How to pull latest thread on my html homepage

[tonynlek]

Ok, i will rephrase my questions.

I am trying to pull the latest thread to my html homepage. How should i do it

I look into this : http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...stall+rss+feed

However, when the link is point to "search.php?do=getnew", It comes out error page. i already check yes on the external feed option at the External Data Provider.

BY the way, if i uses this code , do i need to install RSS first?

[Andy Huang]

RSS is a protocol; a structured language; a meutual agreed way to communicate... etc. Not a software, so you don't need to install it.

Use this code here in documentations exactly as is, and it wouldn't cause any errors. Don't change it to search.php?do=getnew because that link will just give you a normal page output which cannot be parsed by the code you have (you can probably code special things to parse that; but that's not supported).

[tonynlek]

I am sorry, but i do not know what you mean by that. It is still not working.

I try to replace the script page with what you recommended and still it is not ok.

[tonynlek]

This is what the code that i use before i change the javascript code that you recommended.

<!-- show latest active threads -->
<table cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<a href="search.php?do=getnew">Latest Active Threads</a>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody>
<tr>

<td width="100%">

<div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="external.php?type=js"></script>
<script language="" type="text/javascript">
<!--
for (var x in threads)
{
document.writeln("<a href=\"showthread.php?t="+threads[x].threadid+"\">"+threads[x].title+"</a> (Posted By: "+threads[x].poster+")<br />");
}
//-->
</script></div>

</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<!-- show latest active threads -->
</table>
<br />

The "search.php?do=getnew" is point to the error page when it is open at www.yourdomain.com/search.php?do=getnew.

After i change the javescript from:

<script type="text/javascript" src="external.php?type=js"></script>
<script language="" type="text/javascript">
<!--
for (var x in threads)
{
document.writeln("<a href=\"showthread.php?t="+threads[x].threadid+"\">"+threads[x].title+"</a> (Posted By: "+threads[x].poster+")<br />");
}
//-->
</script

to

<script src="http://www.yourdomain.com/forumpath/external.php?type=js" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript"><!--for (i in threads){document.writeln(threads[i].title + " (" + threads[i].poster + ")<br />");}//--></script>

It is still the same, nothing change. not working

[tonynlek]

ANy help?

[Steve Machol]

Please wait at least 24 hours before bumping your posts.

From the forum rules:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=42918

Please wait a reasonable amount of time before bumping posts. For style changes and general 'how-to' questions this should be 24 hours. For specific troubleshooting issues, use 12 hours as a guideline.

[Andy Huang]

My apologies, I forgot to mention that you should update the yourdomain and forumpath part.

If your page is not in the same directory with your forum, you should include at least a relative path to your forum.

IE:
If your page is http://www.yourdomain.com/page.html, and your forum is located at http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/, then you should change it to yourdomain.com/forums/external.php?type=js.

If your page is http://www.yourdomain.com/page.html, and your forum is lcoated at http://www.yourforum.com/, then you should change it to http://www.yourforum.com/external.php?type=js.

The link that you had in your original code is also one of those 'need to update path' things where you need to include at least a relative path to it. IE: /forum/search.php?do=getnew

Please give the above a try, and if nothing else works, you may wish to post the URL to your page and URL to your forum; we can construct the path for you as needed that way more accurately as well.

[Bob Isaac]

I used vB's code but it was never up-to-date, so I looked at THIS. It works fine on our homepage.

If you don't want to output the posts that way, but want an RSS type link but not use XML-RSS you can get something like THIS

Bob

[tonynlek]

So that means i need to create a page for the latest thread feeds and then point to that page for the feeds to be seen in my homepage. Is that correct? i am quite confuse with the whole thing. sorry but ia m not a prorgammer. i will try my best to test it out and post again

[tonynlek]

ok i have done it. I pu tin forumpath and i just removed the "path: word.

I see that the update is the thread title and the poster nick. HOw should i put in a way that only thread is shown without the poster's nick

Currently is : document.writeln(threads[i].title + " (" + threads[i].poster + ")<br />"); ---> this is thread with nick.

How do i do it with only thread ( without the nicks)

[tonynlek]

Bob, your script is cool. i will try taht out. But there is one thing i do not understand.

This part: " The page it's on must have a .php extension or you should setup apache to parse the page correctly. "

So does it mean i need a PHP page or HTml page or what.

[saman]

Bob, your script is cool. i will try taht out. But there is one thing i do not understand.

This part: " The page it's on must have a .php extension or you should setup apache to parse the page correctly. "

So does it mean i need a PHP page or HTml page or what.

I am wondering the same