UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 6 V6 Modifications V6 Mod Ideas Headline?

Hi guys

A while ago (back when I was running 5.4 Perl), there was a modification that would display 1 post from another forum as a "headline" on a forum. I was using this to display new product alerts in a forum linked to a store I run. Since switching to 5.5 PHP, and now upgraded to 6.0.2, I can't find this code anywhere. Sure, I could write it myself, but if someone has already done it I would appreciate the saved time. If no-one has it, I will code it and offer it as a mod for other people.

Thanks

I can't remember seeing anything like that, I'm sure there is no hack for it in the v6 mods forums at least. There might be something here in the suggestions forum though, haven't checked.

Sounds like a nice idea though.

[:"red"] news flash hack [/] I do believe the name of it is

That's the one! Any idea where I can find it?

ok, so I found out that the ubbtnews.php code that's in the /addons directory will do exactly what I want, but I cannot figure out how to include it. It says I have to use the php include command wherever I want it to appear, but how can I do this in a middle of a template? Is there a special technique to including actual PHP code in a template?

Thanks

Never mind, solved my own problem...just took me a while to understand how the templates worked. It's working great now, if anyone wants to know how, just ask. It requires modification of the templates where you want the news item to appear, and a slight mod to the ubbtnews.php code (to stop it including main.inc.php twice).

Sure, if you are able to share, that'd be cool

ok, well here's what I did. I edited ubbtnews.php to add the correct settings for my DB, and made sure it worked by running it manually from the URL line in my browser. Then I edited my template (in my case, postlist.tmpl), and added my code right underneath the following bunch of table code :

code:
 </table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br /> 

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This is the code I inserted, starting on line 83 :

code:
 <table width="{$theme['tablewidth']}" align="center" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="tablesurround">
<tr>
<td>
<table cellpadding="{$theme['cellpadding']}" cellspacing="{$theme['cellspacing']}" width="100%" border="0" class="tableborders">
<tr class="darktable">
<td>
<!-- UBBTPRINT; -->
include('./addons/ubbtnews.php');
<!-- echo <<<UBBTPRINT -->
</td></tr></table></td></tr></table><br />
 

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What this does is add a new row below the main/search/my home buttons, displaying the news items however you have them set up. Once this is in, you will need to edit ubbtnews.php again, and comment out the

code:
 require ("$path/main.inc.php"); 

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line on line 53. This is because the ubbtnews.php code is no longer being called standalone, so the main.inc.php is already included.

And that's it. Sorry for the bad description, it's the first time I've tried to explain something like this to someone else.

Have fun

Grahame
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Cool, thanks for sharing