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

[The Guardian]

I haven't updated to vB 3 yet, that's a project for me this week, but I'd like to use this for news on my website.

Can it be set to show only the first post in each thread, in order, and link to it, so you can have discussion on the threads which doesn't show up on the news page?

Thanks

[worMatty]

Originally Posted by The Guardian

Can it be set to show only the first post in each thread, in order, and link to it, so you can have discussion on the threads which doesn't show up on the news page?

Yes, The Guardian, it can. It shows the initial post of a thread as the 'article' and links to 'comments' (the replies in that thread). It displays articles in descending date order, and doesn't change the order they are displayed if a thread is bumped.

I've just installed this mod at http://www.habbohut.com - check it out, you'll see what I mean.

[TylerL]

I need some slight help with this mod, nothing too big. I want to display the newest threads (5 of them) and I want every 2nd thread to display with a different background color.

Thread 1 info
Thread 2 info
Thread 3 info
Thread 4 info
Thread 5 info

Can anyone help?

[10sion]

quick question....... is it possible to have news show up on domain1 and the forum in on domain2 ?

k figured it out
with - cause both sites are hosted on same server

PHP Code:

<?php
chdir('/home/user/public_html/');
require_once('/home/user/public_html/vBExternal.php');
?>

:squareeyed:

[HolyCircle]

Does this mod work with 3.0.8?
Also, I've noticed that a lot of sites people posted here have their home pages sort of in html style. How could I also make a page in html, and make a frame for the news using this portal? I'm very new to websign so please excuse my stupidity. Also, if I do make it in a html sort of homepage, how do I limit amount of news that appear on the page so let's say only 5 recent news appear and at the bottom it says click to read all news.

[HolyCircle]

Sooo.... Can anyone help me? Eh?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Originally Posted by HolyCircle

Sooo.... Can anyone help me? Eh?

Please wait 24 hours before bumping your question, thank you.

[yoyoyoyo]

Originally Posted by HolyCircle

Does this mod work with 3.0.8?
Also, I've noticed that a lot of sites people posted here have their home pages sort of in html style. How could I also make a page in html, and make a frame for the news using this portal? I'm very new to websign so please excuse my stupidity. Also, if I do make it in a html sort of homepage, how do I limit amount of news that appear on the page so let's say only 5 recent news appear and at the bottom it says click to read all news.

Yes it works with 3.0.8, and just read the well-written "Usage Instructions" that came with the zip file since it answers your questions regarding the amount of news articles, etc..

[TCattitude]

Originally Posted by jugo

Am I missing something here:

I want to create a function called:

PHP Code:

output_Login() 


I have created this in the vBExternal.php:

PHP Code:

    // ---------------------------------------------------
    // FUNCTION: output_Login
    // DETAIL:   Outputs Login Box
    // ---------------------------------------------------

    function output_Login(){
    global $DB, $Data;
    $Template = LoadTemplate("login_form.html");
    if ($bbuserinfo['userid'] == 0 || $bbuserinfo['userid'] == -1) {
    $Data .= ParseTemplate($Template);
    } else {
        echo "Welcome Back,<br>".$bbuserinfo['username'];
    }
    doOutput();
    } 


and created this template: as login_form.html

<fieldset>
<legend>Login :</legend>
		<form action="{url}/login.php" method="post" onsubmit="md5hash(vb_login_password,vb_login_md5password)">
		<script type="text/javascript" src="{url}/clientscript/vbulletin_md5.js"></script>
		<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="3" border="0">
		<tr>
			<td>UN: </td>
			<td><input type="text" class="button" name="vb_login_username" id="navbar_username" size="10" accesskey="u" tabindex="1" value="User Name" onfocus="if (this.value == 'User Name') this.value = '';" /></td>
			<td colspan="2" nowrap="nowrap"><label for="cb_cookieuser_navbar"><input type="checkbox" name="cookieuser" value="1" tabindex="3" id="cb_cookieuser_navbar" accesskey="c" checked="checked" />Remember Me?</label></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>PWD: </td>
			<td><input type="password" class="button" name="vb_login_password" size="10" accesskey="p" tabindex="2" /></td>
			<td><input type="submit" class="button" value="Log in" tabindex="4" title="Enter your username and password in the boxes provided to login, or click the 'register' button to create a profile for yourself." accesskey="s" /></td>
		</tr>
		</table>
		<input type="hidden" name="s" value="" />
		<input type="hidden" name="do" value="login" />
		<input type="hidden" name="forceredirect" value="1" />			
		<input type="hidden" name="vb_login_md5password" />
		</form>
</fieldset>

What include or required file am I missing that is preventing this from working properly.

It is not displaying the username or anything. Additionally, I want to add a conditional to one of the functions for an admin sub-function by determining the usergroupid membership and that too does not work.

HELP ZT HEEEELP!!!!

A function like that would be interesting.
Show if the user is logged in or not. Diferent templates for guest and registered, and meaby based on usergroupsid.

ZT, where are you?

[HolyCircle]

I have another question. I read Installation and Usage Instructions, but I'm still unclear on how to code my main page so it shows news in a specific part of the site, for example like this site has http://www.varilla.co.uk/indextest.php that only a certain portion has the news. I'm new at webdesign, so yea... :/ So how can I set it that it shows the news in the middle part of the page, sort of like this site I provided, but in the middle...