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  • Duke of Lions
    Senior Member
    • Dec 2001
    • 133
    • 5.6.4

    Latest post on non vbulletin page?

    How do I get the latest posts in a specific forum on a non vbulletin page? I know It has to do with the RSS news feed but I can't get hold of some pre programmed code....

    Anyone?
    Please ReadThe****ingManual

  • Scott MacVicar
    Former vBulletin Developer
    • Dec 2000
    • 13286

    #2
    Code:
    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.site.com/forum/external.php?type=js"></script> 
    <script type="text/javascript">
    <!--
    for (i = 0; i < 15; i++)
    {
    document.writeln("<b><a href=\"http://www.site.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid="+threads[i].threadid+"\">"+threads[i].title+"</a></b>&nbsp;&nbsp;By: <i>"+threads[i].poster+"</i><br />");
    }
    //-->
    </script>
    Scott MacVicar

    My Blog | Twitter

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    • Duke of Lions
      Senior Member
      • Dec 2001
      • 133
      • 5.6.4

      #3
      Empty page....

      I get an empty page....
      I did change the settings in the admincp as you can see from the attachment...
      What do I do wrong?
      Attached Files
      Last edited by Duke of Lions; Tue 9 Sep '03, 4:32am.
      Please ReadThe****ingManual

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      • Wayne Luke
        vBulletin Technical Support Lead
        • Aug 2000
        • 74078

        #4
        Put the call to external.php above the script Scott posted in the document flow.
        Translations provided by Google.

        Wayne Luke
        The Rabid Badger - a vBulletin Cloud demonstration site.
        vBulletin 5 API

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        • Duke of Lions
          Senior Member
          • Dec 2001
          • 133
          • 5.6.4

          #5
          Still nothing...

          I did, this is the code I am using but still nothing...
          Code:
          <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
          <html>
          <head>
          <title>Test vBulletin 2</title>
          <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
          </head>
          <body>
          <script language="" src="[url="http://somesite.com/external.php?type=js"]http://somesite.com/external.php?type=js[/url]" type="text/javascript">
          </script>
          <script language="" type="text/javascript">
          <!--
          for (i = 0; i < 15; i++)
          {
          document.writeln("<tr><td colspan=2 height=18><span class=smallfont><b><a href=\"[url="http://somesite.com/showthread.php?threadid="]http://somesite.com/showthread.php?threadid="+threads[i].threadid+"\">"+threads[i].title+"</a></b>&nbsp;&nbsp;By[/url]: <i>"+threads[i].poster+"</i><br /></span></td></tr>");
          }
          //-->
          </script>
          </body>
          </html>
          Here's the page .... http://www.somesite.net/test.htm
          Last edited by Duke of Lions; Tue 9 Sep '03, 4:34am.
          Please ReadThe****ingManual

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          • Scott MacVicar
            Former vBulletin Developer
            • Dec 2000
            • 13286

            #6
            I cant access the forums on that URL specified.
            Scott MacVicar

            My Blog | Twitter

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            • Duke of Lions
              Senior Member
              • Dec 2001
              • 133
              • 5.6.4

              #7
              the forum is located at:

              or
              Last edited by Duke of Lions; Tue 9 Sep '03, 4:35am.
              Please ReadThe****ingManual

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              • Scott MacVicar
                Former vBulletin Developer
                • Dec 2000
                • 13286

                #8
                you have .com in your code above
                Scott MacVicar

                My Blog | Twitter

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                • Duke of Lions
                  Senior Member
                  • Dec 2001
                  • 133
                  • 5.6.4

                  #9
                  Man, I am really sorry for the stupid question....
                  I had it on .com now it's on .net
                  Verry sorry for this all....
                  Please ReadThe****ingManual

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                  • croft
                    Senior Member
                    • Aug 2002
                    • 310
                    • 4.1.x

                    #10
                    How do i go about to add a full post on our main page ?
                    Like a news thing.
                    I had vbindex before.
                    I got it working with latest topics splitted up in our forum and our hosted forum "WERY WERY cool by the way". http://www.dab-online.net/xml.php

                    Now i would want to add news in the center table.
                    Im guessing it has something to do with this code ?
                    PHP Code:
                    <!--
                    for (
                    03i++)
                    {
                    document.writeln("<a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.dab-online.net/forum/showthread.php?threadid="+threads[i].threadid+"\">"+threads[i].title+"</a><br>("+threads[i].poster+")<br />");
                    }
                    //--> 
                    Or am i totaly wrong ?
                    Pimp Daddy Croft Magazine

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                    • b00tsauce
                      Senior Member
                      • Aug 2003
                      • 109

                      #11
                      This is great, it worked for me on the first shot.

                      Is there a way to limit the number of characters when it displays? Like let's say I'll be putting this information in a table but I dont want the characters to go to the next line or anything...? Just limit it to about 15 characters max and then display a "..." at the end. These were seen on most of the vbindex/vbhome hacks.

                      Thanks! I was looking all over for this.
                      Last edited by b00tsauce; Mon 8 Sep '03, 12:16am. Reason: Forgot something.

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                      • Duke of Lions
                        Senior Member
                        • Dec 2001
                        • 133
                        • 5.6.4

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Scott MacVicar
                        Code:
                        <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.site.com/forum/external.php?type=js"></script> 
                        <script type="text/javascript">
                        <!--
                        for (i = 0; i < 15; i++)
                        {
                        document.writeln("<b><a href=\"http://www.site.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid="+threads[i].threadid+"\">"+threads[i].title+"</a></b>&nbsp;&nbsp;By: <i>"+threads[i].poster+"</i><br />");
                        }
                        //-->
                        </script>
                        Actually what this does is put new THREADS on the top of the links with Javascript. What I was looking for was a script that puts the latest posts on the top of the list. Like the feature of the former vbHome portal "Latest Forum Discussion..." Is this possible already?
                        Please ReadThe****ingManual

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                        • Bad Bunny
                          Senior Member
                          • Apr 2002
                          • 428
                          • 3.7.x

                          #13
                          Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. THis is kind of cool...but latest posts would be the way to go I think.
                          V1 Bad Bunny Emoticons > (For Dark BGs)
                          Squarehead V1 Emoticons -
                          Let Users select postbit style!

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                          • Bad Bunny
                            Senior Member
                            • Apr 2002
                            • 428
                            • 3.7.x

                            #14
                            Croft, this functionality does not seem to currently exist. All the external.php file seems to draw out is the threadid, thread title, thread starter, post date and time.
                            V1 Bad Bunny Emoticons > (For Dark BGs)
                            Squarehead V1 Emoticons -
                            Let Users select postbit style!

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                            • Duke of Lions
                              Senior Member
                              • Dec 2001
                              • 133
                              • 5.6.4

                              #15
                              ok maybe there's a php script?

                              Originally posted by Duke of Lions
                              Actually what this does is put new THREADS on the top of the links with Javascript. What I was looking for was a script that puts the latest posts on the top of the list. Like the feature of the former vbHome portal "Latest Forum Discussion..." Is this possible already?
                              Is there maybe a php script what does this "Latest Forum Discussion" thing?
                              And is there already a manual vor vb3b6 which describes these things?
                              Anyone?
                              Please ReadThe****ingManual

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