Can an html web page (that changes) be posted into a thread?

[z0diac]

Is there any BB code (or any other way) that will show an existing web page (not in the forum) into a thread post and have it show the exact web page as-is ?

I don't mean cut and paste.. but grab the entire web page as it is from it's current location, and show it in the thread.

The reason being, I have gallery pages of athletes NOT in my forum, but on my www part of my site, that are updated regularly. I'd like to have these pages shown in a post (it would have to insert the html of that page for each view of course). It would need to 'grab' that web page each time and display it in the thread.

Is there a simple 'include' function I could use?

This would be VERY similar (er, identical) to MS Frontpage's "include page" feature, where you can include one page into another

[Lynne]

I suppose you would just write a plugin to grab the content of that web page and put all the html into a variable and spit the variable out in the thread (SHOWTHREAD template).

[z0diac]

Originally Posted by Lynne

I suppose you would just write a plugin to grab the content of that web page and put all the html into a variable and spit the variable out in the thread (SHOWTHREAD template).

*Exactly*. But since each person has their own html page that list their videos (simple thumbnail of screenshots of the video, description, and button link to download the video), and each person has their own picture thread in the forum - the video page for THAT person (that thread) will be different for each thread.

So if I have it set up for say, 5 posts per page, it would show the first 5 posts, then the "footer included html page" as an extra post at the bottom (doesn't even need show as a post - it could even have some definable text like "EXTRA CONTENT: " then the html code below it, at the bottom of each page for that thread. The of course page 2 of that thread would show posts 6-10, then the same footer (html page) again at the bottom.

I realize this would add an extra query to each thread display - the showthread would have to check to see if that thread's "footer" entry contains an URL. If so, it pulls the body code of that html page and displays it after the last post of each page.

This could actually be very usefull to many members - they could display a specific page for advertising, or an 'extra links' page related to that thread, or any information from another web page actually.

So basically the newthread code would need a text box above the title for "Footer URL: " and enter that into the dbase, then showthread would have to check to see if a footer url exists for that particular thread, and show it as a footer post for each page of that thread. It's too bad I don't program anymore - 'back in the day' (20 yrs ago) I used to do a lot of programming - wrote a "BBS" program actually, and something like this would probably have been rather straight forward back then. Alas, I know nothing about PHP or dbases, so here I am requesting help from those in the know

[z0diac]

If any coders out there can do this (I'll describe better below) I'm willing to pay if fee is reasonable.

Needed to do :

Have certain threads display a certain HTML page as a post at the bottom of each thread's display. So if a person is ready that thread, the last post displayed at the bottom of each page is the body code of an HTML page. -- basically footer for the thread

[z0diac]

Willing to pay $50

[EagleNick]

iFrame?

[Lynne]

You should post in the Paid Requests forum if you wish to pay someone to do this.