Help with pagetext in forumdisplay.php

I am wanting to call up the first post in a thread using the pagetext information in the post table. What would I use as a database query so that I get the pagetext associated with the first post in a thread?

I am wanting to use this in the forumdisplay.php file right before the call to the forumdisplaybit template.

I have tried using:

$post=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT pagetext FROM post WHERE threadid=$thread[threadid]");
$page=post[pagetext];

But I get varied results and it is is not the first post associated with the threadid.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Parker

[Admin]

$post=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT pagetext FROM post WHERE threadid=$thread[threadid] ORDER BY postid");

[Parker Clack]

Chen:

Thanks. That worked like a champ.

Now what would I use to keep the pagetext information limted to the first 30 characters followed by a ....? Is there a code to strip the vbcode and HTML code in the pagetext information? I would prefer to keep the vB code and HTML out of the information that is displayed.

Thanks,
Parker

[Admin]

Replace:

$page=$post[pagetext];

With:

$page=iif(strlen($url)>30,substr($post[pagetext],0,30)."..."),$post[pagetext]);

to only show first 30 chars followed by '...'.

Don't know about the vB code stripping though.

[Parker Clack]

Instead of striping the vBcode would you use the bbcodeparse2 or bbcodeparse?

So you could have:

$page=iif(strlen($url)>30,substr($post[pagetext],0,30)."..."),$post[pagetext]);

followed by

$page2=bbcodeparse[$page];

or

$page2=bbcodeparse2[$page];

Do you think that would work ok?

What would you have to use if you wanted to parse the html in the pagetext then?

Parker

[Admin]

If you parse vB code, the output will simply have the equal HTML code.
For example, [color=red]text[/color] will be converted to <font color="red">text</font>.

Up to you.
To convert the text, use this:

$page=bbcodeparse2($page,1,1,1,1);

The 1 numbers are in this order:

$page=bbcodeparse2($codetoparse, $html, $imgcode, $smilies, $vbcode);

[Parker Clack]

Chen:

Ok, bare with me a little more.

I put in:

$post=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT pagetext FROM post WHERE threadid=$thread[threadid] ORDER BY postid");
$page=iif(strlen($url)>30,substr($post[pagetext],0,30)."..."),$post[pagetext]);
$page=bbcodeparse2($page,1,1,1,1);

and got a parse error:

Then I put in just:

$post=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT pagetext FROM post WHERE threadid=$thread[threadid] ORDER BY postid");
$page=iif(strlen($url)>30,substr($post[pagetext],0,30)."..."),$post[pagetext]);

and also got a parse error.

So is $url supposed to be that or something else like $thread[threadid]. I mean where do the $url come from?

Also, is the bbcodeparse2 suppsed to have the numbers or
the $html, $vbcode, etc.?

Thanks again,
Parker

[Admin]

Sorry, my bad, use this code:

$post=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT pagetext FROM post WHERE threadid=$thread[threadid] ORDER BY postid");
$page=iif(strlen($post[pagetext])>30,substr($post[pagetext],0,30)."...",$post[pagetext]);
$page=bbcodeparse2($page,1,1,1,1);

(misplaced a parenthesis)

And in the bbcodeparse2() call you use 1 or 0 - 1 means it's parsed and 0 means it's not.

[Parker Clack]

Sorry Chen it is still giving me a parse code error.

In forumdisplay.php I am putting:

$post=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT pagetext FROM post WHERE threadid=$thread[threadid] ORDER BY postid");
$page=iif(strlen($post[pagetext])>30,substr($post[pagetext],0,30)."...",$post[pagetext]);
$page=bbcodeparse2($page,1,1,1,1);

right above:

eval("\$forumdisplaybits .= \"".gettemplate('forumdisplaybit')."\";");

}

and getting a parse code error at line 527.

Also should that be

,30),"...", instead of ,30)."...",  ?

Parker


If I put a right bracket before the eval line I get a parce code error at line 520.

Thanks,
Parker

[Admin]

This code in forumdisplay.php is working great for me, no errors or anything:

    } else {
	     $backcolor = '{firstaltcolor}';
		 $bgclass = "alt1";
    }
    $post=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT pagetext FROM post WHERE threadid=$thread[threadid] ORDER BY postid");
    $page=iif(strlen($post[pagetext])>30,substr($post[pagetext],0,30)."...",$post[pagetext]);
    $page=bbcodeparse2($page,1,1,1,1);
    eval("\$forumdisplaybits .= \"".gettemplate('forumdisplaybit')."\";");

  }
  $DB_site->free_result($threads);