News Out - posts from forum(s) on any page

This script will let you pull the first posts from threads in a forum and display them on a non-vb page anywhere on your site.

For example you can use this to pull posts from a forum and display them as news. (Each post in the forum is a news item).

Currently it will pull them on the basis of thread start date.

This is very rough and ready. But maybe someone will find it useful.

If you read the code and comments you can do things like strip out tags, snip the post off after the first para etc etc.

You can choose to write out to a file or to write to screen. You can pull stuff from one or many forums.

I'll try and answer any questions that come up, but this is a beta so....

Rafe

[nicholas]

Thank you, Rafe. This is just right and I'll use it. I've been looking for something like this as an alternative to the portal-with-everything hacks.

[gfxmods]

this may be the solution to my site, i have been using a portal and im thinking of creating a new layout and using somthig along these lines for a news page, that way my site is more unique then another vb portal page

[Rafe]

Originally Posted by gfxmods

this may be the solution to my site, i have been using a portal and im thinking of creating a new layout and using somthig along these lines for a news page, that way my site is more unique then another vb portal page

Remember this is a beta release. I'l try and do some tidying up and add a few features / make things a bit more elegant in the next release (need to find some time).

[Geographic2]

This would be better as an addition to external.php rather than a seperate file.

External.php provides the functionality for XML,RSS, and the like for exactly this purpose.

The difference between what you are doing and that is you show the content of the posts whereas they show only thread titles.

Still it'd be more in line if it were an addition to external.php than a seperate file.

[Rafe]

Perhaps so. However this is still a beta. In theory there's a lot of extra functionality I may add (depends on time etc.)

There's advantage to combing with external.php but there are also advantages in install terms of just uploading one new file.

Maybe the best approach would be to call in external2.php to make it clear what it does?

Still thanks for your feedback.

Rafe

Originally Posted by Geographic2

This would be better as an addition to external.php rather than a seperate file.

External.php provides the functionality for XML,RSS, and the like for exactly this purpose.

The difference between what you are doing and that is you show the content of the posts whereas they show only thread titles.

Still it'd be more in line if it were an addition to external.php than a seperate file.

[iggy123]

when i try and call this using the <?include ('newsout.php');?> I get the following error message:

Unable to add cookies, header already sent.

any ideas?

[Draco]

Originally Posted by iggy123

when i try and call this using the <?include ('newsout.php');?> I get the following error message:

Unable to add cookies, header already sent.

any ideas?

I have the same problem?
any ideas what we can do?

[pressoir]

I got a blank screen after following the instructions

[jugo]

I get enws...only thing is that I also get this at the end....

Warning: mysql_query(): 1 is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /home/s3/public_html/portal/includes/db_mysql.php

[jugo]

Fixed my own issue....I commented out these two lines from the code.

PHP Code:

//disconnect
mysql_free_result($sql_result);
mysql_close($connection);