcNews will show all available
articles all on one page. This might be useful if your articles
are all very short, as it could generate an extremely long
page if there are a large number of articles. |
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?cmd=admin |
By using the above paramter, XcNews will go into administrative
mode (after a successful login). In administrative mode, you
can add, edit, or delete articles in the database. |
Changing the Login Password
To change the login password, you need to edit the XcNewsConfig.asp script file. You can edit this file with any plain text file editor, like
NOTEPAD, or WORDPAD. A couple of lines down in the file, you will
see the line:
Common Problems
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Database Security
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All code, documentation, data, file formats and related materials are Copyright 1998-2000, Xcent, Inc. All third party products mentioned above may have other rights, trademarks or statements that have no direct relationship to this product. XCENT, www.xcent.com, and XcNews are all trademarks of Xcent, Inc.