1 Topic by SamRay1024 (edited by SamRay1024 2005-07-12 14:07)

  • Registered: 2005-07-12
  • Posts: 1

Topic: [extern.php] Setting up links truncation from the url

Hi,

I've made a little modification in extern.php so as to get the possibility to modify the length of the links truncation. As I thought it was a missing feature in that file, I decided to share it. It's very simple and it can be, according to me, really helpfull.

Well, here is the modification : open your extern.php and apply this :

#
# Line 103
#

// The length at which topic subjects will be truncated (for HTML output)
$max_subject_length = 30;

#
# Replace with :
#

// The length at which topic subjects will be truncated (for HTML output)
$max_subject_length = ( isset($_GET['length']) && is_numeric($_GET['length']) ) ? intval($_GET['length']) : 30;

You can now use the variable length in the called url so as to change the subjects length.

For example : get the last 5 posts of all forums and cut subjects after 50 characters :

http://host.com/punbb/extern.php?action … ;length=50

That's all ! As I said : very simple ! And I think it should be present in the default extern.php wink

SamRay1024

Ps : please forgive me if my english isn't good. I'm french...