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Old 05-09-2005, 08:53 PM
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This is the one I have been using on my front page for awhile, it works quite well and you can customize the look and feel easily. It is the news out script by RAFE

See it in action here

http://www.digitalinsurrection.com



PHP Code:
<?php
// See bottom for more instructions.
 
// We need vB global for bbcode parsing.
// This scripts needs to be in the forums directory or you need to uncomment the chdir
// lines (and edit them).
 
// chdir("/path/to/forums/"); 
 
require_once("./global.php"); 
 
// chdir("/path/to/this/script"); 
 
 
 
// VARIABLES TO SET
 
// hostname or ip of server
$servername="localhost";
 
// username and password to log onto db server
$dbusername="dbusername";
$dbpassword="dbpassword";
 
// name of database
$dbname="forumname";
 
//path to your forums
$forumspath "http/path/to/your/forums";
 
 
function 
writenews($cats$filetw$newsitems=7){ 
global 
$servername;
global 
$dbusername;
global 
$dbpassword;
global 
$dbname;
global 
$forumspath;
 
 
//Connect to the database
$connection mysql_connect("$servername","$dbusername","$dbpassword") or die ("Cannot connect to server.");
$db mysql_select_db("$dbname"$connection) or die ("Could not select database.");
 
//Create SQL statement this gets the title poster and other bits
$sql "SELECT threadid, title, forumid, replycount, postusername, postuserid, lastposter, dateline, iconid FROM thread WHERE forumid IN ($cats) AND sticky = '0' ORDER BY threadid DESC LIMIT $newsitems";
 
 
//execute sql query
$sql_result mysql_query($sql$connection) or die ("Could not execute query.");
 
if (!
$sql_result) { 
echo 
"Could not get news.";

 
while (
$row mysql_fetch_array($sql_result)) {
$threadid $row["threadid"];
$title $row["title"]; 
$forumid $row["forumid"];
$replycount $row["replycount"];
$postusername $row["postusername"];
$postuserid $row["postuserid"];
$lastposter $row["lastposter"];
$iconid $row["iconid"];
$dateline $row["dateline"];
 
//create the second SQL statement to pull the post from the thread it resides in
$sql2 "SELECT postid, threadid, username, userid, title, dateline, pagetext, iconid FROM post WHERE threadid = \"$threadid\" ORDER BY postid ASC LIMIT 1";
 
//This gets the text of the post
$sql_result2 mysql_query($sql2$connection) or die ("Could not execute query in second sql statement.");
if (!
$sql_result2) { 
echo 
"Could not get news.";

while (
$row2 mysql_fetch_array($sql_result2)) {
$ptext $row2["pagetext"];
 
 
//Convert time
$dateposted date("D j M Y, g:i A",$dateline);
 
//Comments or comment depending on number of replies
if ($replycount==1) {
$commenttext "Comment";
}
else {
$commenttext "Comments";
}
 
 
// This parses the bbcode
require_once("./includes/functions_bbcodeparse.php");
$outxt=parse_bbcode2($ptext,"1","1","1","1","1");
 
// Uncomment next 4 lines if you want to limit the amount of text displayed to the first paragraph.
// $trimmed = explode("<br />", $outxt);
//$outxt=$trimmed[0];
//$trimmed = explode("</p>", $outxt);
//$outxt=$trimmed[0];
 
$outxt=substr($outxt,0,350);
 
// This is optional. It strips out unecessary tags if you wish and leaves those specified behind
// $outxt = strip_tags($outxt, '<a>,<b>,<strong>,<i>,<em>,<br />,<br>,<p>');
 
// This sql gets the title of the forum
$sql3 "SELECT title FROM forum WHERE forumid = \"$forumid\" LIMIT 1";
$sql_result3 mysql_query($sql3$connection) or die ("Could not execute query in second sql statement.");
$row3 mysql_fetch_array($sql_result3);
$forumname $row3["title"];
 
//EDIT the HTML OUTPUT HERE
 
$towrite .= "
 
<table border=0 width=100% cellpadding=0 class=tborder>
<!-- Overall Table -->
<td bgcolor=#7A7A7A>
 
<table border=0 width=100% cellpadding=0>
<td bgcolor=#E6E8FA>
 
<div>
<table border=0 width=100% bgcolor=#869BBF><td bgcolor=#869BBF>
Posted on <i><font color=#FFFFCC>
$dateposted</i></font> 
</td>
 
<td align=right bgcolor=#869BBF>
 
Posted by <a href=\"
$forumspath/member.php?s=&amp;action=getinfo&amp;userid=$postuserid\"><b><font color=#FFFFCC>$postusername</b></FONT></a> 
</td></table> 
 
<table border=0>
<td bgcolor=#E6E8FA>
 
<br>
<P>
<div>
<h4><a href=\"
$forumspath/showthread.php?s=&amp;threadid=$threadid\">$title</a></h4>
</div>
<P>
 
<div>
$outxt <b>...</b></div>
<P>
<a href=\"
$forumspath/showthread.php?s=&amp;threadid=$threadid\">Read complete Article</a><P><br><BR>
 
</td></table>
 
 
 
 
<table border=0 width=100% bgcolor=#869BBF>
<td align=left bgcolor=#869BBF>
<a class=newsout href=\"
$forumspath/showthread.php?s=&amp;threadid=$threadid\">$replycount $commenttext</a></div>&nbsp;
</td>
<td align=center bgcolor=#869BBF>
<A class=newsout HREF=\"http://forums.digitalinsurrection.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=186\">&raquo;View complete Article Archive</a></td>
 
<td align=right bgcolor=#869BBF>
&nbsp;<a href=\"
$forumspath/newreply.php?do=newreply&t=$threadid\"><img src=\"$forumspath/images/reply_small.gif\" title=\"Post a reply to this article\" border=\"0\"></a>
</td></table>
 
</div>
 
 
 
</td></table>
 
</td><!-- End Overall Table --></table><P><br>
"
;
// END HTML EDIT
}
}
 
 
 
//disconnect
//mysql_free_result($sql_result);
//mysql_close($connection);
 
 
// If you want to wite out to a file - good idea to reduce db load
// Then uncomment this section and edit appropriately. You need
// to have a folder to stores the output file and they need to writeable (chmod 666)
// $filetw is name of output file.
// You may then want to call this file by cron so thing update reguarly.
 
//$tmpfile = fopen("/path/to/storafe/folder/".$filetw."","w+"); 
//$fp = fwrite($tmpfile,$towrite); 
//fclose($tmpfile); 
//flush (); 
 
// If you are writing to a file comment the line below out.
echo $towrite;
}
 
 
// This calls the writenews function. Done as a function so can be called multiple times.
// First variable is forum id to get news from. One forum is like 1 and multiple forums
// like 1,2,3. Output file onyl applies if you are outputting a file (see just above)
// The last variable is the number of news itmes to grab / display. Deafults to 10.
 
@writenews("231,232,233,234,235""outputfile.txt","7");
 
// Want another write out (useful for files etc?) just call function again as below
// @writenews("16,17", "outputfile.txt","10");
?>
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