ssi_boardNews Multiple Boards

[Daniel15]

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ssi_boardNews Multiple Boards

This mod will modify ssi_boardNews so that multiple board IDs can be passed to it as an array.

How to use?
Instead of calling ssi_boardNews with a single number, call it with an array. For example:
echo ssi_boardNews(array(1,2,3));
will output the latest news from boards 1, 2 and 3.

Example script
Below is an example script, using the ssi_boardNews "array" output method. This allows you to format the output in whatever way you'd like to.

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<?php
// Require SSI
require('SSI.php');

// Some variables. Change these to test this script :)
$boards = array(1, 2, 3); // Boards to use
$number = 10; // Number of items to return
$length = 300; // Return this number of characters, followed by "...".

// Get the news
$news_items = ssi_boardNews($boards, $number, null, $length, 'array'); // array(boards), number of items, item to start at, number of characters, output method
// Loop through all items
foreach ($news_items as $news)
{
// Output this item
echo '
<div>
<a href="', $news['href'], '">', $news['icon'], '</a> <b>', $news['subject'], '</b>
<div class="smaller">', $news['time'], ' by ', $news['poster']['link'], ' in ', $news['board']['link'], '</div>

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

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

// If it isn't the last item, output a <hr />
if (!$news['is_last'])
echo '
<hr style="margin: 2ex 0;" width="100%" />';
}
?>


Changelog
Version 1.0
- Initial release

[sanax]

Great mod, Daniel!
I have a blond moment here, where do I add the the above script? I would like to use one 'topic' as board news editable by the mods

TIA

[samozin]

this mod is kwel
thats the one i was waiting for
but
look at this
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting ',' or ';' in /home/the site name/public_html/forum/SSI.php on line 1883
i think this error  comming from using ur latest 2 mods together ..

[Daniel15]

look at this
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting ',' or ';' in /home/the site name/public_html/forum/SSI.php on line 1883
i think this error  comming from using ur latest 2 mods together ..

Could you please attach your SSI.php file here? I'll try to see what's wrong with it.
SSI.php should be much longer than 1883 lines; my one is 2155 lines.

Great mod, Daniel!
I have a blond moment here, where do I add the the above script? I would like to use one 'topic' as board news editable by the mods

TIA

I think you're misunderstanding this mod?
Basically, SMF has a function called "ssi_boardNews". This allows you to show topics from a certain board on any page you like (such as on your website). See the "Board News Function" of ssi_examples.php for an example (ssi_examples.php comes with SMF, eg. http://www.simplemachines.org/community/ssi_examples.php). However, SMF's inbuilt one only allows one board to be used for the news. This mod simply allows you to use multiple boards. This is useful if you have a few news boards (each with a different focus), and you want to show news from all of them.

As for the script above; that's just an example script. You may save it in your forum's directory with any file name, and it will show you an example of the output produced by ssi_boardNews.

I hope this helps you

[mkress]

thats a great mod!!!
many THANKS!!

perhaps you can help me with a problem.

i want to display a pagination on bottom, for example:
Page [1]..[8]

i know that it's  possible to do that with the $start-variable, but i do not know if there is an variable that puts out the number of all news in the $board-variable so that i know how many pages i should print.

[Daniel15]

The way that I do pagination is issue a seperate query to get the number of topics. On my website (www.daniel15.com), I do something like:

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<?php
require('forum/SSI.php');

// Number of pages
$result = db_query("
SELECT COUNT(ID_TOPIC)
FROM {$db_prefix}topics
WHERE ID_BOARD = 2", __FILE__, __LINE__);
list ($newsNumber) = mysql_fetch_row($result);
mysql_free_result($result);

// Pagination - List of page numbers
$pageIndex = constructPageIndex('http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . '/' . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . '?start=%d', &$_REQUEST['start'], $newsNumber, 10, true);

// Actual items
$newsItems = ssi_boardNews(2, 10, $_REQUEST['start'], 0, 'array'); 

// Page numbers
echo '
<div align="right">', $pageIndex, '</div>';

$alternate = "windowbg1";
foreach($newsItems as $newsItem)
{
echo '
<div class="', $alternate, '">
<b>', $newsItem['icon'], ' ', $newsItem['time'], ' - <a href="', $newsItem['href'], '">', $newsItem['subject'], '</a> by ', $newsItem['poster']['link'], '</b><br />
', $newsItem['body'], '<br />
', $newsItem['link'], ' | ', $newsItem['new_comment'], '
</div><hr /><br />';

 $alternate = ($alternate == 'windowbg1') ? 'windowbg2' : 'windowbg1';
}

// Page numbers
echo '
<div align="right">', $pageIndex, '</div>';
?>


Replace "2" with the board ID. If you're using multiple boards (with this mod, I guess you are ), replace
WHERE ID_BOARD = 2
With
WHERE ID_BOARD IN (2, 3, 4)

(replace 2, 3, 4 with a list of the board IDs).

[mkress]

GREAT!!!!

THANK YOU!!!!!!!

[tsmalmbe]

I coded a pretty similar thing a few weeks ago. My version checks the permissions aswell. Does this one check permissions?

[mkress]

no it does not - it only checks if a guests can view a board
pagination does no check

[tsmalmbe]

Permissions are nice. Just think of news for different membergroups. Or, like I have it in conjunction with the "ignore boards"-mod, a system that people can pick and choose from my newsboards which they want so see on the frontpage.

