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99SIVTEC · #1 10-21-2005, 09:03 PM

This should be simple for someone who knows what they are doing. Basically i'm trying to show "active topics" from several vbulletin sites on a single page. I decided to use the sites rss feeds instead of making a search query on each database (7 sites, so server load would be high). I'm using magpie and have setup a file called scractivetopics.php. It contains everything necessary to show the rss feeds on screen. It's after this step that I am having problems. I've never created a mod for vbulletin much less 3.5 so I don't know the best way to proceed. I tried creating another php file (netactive.php) with all of the necessary vbulletin files included so I could just call a template, but i'm having issues there. Let me show you some of these files so you have an idea.

netactive.php - Vbulletin file used to call the templates

PHP Code:


			
<?php



// ######################## SET PHP ENVIRONMENT ###########################

error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);



// ##################### DEFINE IMPORTANT CONSTANTS #######################

// change the line below to the actual filename without ".php" extention.

// the reason for using actual filename without extention as a value of this constant is to ensure uniqueness of the value throughout every PHP file of any given vBulletin installation.



define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'netactive'); 



// #################### PRE-CACHE TEMPLATES AND DATA ######################

// get special phrase groups

$phrasegroups = array();



// get special data templates from the datastore

$specialtemplates = array();



// pre-cache templates used by all actions

$globaltemplates = array(

    // change the lines below to the list of actual templates used in the script

    'netactive',



);



// pre-cache templates used by specific actions

$actiontemplates = array();



// ########################## REQUIRE BACK-END ############################

require_once('./global.php');



// #################### HARD CODE JAVASCRIPT PATHS ########################

$headinclude = str_replace('"clientscript', '"' . $vbulletin->options['bburl'] . '/clientscript', $headinclude);



// ########################################################################

// ######################### START MAIN SCRIPT ############################

// ########################################################################



$navbits = array(); 

// change the line below to contain whatever you want to show in the navbar (title of your custom page)

$navbits[$parent] = 'SCR Network Active Topics';



$navbits = construct_navbits($navbits);

eval('$navbar = "' . fetch_template('navbar') . '";');



// change the line below to contain the name of the actual main output template used in your script

eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('netactive') . '");');

?>

scractivetopics.php - magpie file used to read the rss feeds - I have html in here and would rather have it in a vbulletin template, but have no idea how to go about that

PHP Code:


			
<?php

define("MAGPIE_CACHE_AGE", "300");

define('MAGPIE_DIR', 'magpierss/');

require_once(MAGPIE_DIR.'rss_fetch.inc');



?>



<?php

    

    $rss = fetch_rss('http://www.xxx.net/vbulletin/external.php?type=RSS2&items=active');

    



    echo '<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center"><tr><td class="thead">' . $rss->channel['title'] . '</td></tr>';







    foreach ($rss->items as $item) {

        $href = $item['link'];

        $title = $item['title'];    

        

echo '<table cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center"><td width="16" class="alt1"><img src="http://www.xxx.net/vbulletin/images/statusicon/thread_new.gif"></td><td width="15" class="alt2"></td><td class="alt1"><a href="'.$item['link'].'">'.$item['title'].'</a></td></table></table>';





}

?>     

            <?php

    

    $rss = fetch_rss('http://www.xxx.com/external.php?type=RSS2&items=active');

    

    

    echo '<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center"><tr><td class="thead">' . $rss->channel['title'] . '</td></tr>';







    foreach ($rss->items as $item) {

        $href = $item['link'];

        $title = $item['title'];    

        

echo '<table cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center"><td width="16" class="alt1"><img src="http://www.xxx.net/vbulletin/images/statusicon/thread_new.gif"></td><td width="15" class="alt2"></td><td class="alt1"><a href="'.$item['link'].'">'.$item['title'].'</a></td></table></table>';





}

?>

   

            <?php

    

    $rss = fetch_rss('http://www.xxx.com/forums/external.php?type=RSS2&items=active');

