Active Topics 0.1 done

I've got a very rough copy of the vB compatible active topics done.

The file is on

http://www.gandmasti.net/forum/active.txt

The result is on

http://www.gandmasti.net/index2.shtml
or
http://www.gandmasti.net/forum/active.php

Mind you my board is a humor board and there might be offensive jokes on the active list, consider yourself warned!

This copy has several things I want to add, in the following priorities....

a) Template support
b) User defined number of topics / topics since last logon
c) RDF support (to allow others to take the list from your site dynamically)
d) WML support (to allow mobile phone users to get their humor fix via phones... also to allow me to admin / delete the forums via a mobile phone)
e) Clean up of the code / comments
f) Offline (low overhead) generation via cron

Craig,

If someone tells me the table forumpermission seems appropriate but I have no clue what the various items do, I can have this fixed very quickly.

Unfortunately like UBB the vB authors are taking a bit of an off hand approach to this .. so I guess it will be up to someone who knows the data structures to let me know.
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Shri

Come on folks, can someone help shri out ?!

Also, the {POSTDATETIME} thingy doesn't seem to work - any ideas ?

imported the posts and opened the board. Unfortunately, I never realised that it displayed the contents of private forums so

for my active-topic implimentation, you just need to set the $forum variable when you call the script and it will just dump out the last topics by that forum.

make multiple copies of the script for each of the individual forums that you want to display.

Now, if you want to display the last topics sorted by newest post and have it exclude the private forums (or forums you don't want it to show) - all in one script, that might take a while for me to figure out.

I have, I think (I merged some when we switched to vB), 19 forums total - 3 of which are private. Would be kinda a big script, no ?

wandrer, have you 'figured' yet ?

Still waiting for John or someone to give me a hint...

I would also like to suggest a new feature for vB ..

"Alert Admin / Moderator"

Would send an e-mail to the concerned people that they need to view the post and respond.

Ok Craig.. here a quick dirty hack.

Change the first select statement to

select * from thread where forumid='1' or forumid='2' order by lastpost desc limit $num_active

Add the forums you want listed in the active topics output.

I've got the code on http://www.gandmasti.com/forum/act2.php and the text file is on
http://www.gandmasti.com/forum/act2.txt

E-mail me on shriram@chaubal.org if you have any urgent issues.. i'm subscribed to quite a few threads here and tend to ignore vbulletin messages some times...

One more suggestion to the vb guys ... "email list of monitored threads nightly"

Cheers,
Shri

Excellent work, shri, seems to work just fine!

Now, any idea how I can display the time of the post in the output ? Can't seem to get it to work ?

Craig, not figured it out.. they changed the time format with 1.1.2 .. not really on my list of priorities right now I just deleted it!

Yeah, not important, just would be nice Anyway, thanks for your help in sorting out the private forums problem - which /was/ important!