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googlexx
06-10-2009, 04:39 AM
im using the external data to show news on a page. however its only showing the links.. is there a way it can show the first post of each thread below each link?

example of what is showing now:

Name of Topic on: 06-04-2009 by googlexx 06:17 PM
Name of Topic on: 06-01-2009 by googlexx 05:08 PM
Name of Topic Posted on: 05-31-2009 by googlexx 02:24 PM
Name of Topic 05-29-2009 by googlexx 09:24 AM

what i want it to show:

Name of Topic on: 06-04-2009 by googlexx 06:17 PM

What the first post of the topic says. the content

Name of Topic on: 06-01-2009 by googlexx 05:08 PM
What the first post of the topic says. the content

this is the code im using


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>External JS Printing</title>
</head>

<body>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://xxx/forums/external.php?type=js&forumids=2"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
for (var i = 0; i < threads.length; i++)
{
document.write('<a href="http://xxx/forums/showthread.php?t=' + threads[i]['threadid'] + '">' + threads[i]['title'] + '</a> <em>Posted on: ' + threads[i]['threaddate'] + ' by ' + threads[i]['threadtime'] + '</em><br />');
}
//-->
</script>

</body>
</html>



thanks

Lynne
06-10-2009, 02:36 PM
You cannot do it using javascript, no. You would have to use an actually query on the page to grab that information.