I did some tricky things with it in the javascript like changing the contents of the window that instantiated it when someone clicks on a link inside the scrolling window....

- jeff

that sounds cool, i'm happy with what I've got so far, I've even got someone using it already :) http://www.fuchsiashockz.co.uk/index2.shtml

I really want this hack :( I even found out about it elsewhere and emailed jcroft but haven't heard back yet.

Anyway, I have tried installing it but am having some problems little no-php me can't deal with...

I had to change the line that calls global.php because my forums files are stored under a forums sub-dir. So I had it changed to -

require ('http://www.thecatsite.com/forums/global.php');

Now I can see the marquee but what scrolls there is an error message that says -

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/www/thecatsite/marquee.php on line 72

Anyone has a solution???

I'm using 2.2.9 btw

Anyone got this working on 2.3.0 ?? I'd also be ineterested to use this hack !

Thank you

It works fine as it is with 2.3.0 :)
I tried it out, but unfortunately it made my homepage look far too cluttered, no matter how much I customised the layout.

Okay, isn't it possible to use this hack to syndicate threads on third party sites.

If, yes, how to do it?

Also, what code should i use to include the marquee on my html page ??

Thank you

Are there any PHP/VB gurus around that can maybe help me with the bug? I can't get it to work properly... :(

If you're calling this on a html page, your extension MUST be .shtm or .shtml.

Assuming you've uploaded marquee.php to the forums root, you'd use something similar to this code where you wanted to place it in your html page:
<!--#include file="forums/marquee.php"-->




A simple solution would be to upload marquee.php to the same directory as your forums root (where the required global.php is also located), and then to call the script from there..

Thanks Knight, but it's still not working. I uploaded the script to the forums directory and it's working fine there. Then I used the following code in my page (it's a PHP page anyway) -

So this is what it comes out like - www.thecatsite.com/index.php

Still the same error message. It does make some sense I think - I know very little PHP but from what I see the include simply copies and pastes the text found in that other file...

Ok problem fixed using iframe - I guess it doesn't work another way.