Come on, jojo. You know that he isn't getting paid for it or anything else. It'll get released when he has time.

i don't know if this is possible but what about adding the last X (or posted in the last X days) threads into this script from a certain section of your forum, which the user could choice (for example i would choose to display important announcemnts)

Any chance of linking in a BFC Weblog style news system outside vB?
(BFC Weblog is a pain to setup :))

--WildWayz

what about doing a version of the hack with php/javascript so that any site (any site in the world) can add the code.

That's a good idea. Also, I don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but if you could make it so polls could be used externally from the forum ...

Hmm Vbportal seems close enough. I think I'm going to give it a try and see what happens.

What exactly can we do with this hack? I'm not quite sure I understand the basics (I'm a newbie to PHP). From what I can gather, we'll be able to pull stuff like current posts and plug it into a page outsite of vBulletin. Is that the gist of it?

:confused:

Yes, that's the basic gist of it. This script should allow us to easily put vb items (newest member, newest post, username, etc.) on non-vb pages with ease. It sounds like he's making a very easy to use template system, so you'll only have to reference (include) one file.

I want it

:cool:

As do we all.

Please forgive me for asking this silly question, but: can we use this wonderful hack in vB pages, too?

Once again, I'm very sorry for that question. I am just a beginner, so please be bare with me. Thanks! :)

No sorry

Yes, I plan on using it on a vbpage. I think we can stick the code into a template.:)

With this, you could probably create your own portal quite easily...

I don't want to be a nag but is this still being worked on? And if it is what is the progress on it.

Thanks.

It's been delayed a little bit :(

I'm working on it, but cannot say exactly when It's releasable

:(

I don't care if it takes you a while longer to finish this project, I'm just glad you're working on it!

:)

After reading the idea behind this I must admit that this hack/add-on sounds like a winner to me. I like the news fader, stars, etc... as well as the next, but in all reality, the idea of content management (news) and a hack of this kind are far above more useful to sites that are focused towards bringing content to the public. I'm pretty excited about reading this thread. Take your time on the programming. This one will be worth the wait.

Hooper

update: I'm tidying up and debugging it now. And make sure it limits querys

But I've got a working demo

Three things are added: Total views, todays events and latest polls

Note that you can choose exactly how and what you wanna display, everything is 'parameterble' (is that a word?) and works with vb's templates.

To give you an idea how fmbstats.php looks like:

I'll maybe add an option to generate javascript for the latest threads so you can give the webmasters amongst your users the option to let the latest threads be displayed on their homepage.

I expect to release it within a week :)

Can't wait until the release, thanks for doing this :)

Funny. I actually made this exact script for 1.x for carrie of weddingchat.com

I feel cheated :(

I made this from scratch, I can asure you.

btw: Why didn't you release it?

hehe i know you did. :)

I was contracted to make it for carrie and it wouldnt have been fair to release it to everyone.

any updates? This addon/hack would be great!

anyone still working on this? I know a lot of people are looking forward to it...

I'm sorry...It's again been delayed...

It's allready working though, but I merely gotta clean up a bit

No need to apologize.
I too am busy with a lot of stuff.

Good luck with it.:cool:

W00! H00!

Looking VERY forward to this hack. Keep up the great work, and thanks!

Looking forward to it too! Would you need to have .php extensions on the outside pages of vB for this to work? Would it work on pages with a .shtml extension?

I'm guessing you have to have the .php extension on all the pages you want this code included. Just a guess, but you'll have to wait until Mas*Mind can tell you officially.

Mas,

I am dying for this script. I don't want to bug you because I know you are getting paid a lot of money for this script ;) :p

Any more word on a compleation date?

Thanks!

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I, too am eagerly anticipating this hack... It looks great, exactly what I am looking for. Good luck, man!

Yup, this sounds like a great idea -
Can't wait for it to be ready!

Yeah, it's been, like, months now. Guess he's pretty busy nevertheless.

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It's comming on. Can't say when but it's coming on :)

After looking at your examples, I thought I'd suggest putting the script into a function. Instead of including the script multiple times, just include it once and call the function more than once:

Just a suggestion, but since many people will likely use multiple features of the script, it seemed logical.

Also, is there any way to allow users to get full posts emailed to them? Like, if i want to receive this thread by email, any time a post is made i get the full post mailed to me?

That would be a nice feature... I'm myself will be looking into adding it ;)

One downside. That would be hard on a busy server, unless you used an SMTP server. But, even then, if you have a lot of big threads, and a busy forum, you will need to send tons of those out a day. Just a point.