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Dockaych

10-18-2003 08:50 AM

Show a random thread

I would love for there to be a means of displaying a random thread (from a specified forumid) at the top of each page, or as part of a template. This would be especially useful for sites with a news forum, or even a 'random quotes' system could be done this way.

I suspect there may be a way of abusing the external.php to do this. This would be fine, although ideally there should be means of displaying BOTH the subject and the thread body.

Please help! :D

Dockaych

10-18-2003 09:21 AM

Further experimentation makes me think that the $thread[preview] variable might make a great way of showing content within the particular thread, if there were means of displaying it. However, I think it is the random part which will be most difficult... :(

Zachery

10-18-2003 10:17 AM

i belive youd need to add a php statment in phpinclude_start to querry the DB and return the correct info

Dockaych

10-25-2003 11:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Faranth

i belive youd need to add a php statment in phpinclude_start to querry the DB and return the correct info

Ah... good idea. Okay, I'll fiddle around with phpinclude_start and see if I can get any positive noises from vB. Thanks a lot for the heads up.

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