Topic: Newest 5 Posts
My forums are on a seperate server and I know no PHP coding, could someone please help by posting the coding I need to view the 5 latest posts at my web site (which is on a seperate server!)
Many thanks.
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My forums are on a seperate server and I know no PHP coding, could someone please help by posting the coding I need to view the 5 latest posts at my web site (which is on a seperate server!)
Many thanks.
Hi,
Look at extern.php, read the top of this file and it explains how to do it.
OK, I have no idea how to edit.wirte PHP. Could someone please post the coding for me please?
i use mod active topics
<?php
/*
PunBB Active Topics
Copyright 2004-2005 Alex King, http://www.alexking.org/
This is a mod for PunBB, http://punbb.org/
PunBB is Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004 Rickard Andersson (rickard@punbb.org)
This file is based on the viewtopic.php file in PunBB.
-------------------------------
*/
$ak_limit = 5; // change this to the number of active topics you want to display.
$result = $db->query('
SELECT t.*
FROM '.$db->prefix.'topics AS t
INNER JOIN '.$db->prefix.'forums AS f
ON f.id=t.forum_id
LEFT JOIN '.$db->prefix.'forum_perms AS fp
ON (
fp.forum_id=f.id
AND fp.group_id='.$pun_user['g_id'].'
)
WHERE (
fp.read_forum IS NULL
OR fp.read_forum=1
)
ORDER BY t.last_post DESC
LIMIT '.$ak_limit
) or error('Unable to fetch topic list', __FILE__, __LINE__, $db->error());
require PUN_ROOT.'lang/'.$pun_user['language'].'/forum.php';
?>
<div id="vf" class="blocktable">
<h2><span><font color="#FFFFFF"><u>Posljednji komentari...</u></font></span></h2>
<div class="box">
<div class="inbox">
<table cellspacing="0">
<thead>
<tr>
<th class="tcl" scope="col"><?php echo $lang_common['Topic'] ?></th>
<th class="tc2" scope="col"><?php echo $lang_common['Replies'] ?></th>
<th class="tc3" scope="col"><?php echo $lang_forum['Views'] ?></th>
<th class="tcr" scope="col"><?php echo $lang_common['Last post'] ?></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<?php
// If there are topics in this forum.
if ($db->num_rows($result))
{
while ($cur_topic = $db->fetch_assoc($result))
{
$icon_text = $lang_common['Normal icon'];
$item_status = '';
$icon_type = 'icon';
if ($cur_topic['moved_to'] == null)
$last_post = '<a href="viewtopic.php?pid='.$cur_topic['last_post_id'].'#p'.$cur_topic['last_post_id'].'">'.format_time($cur_topic['last_post']).'</a> <span class="byuser">'.$lang_common['by'].' '.pun_htmlspecialchars($cur_topic['last_poster']).'</span>';
else
$last_post = ' ';
if ($pun_config['o_censoring'] == '1')
$cur_topic['subject'] = censor_words($cur_topic['subject']);
if ($cur_topic['moved_to'] != 0)
$subject = $lang_forum['Moved'].': <a href="viewtopic.php?id='.$cur_topic['moved_to'].'">'.pun_htmlspecialchars($cur_topic['subject']).'</a> <span class="byuser">'.$lang_common['by'].' '.pun_htmlspecialchars($cur_topic['poster']).'</span>';
else if ($cur_topic['closed'] == '0')
$subject = '<a href="viewtopic.php?id='.$cur_topic['id'].'">'.pun_htmlspecialchars($cur_topic['subject']).'</a> <span class="byuser">'.$lang_common['by'].' '.pun_htmlspecialchars($cur_topic['poster']).'</span>';
else
{
$subject = '<a href="viewtopic.php?id='.$cur_topic['id'].'">'.pun_htmlspecialchars($cur_topic['subject']).'</a> <span class="byuser">'.$lang_common['by'].' '.pun_htmlspecialchars($cur_topic['poster']).'</span>';
$icon_text = $lang_common['Closed icon'];
$item_status = 'iclosed';
}
if (!$pun_user['is_guest'] && $cur_topic['last_post'] > $pun_user['last_visit'] && $cur_topic['moved_to'] == null)
{
$icon_text .= ' '.$lang_common['New icon'];
$item_status .= ' inew';
$icon_type = 'icon inew';
$subject = '<strong>'.$subject.'</strong>';
$subject_new_posts = '<span class="newtext">[ <a href="viewtopic.php?id='.$cur_topic['id'].'&action=new" title="'.$lang_common['New posts info'].'">'.$lang_common['New posts'].'</a> ]</span>';
}
else
$subject_new_posts = null;
// Should we display the dot or not? :)
if (1 == 0 && !$pun_user['is_guest'] && $pun_config['o_show_dot'] == '1')
{
if ($cur_topic['has_posted'] == $pun_user['id'])
$subject = '<strong>·</strong> '.$subject;
else
$subject = ' '.$subject;
}
if ($cur_topic['sticky'] == '1')
{
$subject = '<span class="stickytext">'.$lang_forum['Sticky'].': </span>'.$subject;
$item_status .= ' isticky';
$icon_text .= ' '.$lang_forum['Sticky'];
}
$num_pages_topic = ceil(($cur_topic['num_replies'] + 1) / $pun_user['disp_posts']);
if ($num_pages_topic > 1)
$subject_multipage = '[ '.paginate($num_pages_topic, -1, 'viewtopic.php?id='.$cur_topic['id']).' ]';
else
$subject_multipage = null;
// Should we show the "New posts" and/or the multipage links?
if (!empty($subject_new_posts) || !empty($subject_multipage))
{
$subject .= ' '.(!empty($subject_new_posts) ? $subject_new_posts : '');
$subject .= !empty($subject_multipage) ? ' '.$subject_multipage : '';
}
?>
<tr<?php if ($item_status != '') echo ' class="'.trim($item_status).'"'; ?>>
<td class="tcl">
<div class="intd">
<div class="<?php echo $icon_type ?>"><div class="nosize"><?php echo trim($icon_text) ?></div></div>
<div class="tclcon">
<?php echo $subject."\n" ?>
</div>
</div>
</td>
<td class="tc2"><?php echo ($cur_topic['moved_to'] == null) ? $cur_topic['num_replies'] : ' ' ?></td>
<td class="tc3"><?php echo ($cur_topic['moved_to'] == null) ? $cur_topic['num_views'] : ' ' ?></td>
<td class="tcr"><?php echo $last_post ?></td>
</tr>
<?php
}
}
else
{
?>
<tr>
<td class="tcl" colspan="4"><?php echo $lang_forum['Empty forum'] ?></td>
</tr>
<?php
}
?>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</div>
</div>
put this code in file mod_active_topics.php
and open index.php
find:
require PUN_ROOT.'header.php';
after add:
include('mod_active_topics.php');
or where you want put this include...
Hmm, is this what I;m looking for? I just need a script that will take the latest 5 forum posts and display a link to them on my home page?
Ahem. He said the forum was on another server than the site -_-'
Well they re hosted on the same server, just a different domain is pointing to that part of the server if you know what I mean?
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