Why cant I find any in-depth instructions on how to use the JS Syndication included??

[troykristoffer]

Please bear with me. Im extremely frustrated after days of trying to figure this out.

Im trying to post the latest 3 (or so.) threads from a specific forum on the FRONT page of my non VB webpage. With phpBB, I was able to use a very simple fetch posts script.

It seams this does not exist for vB. I've searched and searched. All I can find are things that are waaay to complicated than I need. I either have to install 12 files, edit this edit that or spend an hour installing things I dont want to get one little thing I do. I dont want that. I simply want a snipet of code I can copy and paste into a webpage, and edit a little to accomplish what I need.

It seems vB has a built in syndication feature in JS, which is exactly what Im looking for, but I cannot for the life of me find any reliable information on how to use it. The official documentation simply tells me how to turn it off and on, but Im sorry, that doesnt tell me how to use it.

I've searched in vain on vbulliten.org/com and found nothing but scripts that dont work, (Here ) or people saying "Yeah, everyone is asking about this, but I dont have the time to tell you how to do it." and very vauge info on it. (Here)

TWO YEARS AGO they said they would include specific code examples to use it. What happened?

The closest I can find to what I want (I think) is this bit of code:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
for (i = 0; i < 5; i++)
{
document.writeln("<a href=\"http://www.yoursite.com/vb3/showthread.php?threadid="+threads[i].threadid+"\">"+threads[i].title+"</a>&nbsp;("+threads[i].poster+")<br />");
}
//-->
</script>

But NOBODY explains what things to change (well, besides the obvious url) to make it specific to what thread I want it to use and how many posts etc.

It kinda disturbs me that there is a 9 page thread of people begging for help on this feature and knowledge about itHERE and all people can do is say "You could do this or that" or post code without explaining how to use it.

Can *ANYONE* Give me a step by step instruction on what to do? Im kinda ashamed to admit, that I cant understand this stuff after 4 years of web design experience. ( I suppose my skill is more on the side of asthetics than technical heh.)

Again, I want a simple snippet of code to copy and paste in a specific area of a non vb webpage that will fetch the latest 3 (or so... ) threads in a specific forum. For example, if I post 3 news articles in a forum, I'd like the headlines to show up on my front page.

Thanks :ermm: