I've just installed this and it was just along the lines of what I was looking for

Just wondered if there is an easy way to get the posts to show up just like the posts do in the forum rather than just a boring old box?

And also can it pull the footer from the forums to use on the main news page as well ?

You can change the template of the output, look at the html files inside the vBExternal/ directory.

As for the forum footer, i'm afraid not, the purpose of this modification is to extract dta to your website, not make it look like your forum.

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I think I've got problems beyond vBexternal... When upgrading my test forum to 3.5.0b1 from 3.0.7, it seemed like some of the updates applied extremely quickly, and i reckon something may have stuffed up... the DB error page isn't recognising my technical email addy, hence not sending the error via email with the query, so i can't seem to find out what specifically is going wrong...

Besides that, the page i'm pulling vBexternal news onto, has many many includes here and there, many of which are pulling data out of vbulletin here and there... on top of that, one of the includes is already calling global.php, which may be my problem?

Either way, i might do a fresh install as my test bed, then go from there. I'll just have to figure it out myself, because i have my own custom shonky coding all over the shop, and it's probably not a vBexternal problem at all, because everyone else seems to have no errors...

Cheers for the help anyways :)

Sorry to bother, but I didn't see a function to pull out upcoming events and holidays? Would this be possible to do or is it too complex?

Thanks!

How do you set the number of characters that appear with a news snippet? I would prefer to display the whole piece of news.

is it possible to display the message in the last news ?
maybe like in the last X posts 3.1 ?

and how get i the header to become shorter ?
(this is the header message.... -> this is the ...)

thx a lot for this hack :classic:

is this mod able to put the next X calendar events on a page? If not, can that be added? I've downloaded mod like that for 3.0.7, but it doesn't work that well. It'd be nice if everything was in one script anyway.

hey there, just installed, and recieve this error

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class vbulletinhook in /home/varilla/public_html/forum/vBExternal.php on line 119

line 119:

class vBulletinHook { function fetch_hook() { return false; } }

any thoughts? great hack btw ;)

**edit** never mind, my bad, just a conflict **

how do i change the templates? the way things look...

Sai01: UPLOAD/news.html etc.

Great extension, I'm currently implenting it on one of my sites. :)