Scrolling Recent Posts

[tattooedpierre]

Ok, I grabbed this code block from the official SMF forums:

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// Show lots of posts.
if (!empty($context['latest_posts']))
{
echo '<marqueeÂÃ,  behavior="scroll" direction="up" height="50" scrolldelay="300" scrollamount="2">
<table width="100%" border="0">';
/* Each post in latest_posts has:
board (with an id, name, and link.), topic (the topic's id.), poster (with id, name, and link.),
subject, short_subject (shortened with...), time, link, and href. */
foreach ($context['latest_posts'] as $post)
echo '
<tr>
<td align="right" valign="top" nowrap="nowrap">[', $post['board']['link'], ']</td>
<td valign="top">', $post['link'], ' ', $txt[525], ' ', $post['poster']['link'], '</td>
<td align="right" valign="top" nowrap="nowrap">', $post['time'], '</td>
</tr>';
echo '
</table></marquee>';
}

.. now normally this would go in your index.template.php below template_menu(); .. A better way I had hoped would be to add this as a PHP block.. but when I do this I get a blank area (either as a block or in index.template.php). No errors, just no recent posts either :S .. can anyone help?

Here's the original offical SMF board link http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=13985.0

EDIT: To clarify, the purpose is to allow my recent posts to scroll, allowing me to show more than say 5 at a time; whilst maintaining the block size.

[bloc]

Thats a bit of code that assume its variable being pre-filled in BoardIndex.php - where it fetch and call another routine from Recent.php.

So no, it won't display anything  - unless its placed in BoardIndex.template which its normally located (not in index.template.php).

[tattooedpierre]

Excellent Bloc, cheers.. ok. so in TP it now shows the recent posts which is excellent.. but they're not moving! Any ideas?

[bloc]

Hm..some javascript code to make it move within a div perhaps...I am not sure what exists of such though.

[tattooedpierre]

Hm..some javascript code to make it move within a div perhaps...I am not sure what exists of such though.

Ah I see.. not to worry then

[Nokonium]

The display of recent shouts scrolls, could that code be transplanted?

[tattooedpierre]

The display of recent shouts scrolls, could that code be transplanted?

It does?! Mines doenst

[Nokonium]

Not automatically, but it has a scrollbar. Though you can get a scrolling shout box

http://www.totaltwaddle.co.uk/board/

This is based on the Classic theme, but it is SMF

[snork13]

well, i don't know how bloc feels about messing with his code...but i get it to scroll without a problem...$Themes/TPortalBlocks.template

change this:

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// TPortal shoutbox
function TPortal_shoutbox()
{
ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  global $context, $settings, $options, $scripturl, $txt, $modSettings;

ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  // Show the shoutbox, takes settings from tpadmin
ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ, if(isset($context['TPortal']['querystring']))
ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ, $tp_where=$context['TPortal']['querystring'];
ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ, else
ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  $tp_where='';

ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ, if(!isset($context['TPortal']['shoutbox']))
ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ, $context['TPortal']['shoutbox']='';

ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ, echo ' <table style="table-layout: fixed;" cellpadding="0" height="'.$context['TPortal']['shoutbox_height'].'" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%"><tr><td class="smalltext"><div style="height: '.$context['TPortal']['shoutbox_height'].'px; overflow: auto; width: 100%;">', $context['TPortal']['shoutbox'], '
ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ, </div></td></tr></table><form style="margin-top: 8px; text-align: center;" class="smalltext" name="tp-shoutbox" action="'.$scripturl.'?action=tpmod&id=shout" method="post">
ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ, ';
ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ, if(($context['TPortal']['guest_shout']) || (!$context['TPortal']['guest_shout'] && !$context['user']['is_guest']))
ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ, echo '<textarea class="smalltext" name="tp-shout" style="width: 80%; height: 50px;" type="text"></textarea><br /><input style="margin-top: 4px;" class="smalltext" type="submit" name="shout_send" value="'.$txt['shout!'].'">';

ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ, if($context['user']['is_guest'] && $context['TPortal']['guest_shout'])
ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ, echo '<br /><input style="margin-top: 4px;" size="20" class="smalltext" type="text" name="tp-shout-name" value="'.$txt['tp-guest'].'">';
ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ, else
ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ, echo '<input type="hidden" name="tp-shout-name" value="'.$context['user']['name'].'">';

ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ, echo '<input name="tp-shout-url" type="hidden" value="'.$tp_where.'">
ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ, </form>';
}


to this:

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// TPortal shoutbox
function TPortal_shoutbox()
{
ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  global $context, $settings, $options, $scripturl, $txt, $modSettings;

ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  // Show the shoutbox, takes settings from tpadmin
ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ, if(isset($context['TPortal']['querystring']))
ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ, $tp_where=$context['TPortal']['querystring'];
ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ, else
ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  $tp_where='';

ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ, if(!isset($context['TPortal']['shoutbox']))
ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ, $context['TPortal']['shoutbox']='';

ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ, echo ' <marqueeÂÃ,  behavior="scroll" direction="up" height="100" scrolldelay="300" scrollamount="2" onmouseover="this.stop()" onmouseout="this.start()"><table style="table-layout: fixed;" cellpadding="0" height="'.$context['TPortal']['shoutbox_height'].'" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%"><tr><td class="smalltext"><div style="height: '.$context['TPortal']['shoutbox_height'].'px; width: 100%;">', $context['TPortal']['shoutbox'], '
ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ, </div></td></tr></table></marquee><form style="margin-top: 8px; text-align: center;" class="smalltext" name="tp-shoutbox" action="'.$scripturl.'?action=tpmod&id=shout" method="post">
ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ, ';
ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ, if(($context['TPortal']['guest_shout']) || (!$context['TPortal']['guest_shout'] && !$context['user']['is_guest']))
ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ, echo '<textarea class="smalltext" name="tp-shout" style="width: 80%; height: 50px;" type="text"></textarea><br /><input style="margin-top: 4px;" class="smalltext" type="submit" name="shout_send" value="'.$txt['shout!'].'">';

ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ, if($context['user']['is_guest'] && $context['TPortal']['guest_shout'])
ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ, echo '<br /><input style="margin-top: 4px;" size="20" class="smalltext" type="text" name="tp-shout-name" value="'.$txt['tp-guest'].'">';
ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ, else
ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ, echo '<input type="hidden" name="tp-shout-name" value="'.$context['user']['name'].'">';

ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ, echo '<input name="tp-shout-url" type="hidden" value="'.$tp_where.'">
ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ,  ÂÃ, </form>';
}

hopeÂÃ,  this is ok and helps

ps <marquee> is sloppy fix

[tattooedpierre]

I dont appear to have the TPortalBlocks.template file in my black22 directory (which is my default theme) .. should this be there? It is in my netpune theme folder though?

EDIT: I just added into Neptune to see if it works, and it does. So if this could be modified for recent posts, this would be most excellent!