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

[azn_romeo_4u]

yea i have this on my website

www.flyffworld.com Fully customizable btw. Works nicely. Anyone know if this works on the latest version of vb?

[Pacman15]

It works... at least on 3.6.7 PL1

Isn't there a way, that we can images attached to the post to show up on news?? And again also the date and time would be a nice addition..

[jags2ooo]

Originally Posted by Pacman15

Can you add the Date an time? I really need that

Not sure how safe/good this is, but after

PHP Code:

                                'threadid'     => $News['threadid'],
                                'threadname'   => $News['title'],
                                'postuserid'   => $News['postuserid'],
                                'postusername' => $News['postusername'],
                                'post'         => $bbcode_parser->parse(unhtmlspecialchars($News['pagetext']), $f),
                                'comments'     => vb_number_format($News['replycount']), 


I added:

PHP Code:

'date'     => date("F j, Y, g:i a",$News['dateline']), 


And this automatically made the {date} substitution available, you can change the date part to whichever you want, again I'm not sure it's completely good, or which ever.

I'm really new to this

[TYorke]

Originally Posted by azn_romeo_4u

yea i have this on my website

www.flyffworld.com Fully customizable btw. Works nicely. Anyone know if this works on the latest version of vb?

Awesome, but I really meant to ask if custom BB Codes were able to be used externally through this script/add-on?

If not, anyone know of a way to parse custom BB Codes?

[Pacman15]

bb codes are parsed automatically

Thanks jags2ooo

[TYorke]

Originally Posted by Pacman15

bb codes are parsed automatically

Thanks jags2ooo

but the question remains: will custom BB codes be parsed as well?

[Pacman15]

I suppose they will, its a matter of trying... This script basically will get you, what it shows on the thread, so if it looks fine on the thread, it will look fine where you export it

[TYorke]

Originally Posted by Pacman15

I suppose they will, its a matter of trying... This script basically will get you, what it shows on the thread, so if it looks fine on the thread, it will look fine where you export it

Thanks. I will give it a whirl and report back with the findings

[azn_romeo_4u]

Originally Posted by TYorke

but the question remains: will custom BB codes be parsed as well?

Yes it will be parsed. As long as the text doesn't get cut off.

[TYorke]

Originally Posted by azn_romeo_4u

Yes it will be parsed. As long as the text doesn't get cut off.

YES YES ... custom BB Codes work as well, sweet!