SSI question - I have looked in the FAQ....

[cleavers1066]

...but can't find what I'm directly after.

How can I setup an SSI page that takes all the topics from a particular board ?

The site its being used on is a personal website where only the forum owner wants to post articles of interest to the users, we want to use SSI to have several index pages, so people can navigate from the website stright to the topic they wish to read.

Is there an easy (idiot proof) way of doing this ?

[kegobeer]

To clarify, you want to list all of the topics from one board in particular.  No pagination, nothing.  Just a huge list of all of the topics from one board?  In that case, you would have to make a new SSI function to do that, since it's never a good idea to modify a SSI function.  Just copy the entire ssi_boardNews function, paste it at the end of SSI.php, give it a unique name (perhaps ssi_boardNewsAll), and then change

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ORDER BY ID_FIRST_MSG DESC
LIMIT $start, $limit", __FILE__, __LINE__);

to

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ORDER BY ID_FIRST_MSG DESC", __FILE__, __LINE__);

Call the function like this:

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ssi_boardNewsAll(1)

Where 1 would be board number 1.  This is untested, but should work.

[cleavers1066]

Thanks I'll have a play with that, your help is much appreciated.

The forum isn't being used as a forum as such, its somewhere for people to write articles, and they come under various theme's. Having individual indexes will be very useful within the context of the site. There won't be many articles on each forum, so it will work fine. I will obviously add some formatting to the pages, it was just how to get the topic titles on the page I couldn't figure.

[cleavers1066]

As always an answer creates more questions 

I got this to work quite easily, but its not quite what I wanted, its gives the whole text of the post, what I really want is to just have the topic titles, without the text. Its way beyond my knowledge working out how to change this to just topic titles so any further help would be very useful.

[kegobeer]

All ssi functions have an output method parameter.  This will return an array containing the information retrieved from the queries.  The practical upshot of which is you can pick and choose what you want to display.

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$myarray = ssi_boardNewsAll(1, null, null, null, 'return');
foreach ($myarray as $news)
{
  echo '<a href="', $news['href'], '">", $news['subject'], '</a><br />';
}


Spend a few minutes and look at the ssi_boardNewsAll function you made.  You'll see where the array is loaded, and what is put into the array.  Just pick and choose what to display.

[cleavers1066]

Thanks, but I can look at code like this for hours and see nothing sadly. There is far too much in the section I created for me to dare messing around. I called it "ssi_boardTopic" by the way.

This is what was created.....

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// Show the latest Topics, with a template... by board.
function ssi_boardTopic($board = null, $limit = null, $start = null, $length = null, $output_method = 'echo')
{
global $scripturl, $db_prefix, $txt;
global $settings, $modSettings, $context;

loadLanguage('Stats');

// Must be integers....
if ($limit === null)
$limit = isset($_GET['limit']) ? (int) $_GET['limit'] : 5;
else
$limit = (int) $limit;

if ($start === null)
$start = isset($_GET['start']) ? (int) $_GET['start'] : 0;
else
$start = (int) $start;

if ($board !== null)
$board = (int) $board;
elseif (isset($_GET['board']))
$board = (int) $_GET['board'];

if ($length === null)
$length = isset($_GET['length']) ? (int) $_GET['length'] : 0;
else
$length = (int) $length;

// Make sure guests can see this board.
$request = db_query("
SELECT ID_BOARD
FROM {$db_prefix}boards
WHERE " . ($board === null ? '' : "ID_BOARD = $board
AND ") . "FIND_IN_SET(-1, memberGroups)
LIMIT 1", __FILE__, __LINE__);
if (mysql_num_rows($request) == 0)
{
if ($output_method == 'echo')
die($txt['smf_news_error2']);
else
return array();
}
list ($board) = mysql_fetch_row($request);
mysql_free_result($request);

// Load the message icons - the usual suspects.
$stable_icons = array('xx', 'thumbup', 'thumbdown', 'exclamation', 'question', 'lamp', 'smiley', 'angry', 'cheesy', 'grin', 'sad', 'wink', 'moved', 'recycled', 'wireless');
$icon_sources = array();
foreach ($stable_icons as $icon)
$icon_sources[$icon] = 'images_url';

// Find the post ids.
$request = db_query("
SELECT ID_FIRST_MSG
FROM {$db_prefix}topics
WHERE ID_BOARD = $board
ORDER BY ID_FIRST_MSG DESC", __FILE__, __LINE__);
$posts = array();
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($request))
$posts[] = $row['ID_FIRST_MSG'];
mysql_free_result($request);

if (empty($posts))
return array();

