Question on SSI

[Arantor]

No, I don't think it's the tables. It's something else.

Try doing a print_r of $array to see what the physical content of it is.

[t3ngu]

Yeah this is weird, I just tested again and short_subject works if I edit SSI.php's display properties, but not on index.php of my website. I tried using subject instead of short_subject, and it now shows:

[(category name should be here, but it's not)]      October 29, 2009, 08:25:49 PM
Thread name
by Poster

And sorry but I'm not familiar with print_r. How would I use it?

[Arantor]

You'd use:

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print_r($array);

Will give you a lot of output, best viewed by viewing the HTML source in the browser though, since it's not exactly nicely formatted otherwise.

[t3ngu]

Array (

• => Array ( [id] => 5 [message_id] => 12 [icon] => xx  [subject] => *Thread Name* [time] => October 29, 2009, 08:25:49 PM [timestamp] => 1256869549 [body] => *Thread Body* [href] => http://www.site.com/forums/index.php?topic=5.0 [link] => 0 comments [replies] => 0 [comment_href] => http://www.site.com/forums/index.php?action=post;topic=5.0;num_replies=0 [comment_link] => Write Comment [new_comment] => Write Comment [poster] => Array ( [id] => 1 [name] => *Poster* [href] => http://www.site.com/forums/index.php?action=profile;u=1 [link] => *Poster* ) [locked] => [is_last] => 1 ) )
  
  This is what came up. Replaced site info with text between **

[Arantor]

Hmm. Neither short_subject or board is listed at all.

Which function are you calling again?

[t3ngu]

I put in

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print_r($array);
Exactly as you posted.

The code hasn't changed since the last time I posted it.

[Arantor]

So, which SSI function are you calling, exactly?

If it's ssi_boardNews, there's the issue - boardNews won't populate the board info because you can only get it from one board at a time. And generally it won't expect to generate a short subject either.

[t3ngu]

Yeah, it's boardNews. Which one should I be using instead? I know recentTopics can do it but I want to see the latest posts, not threads.

[ディン1031]

my first suggest would be ssi_recentPosts.

function ssi_recentPosts($num_recent = 8, $exclude_boards = null, $include_boards = null, $output_method = 'echo')

But it does not work in the same way as boardNews .(Board News load only the first post of the latest topics in the given news board).

[t3ngu]

Oh wow, I can't believe I was making such an obvious mistake. Sorry about the trouble, it works now.

I do have one problem. This is the current format for ssi_recentPosts:

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echo '
<table border="0" class="ssi_table">';
foreach ($posts as $post)
echo '
<tr>
<td align="top" valign="top" nowrap="nowrap">
[', $post['board']['link'], ']
</td>
<td align="right" nowrap="nowrap">
', $post['time'], '
</td>
<tr>
<td valign="left">
&nbsp&nbsp -<a href="', $post['href'], '">', $post['short_subject'], '</a>
', $txt['by'], ' ', $post['poster']['link'], '
', $post['new'] ? '' : '<a href="' . $scripturl . '?topic=' . $post['topic'] . '.msg' . $post['new_from'] . ';topicseen#new" rel="nofollow"><img src="' . $settings['lang_images_url'] . '/new.gif" alt="' . $txt['new'] . '" border="0" /></a>', '
</td>
</tr>';
echo '
</table>';
}

so if the thread name is long, it displays like this:

[Board Name]                                October 29, 2009, 08:25:49 PM
   -Really Long Thread Name by
Poster

Since there are two tables and it's divided down the middle, the poster name will go down to a third row if the thread title is too long. If I wanted to show an array with the Board Name and Post date separated like it is now, but the rest in ONE ROW, how would I write it?

[Arantor]

The td in the second row (where the poster stuff is), add colspan="2" to it so it spans both table columns.

[t3ngu]

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echo '
<table border="0" class="ssi_table">';
foreach ($posts as $post)
echo '
<tr>
<td align="top" valign="top" nowrap="nowrap">
[', $post['board']['link'], ']
</td>
<td align="right" nowrap="nowrap">
', $post['time'], '
</td>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
&nbsp&nbsp -<a href="', $post['href'], '">', $post['short_subject'], '</a>
', $txt['by'], ' ', $post['poster']['link'], '
', $post['new'] ? '' : '<a href="' . $scripturl . '?topic=' . $post['topic'] . '.msg' . $post['new_from'] . ';topicseen#new" rel="nofollow"><img src="' . $settings['lang_images_url'] . '/new.gif" alt="' . $txt['new'] . '" border="0" /></a>', '
</td>
</tr>';
echo '
</table>';

Like this? It's not working.
I also don't want to change around SSI.php too much. Would it be easier to just write an array with a table for the forum category and time, and a normally displayed row below it? If so, how would I write the array?

