vBExternal v1.6

Alright, the people waiting for the quiz hack are gonna kill me for making this while i'm supposed to be developing v2.. heh.

Anyway, welcome to vBExternal, the answer to all your questions of "how can i get this to show on my website from my forum?"
vBExternal provides you the user with the availability to include several forms of information from your own forum, on your own website, with minimal work required!

UPDATE - 1.5:
This update provides more stability, the vBExternal file will only call 1 query for $vboptions and 1 query for the action, a maximum potential of 2 queries (some may execute 3 dependant on functionality used)

UPDATE - 1.6:
Several minor bugs fixed, 2 main one's were users online (repeating names) and emoticons (being red x's).
Also using vBExternal is completely different as to before (the download contains instructions on how to set up vBExternal the new way)

To update: Re-upload vBExternal.php

Features:

• Newest Members
  
  • Description: Outputs X members onto your website, ordered by newest first
    
  • Available Parameters/Options: Change amount shown (default is 5)
    
• Top Posters
  
  • Description: Outputs X members onto your website, ordered by # of posts
    
  • Available Parameters/Options: Change amount shown (default is 5)
    
• Newest Threads
  
  • Description: Outputs X threads onto your website, ordered by post date
    
  • Available Parameters/Options: Choose all/1/several forums to pick from (default is all forums), Change Amount shown (default is 5)
    
• Newest Replies
  
  • Description: Outputs X threads onto your website, ordered by newest reply
    
  • Available Parameters/Options: Choose all/1/several forums to pick from (default is all forums), Change Amount shown (default is 5)
    
• News
  
  • Description: Outputs X posts onto your website, from a specific forum, ordered by post date
    
  • Available Parameters/Options: Choose which forum news is pulled from, Change Amount shown (default is 5)
    
• Users Online
  
  • Description: Outputs all your users online on your forum, onto your webpage
    
  • Available Parameters/Options: N/A
    

Installation:
All you have to do is upload a few files, no running an installer, no file edits, no template additions/edits, nothing!!

Resources:
The system uses the default 1 vB queries onload, and then only ONE additional query (if action is successful)

Using vBExternal:
First of all, your site will have to be php, if your site is say .htm/.html, no worries, just rename the file type to .php, it will all be the same. Then read 'Usage Instructions' contained within the download to see how to set it up


Customizing HTML Output:
Go inside yourforumdir/vBExternal/
You'll find a few HTML files, these files are the template "structure" for each action, you can change the HTML to your own liking, however leave in the macro's --> {bla} (These are swapped with data called from your forum)

I think that's it really, really simple, really easy to use, so there ya go

PS: Feel free to send me any donations, my paypal is: webmaster@gzevolution.net

Enjoy,

- Zero Tolerance

[Seanie]

is it possible to make the whos online bit adopt the forums permissions, cause at the moment everyone can see that users that have elected themselves as invisible...

[Anatole]

Oh, yes! If you could only make an optional query for a last photo from PhotoPost database intergrated with vB

[azmi]

from jugo : https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....6&postcount=72

i have a question:
i want to show all new forums to display.
is there any way to to this?

# news from (must be set - only 1 forum id allowed)

[bhxtyrant]

Hey guys,Im kinda really new to VB and had a question.I manages to sucessfully install and set up VB external and everything is working great however it seems to be lacking a few things i would like so i was wondering if someone could tell me what i have to add/edit in order to get them.

1.)I would like to have a time/date stamp on the news item next to the postusername.Can this be done?I've actually seen it done at this site http://www.the-horror.com/ if anyone can help it would be appreciated.

2.)Also can be seen at the site i linked above.I would like to have a "post comments" and "view comments" link next to the comment number.How would i go about adding this?

Thanks in advance any help would be greatly appreciated.

[bhxtyrant]

Hmm no one at all?In that case if this isnt possible does anyone know of another similar hack to this one that has the features i need?Thanks

[Cheertobi]

Hi,

# Displaying Newest Threads

<?php
output_NewestThreads(5,"1,2,3");
?>

# Change '5' to the amount you want to show
# Change '1,2,3' to the forum ids you want to pull
# news from (leave blank to pull from all forums)

just one question Zero! Does ALL really means all forums or only "all" public forums? What about privat forums a guest cannot see/access!

Regards,

Tobi

[Confusion]

Is there a way to limit the outputs to a certain amount of characters?

Ex: I have a table that's 255px wide and I don't want the title of a thread to break a line to continue... I'd rather it look like this:

This is the name of the thread...
by Gee - 18 replies

Thanks.

[BillyD]

Originally Posted by Cheertobi

Hi,


just one question Zero! Does ALL really means all forums or only "all" public forums? What about privat forums a guest cannot see/access!

Regards,

Tobi

This is a good point. This script pulls up posts from private forums. What can we do about it, without having to type in all the forums we want minus the private ones? Thanks in advance. And I will click install once this is resolved.

[BillyD]

So ideal additions to this would be:

- Private forum exclusion
- Ability to include post-icons
- Ability to include number of members and guests online in addition to simply naming the members

That would be great. Thanks again.

[worMatty]

Morning, all.

I doubt you'll see this, ZT, but thanks very much for such an outstanding mod. It's such a simple thing, I'm surprised this was released on the 24th May. You've made it very customisable, but I too would like to know how to put the date and time of the news threads into my pages along with the articles.

Does anyone have any idea how this could be done? I'll continue to experiment and make inquiries in the meantime and if I find the answer I'll post it here.