Major Additions - [ITech] vBExternal Lite

PLEASE REFER TO THE FOLLOWING THREAD FOR HELP/SUPPORT: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=166791

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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
• Users online
• Latest Threads w/preview
• More Information *Here*

Installation Information:

• Template modifications: 0
• Database changes: 0
• Files added: 5
• Files modified: 1 (website page)
• Installation difficulty: 2/5

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:

<?php
chdir('../VB');
require_once('vBExternal.php');
?>

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/)

Screenshot:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...4&d=1118677511
(Thanks to C.Birch)


Acid Burn - Inferno Technologies Developer

[djilou]

Originally Posted by azn_romeo_4u

yea i have this on my website

www.flyffworld.com Fully customizable btw. Works nicely. Anyone know if this works on the latest version of vb?

Awesome!
can you tell me how did you managed to display just a certain number of characters from the post on my news page?

thanks!

[azn_romeo_4u]

PHP Code:

array(
                                'threadid'     => $News['threadid'],
                                'threadname'   => $News['title'],
                                'postuserid'   => $News['postuserid'],
                                'postusername' => $News['postusername'],
                                'post'         => $bbcode_parser->parse(unhtmlspecialchars(substr ($News['pagetext'],0,900)), $f), 
                                'comments'     => vb_number_format($News['replycount']),
                                'date'            => vbdate($vbulletin->options['dateformat'], $News['dateline']),
                                'time'            => vbdate($vbulletin->options['timeformat'], $News['dateline']), 


I added

'post' => $bbcode_parser->parse(unhtmlspecialchars(substr ($News['pagetext'],0,900)), $f),

this to vbexternal. Change the 900 number to whatever u want. the ... you see at the end. I had to manually add that in there. LOL.

anyone know if this works in the lastest version? can anyone recommend me a script that is flexible like this?

[Pacman15]

There is one thing not working thought... I had to set my 'news forum' to put in moderation queue the threads created by members, so that it wouldn't show stupid things on my main page, but it doesn't work. Even if the thread is not aproved yet, it will apear on the main page.

Do you have any idea in how to fix that?

My temporary solution was to create a sub-forum 'propose news', so whenever I like a news from my members I'd move it to the main 'News Forum'.

[PeteBlume]

Is there any possibility to show the news in a template? Fpr example: I want to show 1 news-post in the template threadbit under the first post?

Do you know whta I mean? Can you help me?

[azn_romeo_4u]

Originally Posted by Pacman15

There is one thing not working thought... I had to set my 'news forum' to put in moderation queue the threads created by members, so that it wouldn't show stupid things on my main page, but it doesn't work. Even if the thread is not aproved yet, it will apear on the main page.

Do you have any idea in how to fix that?

My temporary solution was to create a sub-forum 'propose news', so whenever I like a news from my members I'd move it to the main 'News Forum'.

Just don't give permission to your members to post in that particular forum.

So does that mean on your board this works on 3.6.8?

[txsbmw]

Originally Posted by azn_romeo_4u

Just don't give permission to your members to post in that particular forum.

So does that mean on your board this works on 3.6.8?

I run 3.6.8 and it works like a charm.

[Mikhailtech]

Can someone help me exclude a specific forum from the results? I have a forum that's just for mods/admins and is invisible to normal users, but the thread titles from this forum still show up in VBE. What code modification would I have to make to exclude this particular forum from the new threads/new posts results?

[koby411]

Is there someway I can combine this with this mod:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=99925
To give the news categories?
Like so on the news it can say
Filed Under: Square Enix
or w/e?

[jGas]

it's a very good mod...does it works with myspace?

i'd like to insert the last posts and news on "my" myspace page...

[koby411]

How to do I get this:


<?php
chdir('./forums');
require_once('./vBExternal.php');
?>

Set right if my sites are like this:

Forum:
forgottenmem/forums

Site:
khtrinity


I tried using this:

<?php
chdir('../forgottenmem/forums');
require_once('./vBExternal.php');
?>

but it didn't work.. O.o

Okay got it working now, but I have another problem..

When I put an image into the news.html template like:
http://forgottenmem.net/images/news_arrow.gif

When it shows the news on the site it changes that link to:
http://forgottenmem.net/http://forum...news_arrow.gif

Why is it adding that in the middle of the link? O.o