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This is something I like to do on my homepage. If a post has no replies it needs attention right? I agree so I threw this little hack together that will list your dead topics.

Demo:
http://www.extremeforums.com/include/deadtopics.inc.php

Code:

<?php
// Set this to the max number of dead topics you want to display
$maxthreads = 100;

require("config.php");
$db=mysql_connect($servername,$dbusername,$dbpassword);
mysql_select_db($dbname);
$query = "SELECT * FROM thread WHERE replycount < 1 ORDER BY dateline DESC LIMIT $maxthreads";
$resultlatest = mysql_query($query,$db);
while ($latest_array = mysql_fetch_array($resultlatest)) {
echo "<FONT SIZE=\"1\" FACE=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">&nbsp;°
<A HREF=\"http://www.extremeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=$latest_array[threadid]\">$latest_array[title]</A></FONT><BR>";
}
 
?>

Edit the echo statement and the $maxthreads variable as you see fit

~Chris

#12 08-24-2000, 01:49 PM

what's the method to include the code (display the dead topics) on a non vb page via .shtml at another webhost.
i'm hosting my vb entry page on a separate hosting account (www.entrypagehost.com/index.shtml), away from the forum (www.forumhost.com/index.php)!!

can you help me with the code, including the dead topic list on my entry page. the include("/full/path/to/deadtopics.inc.php"); method doesn't work!

thx a lot!
yours vanessa

#13 08-24-2000, 03:03 PM

well i got this to work at http://animeboards.net

to include the php file i did

Code:

<?php 
include("/home/usr1/www.animeboards.net/htdocs/deadtopics.root.php3"); 
?>

and here's my deadtopics.root.php3 file

Code:

<?php
// Set this to the max number of dead topics you want to display
$maxthreads = 20;

require("/home/usr1/www.animeboards.net/htdocs/forums/admin/config.php");
$db=mysql_connect($servername,$dbusername,$dbpassword);
mysql_select_db($dbname);
$query = "SELECT * FROM thread WHERE replycount < 1 AND forumid != 21 AND forumid != 22 AND forumid != 23 AND forumid != 28 AND forumid != 24 AND forumid != 7 AND forumid != 13 AND forumid != 32 AND forumid != 34 AND forumid != 37 AND forumid != 5 AND forumid != 6 AND forumid != 33 AND forumid != 15 ORDER BY dateline DESC LIMIT $maxthreads";
$resultlatest = mysql_query($query,$db);
while ($latest_array = mysql_fetch_array($resultlatest)) {
echo "<FONT SIZE=\"1\" FACE=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">??
<A HREF=\"http://animeboards.net/forums/showthread.php?threadid=$latest_array[threadid]\">$latest_array[title]</A></FONT><BR>";
}
 
?>

and i believe you can't put this php code in a .shtml file unless you set your server to parse php in .shtml

you need to use .php, .php3 file for it to work... what i did was create index.php3 which includes all of the above and then include index.php3 into a index.shtml file

in the index.php3 file i had at the very top before <html> tag the following

Code:

<?
 require("/home/usr1/www.animeboards.net/htdocs/forums/admin/config.php");
 require("/home/usr1/www.animeboards.net/htdocs/phpads/config.inc.php3"); 
 require("/home/usr1/www.animeboards.net/htdocs/phpads/view.inc.php3"); 
 require("/home/usr1/www.animeboards.net/htdocs/phpads/acl.inc.php3");
 chdir("/home/usr1/www.animeboards.net/htdocs/forums"); 
 require("/home/usr1/www.animeboards.net/htdocs/forums/global.php");  
?>

#14 09-11-2000, 03:27 PM

I want to post the top X most popular posts for the last X days. Not the most popular ever, but just for the last X days, so that the recent popular ones stay popular.

Thoughts as to how to do it?

