IP Board

[flyalaska]

Is anyone else using IPBoard, like the one here. I am having trouble with the latest post on my main site. Their SSI is really bad. The other option is to use their IP Content module. I don't want to spend another $50, for IP COntent. Doeas someone have a script to show the latest post from my board to display on my main page?

[Nabeel]

What I do is this, read the RSS feed of the forum:

http://forum.phpvms....ype=forums&id=1

Replace that with your URL, and the id=1 is the id of the forum.

Then the code (you can see in the dashboard), I use in phpVMS is:

$file = new CodonWebService();
$contents = $file->get("YOUR URL HERE");
$feed = simplexml_load_string($contents);
$contents = '';

$i = 1;
$count = 5; // Show the last 5
foreach ($feed->channel->item as $news) {
           	$news_content = (string )$news->description;
           	$date_posted = str_replace('-0400', '', (string )$news->pubDate);

           	// YOU CAN CUSTOMIZE THIS
           	$contents .= "<div class=\"newsitem\">
							<b>{$news->title}</b> <br />{$news_content}
							<br /><br />
							Posted: {$date_posted}
						</div>";

           	if ($i++ == $count)
               	break;
       	}
}

// ECHO THE HTML
echo $contents;

I elected to go that route because the databases are different, I don't want to open another connection.

You can also cache this, which I'm going to add the code to do right now in the next beta

[flyalaska]

Thank you!

[Pipat4]

The knowledge to do it.

[flyalaska]

Got it working, with the IP Content Module.