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ascender · #1 06-24-2008, 08:01 PM

I'm just putting together a new home page for my website and I'd like to have a section which automatically displays the 5 or 10 most recent topics from my forum (v 3.7.2). Is there a way to do this as I've not had much luck with the search function on here?

Thanks,

Mike.

Dismounted · #2 06-25-2008, 07:27 AM

<a href="http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/main/vboptions_externaldataprovider_implementing" target="_blank">Implementing the External Data Provider</a>

ascender · #3 06-25-2008, 02:10 PM

Thanks very much, I've got that working in a web page now.

Is there an idiot's guide as to how to format the output it generates as its all a bit of a big-fonted, un-formatted mess?

Dismounted · #4 06-26-2008, 07:21 AM

You shouldn't really use the JS, as it would not display if someone has JS disabled. Rather, you should use an RSS parser to parse the RSS feed.

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