// Find the posts.
$request = db_query("
SELECT
m.icon, m.subject, m.body, IFNULL(mem.realName, m.posterName) AS posterName, m.posterTime,
t.numReplies, t.ID_TOPIC, m.ID_MEMBER, m.smileysEnabled, m.ID_MSG, t.locked
FROM ({$db_prefix}topics AS t, {$db_prefix}messages AS m)
LEFT JOIN {$db_prefix}members AS mem ON (mem.ID_MEMBER = m.ID_MEMBER)
WHERE t.ID_FIRST_MSG IN (" . implode(', ', $posts) . ")
AND m.ID_MSG = t.ID_FIRST_MSG
ORDER BY t.ID_FIRST_MSG DESC
LIMIT " . count($posts), __FILE__, __LINE__);
$return = array();
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($request))
{
// If we want to limit the length of the post.
if (!empty($length) && strlen($row['body']) > $length)
{
$row['body'] = substr($row['body'], 0, $length);

// The first space or line break. (<br />, etc.)
$cutoff = max(strrpos($row['body'], ' '), strrpos($row['body'], '<'));

if ($cutoff !== false)
$row['body'] = substr($row['body'], 0, $cutoff);
$row['body'] .= '...';
}

$row['body'] = parse_bbc($row['body'], $row['smileysEnabled'], $row['ID_MSG']);

// Check that this message icon is there...
if (empty($modSettings['messageIconChecks_disable']) && !isset($icon_sources[$row['icon']]))
$icon_sources[$row['icon']] = file_exists($settings['theme_dir'] . '/images/post/' . $row['icon'] . '.gif') ? 'images_url' : 'default_images_url';

censorText($row['subject']);
censorText($row['body']);

$return[] = array(
'id' => $row['ID_TOPIC'],
'message_id' => $row['ID_MSG'],
'icon' => '<img src="' . $settings[$icon_sources[$row['icon']]] . '/post/' . $row['icon'] . '.gif" align="middle" alt="' . $row['icon'] . '" border="0" />',
'subject' => $row['subject'],
'time' => timeformat($row['posterTime']),
'timestamp' => forum_time(true, $row['posterTime']),
'body' => $row['body'],
'href' => $scripturl . '?topic=' . $row['ID_TOPIC'] . '.0',
'link' => '<a href="' . $scripturl . '?topic=' . $row['ID_TOPIC'] . '.0">' . $row['numReplies'] . ' ' . ($row['numReplies'] == 1 ? $txt['smf_news_1'] : $txt['smf_news_2']) . '</a>',
'replies' => $row['numReplies'],
'comment_href' => !empty($row['locked']) ? '' : $scripturl . '?action=post;topic=' . $row['ID_TOPIC'] . '.' . $row['numReplies'] . ';num_replies=' . $row['numReplies'],
'comment_link' => !empty($row['locked']) ? '' : '<a href="' . $scripturl . '?action=post;topic=' . $row['ID_TOPIC'] . '.' . $row['numReplies'] . ';num_replies=' . $row['numReplies'] . '">' . $txt['smf_news_3'] . '</a>',
'new_comment' => !empty($row['locked']) ? '' : '<a href="' . $scripturl . '?action=post;topic=' . $row['ID_TOPIC'] . '.' . $row['numReplies'] . '">' . $txt['smf_news_3'] . '</a>',
'poster' => array(
'id' => $row['ID_MEMBER'],
'name' => $row['posterName'],
'href' => !empty($row['ID_MEMBER']) ? $scripturl . '?action=profile;u=' . $row['ID_MEMBER'] : '',
'link' => !empty($row['ID_MEMBER']) ? '<a href="' . $scripturl . '?action=profile;u=' . $row['ID_MEMBER'] . '">' . $row['posterName'] . '</a>' : $row['posterName']
),
'locked' => !empty($row['locked']),
'is_last' => false
);
}
mysql_free_result($request);

if (empty($return))
return $return;

$return[count($return) - 1]['is_last'] = true;

if ($output_method != 'echo')
return $return;

foreach ($return as $news)
{
echo '
<div>
<a href="', $news['href'], '">', $news['icon'], '</a> <b>', $news['subject'], '</b>
<div class="smaller">', $news['time'], ' ', $txt[525], ' ', $news['poster']['link'], '</div>

<div class="post" style="padding: 2ex 0;">', $news['body'], '</div>

', $news['link'], $news['locked'] ? '' : ' | ' . $news['comment_link'], '
</div>';

if (!$news['is_last'])
echo '
<hr style="margin: 2ex 0;" width="100%" />';
}
}


[kegobeer]

The code I posted gives you a list of topics, with links to the entire post.