Need help with something

[WildGunsTomcat]

Hey guys,

I'm fairly new to SMF and Tinyportal and I did an search of the forums and didn't see a post asking this so I'm going to give it a shot.

I would like to be able to take ONE post from my forums and display it as an article on my front page of Tiny Portal. I would like to be able to see the icon of the poster, and have a comment link on that article/post that would open up the post in the forum...effectively taking them into the post on the forum.

I am a total noob as far as this goes...so any help would be MOST appreciated. I must iterate...I don't like the way forum posts are currently displayed by tinyportal...I want them to look more like articles.

My website is www.cruciblegaming.com

Thanks in advance!

[ed_m2]

i have a custom page that does something similar i think....

look at http://www.covtri.co.uk/index.php?page=15&tid=311, if the functionality is close i'll post up the code.

[WildGunsTomcat]

i have a custom page that does something similar i think....

look at http://www.covtri.co.uk/index.php?page=15&tid=311, if the functionality is close i'll post up the code.

That is DAMN close to what I want. The only thing I would add is an Icon of the poster on the top left. Is that something that can be done?

[ed_m2]

i have a custom page that does something similar i think....

look at http://www.covtri.co.uk/index.php?page=15&tid=311, if the functionality is close i'll post up the code.

That is DAMN close to what I want. The only thing I would add is an Icon of the poster on the top left. Is that something that can be done?

... i expect so... although it would need a query from multiple tables... something i havent quite got my head around just yet !

[edit to add: looking at the code apparently i have got my head around it at some point before!]

[ed_m2]

here's my code.... in a php page....  with no frames as it attempts to reproduce the look of a TP article.

it actually returns the first post in the topic (tid) given in the url.
and the 'view discussion' link goes to the first post, it could go to the last i guess.
a few obvious bits of text & urls to edit.

i haven't shared this before so perhaps others can suggest improvements in the syntax.

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$tid= $_GET['tid'];

if(is_numeric($tid))
    {

$request = db_query("SELECT subject, body, id_first_msg FROM smf_messages, smf_topics WHERE smf_messages.ID_MSG = smf_topics.ID_FIRST_MSG AND smf_topics.ID_TOPIC =" . $tid);

$result = mysql_fetch_assoc($request);


echo '
<div class="tborder tp_article_frame">
<div class="titlebg tp_subject">'

. $result['subject'] .

'</div>
<div class="tp_articletext">'

. doUBBC($result['body']) .

'<p align="right"><a href="http://www.covtri.co.uk/index.php?topic=' . $tid . '.msg' . $result['id_first_msg'] . ' ">
View forum discussion</a></p>

</div>
</div> ';

   }
    else
    {
        echo 'Invalid argument';
    }


[WildGunsTomcat]

Yeah I tried to plug it into a PHPBox module and it just says invalid argument...any suggestions?

[ed_m2]

Yeah I tried to plug it into a PHPBox module and it just says invalid argument...any suggestions?

look at the link i posted.... you need to put a valid topic ID from your forum in the URL when you call the page.

[ed_m2]

oh... in a block ? my stuff is in a page...... you'll need to define the tid variable instead of the GET command.

replace:

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$tid= $_GET['tid'];

with

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$tid= ??;

where ?? is the topic id you want to display

[WildGunsTomcat]

Yeah...still not doing it.

Where do I stick your original PHP? In the index template? And if so where?

[ed_m2]

Where do I stick your original PHP? In the index template? And if so where?

nooo.. in a php article.