Announcing VBExtern

Well that's true, but how much more of a load will that be then the Reply Notification already used?

I received an e-mail notification that you had replied to this post, all i'm saying is instead of just notifying me, send the post too

[Sean]

Oh, now I understand. Yeah, I guess that wouldn't be such a server hog. Sorry, I misunderstood.

[Mas*Mind]

Originally posted by Haoshiro
After looking at your examples, I thought I'd suggest putting the script into a function. Instead of including the script multiple times, just include it once and call the function more than once:

PHP Code:

include_once ("vbextern.php");

vbextern ("asc", "topthreads", $max="25");
vbextern ("asc", "listusers", $max="10", $memberorder="posts"); 


Just a suggestion, but since many people will likely use multiple features of the script, it seemed logical.

Also, is there any way to allow users to get full posts emailed to them? Like, if i want to receive this thread by email, any time a post is made i get the full post mailed to me?

That would be a nice feature... I'm myself will be looking into adding it

Good point, but right now the structure is one of actions:

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

while then vbextern has the following structure:

switch($action)
{ case "bla" :
doThis();
exit;
case ".." :
...
exit;
default :
doThat();
}

But I may take a look at it....

As for your other suggestion: This would be a totally different hack, so it wouldn't be included in it...

Well that would be a very easy mod:

vbextern.php:

PHP Code:

function vbextern($action = "") {
  switch($action)
  {  case "bla" :
      doThis();
      exit;
      case ".." :
      ...
      exit;
      default :
      doThat();
  }
} 


and to use it:

PHP Code:

include_once("vbextern.php");

vbextern($action = "bla");
vbextern($action = "do_something_else"); 


[Mas*Mind]

yeah, I noticed that while I was typing my previous message

[Ed FvC]

This hack looks great! I can't wait to get my hands on it and use it. Keep up the great work, Mas*Mind.

[TechTalk]

Ummmm......

WHERE IS IT?

[Robert Basil]

I think MAS does not have enough time to work on it and has given up on the project.

MAS, if you like I would be more than happy to take up where you left off, (as I am sure others would also) Can you release the code you currently have?

[Mas*Mind]

Well, maybe that wouldn't be a bad idea. I'm really running out of time lately. The thing is that I will go to South Africa for a year and that takes a time to settle things amongst my work, study and coming vacation (friday: Finland here I come )

[TechTalk]

DOH! Someone please close this thread since this is not a vb 2.0 release but instead a hoax!