    

    

    echo '<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center"><tr><td class="thead">' . $rss->channel['title'] . '</td></tr>';







    foreach ($rss->items as $item) {

        $href = $item['link'];

        $title = $item['title'];    

        

echo '<table cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center"><td width="16" class="alt1"><img src="http://www.xxx.net/vbulletin/images/statusicon/thread_new.gif"></td><td width="15" class="alt2"></td><td class="alt1"><a href="'.$item['link'].'">'.$item['title'].'</a></td></table></table>';





}

?>

   

   <?php

    

    $rss = fetch_rss('http://www.xxx.com/forums/external.php?type=RSS2&items=active');

    

    

    echo '<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center"><tr><td class="thead">' . $rss->channel['title'] . '</td></tr>';







    foreach ($rss->items as $item) {

        $href = $item['link'];

        $title = $item['title'];    

        

echo '<table cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center"><td width="16" class="alt1"><img src="http://www.xxx.net/vbulletin/images/statusicon/thread_new.gif"></td><td width="15" class="alt2"></td><td class="alt1"><a href="'.$item['link'].'">'.$item['title'].'</a></td></table></table>';





}

?>



<?php

    

    $rss = fetch_rss('http://www.xxx.com/forums/external.php?type=RSS2&items=active');

    

    

    echo '<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center"><tr><td class="thead">' . $rss->channel['title'] . '</td></tr>';







    foreach ($rss->items as $item) {

        $href = $item['link'];

        $title = $item['title'];    

        

echo '<table cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center"><td width="16" class="alt1"><img src="http://www.xxx.net/vbulletin/images/statusicon/thread_new.gif"></td><td width="15" class="alt2"></td><td class="alt1"><a href="'.$item['link'].'">'.$item['title'].'</a></td></table></table>';





}

?>



<?php

    

    $rss = fetch_rss('http://www.xxx.com/forums/external.php?type=RSS2&items=active');

    

    

    echo '<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center"><tr><td class="thead">' . $rss->channel['title'] . '</td></tr>';







    foreach ($rss->items as $item) {

        $href = $item['link'];

        $title = $item['title'];    

        

echo '<table cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center"><td width="16" class="alt1"><img src="http://www.xxx.net/vbulletin/images/statusicon/thread_new.gif"></td><td width="15" class="alt2"></td><td class="alt1"><a href="'.$item['link'].'">'.$item['title'].'</a></td></table></table>';





}

?>



<?php

    

    $rss = fetch_rss('http://www.xxx.com/forums/external.php?type=RSS2&items=active');

    

    

    echo '<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center"><tr><td class="thead">' . $rss->channel['title'] . '</td></tr>';







    foreach ($rss->items as $item) {

        $href = $item['link'];

        $title = $item['title'];    

        

echo '<table cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center"><td width="16" class="alt1"><img src="http://www.xxx.net/vbulletin/images/statusicon/thread_new.gif"></td><td width="15" class="alt2"></td><td class="alt1"><a href="'.$item['link'].'">'.$item['title'].'</a></td></table></table>';





}

?>

netactive template from vbulletin itself

PHP Code:


			
$stylevar[htmldoctype]

<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">

<head>

$headinclude

<title>$vboptions[bbtitle]</title>

</head>

<body>



$header

$navbar

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center" id="threadslist">

<tr>

    <td class="tcat" colspan="$threadcolspan" style="font-weight:normal">

    

        <span class="smallfont">Network Active Topics

        </span>

</td>



$scrnetactive



</tr>

</table>



$footer

</body>

</html>

I had this setup so scractivetopics.php was a plugin and could be called in a template using $scrnetactive (an include in vbulletin). I setup a custom template called netactive and inside called $scrnetactive. This worked, but my server load went through the roof because of the way I used the plugin. I had the plugin set to "global_start" so it was being called with every page. I can't think of another way to do this.

Someone please help. I'm sure it is a simple mistake, but I can't find the answers I am looking for.

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