Announcing VBExtern

Please forgive me for asking this silly question, but: can we use this wonderful hack in vB pages, too?

Once again, I'm very sorry for that question. I am just a beginner, so please be bare with me. Thanks!

Originally posted by Swoosh
Please forgive me for asking this silly question, but: can we use this wonderful hack in vB pages, too?

Once again, I'm very sorry for that question. I am just a beginner, so please be bare with me. Thanks!

No sorry

Yes, I plan on using it on a vbpage. I think we can stick the code into a template.

With this, you could probably create your own portal quite easily...

I don't want to be a nag but is this still being worked on? And if it is what is the progress on it.

Thanks.

[Mas*Mind]

It's been delayed a little bit

I'm working on it, but cannot say exactly when It's releasable

I don't care if it takes you a while longer to finish this project, I'm just glad you're working on it!

After reading the idea behind this I must admit that this hack/add-on sounds like a winner to me. I like the news fader, stars, etc... as well as the next, but in all reality, the idea of content management (news) and a hack of this kind are far above more useful to sites that are focused towards bringing content to the public. I'm pretty excited about reading this thread. Take your time on the programming. This one will be worth the wait.

Hooper

[Mas*Mind]

update: I'm tidying up and debugging it now. And make sure it limits querys

But I've got a working demo

Three things are added: Total views, todays events and latest polls

Note that you can choose exactly how and what you wanna display, everything is 'parameterble' (is that a word?) and works with vb's templates.

To give you an idea how fmbstats.php looks like:

PHP Code:

<?php

$action="birthdays";
include("vbextern.php");

$action="events";
include("vbextern.php");

$action="onlineusers";
include("vbextern.php");

$action="topthreads";
include("vbextern.php");

$action="totalmembers";
include("vbextern.php");

$action="totalthreads";
include("vbextern.php");

$action="totalposts";
include("vbextern.php");

$action="totalviews";
include("vbextern.php");

$action="newestmember";
include("vbextern.php");

$action="listusers";
include("vbextern.php");

$action="listforums";
include("vbextern.php");

$action="listpolls";
include("vbextern.php");

eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate("vbextern")."\");");

?>

I'll maybe add an option to generate javascript for the latest threads so you can give the webmasters amongst your users the option to let the latest threads be displayed on their homepage.

I expect to release it within a week