how can i make this display the latest 5 threads or whatever?

[zeroality]

I had an hack on my old site which displayed username, PM status (or guest message for unregistered members), total posts, threads, members and the last 5 posts of the forum. The first part is very simple, however the last 5 posts required quite a bit of code, utilizing templates from the old topXstats hack that I had. So I've gotten the first part working:

http://www.pkmndex.com/testvb - it's the right box.

Now I'd like to have it display last 5 posts as well (thread titles only) and I have Cyb's Advanced Forum Stats installed so maybe we can use the code from that? I have no idea where to start though.

Here is the old code:

global $vbulletin;

$displayrecords = $vbulletin->input->clean_gpc('r', 'displayrecords', TYPE_UINT);

if ($displayrecords <= 0) {
$displayrecords = $vbulletin->options['topXstats_displayrecords'];
} else if ($displayrecords >= $vbulletin->options['topXstats_maxdisplayrecords']) {
$displayrecords = $vbulletin->options['topXstats_maxdisplayrecords'];
} else {
$displayrecords = $displayrecords;
}

if ($vbulletin->options['topXstats_excludedforums'] !== '') {
$excludedforums = ',' . $vbulletin->options['topXstats_excludedforums'];
}

$forumpermissions = array();
foreach($vbulletin->forumcache AS $forum) {

$forumpermissions[$forum["forumid"]] = fetch_permissions($forum['forumid']);

// ## HIDE FORUMS WITHOUT THE CANVIEW, CANVIEWOTHERS OR CANSEEDELNOTICE PERMISSION ##
if (!($forumpermissions[$forum["forumid"]] & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_forumpermissions['canview']) AND !$vbulletin->options['showprivateforums']) {
$excludedforums = $excludedforums . ',' . $forum['forumid'];
}
// filter out deletion notices if can't be seen
if ($forumpermissions[$forum["forumid"]] & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_forumpermissions['canseedelnotice'] OR can_moderate($forum['forumid'])){
$deljoin = "LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "deletionlog AS deletionlog ON(thread.threadid = deletionlog.primaryid AND type = 'thread')";
} else {
$deljoin = '';
}
}


unset($forum);

// get rid of initial comma
$excludedforums = substr($excludedforums, 1);

if ($excludedforums != "") {
$excludedforums = "AND thread.forumid NOT IN ($excludedforums)";
}

$threadchars = $vbulletin->options['topXstats_threadchars'];
if ($threadchars <= 0) {
$threadchars = $vbulletin->options['lastthreadchars'];
}

$userchars = $vbulletin->options['topXstats_userchars'];
$newpostprefix = $vbulletin->options['topXstats_newpostprefix'];
$oldpostprefix = $vbulletin->options['topXstats_oldpostprefix'];

if ($threadchars <= 0) {
$threadchars = $vbulletin->options['lastthreadchars'];
}

$getstats_posters = $db->query_read("SELECT userid, usergroupid, IF(displaygroupid=0, usergroupid, displaygroupid) AS displaygroupid, username, posts FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user ORDER BY posts DESC LIMIT 0, $displayrecords");
while ($getstats_poster = $db->fetch_array($getstats_posters))
{
if ($userchars > 0) {

if (strlen($getstats_poster[username]) > $userchars)
{
$getstats_poster[username] = substr($getstats_poster[username], 0, $userchars) . '...';
}
else
{
$getstats_poster[username] = $getstats_poster[username];
}
}
$getstats_poster[musername] = fetch_musername($getstats_poster);
eval('$topXstats_posters_bits .= "' . fetch_template('topXstats_poster_bit') . '";');
}

$getstats_members = $db->query_read("SELECT userid, usergroupid, IF(displaygroupid=0, usergroupid, displaygroupid) AS displaygroupid, username, posts, joindate FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user ORDER BY joindate DESC LIMIT 0, $displayrecords");
while ($getstats_member = $db->fetch_array($getstats_members))
{
if ($userchars > 0) {
if (strlen($getstats_member[username]) > $userchars)
{
$getstats_member[username] = substr($getstats_member[username], 0, $userchars) . '...';
}
else
{
$getstats_member[username] = $getstats_member[username];
}
}
$getstats_member[musername] = fetch_musername($getstats_member);
eval('$topXstats_members_bits .= "' . fetch_template('topXstats_member_bit') . '";');
}

