Thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!

I've been trying for hrs to get this script to work on my home page but just got a blank white page.
I found this was because my forums are on a subdomain not in a directory.

My host wanted to charge ?25 GBP per year to enable a redirect from 'mysite.com/forums' to 'forums.mysite.com' so SSI would work.
My other options were frames (which screw up the hit counter) or...
iframe Akk!


Anyway.
I tried this, it works, it's free, and I'm happy :D

Question. Is there a way I could display only the first few lines of the post? Like this:
http://www.housequake.com/forum/PluhNews.php

Thanks!

Yes you can, a part of my pluhnews.php looks like this:

-----------------------------------
if (!$sql_result2) {
echo "<p>Could not get record in second statement.";
}

while ($row2 = mysql_fetch_array($sql_result2)) {

if (strlen($row2[pagetext]) > $car) {
$pagetext = substr($row2["pagetext"],0,$car);
$pagetext .= "...";
}
else {
$pagetext = $row2[pagetext];
}




//gotta convert that damn unix time crap
$dateposted = date("D j M Y, g:i A",$dateline);
//end the goodies

-----------------------------------


And my pluhconfig looks like this:
-----------------------------------
<?
//This is the Config file to get PluhNews running.
//**********************
//Set some Variables

//Retrieve news from the correct forum, which is the forumid
$newsforums = 12;

//Number of news items to show at once
$newsitems = 1;

//Path to your forums directory (leave out trailing slash)
$forumspath = "/forum";

//Number of characters to display for each news item
$car = 400;

?>

-----------------------------------

Hope this will help ya!

Did it! but how come there's no READ MORE link after the last character? http://www.greenarcher.net/forums/PluhNews.php

Thanks so much! :)

Btw. And is there away that it can display more than 1 news forums?

*shows off the hack that is in his signature*

(newsportal hack, that is :))

(this one: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=38334 )

I think its too complicated. You see Ill be using frames in my main page so i think Pluh News is better.

Anyway just to repeat my question earlier, how come there's no READ MORE link after the last character?

And I notice If i set the character limit, unfinished sentences end with a "...." . Worse case, last words using VB code will display the unfinished code. Is there a way to limit it to the last paragraph or last sentence?

http://www.greenarcher.net/forums/PluhNews.php

Thanks dude! :)

bump

double bump

Anyone having trouble getting it to work with VB 2.3.0?

why would you use pluhnews when there is vBhome lite, it is so much faster and better ;)