Recent threads outisde of forum

[JamesN]

I've noticed a lot of sites have sections like this on pages outside of their forum:



What's the mod that is needed to do this? I've spent the past 20 minutes trying to find it and I can't

Would appreciate some help - thanks

[Jason Black]

sections like what?

[JamesN]

See the screen-print.

A list of recent threads with the Last Post, Replies, Views, etc?

[WhaLberg]

Maybe they are using portals?

Check out www.vbadvanced.com

[JamesN]

Yeah, I think they are, but I was wondering if it was possible to do something like that without using portals?

[WhaLberg]

Dear James,

Ofcourse it is possible without using any portal system. All you need is a query that will read the threads and order them by dateline. Here is a simple example for you:

PHP Code:

<?php

chdir(path/to/your/forums);
require_once('./global.php');

$threads = $db->query_read("
SELECT title FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread
ORDER by dateline DESC
LIMIT 0,5
");
while ($thread = $db->fetch_array($threads))
{
echo $thread['title'] . "<br />";
}
?>

The codes above will simply show you the recent 5 threads.

[Jason Black]

<a href="http://www.phpportals.com" target="_blank">www.phpportals.com</a>

[JamesN]

Thanks for that WhaLberg

[DrussRob]

WhaLberg, you are my hero.

[ArnyVee]

I tried this and it didn't work when I tried to paste the info that WhaLberg provided above. Any idea how I can display it on my page in the place of the bulleted list under the left most section?

http://www.waltdisneyboards.com/view.php?pg=wdbhub