#15 09-11-2000, 06:46 PM

This script seems to be very server intensive. I am using:

Code:

<?php
// Set this to the max number of dead topics you want to display
$maxthreads = 25;

require("admin/config.php");
$db=mysql_connect($servername,$dbusername,$dbpassword);
mysql_select_db($dbname);
$query = "SELECT * FROM thread WHERE replycount < 1 AND forumid <> 25 ORDER BY dateline DESC LIMIT $maxthreads";
$resultlatest = mysql_query($query,$db);
while ($latest_array = mysql_fetch_array($resultlatest)) {
echo "<FONT SIZE=\"1\" FACE=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">&nbsp;°
<A HREF=\"http://forums.paintballcity.com/showthread.php?threadid=$latest_array[threadid]\">$latest_array[title]</A></FONT><BR>";
}
 
?>

Any one have ideas on how to make it not so server intensive.

#16 09-11-2000, 06:52 PM

Change SELECT * FROM

to

SELECT threadid, title FROM

#17 09-11-2000, 07:14 PM

Ok. What about this Active topics hack from EVA2000. Can you give me any ideas on how to optimize it:

Code:

<? 
require("admin/config.php");
$num_active = 10; 
$num_chars = 95; 

$db=mysql_connect($servername,$dbusername,$dbpassword); 
mysql_select_db($dbname); 

$querylatest="select * from thread where forumid='1' or forumid='2' or forumid='3' or forumid='4' or forumid='5' or forumid='6' or forumid='7' or forumid='8' or forumid='9' or forumid='10' or forumid='11' or forumid='12' or forumid='13' or forumid='14' or forumid='15' or forumid='16' or forumid='17' or forumid='18' or forumid='19' or forumid='20' or forumid='22' or forumid='23' or forumid='25' or forumid='26' or forumid='27' or forumid='28' or forumid='32' or forumid='34' or forumid='35' or forumid='36' or forumid='37' or forumid='38' or forumid='39' or forumid='40' or forumid='41' or forumid='42' or forumid='43' order by lastpost desc limit $num_active"; 
$resultlatest = mysql_query($querylatest,$db); 

print("<center><table width=\"100%%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">"); 

while ($latest_array = mysql_fetch_array($resultlatest)) { 

// Get Forum Infomation 
$query_forum = "select * from forum where forumid='$latest_array[forumid]' limit 1"; 
$result_forum = mysql_query($query_forum,$db); 
$forum_info_array = mysql_fetch_array($result_forum); 

printf("<tr><td colspan=\"2\" bgcolor=\"#87A4C2\"><b><font color=\"#000000\" size=\"1\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">%s: %s</font></b></td></tr>",$forum_info_array["title"],$latest_array["title"]); 

// split the date up a bit 
$datestr1 = substr($latest_array["dateline"],0,10); 
$datetime = substr($latest_array["dateline"],11,8); 
printf ("<tr valign=\"top\"><td width=\"15%%\" bgcolor=\"#B9B9B9\"><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><b>%s</b><br>Updated: %s<br>Replies: %s</font></td>", $latest_array["postusername"], $datetime, $latest_array["replycount"]); 

$querythread="select * from post where threadid='$latest_array[threadid]' order by dateline asc limit 1"; 

$result_thread_text= mysql_query($querythread,$db); 

$result_thread_array = mysql_fetch_array($result_thread_text); 
printf ("<td width=\"85%%\" bgcolor=\"#cccccc\"><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"1\"><img src=\"http://forums.paintballcity.com/images/icons/icon%s.gif\"> Last Post By: %s<hr>%s...<br><a href=\"http://forums.paintballcity.com/showthread.php?threadid=%s\">Click here for more</font></td></tr>",$result_thread_array["iconid"],$latest_array["lastposter"],substr(strip_tags($result_thread_array["pagetext"]),0,$num_chars),$latest_array["threadid"]); 
printf ("<tr><td colspan=\"2\" width=\"100%%\"> </td></tr>"); 
} 

printf ("</table></center>"); 
?>

Thanks.

#18 09-11-2000, 07:23 PM

Rangersfan: That change makes it a bit faster, but its still pretty slow.

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