Major Additions - [ITech] vBExternal Lite

PLEASE REFER TO THE FOLLOWING THREAD FOR HELP/SUPPORT: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=166791

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[ITech] vBExternal Lite
Created By Inferno Technologies (http://www.infernotechnologies.net)
Copyright 2004-2007
All rights reserved
Project Development Team: Zero Tolerance, Acid Burn
Project Lead: Iain "Decado" Kidd
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Ported from vBExternal 1.6 created by Zero Tolerance to work with vBulletin 3.6.x

Features:

• Easy integration with your existing php scripts
• No coding experiance needed to make it work
• Full parsing for bbtags and emoticons/smilies + auto URL correction (no red-x's)
• Lets you put forum information on your homepage/webpage
• Users online
• Latest Threads w/preview
• More Information *Here*

Installation Information:

• Template modifications: 0
• Database changes: 0
• Files added: 5
• Files modified: 1 (website page)
• Installation difficulty: 2/5

Installation Instructions:
1) Unzip the folder and upload the contents of UPLOAD into your root directory
2) Read Useage instructions.txt and then you are done

Version History:
None so far.

Frequently Asked Questions:
Q: So does this able you to put like phrases and stuff in external sites?
A: At the moment it allows you to Display Newest Members, Top Posters, Newest Threads, Newest Replies, News and Users Online onto a page outside of your vbulletin directory.

Q: I have a problem. My page is located at root/cms and my forum at root/forum. It's isn't possible for me to locate the forum in a subfolder of /cms.
Is there any solution for this problem?

A:Yes there is a solution try this piece of code instead of the one that the instructions says to use:

<?php
chdir('../VB');
require_once('vBExternal.php');
?>

Q: How would i do this if theres 2 different domains involved
A: If the two domains are on both the same server and the same domain account then call you need to do is chdir out of your current account folder (www/public_html/testsite/) to the other domain folder (www/public_html/site2/)

Screenshot:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...4&d=1118677511
(Thanks to C.Birch)


Acid Burn - Inferno Technologies Developer

[Kitara79]

Works so far for me, but the Output ignores all

[quote] or [PHP] etc.

Tags. They are simply not shown. I think the Problem is, that they use their own templates and the script does not get them?

Does someone has any idea?

[Archaic Sage]

Is there any chance of a "Read More" option being added for this?

[Koroku]

Very nice!! It's just what I was looking for.

If anyone wants an avatar, you can use this:
<img src='{url}/image.php?u={postuserid}' alt='Avatar' />

[steveneff]

Hi all, This mod looks great.

Anyone got it working with phpnuke module in the home page and vb in /forum?

[skepticality]

Great addition to my own vBulletin system! This should be a 'standard' feature in the system out of the 'box'!

[JtChurch925]

I'm excited! This is exactly what I was looking for.
But, i'm a bit lost.

What I was hoping to use this for was to populate some sidebar boxes on the same page as my forum.

Ive dropped in the head code:
<?php
require_once('vBExternal.php');
?>

And I drop the output code into my sidebar box...
But I get a blank sidebar, nothing had changed.
Here is the code for the sidebar, perhaps you can see my mistake?

<table>
<div class="thead" align="left">Newest Member</div>
<td height="125px" class="lftbox1" height="25px"><?php
output_NewestMembers(1);
?></td>
</table>

Visually the box (or I should say 'table' in this case), appears as I want it to, with the one noticeable exception being that is is empty!

Any thoughts?

[steveneff]

Hi JtChurch925,

Looks similar to my problem with phpnuke

I've got it working by adding forum/ to the includes in vBExternal.php but it stops the rest of nuke from finishing, I think its a dir problem.

[JtChurch925]

Thanx for replying Steveneff,

I would be willing to try anything.
I'm guessing that you're referring to the code inside vBExternal.php
Looking at the code though im not shure what you mean by adding forum/

if( !file_exists('./includes/config.php'))
{
echo "includes/config.php does not exist. Cannot continue.";
exit;
}

require_once('./includes/class_core.php');
require('./includes/config.php');

is forum/ going in the place of the ./ ?

Again, I appreciate your reply.

[steveneff]

Originally Posted by JtChurch925

is forum/ going in the place of the ./ ?

Again, I appreciate your reply.

only if that's where your vb is.

[JtChurch925]

yep, it's forum/ for me.

I'll try that and let you know how it goes,
Going replace ./ with forum/ all the way down.

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