Most recent topics..?

[Pedey]

Hey, this is probably the wrong board for this, if it is, please move.

Is there a code which you can put on your home page of the website which picks up the most recent/hot topics on the probaords forum. Like, say, if the most recent topic on your board is "I WON THE LOTTERY", is there a code so that that will appear on the home page of your site as most recent topic? I'm not sure if there's one around for Proboards, so any help is appreciated.

[Tommy Huynh]

Nope, not allowed.

It's possible though.

[registrar]

If you use ProBoards then it's not allowed.

If you don't use ProBoards then you can do it all you want. (I mean if it's not a remotely hosted forum system. If you host it yourself you can do it)

[california]

swg2 said:

Nope, not allowed.

It's possible though.

No it isn't...

[Pedey]

Alright then. Thanks guys for the help

[sixpackman6]

why isn't it allowed?

[squalleh]

california said:

swg2 said:

Nope, not allowed.

It's possible though.

No it isn't...

Oh yes it is. Run a JS script on the forum which gets the latest updated topic, then send that to a PHP script. Have the PHP script log it in a database. Then from the website run a PHP script that queries the database and gets that latest topic.

It's not dynamic in the sense that you need somebody to view the forum for it to update. But it's still very much possible.

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To have it update dynamically wouldn't be allowed. That would require processing the PB page without the ads being properly displayed (so the advertisers on PB lose out). It would be allowed if you used the method I described above.

[california]

What I was referring to was this method:

To have it update dynamically wouldn't be allowed. That would require processing the PB page without the ads being properly displayed (so the advertisers on PB lose out). It would be allowed if you used the method I described above.

It isn't possible in PBv4. Using an iframe to grab the information would redirect the homepage to the ProBoard because of this block of coding Pat has added:

if(self.location != top.location) top.location = self.location;

At the top of every page.

[squalleh]

california said:

What I was referring to was this method:

To have it update dynamically wouldn't be allowed. That would require processing the PB page without the ads being properly displayed (so the advertisers on PB lose out). It would be allowed if you used the method I described above.

It isn't possible in PBv4. Using an iframe to grab the information would redirect the homepage to the ProBoard because of this block of coding Pat has added:

if(self.location != top.location) top.location = self.location;

At the top of every page.

PHP doesn't need an iFrame to grab information from another page Something as simple as:

file_get_contents ('http://support.proboards.com/index.cgi');

in PHP would get you the HTML of the index page. From there you process it and pick out the information you want.

It's illegal though, as it still counts as a page view.

[california]

Well, if you were going to use PHP, why not submit the information (subject, poster and time) to a database every time a post is made? That way, you could list as many of the most recent topics as you wanted instead of just the single most recent, it would be updated dynamically, and it would be allowed.