Displaying a thread on an external website.

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Unfortunately, it does have limited functionality.
I used the news function in it with:

<?php
output_News(1,20); //(amount to show, forum id to pull)
?>

This just displays the latest x amount of the latest threads from the designated forum. Read the usability guide as there's a coupla paths you have to add at the top.

vBExternal is fine, although when using it with the latest version you'll get a database error. To fix this just open up vBExternal.php and find the line:

$config['MasterServer']['servername'],

Now after this line, paste in the following line.

$config['MasterServer']['port'],

Everything should now work fine. You can edit the template news.html to display the posts as you want.

I understand this probably isn't quite the functionality that you want as it doesn't allow you to target a specific thread. I certainly wanted more.

After much searching round and zero help from the people on this forum (my post was ignored) I think you can do it by using external.php with rss feeds as an external data provider. This does allow you to target individual threads and display them however you want, just with no feed for attachments (the images!).

I found some code to add into external.php that lets you pull the link for any attachments along with the thread, and once I've finished writing the xml parser for rss I'm hoping it'll work. If so I'll post my findings on here for other people left in the dark.