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

[morrow]

Why would I use this over Webtemplates? (honest question, not looking to flame your hard work).

What are the differences?

[Inferno Tech]

Never heard of it so i wouldn't be able to honestly answer that question.

Acid Burn - Inferno Technologies Developer

[Parm]

Thanks for the great plugin, I've been looking for something just like this!

Quick question; is it possible when outputting newest threads / newest replies to specify all forums except private forums? I'd like it to fetch data from every forum section apart from the few admin only sections. I know that I can put all the other forum ID's in manually but having a lot of forum sections that can change from time to time, I'd be much better off with a way to do all except private. Any idea if that can be done?

[Inferno Tech]

in pro we are adding this feature that can be edited in the ACP, but atm it wouldnt work

Acid Burn - Inferno Technologies Developer

[Parm]

Thanks for the prompt response Inferno Tech, I'll keep an eye out for the pro version.

In the meantime, is there anyway to exclude an individual forum at all? My coding knowledge is next to non-existent but I seem to recall ! meaning no. So I tried:

<?php
output_NewestReplies(5,"!22");
?>

Naturally, it didn't work but I'm wondering if there's something like that I could do?

[Inferno Tech]

that would produce an error, you would need to run an if statement for vb to exclude it or if you went into vbexternal.php and then looked for the function you wanted you could add a check to exclude the forums you dont want

Acid Burn - Inferno Technologies Developer

[CP,]

cheers for that. Will this work for vb 3.5.4?

[RedefiningFate]

Hello...has this error been figured out?

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class vbulletinhook in /****/****/*****/****/public_html/forum/vBExternal.php on line 121

I can't get past this...

Thanks...

[Mikhailtech]

Can't get this to work. My site is http://www.mikhailtech.com. My forums are at http://forum.mikhailtech.com. What do I put in for the chdir settings??

4 pages and not a single person has their forums located in a subdomain?

BTW it's located in a /forum folder under public_html, but ('./forum') or ('../forum
) don't work.

[jags2ooo]

How would i get it to show Total amount of registered members + total amount of people online