I created a simple registration script for my site... I added a feature to insert directly into the xoops_stories table when a new reg is submitted. The problem I run into is this.

My site is set at only registered members can post news without admin approval. Even though my registration script enters a value of "admin" in the story type field of xoops_stories, an admin still must approve it as it waits in submitted news. My question is, how can I set it to where I do not need to approve a story when the registration is submitted. I would think that just entering "admin" in the storytype would do the trick but im missing something here.

I dont know how you have set up the script, so can't assist there.

Another way to go is this:

Edit: second thoughts, this might not be useful as you disable "Allow anonymous users to post news articles", anyway, but this would at least hide the "submit-news" sub-menu from anon users.

In News "Preferences" you can of course activate "Auto approve news stories without admin intervention" But the "submit news" sub-menu appears to anon users. This can be taken out.

To do this go to "xoops_version.php" in the root of the News module folder and disable the submenu called "submit news" from the view of anon users like this:

Look for the "Menu" section and change it to this:

// Menu
$modversion['hasMain'] = 1;
$modversion['sub'][2]['name'] = _MI_NEWS_SMNAME2;
$modversion['sub'][2]['url'] = "archive.php";
global $xoopsUser;
if(!empty($xoopsUser)) {
$group = $xoopsUser->getGroups();
if (in_array(2, $group)) {//and other group ids
$modversion['sub'][1]['name'] = _MI_NEWS_SMNAME1;
$modversion['sub'][1]['url'] = "submit.php";

}
}

the line: "if (in_array(2, $group)) {

..refers to group "2", (registered users) which means the sub-menu will not be visible to the anon users--you can change the code around a bit if you wish "archive" hidden as well

(I found similar code for this in another post, just changed it a little bit to show "archive")

regards

To force the news to be submitted and approved, do this:



This should work - not tested, but based on the new version of News module... shouldn't be any trouble with it as I haven't messed with the database interaction in the Newsstory class.