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A great idea! I'll check it out tonight.

Oops, sorry.. my bad!  Serves me right for releasing untested code.

I've uploaded a new version, please use this one and follow the instructions below:
http://www.shuttertalk.com/externnews.zip

To turn off the paragraph truncation feature:

Comment out the following code (~269):

// Display first paragraph only (comment out next four lines to turn off)
//$paragraph = preg_split("/\s*\n+/", $cur_post['message']);
//if ($paragraph[1]) {
//    $cur_post['message'] = $paragraph[0] . "...";
//}

Let me know how you go!

I've changed it like it works as a function : pun_extern($action, $fid, $show, $type)
It will be more useful when you make a front page. I added "array" type to the last variable $type. see the example 3

this is the code : http://jacobswell.nared.net/upload/punbb_extern.zip

example 1:

<?php
$pun_root = './punbb/';

include $pun_root."punbb_extern.php";

?>
<table cellpadding=1 cellspacing=0 border=0 width=95%><tr><td bgcolor=#A57121>
<table cellpadding=5 cellspacing=1 border=0 width=100%>
<tr>
<td bgcolor=white><?php echo pun_extern('new'); ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor=white><?php echo pun_extern('active', 1, 5); ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor=white><?php echo pun_extern('stats'); ?></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td></tr></table>

example 2:

<?php
$pun_root = './punbb/';

include $pun_root."punbb_extern.php";
// pun_extern('action','fid','show',type')

exit(pun_extern('active','','','RSS'));
?>

exaple 3: this just shows the array result.

<?php
$pun_root = './punbb/';

include "array_dump.class.php";
$arr_dump = new array_dump;

include $pun_root."punbb_extern.php";
// pun_extern('action','fid','show',type')

?>
<table cellpadding=1 cellspacing=0 border=0 ><tr><td bgcolor=#A57121>
<table cellpadding=5 cellspacing=1 border=0 width=100%>
<td bgcolor=#F7DFAD align=center>Test for pun_extern('new','','','array')</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor=white>
<?php 
$r = pun_extern('new','','','array');
$arr_dump->max_length(150);
echo $arr_dump->dump($r); ?>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor=#F7DFAD align=center>Test for pun_extern('active','','5','array')</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor=white>
<?php 
$r = pun_extern('active', '', 5,'array');
$arr_dump->max_length(150);
echo $arr_dump->dump($r); ?>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor=#F7DFAD align=center>Test for pun_extern('active','1','1','array')</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor=white>
<?php
$r = pun_extern('active','1','1','array');
$arr_dump->max_length(150);
echo $arr_dump->dump($r); ?>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor=#F7DFAD align=center>Test for pun_extern('stats','','','array')</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor=white>
<?php
$r = pun_extern('stats','','','array');
$arr_dump->max_length(150);
echo $arr_dump->dump($r); ?>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td></tr></table>

you can see the result of last example here

Hey,

     I think ya'll have done a great job with this mod; however, I am having trouble with what I want to do.  I am trying to make it so that I have a list of recent topics in the forum like in the regular extern.php and a section of news like on the externnews.php.  I want both of these segments on the main page of my site.  I don't know a lot about php, but I formatted the extern.php and the externnews.php to work with my site.  My intention is to allow admins in the forum to post to a certain admin only forum and that would be the news on the front page.  I am having trouble including extern and externnews becausee it says I can't call the same funcions in functions.php and etc.  I tried just taking out the functions include, but there are other things that get used twice as well.

Does anyone have any suggestions for me?
I would be most appreciative.

Thanks cuteseal...

I did try to use both extern.php and your original externnews.php.  I've also been trying to directly put the php code into my main page, but when I do that, nothing is showing up.  I have to edit the code to only display what I want ex (preset the action, show, fid variables).  It's kinda wierd ... I must be doing something wrong and I'm probably going to kick myself later, but since I'm not too affluent with php, I'm not sure what it is.

Once I get to a good spot I'll post my code....

Thanks

heheh no worries.  use the reply-only mod for that - instead of the admin/mod only forum.

Thanks jacobswell and cuteseal.....
I really appreciate all the help!

I have installed the Reply Only Mod and it works great.....

I'll give that code sample that Jacobswell submitted a try too...

Ok after some searching I found out. Didn't read the first post well here.

But another question. How do I put that news in a layout? with tables and that stuff.

Thank you very much!!!
Everything works fine. I tested your stylesheet.

And the newssystem is integrated on a page. Only thing left changing the layout a bit

Hi Crissipos,

I found the same thing - see my post at http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=3818&p=2 where you'll find a fix to add to line 266.  Basically you want to add a "ORDER BY posted" to the SQL so that you get the first post in the thread.

Hope this helps.

Paul.

Oh, ok...

 Make Line 266:
$msg = $db->query('SELECT u.email, u.title, u.url, u.location, u.use_avatar, u.signature, u.email_setting, u.num_posts, u.status, u.registered, u.admin_note, p.id, p.poster, p.poster_id, p.poster_ip, p.poster_email, p.message, p.smilies, p.posted, p.edited, p.edited_by FROM '.$db->prefix.'posts AS p INNER JOIN '.$db->prefix.'users AS u ON u.id=p.poster_id WHERE p.topic_id='.$id.' ORDER BY posted LIMIT 1') or error('Unable to fetch post info', __FILE__, __LINE__, $db->error());

All on one line (if the above code isn't).

Is there any way to customize the appearance ?

eg: adding background colors to the title etc etc ?