Last X Posts Titles on Non-VB page

Hi everyone,

Well, here is my first full release to the vB.org community. It's a small little script I just whipped up a few minutes ago. I already have this on my webpage for months now and thought I'd share it with the rest of you.

Description:
This script will display the titles, poster's names, and times of the last X's posts. It's fully customizable. Should be very easy to understand so enjoy!

Instructions:
1) Download the script below.
2) Change the settings in the script.
3) Insert include("/path/to/lastposts3.php"); anywhere in a non-VB page.

If you like to check out a live demo, you may go visit one of my sites: http://www.generazn.com.

If you have any problems, questions, or comments regarding this, feel free to post them here or send me an email to tre@phase1media.com.

[digitalSite]

Originally Posted by malfuncion

i have it working in 3.5.2

alternating colors and excluding forums also works fine.

malfunction: Did you just install the script on your 3.5.2, or did you have to make some changes? I would like to know if I can install the script, since I am using 3.5.3, but I don't want to break something. Thanks!

[croportal]

if this work witih 3.5.3

[IanM]

This works great on a clean 3.5.4 install Great job, thanks!

[mchaos]

I have hidden forums for mods and such. Is there any way to keep these forums from being included on the latest posts?

[Oleks]

Hi,
Is any chance how to display the post title/link and “posted by Name mm/dd/yy time” in one line?

Thank you.

[Oleks]

Hi,
lastposts3.php works well as a separate page.
Is any chance how to include this script into vBulletin 3.0.1 home page?

Can somebody help with this?

Thank you.

[pcwfreak]

How do you get the last new thread instead of the last new post (like a new post wouldn't bump it up)? And make the link go to the topic instead of a specific post?

Hopefully, it's just some simple modifications...

[Ryan McBain]

nevermind

[datruth55]

I'd like to try and use this as an archive to my news posts on a specific forum on a non-VB page. Is there a way to get it to show say 5 posts after the first 5 posts?

Let me try to be a little clearer. I have vBAdvanced pulling from a specific forum to show on the portal. That forum is my "news" forum. It shows the last 5 articles. I want to display the previous 5 articles in an archive on a non-VB page. I know I need to loop through and then start counting on post number 6 from the database but not sure how to do it.

[datruth55]

Never mind I figured it out. I added another number to the end of the query.

In other words after $limited I added , 5. This means that the query will return the limited number of posts after the 5th row.

I also had to add an array to convert bbcode to html code so that I could display the text on a non-VB page.

[DPtheGod]

I love your hack, it's wonderful! I have a question, though.

Is it possible to restrict the hack from getting latest posts in boards only certain usergroups can see, such as staff boards?

[CEO TaYloR?]

Where do you upload the script?

[dragoncub]

Originally Posted by Oblivion Knight

Here's an addon to exclude forums that I've quickly thrown together..

Find:

$limit = "10"; // Number of posts displayed.

Add below:

$excludeforums = ""; // The forums you want to exclude from being displayed, put their ID here.

Find:

if ($limit) {
	$limited = "LIMIT $limit";
}

Add below:

if ($excludeforums == "" or $excludeforums <= "0") {
	$quarter = "no";
} else {
	$excfid = explode(",",$excludeforums); $i = 0; $a = count($excfid);
	while ($i < $a) {
		$wheresql .= " AND thread.forumid!='$excfid[$i]'";	++$i;
	}
}

Find:

SELECT threadid,title,lastpost,lastposter

Add on the same line:

,forumid

Find:

WHERE visible=1

Add on the same line:

$wheresql

All done..

I followed these instructions to exclude a private forum, but its not working, its still showing the post on the homepage. Any ideas why?
BTW, I'm running 3.7.3

[dragoncub]

Another thing, the list of the recent post does not automatically update when I load my homepage, I have to press the refress button in order to update the list. Is there a fix for this?

[dragoncub]

Originally Posted by dragoncub

I followed these instructions to exclude a private forum, but its not working, its still showing the post on the homepage. Any ideas why?
BTW, I'm running 3.7.3

nevermind, I figure it out, I was putting the wrong forum id number, I was putting the id of the parent forum not the actual child forum.