custom "Recent Topics from Board X, Y, Z only" php block

[iowamf]

Can you post the tweaks you made ?

BTW, you are right the original was done for an older ver of SMF/TP. 

Alright this works like a charm! I am using 1.1.1 but I think original snipped I copied from the forum must have been older. I was able to make some tweaks to this now and it is perfect!

thank you!
jake

[jakemelon]

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global $context, $scripturl, $settings, $txt;
$bullet = '<img src="'.$settings['images_url'].'/TPdivider.gif" alt="" border="0" style="margin:0 2px 0 0;" />';

$result=ssi_recentTopics_Include(12,array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48),'return');

foreach($result as $my){
  echo "$bullet";
  echo '<span class="smalltext">'.$my['link'];

  // is this topic new? (assume they are logged in)
if (!$my['new'] && $context['user']['is_logged'])
        echo ' <a href="', $scripturl, '?topic=', $my['topic'], '.from', $my['new_from'], '#new"><img src="', $settings['images_url'], '/', $context['user']['language'], '/new.gif" alt="', $txt[302], '" border="0" /></a>';
echo ' in ', $my['board']['link'];
echo ' by ', $my['poster']['link'];
echo ' posted ', $my['time'];
echo '<br />';

}
echo '</span>';

This seems to only display last 5 posts, any way to increase this to 10 posts? I thought the $result=ssi_recentTopics_Include(12,array   controlled how many posts should show up but that is not it.

Any thoughts?

jake

[jacortina]

This seems to only display last 5 posts, any way to increase this to 10 posts? I thought the $result=ssi_recentTopics_Include(12,array   controlled how many posts should show up but that is not it.

Any thoughts?

Yes. The number is actually a maximum. The query uses an algorithm that only looks at the last (35 * num_request) posts. So if you only have 5 topics in the boar(s) that you haven't excluded which have had posts added in the last 420 (35*12) posts, then that's all you'll get.

[tick]

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global $context, $scripturl, $settings, $txt;
$bullet = '<img src="'.$settings['images_url'].'/TPdivider.gif" alt="" border="0" style="margin:0 2px 0 0;" />';

$result=ssi_recentTopics_Include(12,array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48),'return');

foreach($result as $my){
  echo "$bullet";
  echo '<span class="smalltext">'.$my['link'];

  // is this topic new? (assume they are logged in)
if (!$my['new'] && $context['user']['is_logged'])
        echo ' <a href="', $scripturl, '?topic=', $my['topic'], '.from', $my['new_from'], '#new"><img src="', $settings['images_url'], '/', $context['user']['language'], '/new.gif" alt="', $txt[302], '" border="0" /></a>';
echo ' in ', $my['board']['link'];
echo ' by ', $my['poster']['link'];
echo ' posted ', $my['time'];
echo '<br />';

}
echo '</span>';

This seems to only display last 5 posts, any way to increase this to 10 posts? I thought the $result=ssi_recentTopics_Include(12,array   controlled how many posts should show up but that is not it.

Any thoughts?

jake

Ok I am new so i have to ask this question.  Do I put this code in a php box on the front page to make this work?  And how do I make it show the last 30 post

[tick]

ok I did add this to the frontpage block and when I enabled it I got an error .  How do I make this work.

[jakemelon]

Hi,

Make sure you change these numbers to correspond to your own forums. I have 48 different ones so I listed the ones I wanted to show in my box. If you pasted all of them and you don't have 48 of them then it will probably not work.

array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48),'return');

[tick]

so you put the number of boards.  Say i have 8 board i would put 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8






edit  this is the error I get.      Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home2/ibewfrie/public_html/Sources/Load.php(1747) : eval()'d code(35) : eval()'d code on line 1

[denis]

Hi,

I have 6 instances of the SMF/TP duo working. I would like the 1st SMF/TP duo to be able to fetch recent post from the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th instances. Is this possible? IF so what would be the best approach?

Thanks

Denis.

[IchBin]

Are they on the same server? I don't think you could if not, but I'm not sure.

[denis]

Yes they are on the same server and under the same domain.