[Daniel15]

tsmalmbe, permissions would be good, but I only coded this to extend the ssi_boardNews function so it allows multiple boards... I didn't add any other extra functionality to it (I try to keep mods simple )

[gregh]

thanks for a great mod, I have one query, my error log is showing thousands of errors around is_last when I run this (although it appears to run fine)

A section of the error log is below:

client 75.111.158.11] PHP Notice: Undefined index: is_last in /var/www/vhosts/pocketpcsoft.net/httpdocs/index.php on line 621, referer: http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&q=pocket+pc+programs&btnG=Google+Search
[client 75.111.158.11] PHP Notice: Undefined index: is_last in /var/www/vhosts/pocketpcsoft.net/httpdocs/index.php on line 621, referer: http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&q=pocket+pc+programs&btnG=Google+Search
[client 75.111.158.11] PHP Notice: Undefined index: is_last in /var/www/vhosts/pocketpcsoft.net/httpdocs/index.php on line 621, referer: http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&q=pocket+pc+programs&btnG=Google+Search
[client 75.111.158.11] PHP Notice: Undefined index: is_last in /var/www/vhosts/pocketpcsoft.net/httpdocs/index.php on line 621, referer: http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&q=pocket+pc+programs&btnG=Google+Search
[client 75.111.158.11] PHP Notice: Undefined index: is_last in /var/www/vhosts/pocketpcsoft.net/httpdocs/index.php on line 621, referer: http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&q=pocket+pc+programs&btnG=Google+Search
[client 75.111.158.11] PHP Notice: Undefined index: is_last in /var/www/vhosts/pocketpcsoft.net/httpdocs/index.php on line 621, referer: http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&q=pocket+pc+programs&btnG=Google+Search
[client 75.111.158.11] PHP Notice: Undefined index: is_last in /var/www/vhosts/pocketpcsoft.net/httpdocs/index.php on line 621, referer: http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&q=pocket+pc+programs&btnG=Google+Search
[client 75.111.158.11] PHP Notice: Undefined index: is_last in /var/www/vhosts/pocketpcsoft.net/httpdocs/index.php on line 621, referer: http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&q=pocket+pc+programs&btnG=Google+Search

This is line 621  from my php (taken from your example above)

      if (!$news['is_last'])
      
thanks,

Greg

[Daniel15]

Argh... My bad
Change

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if (!$news['is_last'])


To:

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if (!empty($news['is_last']))


[ormuz]

After upgrade my host from php4 to php5 the SSI function crash.... the topic content nerver was showed again!

Sorry for my poor eglish, to have a better look please see my site! www.festivais.org

I use a joomla module based on this code, is similar to daniel15 code...

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<?php
/**
* SMForumNews - A Module that displays news pulled from a Simple Machines forum
* @version 1.1
* @package SMForumNews
* @copyright (C) 2004 by Ben - All rights reserved!
**/

  defined( '_VALID_MOS' ) or die( 'Direct Access to this location is not allowed.' );
  $forum  = $params->def( 'forum', '1' );
  $limit  = $params->def( 'limit', '5' );
  $length  = $params->def( 'length', '' );
  $showicon  = $params->get( 'icon', '1' );
  $showpostinfo  = $params->get( 'postinfo', '1' );
  $showlink  = $params->get( 'link', '1' );
  $moduleclass_sfx  = $params->get( 'moduleclass_sfx', '' );


$array = ssi_boardNews($forum, $limit, null, $length, 'array');

foreach ($array as $news)
{
  if ($showicon) {
    echo '<div style="position: static; width:  99%; text-align: left; vertical-align: bottom;"><b>', $news['icon'], ' ', $news['subject'], '</b></div>';
  }
  else  {
    echo '<div style="position: static; width:  99%; text-align: left; vertical-align: bottom;"><b>', $news['subject'], '</b></div>';
  
  }
  
  if ($showpostinfo) {
    echo '<div style="position: static; width:  99%; text-align: left; vertical-align: bottom;"><span class="smaller">', $news['time'], ' ', $txt[525], ' ', $news['poster']['link'], '</span><br /></div>';
  }
  
  echo '<br /><div style="position: static; width:  99%; text-align: left; vertical-align: bottom;">', $news['body'], '<br /><br /></div>';

  if ($showlink) {
    echo '<div style="position: static; width:  99%; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;">', $news['link'], ' | ', $news['new_comment'], '<br /><br /></div>';
  }

if (!$news['is_last'])
echo '
<hr width="100%" />
<br />';
  }

?>

[Serenity]

is it possible to make this work with hidden boards?

[Chantal Matar]

Is a board meant to appear?  I have installed it and the other Board News Mod and nothing is showing up.  If I put news in the News box then it will show up in the NewsFeeder otherwise it's not taking the topic titles from the Board?

I don't understand.

[hailstone]

do you have this kind of module for joomla? i tried some codes for multiple boards but only 1 is showing

[andrewteg]

is it possible to make this work with hidden boards?

Serenity, what method are you using to hide a board? I updated this code a bit to make the boards parameter optional and keep the output on the same page if you click on a board link and my next step is to hide boards and see if it works on those hidden boards so I can have a board hidden on index if I can figure it out... I figure I may as well help both of us if I can

[Jim R]

Any idea on when this is going to be updated for 2.0?  I tried porting it over, but there appears to be differences in how databases are queried and likely other changes I don't recognize how to alter.

[minos]

hi help me please im making a html portal for ,my forum and  i would like to make tgis with  news


show topic from selected boards  that ok i se <?php ssi_boardNews(array(1,2,3)) ?>

but i cant  use maximum topics to show i wpild like to grab only 15 or 20 topics ...

and if its possible show a  pagination at the top and bottom..


can you help me with the code im not good for this stuff

thanks