Thanks for putting up with my questions by the way.

[Arantor]

There should be a closing </tr> before the second row starts.

Generally you shouldn't have to modify SSI.php at all; you can export using an array generally back to your own code.

Then it's mostly just a copy of the above anyway.

[t3ngu]

Hm, added </tr> before the second <tr> and still nothing. I have a feeling I'm missing something obvious again.

[t3ngu]

Yeah it was an obvious mistake on my part again, thanks a lot for the help Arantor, it's working perfectly now.

[t3ngu]

Sorry about this, but I have another question. How would I display the previous code as an array? It's:

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<table border="0" class="ssi_table">';
   foreach ($posts as $post)
      echo '
         <tr>
            <td align="top" valign="top" nowrap="nowrap">
               [', $post['board']['link'], ']
            </td>
                        <td align="right" nowrap="nowrap">
               ', $post['time'], '
            </td>
         <tr>
            <td colspan="2">
               &nbsp&nbsp -<a href="', $post['href'], '">', $post['short_subject'], '</a>
               ', $txt['by'], ' ', $post['poster']['link'], '
               ', $post['new'] ? '' : '<a href="' . $scripturl . '?topic=' . $post['topic'] . '.msg' . $post['new_from'] . ';topicseen#new" rel="nofollow"><img src="' . $settings['lang_images_url'] . '/new.gif" alt="' . $txt['new'] . '" border="0" /></a>', '
            </td>
         </tr>';
   echo '
      </table>';

I used the above to edit SSI.php, but want to change the "echo" display instead of messing with the SSI files. I tried just changing echo to array, but it will error with the tags for the tables.

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<?php
ssi_recentPosts($num_recent = 5, $exclude_boards = array(2, 3), $include_boards = null, $output_method = 'array')

<table border="0" class="ssi_table">';
   foreach ($posts as $post)
      echo '
         <tr>
            <td align="top" valign="top" nowrap="nowrap">
               [', $post['board']['link'], ']
            </td>
                        <td align="right" nowrap="nowrap">
               ', $post['time'], '
            </td>
         <tr>
            <td colspan="2">
               &nbsp&nbsp -<a href="', $post['href'], '">', $post['short_subject'], '</a>
               ', $txt['by'], ' ', $post['poster']['link'], '
               ', $post['new'] ? '' : '<a href="' . $scripturl . '?topic=' . $post['topic'] . '.msg' . $post['new_from'] . ';topicseen#new" rel="nofollow"><img src="' . $settings['lang_images_url'] . '/new.gif" alt="' . $txt['new'] . '" border="0" /></a>', '
            </td>
         </tr>';
   echo '
      </table>';
?>

How would I change the above to show as "array" without it erroring?

[Arantor]

Couple of minor tweaks, but you'll be able to compare them to see what changed; just to make it legal PHP.

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<?php
$posts = ssi_recentPosts($num_recent = 5, $exclude_boards = array(2, 3), $include_boards = null, $output_method = 'array');

echo '<table border="0" class="ssi_table">';
   foreach ($posts as $post)
      echo '
         <tr>
            <td align="top" valign="top" nowrap="nowrap">
               [', $post['board']['link'], ']
            </td>
                        <td align="right" nowrap="nowrap">
               ', $post['time'], '
            </td>
         <tr>
            <td colspan="2">
               &nbsp&nbsp -<a href="', $post['href'], '">', $post['short_subject'], '</a>
               ', $txt['by'], ' ', $post['poster']['link'], '
               ', $post['new'] ? '' : '<a href="' . $scripturl . '?topic=' . $post['topic'] . '.msg' . $post['new_from'] . ';topicseen#new" rel="nofollow"><img src="' . $settings['lang_images_url'] . '/new.gif" alt="' . $txt['new'] . '" border="0" /></a>', '
            </td>
         </tr>';
   echo '
      </table>';
?>

[t3ngu]

Thanks again for the quick reply Arrantor, that worked perfectly.

[Arantor]

Marking as solved.