[Block] TP-style recent post activity in a block.

[Freddy]

This was requested so as to provide more flexibility in the front page layout.

It simply mimics TP's front page settings for posts, specifically this setting :

What to display on frontpage: Only forum-posts

You can set the boards from which to pull posts from, the number of posts to show and the number of characters to display before you get a Read More link.

Very simple bit of code because I used Bloc's pre-existing functions to do all the work.

You can use this in a PHP block or article.

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// *** Config ***

// Set the boards you want to pull from - comma seperated within quotes.
$boards = '1,2,3';

// Set the total number of posts to show.
$number = 5;

// Set the maximum number of characters to show in a post.
$length = 300;

// *** End of config ***


// Now the code...

$posts = array();

$posts = TP_boardNews($boards, $number, 0, $length);

foreach ($posts as $post)
{
TPpageLayout1($post, 0);
}