I realize that this is for 6.5 and 6.6 but I figured 6.4 *might* work so I gave it a shot and I set it to forum 9 (announcement) and threads =5 and it comes up blank. If I put ubbnews.php?forum=9 then it gives me one thread and it seems to pull it up from last year. Any ideas?

if i had ftp access to my domain from here, and if my domain wasn't blocked from here i'd test it, but i'm not expecting my laptop back till next week ...

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. <hr /></blockquote>Can we get a little more detail on how to get it to work with 6.4?

Ok... I haven't tested it with 6.4 but assuming the metadata formats haven't changed it should work.

Regarding pulling the old thread, rebuild the forum stat files for that particular forum and see if that cures it. If not, I'll have to figure a way to handle metadata being out of order. Maybe something of using the lastnumber and counting backwards and searching for existing files.

doing ubbnews.php?forum=9&threads=5 should pull 5 threads and tease them.

Thanks, I'll work on it. I appreciate the reply!!

edit: the stat rebuild didn't help and the threads=5 still just pulls one old thread up. Thread it pulls is consistent though. Here's the link I'm trying;

http://www.netwerkin.com/noncgi/ubbnews.php?forum=9&threads=5

Lemme dig up a 6.4 zip and I'll install it locally and see if I can't sort it out. I wrote this during 6.5, so I never got a chance to run it on 6.4.

You are the man, I hope I'm not causing too much trouble. I want to upgrade but I don't want to kill the look I have at Netwerkin right now and it's a pain to build.

I got the threads to show 5 but they are still old ones. I had made a mistake while editing the page.

Aye! The forum_XX.threads files in 6.4 aren't in sync like the 6.6 files(The ones on my 6.6 board are sorted in numeric order which makes for clean processing of the array). The way I wrote this, I take the .threads, pop the bottom rows off, then invert the array so I can process it in reverse order. It looks like with 6.4, I need to sort the array myself before processing it.

Let me see what I can cook up for porting this mod back to 6.4....

On a positive note, you helped me solve the graemlin processing problem. Drop ubbnews.php into the noncgi directory. I call mine out of the root because it is with the rest of the PHP scripts that power the main page on my site.

Fair warning: The fact that hashes are alpha-sorted in 6.6 is actually a bug. I meant to turn that off. 6.6.1+ corrects this.

Damn...It makes metadata much easier to examine.

Eh, it's not so bad. The fact that alpha-sorted forums will use a date-sorted .threads file in 6.7 will make up for it. (Meaning alpha-sorted forums will be able to be pruned, mass moved from, and have CIs stuck on them, in addition to your routines being able to work with them.)

ok, I've gotten as far as this

http://www.alforadmin.com/ubb/ubbnews.php?forum=10&threads=5

How do I include it in a webpage?

just do a

Now to start rewriting the fetching engine so it can properly sort the .threads file

Thank you, I got it working here http://www.alforadmin.com/ubb/index.php

That has a nice look to it Al.

Updated the zip with a sorting bugfix which pulls old topics.

Randy, this should work with 6.4 now

Thank you SO much. I've been building a 6.6 upgrade kit for Netwerkin but it's weeks away and I've been dying to have a front page again. Netwerkin used to be rather large but I moved the tutorials etc. to www.randymcelroy.com (my personal site).

Between the news feeder and CIs, you should be able to build one in no time

I found an, odd, bug...

When you view the script here and compaire it to my forum #6 it pretty much pick and chooses which stories it wants to use...