Merge pull request #2909 from Neerti/1/9/2017_rip_blog

Adds new Server News

code/modules/admin/admin_verbs.dm

@@ -160,7 +160,8 @@ var/list/admin_verbs_server = list(
 	/datum/admins/proc/toggle_space_ninja,
 	/client/proc/toggle_random_events,
 	/client/proc/check_customitem_activity,
-	/client/proc/nanomapgen_DumpImage
+	/client/proc/nanomapgen_DumpImage,
+	/client/proc/modify_server_news
 	)
 var/list/admin_verbs_debug = list(
 	/client/proc/getruntimelog,                     //allows us to access runtime logs to somebody,

code/modules/admin/news.dm

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+#define NEWSFILE "data/news.sav"	//where the memos are saved
+
+/client/
+	var/last_news_hash = null // Stores a hash of the last news window it saw, which gets compared to the current one to see if it is different.
+
+// Returns true if news was updated since last seen.
+/client/proc/check_for_new_server_news()
+	var/savefile/F = get_server_news()
+	if(F)
+		if(md5(F["body"]) != last_news_hash)
+			return TRUE
+	return FALSE
+
+/client/proc/modify_server_news()
+	set name = "Modify Public News"
+	set category = "Server"
+
+	if(!check_rights(0))
+		return
+
+	var/savefile/F = new(NEWSFILE)
+	if(F)
+		var/title = F["title"]
+		var/body = F["body"]
+		var/new_title = sanitize(input(src,"Write a good title for the news update.  Note: HTML is NOT supported.","Write News", title) as null|text, extra = 0)
+		if(!new_title)
+			return
+		var/new_body = sanitize(input(src,"Write the body of the news update here. Note: HTML is NOT supported.","Write News", body) as null|message, extra = 0)
+		if(findtext(new_body,"<script",1,0) ) // Is this needed with santize()?
+			return
+		F["title"] << new_title
+		F["body"] << new_body
+		F["author"] << key
+		F["timestamp"] << time2text(world.realtime, "DDD, MMM DD YYYY")
+		message_admins("[key] modified the news to read:<br>[new_title]<br>[new_body]")
+
+/proc/get_server_news()
+	var/savefile/F = new(NEWSFILE)
+	if(F)
+		return F
+
+#undef NEWSFILE