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CrimsonGT · #1 05-05-2005, 08:35 AM

Alright, I know the first response will be to check out VBAdvanced and VBIndex but I honestly, after looking at them for days, do not think they will do what I need them too. I want to retain the way my homepage looks now, custom graphics (seperate from forums) and all.

I simply need to find a way to use the login from the forums on my homepage. Find a way to display the number of Members and the number of Guest online, and display ATLEAST the newest post from my news forum on the main page.

The website is http://www.nightmaremotorsports.com if you want to take a look, I am at a loss and hope someone can help.

cinq · #2 05-06-2005, 12:46 AM

Use

PHP Code:


			
chdir('path/to/forum');

include('./global.php');

Then pull the necessary info ( take a look at /forum/index.php file for how it does it ) that you need to the front page.

Titam · #3 05-07-2005, 12:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cinq

Use

PHP Code:


			
chdir('path/to/forum');

include('./global.php');

Then pull the necessary info ( take a look at /forum/index.php file for how it does it ) that you need to the front page.

I'm interested too and ... that doesn't work.

CrimsonGT · #4 05-09-2005, 07:44 AM

A lot of variables and what not, im experimenting with it now though. I wish there was something like this already made for those of us that don't want to use a CMS.

CrimsonGT · #5 05-10-2005, 07:52 AM

please help?

cinq · #6 05-10-2005, 08:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Titam

I'm interested too and ... that doesn't work.

You're gonna have to be a tad more descriptive in order for us to be able to help

GSX-Racing · #7 05-10-2005, 07:28 PM

I think this is what they want, as well I do. This is how my phpbb board was. It was a news.php file that got displayed on the front page of the site.

I could specify how many threads (i used 3 as seen here) to grab from what forum (22 for me). Then clicking the title took you right to the post in the forum.

I would really like this too as a portal system isn't what I'm after.

Just a news.php page and a recent.tpl file is all that this was.

CrimsonGT · #8 05-11-2005, 02:05 PM

Yeah, GSX hit it right on the head. I also ran phpBB a while back and I ran a portal system they had but I just copy pasted code out of the index.php it came with and kept my site look while using parts of there code. So far I was able to get the thread title/author to work, which I am using to display news (still trying to figure out how to get the actual message of the post to display as well though).

Then I also need to figure out how to show a login box/welcome back box and forum statistics. I really want to avoid a CMS because I feel like it integrates the main site too well with the forums, I would like to keep the two looking seperate.

GSX-Racing · #9 05-17-2005, 03:17 AM

hEY Crimson,

Did you get it figured out? How to pull everything from a post and display it elsewhere?

CrimsonGT · #10 05-17-2005, 07:48 PM

I did get my news script working. It pulls the first post of the first three threads in the News forum and displays them on a non-vb page. I still am at a loss on how to display the stats such as how many users are online, how many guest, and a login box.

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