vBExternal v1.6

Alright, the people waiting for the quiz hack are gonna kill me for making this while i'm supposed to be developing v2.. heh.

Anyway, welcome to vBExternal, the answer to all your questions of "how can i get this to show on my website from my forum?"
vBExternal provides you the user with the availability to include several forms of information from your own forum, on your own website, with minimal work required!

UPDATE - 1.5:
This update provides more stability, the vBExternal file will only call 1 query for $vboptions and 1 query for the action, a maximum potential of 2 queries (some may execute 3 dependant on functionality used)

UPDATE - 1.6:
Several minor bugs fixed, 2 main one's were users online (repeating names) and emoticons (being red x's).
Also using vBExternal is completely different as to before (the download contains instructions on how to set up vBExternal the new way)

To update: Re-upload vBExternal.php

Features:

• Newest Members
  
  • Description: Outputs X members onto your website, ordered by newest first
    
  • Available Parameters/Options: Change amount shown (default is 5)
    
• Top Posters
  
  • Description: Outputs X members onto your website, ordered by # of posts
    
  • Available Parameters/Options: Change amount shown (default is 5)
    
• Newest Threads
  
  • Description: Outputs X threads onto your website, ordered by post date
    
  • Available Parameters/Options: Choose all/1/several forums to pick from (default is all forums), Change Amount shown (default is 5)
    
• Newest Replies
  
  • Description: Outputs X threads onto your website, ordered by newest reply
    
  • Available Parameters/Options: Choose all/1/several forums to pick from (default is all forums), Change Amount shown (default is 5)
    
• News
  
  • Description: Outputs X posts onto your website, from a specific forum, ordered by post date
    
  • Available Parameters/Options: Choose which forum news is pulled from, Change Amount shown (default is 5)
    
• Users Online
  
  • Description: Outputs all your users online on your forum, onto your webpage
    
  • Available Parameters/Options: N/A
    

Installation:
All you have to do is upload a few files, no running an installer, no file edits, no template additions/edits, nothing!!

Resources:
The system uses the default 1 vB queries onload, and then only ONE additional query (if action is successful)

Using vBExternal:
First of all, your site will have to be php, if your site is say .htm/.html, no worries, just rename the file type to .php, it will all be the same. Then read 'Usage Instructions' contained within the download to see how to set it up


Customizing HTML Output:
Go inside yourforumdir/vBExternal/
You'll find a few HTML files, these files are the template "structure" for each action, you can change the HTML to your own liking, however leave in the macro's --> {bla} (These are swapped with data called from your forum)

I think that's it really, really simple, really easy to use, so there ya go

PS: Feel free to send me any donations, my paypal is: webmaster@gzevolution.net

Enjoy,

- Zero Tolerance

[Zero Tolerance]

trainer - The text file explains how to use it, for newest replies:

PHP Code:

output_NewestReplies(5,"FORUM-IDS"); 


FORUM-IDs can be one or multiple id's, if multiple seperated by a comma, so to pull from forum id 2:

PHP Code:

<?php
output_NewestReplies(5,"2");
?>

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[Snake]

Nice hack you're making man! Thanks.

[aloha]

Originally Posted by jugo

DAMMIT!!!!

I was working on something just like this to release as my first MOD.

[high]* jugo sits in a corner ...but installs anyway.
[/high]

Thanks ...

lmao @ jugo

Right on tolerance.

[Rambo]

You arn't on msn so i'll post here ,

Great mod! wondering if/how can i implement a login system to work with vB so users can login from main website, also how can i truncate thread titles in the latest threads feature!.

Thanks

[cmiller1014]

Do this only work on the same website, or could I somehow pull info from my forum onto another site with this? I have a network and want to get my latest posts and polls shown on ever site......

[Zero Tolerance]

@ Rambo - Login/Your Logged In As: xxx is currently not a feature.

@ cmiller1014 - Aslong as the forums are on the same server you can do it, though it would require some modifications to stop the samer functions been re-defined. I'm afraid to say that i will only support it as-is, to pull data from 1 forum.

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[cmiller1014]

Hrmm I see. How do so many people share their VB data across a network of sites I wonder? Must take a lot of custom work.

[Black_Widow]

Excuse me but what's the difference with export.php integrated syndication system?

Thanks

[Zero Tolerance]

I havn't used export.php myself, but i do believe that it exports data as an RSS feed? This does not, it outputs in HTML, and the template for the HTML output can be changed very easily

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[Nick0r]

I'd like to include a similar thing to $upcomingevents, but display more events than what I have specified for the homepage on another vb powered page.

Could this be integrated?