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

[007]

Very cool. I was actually planning to code this exact idea when I just now saw yours. I will definately check it out.

[007]

This doesn't seem to work. I put it in my forums directory and left the change directory lines commented out. There also didn't seem to be any place to select which forum(s) to pull posts from.

I tried opening the file at forums/newsout.php directly and all I got was a white page..

[FWF]

you should do a full release of this...it would be useful however its to "iffy" for me to test out on my site as a BETA release...but it looks promising

[Rampag33]

I get a blank page.

specifiy news at the bottom
@writenews("50,53", "outputfile.txt","5");

[-=Sniper=-]

it worked once for me, and now trying again doesnt work at all? any updates to the script? or can you helpout? regards

[-=Sniper=-]

getting an error @ www.zone365.com at the bottom of the page?

[-=Sniper=-]

anyone?

[archangelsk]

woot, this is great. just what i needed, w/o all the excess fat of a portal system.

[JunkAnime]

When I try to use this I get a blank page... Does anybody have a clue what I might be doing wrong?

Edit By the way I followed the directions of the script.

[eLiTeGuRu]

I followed the directions and it says Query Could not be Executed.