Help Fetching Latest Social Groups!

[MarkFoster]

On the social groups page there's a block called "New Groups". I would like to know how I can copy the script that shows the latest social groups to use elsewhere on my site.

I alredy tried turning on debug mode and finding the template, but by copying that template notihng happens.

Is there any way to achieve what I want to do?

[Lynne]

templates only spit out results. You can't just copy a template and get the results. You need to copy the code also. I believe the code is in the groups.php page.

[MarkFoster]

Originally Posted by Lynne

templates only spit out results. You can't just copy a template and get the results. You need to copy the code also. I believe the code is in the groups.php page.

PHP Code:

// Get newest groups
    $newgroups = fetch_socialgroup_newest_groups(false, false, !$vbulletin->options['sg_enablesocialgroupicons']);

    $newgroupbits = '';
    foreach ($newgroups AS $group)
    {
        $group = prepare_socialgroup($group);
        ($hook = vBulletinHook::fetch_hook('group_newgroup_bit')) ? eval($hook) : false;
        eval('$newgroupbits .= "' . fetch_template('socialgroups_newgroup_' . ($vbulletin->options['sg_enablesocialgroupicons'] ? '' : 'listview_') . 'bit') . '";');
    }

    // Display groups that the current user created
    if ($owngroup = fetch_owner_socialgroup($vbulletin->userinfo['userid'], $vbulletin->GPC['owngrouppage']))
    {
        $owngroup = prepare_socialgroup($owngroup);
        ($hook = vBulletinHook::fetch_hook('group_newgroup_bit')) ? eval($hook) : false;
        eval('$owngroup = "' . fetch_template('socialgroups_owngroup_bit') . '";');
    } 


What Now? :S

[Lynne]

Copy it into the page you are making? Make sure the functions called in that code are also available for use (through a require_once statement - they may already be available, but you should check to be sure). Also make sure to cache the templates.

[MarkFoster]

Originally Posted by Lynne

Copy it into the page you are making? Make sure the functions called in that code are also available for use (through a require_once statement - they may already be available, but you should check to be sure). Also make sure to cache the templates.

I've tried puttting it into this file several times:

PHP Code:

<?php 

// ####################### SET PHP ENVIRONMENT ########################### 
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE); 

// #################### DEFINE IMPORTANT CONSTANTS ####################### 
define('NO_REGISTER_GLOBALS', 1); 
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'test'); // change this depending on your filename 

// ################### PRE-CACHE TEMPLATES AND DATA ###################### 
// get special phrase groups 
$phrasegroups = array( 

); 

// get special data templates from the datastore 
$specialtemplates = array( 

); 

// pre-cache templates used by all actions 
$globaltemplates = array( 
'TEST', 
); 

// pre-cache templates used by specific actions 
$actiontemplates = array( 

); 

// ######################### REQUIRE BACK-END ############################ 
require_once('./global.php'); 

// 
####################################################################### 
// ######################## START MAIN SCRIPT ############################ 
// ####################################################################### 

$navbits = array(); 
$navbits[$parent] = 'Zorz'; 

$navbits = construct_navbits($navbits); 
eval('$navbar = "' . fetch_template('navbar') . '";'); 
eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('testfornewgroups') . '");'); 

?>

But instead the entire page is blank. I have no knewledge when it comes to PHP. Any way somebody could help me with placing the code?

[Lynne]

That is your page? Do you have a template named "testfornewgroups"? The template you have listed to be cached is called "TEST" - where are you using that?