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

[House_of_Crazed]

<a href="http://www.houseofcrazed.com/front.php" target="_blank">http://www.houseofcrazed.com/front.php</a>

It's only a page in development. It've been bugging me for a bit.

I put that in just now. It's outputting, but not in the specific spot where I want it to be at.

[madhouse]

Looks like you have the script in the wrong location of the template...

Now how did you get the text to out put? I got everything else to work but can not get the text from the post to show.....

[House_of_Crazed]

Uh, lol ...

I included the file at the top of front.php before along with global.php and so on...

Since we both are having problems too, guess someone else will need to help us, lol ...

But now, I just realized... The file is being declared twice now. *sigh*... Once in the front.php file and once in the template. lol ... I'm pretty sure that it's in front.php that's being declared, not the one in template.

[madhouse]

See , you are using a templated system , I am not , so some were along the lines there is something I am missing from calling the actuall post instead of just the title and the creator of the post.

[House_of_Crazed]

Yea...

I'm thinking of other ways to do this now... lol ...

If you link directly to the newsout.php page, does it spit out the post and stuff like it does on mine?

[House_of_Crazed]

I finally got this to work, LOL

Oh, wait, you're not using the template system. :| Because I got mine to work by adding the require code to phpinclude_start template.

[madhouse]

Yea mine is working but its not displaying the post text....

[hkvic]

I've got this working fine in my index.shtml test homepage by using
"<!--#include virtual="/testvb/newsout.php"-->" command where I want it to display.

One problem though, where do I specify which forum the news is pulled from? At the moment it's pulling it from a forum I haven't specified :surprised:

Any help appreciated.

[madhouse]

You need to look thru the newsout.php and find were its defining the forums you want to have the news pulled from , if I remeber correctly it should be close to the bottom of the script.

Truthfully Rafe has not replied on this hack since May, 2004 so I got the feeling that he may not be around or not supporting this hack any longer.

[hkvic]

Got it working perfectly now thanks - apart from if there is a smilie in the post, it shows as a broken image in the exported output when page first loads or is refreshed. Not a major problem as I can always NOT use smilies!

Example here (please ignore the awful layout - still being worked on)
http://www.saintgeorges-hk.com/sgs/