external.php code help

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I was advised on the official forums to post my problem here.

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=161945

*Edit*: Oops wrong section, can a member of staff please move this thread to the correct section?

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Hello,

I used to run a nice news system to export news from a certain forum section onto my main page using external.php. This is what I used on vBulletin version 3.0.7:

PHP Code:


else if ($_REQUEST['type'] == 'NEWS')
{ 

    // setup the board title
    if (empty($title))
    { // just show board title
        $rss_title = clean_text($vboptions['bbtitle'], $strip_bbcode, $strip_html, $post_length, false, false);
    }
    else
    { // show board title plus selection
    $rss_title = clean_text($vboptions['bbtitle'] . " - $title", $strip_bbcode, $strip_html, $post_length, false, false);
    }

      // echo "Forum Homepage: " . $vboptions[bburl] . "<br>";
      // echo "Site Homepage: " . $vboptions[homeurl] . "<br>";
      // clean_text($vboptions['description'], $strip_bbcode, $strip_html, $post_length, true, $parse_bbcode);
      // Calculate the time zone difference between GMT
      $tz = vbdate('O', TIMENOW);
      if ($tz == '+0000')
      {
        $tz = 'Z';
      }
      else
      {
        $tz = substr($tz, 0, 3) . ':' . substr($tz, 3, 2);
      }

    $i = 0;

    if (!empty($threadcache))
    {
        foreach ($threadcache AS $thread)
        {
             $fp = &$bbuserinfo['forumpermissions']["$forumid"];
     
          // echo "<br><br> --- NEWS PARSED --- <br><br>";
echo "<table width='100%' border='0' cellspacing='1' align='left' id='table1'><tr><td style='border-style: dotted; border-width: 1px' bordercolor='#C0C0C0'><font size='3' face='Arial'><b>" . clean_text($thread[title], false, $strip_html, "full", false, false) . "</b></font></td></tr></table><br>";
          // Calculate the time zone difference between GMT
          $tz = vbdate('O', $thread[$datefield]);
          if ($tz == '+0000')
          {
            $tz = 'Z';
          }
          else
          {
            $tz = substr($tz, 0, 3) . ':' . substr($tz, 3, 2);
          }
          echo "<br><font color='#C0C0C0'>Posted on " . vbdate('Y-m-d\TH:i:s', $thread[$datefield]) . " by ";
echo "<i>" . clean_text($thread[postusername], false, $strip_html, "full", false, false) . "</i></font><br>";
echo "<a href='" . $vboptions[bburl] . "/showthread.php?t=" . $thread[threadid] . "'>Comments</a><br><br><br>";
// echo parse_bbcode2(clean_text($thread[pagetext], $strip_bbcode, $strip_html, $post_length, false, $parse_bbcode),false,true,false,true) . "<br><br><br><br><br>";
          echo parse_bbcode2($thread[pagetext],false,true,false,true) . "<br><br><br><br><br>";
        }
    }

} 


I finally updated my forum to 3.5.1, and cannot get this system to work.

As you can see, I was dependant on the clean_text() function which seems to have been removed all together from the current vBulletin version's external.php file. I copy-pasted the above code into the new external.php, also copy pasted the old clean_text() function somewhere near the top of the file. I also changed:

else if ($_REQUEST['type'] == 'NEWS')

to

else if ($vbulletin->GPC['type'] == 'NEWS' AND $vbulletin->options['externalrss'])

in order to follow the obfuscated way this new external.php works. However, if I include

external.php?type=news&forumids=29&postlen=full&qt y=5&html=yes&bbcode=no

like I usually do in my news page, I get a PHP error stating:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /external.php?type=news&forumids=29&postlen=full&qt y=5&html=yes&bbcode=no1 on line 1

I am stuck, any advice or help would be appreciated. If this is not the correct place to seek help, please direct me to where I should ask.

Thank you.