News Script which isn't a hack!

[AzzKikr]

Howdy all; long time IPB user here who decided to make the switch. Don't hold it against me!

I'm rolling out an install of vB for a new website. The webmaster was hoping that he could find a script which would pull all posts (and original poster, time of post, amount of comments, title, etc), format it as he required, and dump the formatted code into a HTML file which he could then SSI into his site's front page.

But, he doesn't want to use a hack like vBAdvanced, because he likes the support from Jelsoft too much

Is there anything like this that currently exists, or that someone would be willing to code up?

Cheers,
-A.

[Andreas]

Originally Posted by AzzKikr

Is there anything like this that currently exists, or that someone would be willing to code up?

Everything that is not being published by Jelsoft is a Hack and thus unsupported.

[AzzKikr]

Originally Posted by KirbyDE

Everything that is not being published by Jelsoft is a Hack and thus unsupported.

Doesn't a hack modify the code of the board?

I was hoping that this script would be able to access the DB directly, bypassing vB and just parsing the content. Thus, the vB install is still supported and my webmaster friend gets his news page

-A.

[Andreas]

If you are using custom code (no matter if it's just in its own files, a plugin or does modify standard vBulletin files), your installation is unsupported.

[Paul M]

This is what Jelsoft have posted on this ;

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=730419

[AzzKikr]

Originally Posted by Paul M

This is what Jelsoft have posted on this ;

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=730419

So a seperate script that just reads the DB should be OK, given that it doesn't modify the DB in any way nor interface with vB?

-A.