Version: 1.6, by Zero Tolerance
Developer Last Online: Nov 2023
Version: 3.0.7
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Released: 05-23-2005
Last Update: 05-24-2005
Installs: 145
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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
this is an excellent hack + exactly what I have been searching for. Just one thing i really need is to have the users avatar next to the news post. Is there a way to do this?
if you look on my test index site http://www.varilla.co.uk/indextest.php you can see the previous news system i wrote simply in php (the top post), and under it the vbexternal posts.
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06-21-2005, 07:30 PM
