Display Forum Elements on Main Website page

[smith2007]

Hi - This is my first post here. I was recommended to this site and what a great site this is!

We have recently installed Vbullein. It is not live yet, as we are learning how to use it properly first.

My question; is it possible to include some elements of our Vbulletin Forum on our main website's home page? The main website is an ecommerce store. (I can edit this with an HTML editor)

I was thinking of things like a side box showing latest forum posts or perhaps a Poll etc.. The idea being to attract our webstore browsers to have a look at our new forum and become involved. I can easily add a simple link to the forum, but thought some dynamic content would be more attractive.

Is it possible to do this with VB 3.6.7PL1 as it is, or do I need a hack or another program to acheive this?

Any help will be really appreciated - thank you.

[Dismounted]

<a href="http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/main/vboptions_externaldataprovider_implementing" target="_blank">http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/m...r_implementing</a>

[smith2007]

Thanks Dismounted! for your quick and helpful reply.

Looks like I'm going to be on a steep learning curve. Other than very simple Java (e.g. displaying a pop up page) I'm a complete novice. I will need to study how to retreive certain elements like 'Latest Posts' or 'Latest Polls' from my vbulletin forum.

Appreciate your help and thanks for putting me on the right track.

[Dismounted]

Note that you said 'Java', which is NOTHING like 'Javascript' (the one you're trying to talk about).

[smith2007]

I tried the code shown on the link you provided and this displays the lastest thread title and who posts it OK.

<script src="http://www.yourdomain.com/forumpath/external.php?type=js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
for (i in threads)
{
document.writeln(threads[i].title + " (" + threads[i].poster + ")<br />");
}
//-->
</script>

What I would really like to acheive is to make the displayed current threads clickable (i.e. to take you to that particular thread). I have spent the last two days trying, but with no success.
If this is possibe, can any one advise a script to call this from the external data source? The one above displays the info, but it is not clickable.

I was also trying to call info like the latest poll, but again am unsure how to go about it.

Any help or pointers re calling vbulletin info would be fantastic.

[Dismounted]

Try the hack 'vBExternal'.