[release] Last news event on forumhome
 

Author: filburt1
Description: Displays (including links where appropriate) the title, author, and number of posts of the last thread of the forum of your choice on forumhome.
Demo: http://www.webdesignforums.net/?styleid=3
Screenshot: http://www.vbulletintemplates.com/mo...=&postid=14293

If you install this mod then please click here

This adds one query to forumhome only.

Screenshot:

Nice mod. :)

yeah, very nice mod!!

What's happening at TMG Message Boards?
Last news event: by with no replies.

but on the calendar it has Halloween, so it aint working.

This is based on forumid, not the calendar.

im still not sure how it really works :(

It queries the database, pretty simple.

In english for dumbasses like me lol

As the instructions say the only thing you have to change in the script is $newsforumid; you change it to the id of the forum you want the script to grab the news from. Since I don't see any news or annoucements forum I don't see how you could use this template edit...

you should make one that takes news from the calendar that would be tight. this is a good mod tho but not what i thought

Sounds clear to me :p

Check out the lounge though.

How do I know what is my $newsforumid ??

View the forum you want; the forumid is the number in the URL that follows &forumid= .

Still cannot,only the heading shows,it did not even show the cannot get event message when I input the wrong $newsforumid

Did you make $newsforumid = 6?

This is a great mod, thank u! I pressed install!

Is it also possible, to have 2 or 3 latest postings items on the homepage?

It's possible but requires modification of the query and other code in phpinclude.

Is it hard to do?

But that would be cool, to have the top 3 latest postings (from your selected forum) on your homepage.

I added views and lastposter to it aswell. Take a look if you want.
Hmm, i will add a txt file.

Thats a great mod Filburt :)

I have a forum where the members write live reviews.... and I will probably install the mod changing it to :"Latest Live Reviews"

Is there any possibility this can be converted so that it will recognise the topics from the subforums of a forum? What I mean is this:

I have a main forum called : SPA reviews. Within that, I have 3 subforums.
1) Concerts
2) Album reviews
3) Interviews

the main forum is closed for writing... so when I enter the ID of this forum... it does not find any thread - 100% logical.
Is there a way it could take threads from the 3 subforums - which the main forum is comprised of?

Also one question : this mod adds one query at the forumhome. Is that going to be bad for the server loads? Im running my board on a shared server... so I'm kind of afraid :)

thanx in advance
clicked "install"

stark

It is possible to recognize subforums but (just remembering the schema from my head) would require additional queries.

One extra query on forumhome on a shared server isn't a big deal with the normal number of queries there, it's if you add, say, 10 more, than you should be worried.

hmm it dont work for me, i did everything right

Well obviously you didn't ;)

How doesn't it work?

FYI your site in your profile links to a porn site so I'd suggest you yank that out of your profile now.

LOL my bad it was a Old site i had. I had a attachment guess it didnt work, il try it agian

Here it should work now :D

Did you put all the necessary code in phpinclude?

Mine works great. :)
I did some tweaks on the code (simple things) to change the appearance a bit , and here it is :

Nice one! Installs...

yours has multiple pages on it, how do u do that?

simple sweet and no vbportal necessary. Thanks for the submission ...install :)

Hey filburt, I know this has been asked, but have you looked into getting more than one news event displayed? Like maybe the 5?

It can be done (change LIMIT 1 to LIMIT 5 and then put parts of the code in a for loop) but I don't have the time.

Nice one Filburt! But is it also possible to display the body/contents of the newspost?

Not without using an additional query.

Can you tell me how to setup this query?

Filburt

I have not been using the reply count and userinfo status at the $lastnews

which means that my $lastnews is :

So I guess there are some lines at the following code - to be included at the phpincluded that are not needed in my case, right?
Could you please tell me which of them are not needed so that I could remove them?

(I guess these lines being there is no harm, but If I can remove any code I don't need from the template, I would be glad to do it ) :)

don't post attached file contents --filburt1

thanx in advance