An idea - but lacking knowledge!

[Ian Cunningham]

I'm an idea person, and n00b coder - so I thought I'd run my idea past you all before I got started!

I'm making a hardware review website, and I am going to have each new review as a forum thread. I want each "review" to comprise of multiple pages - corrosponding to each post per "review" thread... I dont want the "reply" "rules box" etc... on that page, so I guess I'd have to rewrite the showthread.php file a little!

Any suggestions on a suitable approach?

[TECK]

create a new set of templates and modify them to suit your reviews look.

[Reeve of shinra]

check out firefly's hack about changing the first post appearance. You can mod that somewhat for the 'forums' your using as review sections.

[Ian Cunningham]

OK - I tried your idea nakkid (sorry Reeve of shinra ;) )

I've customised the templates to look exactly how I wanted them, but all the posts in the thread are displayed on the one page... Is there any way to make each post in the thread on a new page? (Without effecting my normal forums with 20 per page?)

[TECK]

use this:<?php
error_reporting(7);

$templatesused = "home_reviews,home_mainpage";

chdir("/home/path/to/web/forum");
require("./global.php");

$reviews="1";
$reviewposts="3";

$newsql=$DB_site->query("SELECT * FROM thread WHERE forumid='$reviews' ORDER BY dateline DESC LIMIT $reviewposts");
while ($new=$DB_site->fetch_array($newsql)) {
$newthreadid=$new[threadid];
$newtitle=$new[title];

$getnewsql=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT * FROM post WHERE threadid='$newthreadid' ORDER BY postid ASC LIMIT 1");
$newtime=vbdate($timeformat,$new[dateline]);
$newdate=vbdate($dateformat,$new[dateline]);
$newpagetext=$new[pagetext];
$newpagetext=bbcodeparse($newpagetext);

eval("\$newthisweek .= \"".gettemplate('home_reviews')."\";");
}

eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate('home_mainpage')."\");");
?>this will call the first post only of a specific thread. the code is self explanatory.
NOTE: $reviews is the forum ID you want to pull the info from, and $reviewposts is the no. of posts you want to pull from.
in this way you can have a custom template to show where ever you want it in your website :D

you could also make the forum invisible so it will not show on the forums list. the script will still pull the info.

regards,
nakkid.

[Ian Cunningham]

I tried you idea, but I couldnt get it to work how I wanted...

What I have done now, is call the review from the main page with showthread.php?threadid=xx and use a new template on it that scraps all of the stuff like "reply" etc...

I had to set the main vB Options to only display 1 post per page to get it to work - it works great now (Thanks again :) ) BUT, when I view my main forum (just for normal posts), I get 1 post per page again, is there any way to set this to 15 per page, but only for my main forum?

If I can get this last bug sorted, I can upload my site :D