vb.org Archive - Looking for a news script.

I want to find a lightweight script (can be included in a non-vb page) that can pull the first post out of x number of threads from a specific forum (or two) then can count the number of additional posts (for a Comments (12)) type thing.

I don't want to use a CMS / Portal whatever as they are bloated and tend to use VB styles.

I have searched and searched but cant find anything.

Thanks in advance

Edit: I looked into vbExternal, it is pretty close to what I want. The only problem is it operates from inside the vb folder. So it can only be used to include from one forum. I want similar functionality but I also would like for different news to be pulled from a different forum for say subdomains or addon domains. for instance www.site1.com pulls news from forum 2 while hosted.site1.com pulles from forum 5 and www.site2.com pulls from forum 12

Thanks

Well. I looked some more, checked out VbExternal again. waited for a response. And came up with this.

It works, but i'm not an expert coder at all. A lot of it is ripped from vbExternal I was not impressed with the limitations of it. So please someone, anyone read over the code and tell me if there are any obvious flaws or any improvements.

PHP Code:


		
			
<?php

// Vb news test. Note: a lot of this is reworked vbexternal code. 

// Actually all of it is :P Thanks to Zero Tolerance.

// ob_start();



// I saw this in vbExternal, thought it looked cool

error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);

define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'news');



$news_number = '5'; // Amount of news to pull

$news_forum = '3'; // From which forum?



// Change over to vb's directory so we can include global.php

$old_dir = getcwd(); // used later maybe.

chdir('path/to/forum');

require_once('./global.php');



// Check to make sure the chdir took.

if( !file_exists('./includes/config.php'))

{

    echo "includes/config.php does not exist. Cannot continue.";

    exit;

}



function RunError($message = ""){

    echo "<font size='1' face='verdana'>There was an error while processing vBExternal:<br />{$message}</font>";

    exit;

}



// Include some shit I think is important :P

require_once('./includes/class_core.php');

require_once('./includes/config.php');

require_once('./includes/class_bbcode.php');



// Test to make sure a forum was set.

if (!$news_forum) {

  RunError("No Specified Forum to pull news from, Edit the script you bum");

}



// The actual Query WOOT!

$pulled_news = $db->query("

            select t.*,p.pagetext

            from ".TABLE_PREFIX."thread t

            left join ".TABLE_PREFIX."post p on(p.postid=t.firstpostid)

            where t.forumid = $news_forum

            order by dateline desc

            limit 0,$news_number");

      

$bbcode_parser =& new vB_BbCodeParser($vbulletin, fetch_tag_list());

      

        while($News = $db->fetch_array($pulled_news)){

      $thread_id = $News['threadid'];

      $thread_title = $News['title'];

      $post_userid = $News['postuserid'];

      $post_username = $News['postusername'];

      $post = $bbcode_parser->parse(unhtmlspecialchars($News['pagetext']), $f);

      $comments = vb_number_format($News['replycount']);

      

      echo "<a href=\"http://www.mysite/forum/showthread.php?p=$thread_id\">$thread_title</a>";

      echo "Posted by <a href=\"http://www.mysite.com/forum/member.php?u=$post_userid\">$post_username</a>";

      echo "$post";

      echo "Comments: <a href=\"http://www.mysite.com/forum/showthread.php?p=$thread_id\">$comments</a>";

    }

    

chdir($old_dir);

?>

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