Last XX Posts on non-vB page

UPDATED! Not a new version number, but a bug fix.
Fixed another bug with using forum titles and included forums.
New update: *Actually* fixed the bug with the forums this time.
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It's my best work to date (if I do say so myself ) and I think you'll like it and like all the configuration you can do.

This image shows the script with all of the columns on, and parsing [code], smilies, and the post icon, as well as showing the forum title before the thread title.


This image shows the script with all the columns off except $lastpostdate, and the $tw (table width) set to 600, and $showdate set to 0 (to just show the last post time).


This image shows the same as #2, except $tw is blank (allowing the table to compact and remove the empty space automatically).


Hack version: 1.0.1

Changes since version 1.0.0: Fixed small bug.

Changes since version 0.1.0: Parses [ b], [ i], [ u], [ code], and [ quote] within the "last post". Displays the icon of the post, or the thread if there is no post icon. Parses smilies. New option to convert new lines to <br> so the post appears as the author wrote it (note: may cause problems if there are large breaks in posts).

Changes since version 0.0.2: New option to show the text of the last post of a thread (also option to limit the number of characters of the post displayed). New option to set the table width, as a percent, a number of pixels, or just let the table size naturally. New option to show just the time of the last post, instead of the date *and* the time. New option to show a thin line around the cells (cell spacing).

Changes since version 0.0.1: Include only specific forums, or set to allow all forums except certain excluded forums. New option to display a "Last post date" column with the last post date and time, formatted with your board's date & time setting. Fixed a bug with font and font size. Split the config into a separate file to make editing easier.

For version: v2 betas 3, 4, 5, RC1, RC2.

Files needed: last10.php, last10config.php (see attached zip file).

Files to edit: last10config.php (see attached zip file).

Possible file locations: Anywhere, as long as the relative path to config.php and the URL to your board are correct. Also, you must put last10.php and last10config.php in the same directory!

Instructions
1] Unzip the files last10.php and last10config.php to your hard drive.
2] Open last10config.php in an ASCII text editor, such as Notepad (Windows), SimpleText (Mac), EditPlus, UltraEdit, TextPad, etc. (DO NOT use WYSIWYG HTML editors such as FrontPage, HotDog, DreamWeaver, etc. They will in all likelyhood screw up the file! I will not be able to support you if you edit the file in one of these programs.)
3] Edit the variables at the top. These are:

1. $path > path to your config.php file (usually in the /admin directory) - NO TRAILING SLASH! and DO NOT PUT config.php at the end of it! ( e.g. forums/admin )
2. $url > URL to your board - NO TRAILING SLASH! ( e.g. http://www.mysite.com/forums )
3. $urlimg > URL to your board's images - NO TRAILING SLASH ( e.g. http://www.mysite.com/forums/images ).
4. $maxthreads > max threads to show. will show less if $last24 or $last7 limits it to less results than this number
5. $ob > determines the sort order of the list. replycount and views are numbers, lastposter is a name, title is the name of the thread, and lastpost is the last posts' date. set to one of the following: replycount , views , lastposter , title , lastpost (lastpost is most popular. it's the thread most recently replied to, then the second-to-last most recent, etc.)
6. $obdir > set to "desc" or "asc". which direction to sort? "desc" goes from bottom to top (9 to 1, z to a, etc.). "asc" goes top to bottom (1 to 9, a to z, etc.)
7. $last24 > set to 1 to limit the possible results to the last 24 hours; 0 for no limit (must set this to 0 if $last7 is set to 1)
8. $last7 > set to 1 to limit the possible results to the last 7 days; 0 for no limit (must set this to 0 if $last24 is set to 1)
9. $bc1 > first alt color (for the alternating colored rows)
10. $bc2 > second alt color
11. $hc > head background color (title, last poster, etc.)
12. $lc > text link color
13. $tc > text color
14. $f > font face
15. $fs > font size in points. 6 is on the small side, 10 on the large side. Put only a number in this - no "pt", "pts", or anything else!
16. $lastposter > show the "last poster" column? 1 = yes; 0 = no
17. $views > show the view count for each thread? 1 = yes; 0 = no
18. $replies > show the reply count for each thread? 1 = yes; 0 = no
19. $lastpostdate > show the last post date and time for each thread? 1 = yes; 0 = no
20. $len > maximum number of characters of the title to show. e.g. if the title is 60 characters and this is set to 25, only the first 25 characters of the title will be shown (followed by ...)
21. $excludeforums > List certain forums to be excluded. Best used if you have a large number of forums you *do* want included and only a few that you want excluded. List them separated by commas, but without spaces - e.g. 1,2,3,4 - and DO NOT fill in both this and $includeforums! Use one or the other.
22. $includeforums > List certain forums to be included. Best used if you have a small number of forums that you want included and a large number you want excluded. List them separated by commas, but without spaces - e.g. 1,2,3,4 - and DO NOT fill in both this and $excludeforums! Use one or the other.
23. $showmessages > If you want to show the last post of the thread as well, set this to 1. You can limit the number of characters displayed in $lplen below.
24. $lplen > If you specify a number here, any post that has more than $lplen number of characters will be reduced to this number and "..." added to the end of it. If you don't want to use this feature, leave it blank e.g. "" - remember though that if $showmessages is set to 0, this won't do anything.
25. $tw > If you want to specify the width of the table, you can set it as a percent e.g. 95% or as a number of pixels e.g. 300 or just leave it blank and the table will size itself.
26. $showdate > If you want to show the date *and* the time, set this to 1. If you want to just show the time, set this to 0.
27. $cs > If you want a thin line around your cells, set this to 1 (or higher - experiment!). Set to 0 for no line.
28. $nb > if you want breaks in text to appear as such, set this to 1. otherwise set it to 0 (this may cause problems if there are large breaks in the text)
29. $showforumtitle > if you want to show the forum title, linked to that forum, for each thread also (forum title: thread title) then set this to 1. otherwise set it to 0.
30. $showicon > if you want to show the icon the author chose for their post, set this to 1. otherwise set it to 0.

