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Started by Crawler, April 09, 2007, 03:56:04 AM

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Crawler

April 09, 2007, 03:56:04 AM Last Edit: April 09, 2007, 04:00:45 AM by Crawler
I had the InvisionBoard 1.3 running for quiet a while now, but I will switch to SMF because of security-reasons. I only have one problem left: the IB had a very easy to modify template for the output of the ssi-data, in SMF I have to edit the SSI.php and I'm not good enough to do that. I want the output to look like the screenshot (it's just tables, but I don't know how to fit that into the php-file). Could some one please help me with that? If it works I want to put the latest 15 topics on my news-site.



By the way, here you can find the html-file (CSS, will be completly in an external file, I just hadn't the time to do that yet): http://www.nvinside.de/inhalt/ssi.htm [nofollow]

Daniel15

#1
April 09, 2007, 04:38:50 AM
Quotein SMF I have to edit the SSI.php and I'm not good enough to do that
You can use the "array" output type to return an array, and then format the array however you want.

Here's an example of how to do that, using the HTML file you linked to above. Save this file into your SMF directory, with any filename (if you want to put it in a different directory, change the path to SSI.php).

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<?php
require('SSI.php');
?>
<html><head>


<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"><title>NVinside.de News</title>

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="nvinside_news.css">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">

<style type="text/css">
.style1 {
font-weight: bold;
color: #FFFFFF;
}
.style2 {
font-size: 8pt;
}
</style>
</head><body>

<?php

// Get the latest news
$news_items = ssi_boardNews(1, 15, null, null, 'array'); // Board, Number of topics, topic to start at, length to get, return type
// Loop through all the items
foreach ($news_items as $news)
{
 echo '
<div align="center">
<table style="border-collapse: collapse;" border="1" bordercolor="#c0c0c0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="98%">
<tbody><tr>
<td bgcolor="#4963ad">
<table style="border-collapse: collapse;" border="0" width="100%">
<tbody><tr>
<td><b><font color="#ffffff"><a href="', $news['href'], '">', $news['icon'], '</a> <b>', $news['subject'], '</b></font></b></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap">
<p align="right"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 700;">
gepostet von </span>
<a href="', $news['poster']['href'], '">
<span class="style1">', $news['poster']['name'], '</span></a><b><font color="#ffffff">
am ', $news['time'], '</font></b></p></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p align="justify">
', $news['body'], '<br><br>

<span style="font-size: 8pt;">
<a target="_blank" href="', $news['href'], '">
<font style="font-size: 8pt;">', $news['replies'], ' ', ($news['numReplies'] == 1 ? $txt['smf_news_1'] : $txt['smf_news_2']), '</font></a></span>
<span class="style2">', $news['locked'] ? '' : ' | ' . $news['comment_link'], '</span></p></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>
<br>';
}
?>


:D
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Crawler

#2
April 09, 2007, 03:05:27 PM
Thx, that works great ...

Crawler

#3
April 23, 2007, 12:00:23 PM Last Edit: April 23, 2007, 12:02:02 PM by Crawler
I have one more question. How would I have to change the source code below, if I wanted to keep that layout, but wanted to add a col to the right in which I could put an ad-code for AdSense - I couldn't get it to work, because when I put the use in the left col and the add-code in the right one, the ad-banner shows up besides every posting, but I want it to appear just once at the top of the site - like this: http://board.nvinside.de/news1.htm [nofollow]

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<?php
require('SSI.php');
?>
<html><head>


<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"><title>NVinside.de News</title>

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="news.css">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">

<style type="text/css">
.style1 {
font-weight: bold;
color: #FFFFFF;
}
.style2 {
font-size: 8pt;
}
</style>
</head><body>

<?php

// Get the latest news
$news_items = ssi_boardNews(20, 15, null, null, 'array'); // Board, Number of topics, topic to start at, length to get, return type
// Loop through all the items
foreach ($news_items as $news)
{
 echo '
<div align="center">
<table style="border-collapse: collapse;" border="1" bordercolor="#c0c0c0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="98%">
<tbody><tr>
<td bgcolor="#4963ad">
<table style="height: 20px" style="border-collapse: collapse;" border="0" width="100%">
<tbody><tr>
<td><b><font color="#ffffff"><a href="', $news['href'], '">', '</a> <b>', $news['subject'], '</b></font></b></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap">
<p align="right"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 700;">
gepostet von </span>
<a href="', $news['poster']['href'], '">
<span class="style1">', $news['poster']['name'], '</span></a><b><font color="#ffffff">
am ', $news['time'], '</font></b></p></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p align="justify">
', $news['body'], '<br><br>

<span class="style2"><a target="_self" href="', $news['href'], '">
', $news['replies'], ' ', ($news['numReplies'] == 1 ? $txt['smf_news_1'] : $txt['smf_news_2']), '</a></span>
<span class="style2">', $news['locked'] ? '' : ' | ' . $news['comment_link'], '</span></p></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>
<br>';
}
?>

Crawler

#4
April 30, 2007, 06:29:52 AM
Could you please help me once more with the above?

Daniel15

#5
May 01, 2007, 06:38:04 AM Last Edit: May 01, 2007, 11:21:38 PM by Daniel15
You could put the ad in a table, I guess...

From your code above...
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</head><body>

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</head><body>
<table>
<tr>
<td>


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?>

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echo '
</div>
<br>
</td>
<td style="width: 130px" valign="top">
Ad code here
</td>
</tr>
</table>';
?>


That should work :)
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Crawler

#6
May 01, 2007, 10:27:11 AM
Thx, but that doesn't give me the layout I wanted. Now it looks like this (http://board.nvinside.de/news_add.php [nofollow]), but it should look like this (http://board.nvinside.de/news1.htm [nofollow]).

Daniel15

#7
May 01, 2007, 11:22:00 PM
Sorry, I made a mistake in my post above...
Here's the corrected bit:

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?>

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echo '
</div>
<br>
</td>
<td style="width: 130px" valign="top">
Ad code here
</td>
</tr>
</table>';
?>
Daniel15, former Customisation team member, resigned due to lack of time. I still love everyone here :D.
Go to smfshop.com for SMFshop support, do NOT email or PM me!

Crawler

#8
May 02, 2007, 03:04:14 AM
Thx, but now the add is a at the bottom of th page (http://board.nvinside.de/news_add.php [nofollow]) ...
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