$getstats_threads = $db->query_read("
SELECT
thread.threadid, thread.title, thread.lastpost, thread.forumid, thread.replycount, thread.lastposter, thread.dateline, IF(views<=replycount, replycount+1, views) AS views, thread.visible, user.username, user.userid, user.usergroupid, IF(displaygroupid=0, user.usergroupid, displaygroupid) AS displaygroupid
" . iif($deljoin, ", NOT ISNULL(deletionlog.primaryid) AS isdeleted, deletionlog.userid AS del_userid, deletionlog.username AS del_username, deletionlog.reason AS del_reason") . "
FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread AS thread
LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user AS user ON (user.username = thread.lastposter)
$deljoin
WHERE NOT ISNULL(thread.threadid)
$excludedforums
" . iif(!$deljoin, "AND thread.visible <> 2") . "
ORDER BY lastpost DESC LIMIT 0, 5");

while ($getstats_thread = $db->fetch_array($getstats_threads))
{
$getstats_thread[title] = unhtmlspecialchars($getstats_thread[title]);
if ($threadchars > 0) {
if (strlen($getstats_thread[title]) > $threadchars)
{
$getstats_thread[titletrimmed] = substr($getstats_thread[title], 0, strrpos(substr($getstats_thread[title], 0, $threadchars), ' ')) . '...';
}
else
{
$getstats_thread[titletrimmed] = $getstats_thread[title];
}
}
$getstats_thread[titletrimmed]=htmlspecialchars($getstats_thread[titletrimmed]);
$getstats_thread[titlelong]=htmlspecialchars($getstats_thread[title]);

if ($getstats_thread[lastpost] > $vbulletin->userinfo['lastvisit'])
{
$getstats_thread[newpost] = true;
}
if ($getstats_thread[isdeleted])
{
$getstats_thread[isdeleted] = true;
}
if ($userchars > 0) {
if (strlen($getstats_thread[username]) > $userchars)
{
$getstats_thread[username] = substr($getstats_thread[username], 0, $userchars) . '...';
}
else
{
$getstats_thread[username] = $getstats_thread[username];
}
}
$getstats_member[musername] = fetch_musername($getstats_thread);
eval('$foruminteg .= "' . fetch_template('foruminteg') . '";');
}
eval('$memberstats .= "' . fetch_template('memberstats') . '";');

echo "<p><strong>Latest Posts</strong><br>$foruminteg</p>";

[zeroality]

Bump.

OK, I've been messing with it. Here's what I have so far... I don't see why this isn't working.

http://www.pkmndex.com/zero/login_inc.txt

Code was too big to post here.

The posts, threads, members work fine but it isn't displaying the $cyb_topstats_poster stuff. I put in the code and have it call that template so I don't really understand why it isn't working.

The test page is at: http://www.pkmndex.com/testvb

Edit2:

I made another page without all the code and it calls a template called foruminteg and it works fine:

http://www.pkmndex.com/vbs

So all I need now is a way to make the latest posts show up via the template. I tried adding the code from Cyb's Advanced Forum latest posts template but that returns a "N/A" value. :(

[zeroality]

Anybody?

[Cryo]

Hi Zero,

If you're just looking for the 5 most recent posts you can do a simple query such as this...

SELECT
b.title,
a.threadid,
a.username,
a.userid,
a.dateline
FROM
". TABLE_PREFIX ."post a,
". TABLE_PREFIX ."thread b
WHERE
a.threadid = b.threadid
AND b.forumid NOT IN ()
ORDER BY
a.dateline DESC
LIMIT
0, 5

For "AND b.forumid NOT IN ()" just include forum ids (such as staff / warnings / private / etc) you don't want shown.

[zeroality]

http://www.pkmndex.com/posts

Code:

$lpost = $db->query_first('SELECT b.title,a.threadid,a.username,a.userid,a.dateline FROM ' . TABLE_PREFIX . 'post a,thread b WHERE a.threadid = b.threadid AND b.forumid NOT IN (31) ORDER BY a.dateline DESC LIMIT 0 , 5');

What is wrong? It returns 'array' where the latest posts should be.

[zeroality]

Bump, see above post.