• From: Kathmandu, Nepal
  • Registered: 2005-10-10
  • Posts: 44

Topic: PunBB homepage, information from forum

Hello.

I was looking for a forum from which I could draw posts to have in my website pages. For each page, posts from a different forum.

The news in PunBB.org comes from the forum, as I see. Is this easily possible with my website?

Basically, can PunBB syndicate entire posts so I can use it externally? If not, could you please recommend any other forum software that does this?

Thanks.

Parimal Satyal - Powermetal from Nepal

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  • From: Sydney, Australia
  • Registered: 2005-09-19
  • Posts: 9

Re: PunBB homepage, information from forum

There have been quite a few posts about the syndication of forum posts externally to the forum, i.e. onto a home page. The best tool is the extern.php file that is included with punbb. This allows both html and xml (rss feed) syndication of forum posts, and has a number of additional parameters (forum id, number of posts) to allow you to customise the returned posts.

Search for extern.php on these forums for other ideas or look at http://punbb.org/docs/dev.html for the official syndication documentation.

Cheers, Ian

3 Reply by livatlantis (edited by livatlantis 2005-10-10 07:43)

  • From: Kathmandu, Nepal
  • Registered: 2005-10-10
  • Posts: 44

Re: PunBB homepage, information from forum

Thanks, Ian.

Extern.php looks promising. However, it doesn't look like it syndicates entire posts.

I'll have a forum, "Reviews" (where different authors review CDs) and I want recent reviews (say, 2) to be in a php file which is a page in my website.

Any way around this?

Update: I think I've found what I'm looking for: http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=7552
It adds to extern.php so there's a new action which can draw posts from any forum. Excellent! smile

Thanks for your help. Ian.

Parimal Satyal - Powermetal from Nepal

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