* Updated September 15, 2005
ubbnews.php
Modification and Redistribution of this code without perission is prohibited
The Official Code can be found at http://www.ubbdev.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php/topic/33/42.html

Reads the UBB for the latest topic in a forum, and displays a teaster of it on a page
Required Parameter -- forum=## where ## is the forum number requested
Optional Parameter -- threads=# where # is the number of threads to tease (5 limit)
Optional Parameter -- surl=1 will turn on Spider Friendly URLs (Requires 6.7.x)

Usage: just do an include with "http://yourdomain.com/path/ubbnews.php?forum=##&threads=X(&surl=1)" where ## is the number of the forum without any leading zeros and X is a number between 1 and 5. You will need to put your noncgi path in the script so it may read the vars_config.inc.php for your UBB paths.
Download: UBBDev
Requires: 6.4+

Features:
- Counts your comments and puts the count next to the Comments Link
- Comments Link will give them UBB Reply Screen
- Read More takes them to the entire topic
- Will display 1 topic of no threads=X is added to the URL
- Feed multiple forums by doing multiple includes of the ubbnews.php
- Will NOT feed private forums
- Will display a message if your forum_##.threads file is missing
- Author's name links to their profile
- Spider Friendly URLs

Known Issues:
- Doesn't process Gramelins This can be corrected by placing ubbnews.php in your noncgi directory
- Sometimes doesn't process URL's correctly (I've seen it on rare occasions, but bumping the Max Characters setting noted in the code should cure it)
- You will receive a missing .threads error message after an upgrade. Rebuild your Forum Metadata on that forum to correct this error.

This may/may not work on earlier versions, so use at your own risk.

I put a hard limit of 5 in the PHP code to prevent the code from trying to tease every topic in the forum (Could kill performance). You can change this by editing
just change the 5 in both lines to whatever you want to cap it at. I honestly don't see a need to be over 10.

Also, this may show a bit of lag if you have thousands of topic in the forums. I haven't tested this on large forums.

August 26, 2005 Notice
UBBFeed was an unauthorized modification of the UBBNews code and I will provide NO support for UBBFeed, or my code contained in it. Posting here for support of UBBFeed will result in an unpleasant response.

Any demo (of what you have so far)? This sounds very promising. If you can get it so that the user can determine how many "teasers" that are displayed (other than default "1") that would be cool.

demo: http://thegeeksinc.com/

nice work Ron the graemlins shouldn't be too difficult, I believe we worked through them for ubbnews and for a threads mod

OOPS...I feel quite <--

Thanks guys

I only wanted to tease one thread (the latest) but it could probably be modified to do more. You can feed more than one forum by doing multiple includes of the .php

vars_config.inc.php is different in 6.4, so i any one wants to use it on 6.4.x u have to change the link towards the the topic.

6.5 Zip File Updated with a bugfix - ultimatebb.cgi was not in the URL

Patch: Add /ultimatebb.cgi before ?ubb= on lines 52 and 56

changing the
to
would fix the xhtml-compliance

What do you see when you have graemlins in the post sz? some html? <img src=" etc?

The best way to check if it cuts any HTML command (including graemlins, images, etc) is to check the number of <'s in comparison to the number of >'s, and if there are more <'s just remove everything after the last <, including it.

For example if it is: Then it can see there are 3 times "<", but only two times ">", so it removes everything after and including the last <, which is "<img src="gr..."

its not really working for me on 6.4, what do I do wrong

http://www.greek-forum.de/ubb/ubbnews.php?forum=46

Sorry for the slow reply. I checked it out. You are running 6.4.0.1, and I wrote this on a 6.5 board, so there might be some differences, but it should work.

Also, you really should get your host to upgrade your PHP as you are running 4.0.6. The exact problem is the way I get the query string (?forum=46) must not be recognized on the older version of PHP. Either way, I would recommend upgrading the PHP as there are some vulnerabilities fixed.

hmmm it's my own server so I have to upgrade it by my own, oh well, i will try this then

Sub, anyway to have it relay the last 5 or so stories?

Right now, it only teases one. When I figure out a sane way to parse the necessary files, I will expand it.

Ok, can't wait to see it ...

The Zip file has been updated with a new version that now allows a tease upto 5 topics.

yey! anyway to make it 15 :x

nm, i see it :x... thanks sub!

The limit is in there to prevent someone from trying to crash the server by doing threads=99999

yeh, i see how to mod it to allow what i need, I love this mod, now I can begin to use it for my implimentation of taking over the world... err umm news posting...