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MjrGaelic
10-28-2004, 02:29 AM
Bear with me, this is my 1st day with vBulliten.

What I am looking for is to pull post information from the forum to put on a non vb page. external.php is great for last forum activity and I have my mind around that but what I am looking for is something that would ideally pull 500 charactors from a post in a given category and give me 5-10 posts on my main page with a read more and post comment option.

Systems such as phpbb and Ikon have hacks that can accomplish this. Before I get jumped on =) I have searched most of the day on vbulliten.com and this site and the closest I could find were the portal systems. While those look excellent they really are overkill for what I want. I'd likely mess things up just trying to deactivate 90% of the features.

Examples of the desired affect are www.eqii.com (phpbb) www.eqlounge.com (Ikon).

I would eagerly appreciate a point to something that would get this done for me via vBulliten.

Thank you & regards,

MjrGaelic
memobug
10-28-2004, 05:27 AM
Yes there are hacks like this, if you are talking about doing this posting on a page hosted on your own server. Or are you talking about syndicating your content to other hosts on other servers? I wouldn't be surprised if there are hacks like that too.

Try searching on "latest threads" or "recent threads" This one should get you started:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=60544

Regards,

Matt
MjrGaelic
10-28-2004, 06:10 PM
Ideally I would pull articles to 2 sites that are hosted on my own server (I have full root on it)
memobug
10-28-2004, 07:07 PM
OK.

The link I posted earlier was for latest threads on vbhome, which is not what you want.

Sounds like you want one designed for a non-vb page then. As long as you can attach to the database (are on the same server and have the password and username), you can use stand-alone hacks like this one:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=62624

You can even select different forums to gather threads from different forums for each.

If, for example you cannot attach to the database, you'd need to look at other input
methods, such as caching the output from this hack or loading it in via javascript or iframe, or perhaps looking for an RSS (XML output) hack

There may be other hacks that are more appropriate for your use. This is the first one I ran across that seems to fit the bill.

Good luck,

Matt