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[ITech] vBExternal Lite
Created By Inferno Technologies (http://www.infernotechnologies.net)
Copyright 2004-2007
All rights reserved
Project Development Team: Zero Tolerance, Acid Burn
Project Lead: Iain "Decado" Kidd
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Ported from vBExternal 1.6 created by Zero Tolerance to work with vBulletin 3.6.x
Features:
Easy integration with your existing php scripts
No coding experiance needed to make it work
Full parsing for bbtags and emoticons/smilies + auto URL correction (no red-x's)
Lets you put forum information on your homepage/webpage
Installation Instructions:
1) Unzip the folder and upload the contents of UPLOAD into your root directory
2) Read Useage instructions.txt and then you are done
Version History:
None so far.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Q: So does this able you to put like phrases and stuff in external sites?
A: At the moment it allows you to Display Newest Members, Top Posters, Newest Threads, Newest Replies, News and Users Online onto a page outside of your vbulletin directory.
Q: I have a problem. My page is located at root/cms and my forum at root/forum. It's isn't possible for me to locate the forum in a subfolder of /cms.
Is there any solution for this problem?
A:Yes there is a solution try this piece of code instead of the one that the instructions says to use:
Q: How would i do this if theres 2 different domains involved
A: If the two domains are on both the same server and the same domain account then call you need to do is chdir out of your current account folder (www/public_html/testsite/) to the other domain folder (www/public_html/site2/)
I assume this must have something to do with the fact that I am trying to display the information on the same page as the forum -and so you'd be right about it be a linkage (or directory) problem.
I also have a main page built in Joomla, and it will display there ok.
-of course the head code for that page is: <?php
chdir('./forum');
require_once('./vBExternal.php');
?>
because it's a different directory.
but I drop in the php output code on that page and it works just fine.
I've managed to get the post text displayed with the code below but would now like to add the parent forum.
PHP Code:
// ---------------------------------------------------
// FUNCTION: output_NewestThreads
// DETAIL: Outputs X newest threads ordered by
// start date descending. $a
// specifies amount to show (Default 5)
// and $f can specify certain forums
// to grab from (1,3,4), by default it pulls
// from all forums.
// ---------------------------------------------------
function output_NewestThreads($a = 5,$f = ""){
global $db, $Data, $vbulletin;
// Define amount to show
$Amount = ($a)? intval($a) : 5;
// Define Forum(s) To Pull From
$Forums = ($f)? $f: '';
$SQL = '';
if($Forums){
$SQL = " where forumid in({$Forums})";
}
// Collect Data
$NewestThreads = $db->query("
select t.*,p.pagetext
from ".TABLE_PREFIX."thread t
left join ".TABLE_PREFIX."post p on(p.postid=t.firstpostid)
{$SQL} order by dateline desc
limit 0,$Amount");
$bbcode_parser =& new vB_BbCodeParser($vbulletin, fetch_tag_list());
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