4] Upload both last10.php and last10config.php to your website. You can include last10.php as follows. To include it on a PHP-parsed page (.php, .php3, .phtml, etc.):
<? include("last10.php"); ?>
To include it on a server-parsed page (.shtml, .shtm, .ssi, etc.):
<!--#include file="last10.php"-->

Instructions are also included in the zip file (last10.txt).

FEEDBACK WANTED! Likes/dislikes/modification requests all gladly accepted!

Please DO NOT contact me via IM or PM about this hack. Post your problem/question here and I will try to help you.

Tubedogg:

After trying what you suggested, it works ok now after I put the code above in. Also, I had to change the include for my .shtml file from include "file" to include "virtual" as well. Doing all the above now produces the active table ok. I don't know what caused this, but we found the solution.

Jeff

That's very odd. Well, in any case, I'm glad it's working now.

Originally posted by tubedogg
Jeff: Hmm. I was expecting those two files to fail. What doesn't make sense is if they worked, why the other one wouldn't. Or, more succinctly, why the other one fails where it does. If it's having problems connecting, it should fail at the connect step, not at the select database step.

Here's what I suggest. Since the only thing I'm pulling from the vB files for this is username, password, db host, and database name, put these up at the top of the last10.php file as so:
Find

// let's get connected
require("last10config.php");
require("$path/config.php");

and replace it with

// let's get connected
require("last10config.php");
$servername = "localhost";
$dbusername = "dbusername";
$dbpassword = "dbpassword";
$dbname = "dbname";

and change the info to your details. That should work. If it still doesn't let me know and I'll look into it some more.

:scratching head:

Need to correct that on my hack?

Nope Just if it isn't working. His for whatever reason wasn't working, so I had him change that.

Yours is fine.

Originally posted by tubedogg
Nope Just if it isn't working. His for whatever reason wasn't working, so I had him change that.

Yours is fine.

Ok thx tubedogg

Robert and tubedogg:

I have deleted the cookie from my computer, closed down the browser and rebooted my computer so that all I get when I get on the board is the nonregwelcome message and I do not get the header error message when clicking on the link to take me to the last10.php file using the bbparsecode for the message.

Just so you know that on my board the script is working great with the bbparsecode being used with no error messages at all.

Parker

Originally posted by Parker Clack
Robert and tubedogg:

I have deleted the cookie from my computer, closed down the browser and rebooted my computer so that all I get when I get on the board is the nonregwelcome message and I do not get the header error message when clicking on the link to take me to the last10.php file using the bbparsecode for the message.

Just so you know that on my board the script is working great with the bbparsecode being used with no error messages at all.

Parker

Where is the page you have it on?

I'll visit and see if it gives me the error message.

jojo: No problem.

Parker: I don't have first-hand knowledge of the error Sportbikeworld is talking about. But if it truly does work, I'll look into it.

Robert:

Go to http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htforum/index.php

Click on the Today's Active Topics link under the threads in total count on the left hand side at the top.

This board is still in beta and I haven't moved any posts over from UBB yet so not much is going to be seen.

Let me know if you get the error or not.

Parker

Originally posted by Parker Clack
Robert:

Go to http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htforum/index.php

Click on the Today's Active Topics link under the threads in total count on the left hand side at the top.

This board is still in beta and I haven't moved any posts over from UBB yet so not much is going to be seen.

Let me know if you get the error or not.

Parker

Parker,

If I visit that way I will already have visited your forum. I need a direct link to the page that you have the hack on. There error will only show up if I have never visited your forums.