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Hello

Firstly thanks for this script.

Initally I tried following the information at the top link without success but the updated one here was much better given my lack of programming ability.

However, I would really like to have my posts appear as per the first example i.e. "EXAMPLE 1: Display latest topics from specified forums". When I try and play around with the code I crash it, but when I use your home.php for Example 4 it works fine. Do you have a similar download for Example 1?

Thanks in advance
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Hello planetmelb, welcome to CMX :)

I've had a look on my computer, I believe this is the example file for example one... give it a try and let me know if it works :)

Don't forget to change the file external_body.html to reflect the new templating variables (search for // LOOK UNDER THIS LINE FOR TEMPLATE VARS in the code below for the list of template variables). If you have any questions feel free to ask me :)

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<?php
/*
* home.php 
* Description: example file for displaying latest posts and topics
* by battye (for phpBB.com MOD Team)
* September 29, 2009
*/

define('IN_PHPBB', true);
$phpbb_root_path = (defined('PHPBB_ROOT_PATH')) ? PHPBB_ROOT_PATH : './';
$phpEx = substr(strrchr(__FILE__, '.'), 1);
include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.' . $phpEx);
include($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/bbcode.' . $phpEx);
include($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/functions_display.' . $phpEx);

// Start session management
$user->session_begin();
$auth->acl($user->data);
$user->setup('viewforum');

/* create_where_clauses( int[] gen_id, String type )
* This function outputs an SQL WHERE statement for use when grabbing 
* posts and topics */

function create_where_clauses($gen_id, $type)
{
global $db, $auth;

    $size_gen_id = sizeof($gen_id);

        switch($type)
        {
            case 'forum':
                $type = 'forum_id';
                break;
            case 'topic':
                $type = 'topic_id';
                break;
            default:
                trigger_error('No type defined');
        }

    // Set $out_where to nothing, this will be used of the gen_id
    // size is empty, in other words "grab from anywhere" with
    // no restrictions
    $out_where = '';

    if( $size_gen_id > 0 )
    {
    // Get a list of all forums the user has permissions to read
    $auth_f_read = array_keys($auth->acl_getf('f_read', true));

        if( $type == 'topic_id' )
        {
            $sql     = 'SELECT topic_id FROM ' . TOPICS_TABLE . '
                        WHERE ' .  $db->sql_in_set('topic_id', $gen_id) . '
                        AND ' .  $db->sql_in_set('forum_id', $auth_f_read);

            $result     = $db->sql_query($sql);

                while( $row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result) )
                {
                        // Create an array with all acceptable topic ids
                        $topic_id_list[] = $row['topic_id'];
                }

            unset($gen_id);

            $gen_id = $topic_id_list;
            $size_gen_id = sizeof($gen_id);
        }

    $j = 0;    

        for( $i = 0; $i < $size_gen_id; $i++ )
        {
        $id_check = (int) $gen_id[$i];

            // If the type is topic, all checks have been made and the query can start to be built
            if( $type == 'topic_id' )
            {
                $out_where .= ($j == 0) ? 'WHERE ' . $type . ' = ' . $id_check . ' ' : 'OR ' . $type . ' = ' . $id_check . ' ';
            }

            // If the type is forum, do the check to make sure the user has read permissions
            else if( $type == 'forum_id' && $auth->acl_get('f_read', $id_check) )
            {
                $out_where .= ($j == 0) ? 'WHERE ' . $type . ' = ' . $id_check . ' ' : 'OR ' . $type . ' = ' . $id_check . ' ';
            }    

        $j++;
        }
    }

    if( $out_where == '' && $size_gen_id > 0 )
    {
        trigger_error('A list of topics/forums has not been created');
    }

    return $out_where;
}

$search_limit = 5;

    $forum_id = array(2, 5);
    $forum_id_where = create_where_clauses($forum_id, 'forum');

    $topic_id = array(20, 50);
    $topic_id_where = create_where_clauses($topic_id, 'topic');

$topics = 'SELECT * FROM ' . TOPICS_TABLE . '
            ' . $forum_id_where . '
              AND topic_status <> ' . ITEM_MOVED . '
              AND topic_approved = 1
            ORDER BY topic_id DESC';

   $topics_result = $db->sql_query_limit($topics, $search_limit);

      while( $topics_row = $db->sql_fetchrow($topics_result) )
      {
         $topic_title       = $topics_row['topic_title'];
         $topic_author       = get_username_string('full', $topics_row['topic_poster'], $topics_row['topic_first_poster_name'], $topics_row['topic_first_poster_colour']);
         $topic_date       = $user->format_date($topics_row['topic_time']);
         $topic_last_post    = append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}viewtopic.$phpEx", "p=" . $topics_row['topic_last_post_id'] . "#" . $topics_row['topic_last_post_id']);
         $topic_last_author    = get_username_string('full', $topics_row['topic_last_poster_id'], $topics_row['topic_last_poster_name'], $topics_row['topic_last_poster_colour']);
         $topic_link       = append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}viewtopic.$phpEx", "t=" . $topics_row['topic_id']);

         // LOOK UNDER THIS LINE FOR TEMPLATE VARS
         $template->assign_block_vars('announcements', array(
         'TOPIC_TITLE'       => censor_text($topic_title),
         'TOPIC_AUTHOR'       => $topic_author,
         'TOPIC_DATE'       => $topic_date,
         'TOPIC_LAST_POST'    => $topic_last_post,
         'TOPIC_LAST_AUTHOR' => $topic_last_author,
         'TOPIC_LINK'       => $topic_link,
         ));
      }

page_header('External page');

    $template->set_filenames(array(
        'body' => 'external_body.html'
    ));

    page_footer();
?>
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Recently I installed LAMP under Ubuntu and the kind folk in the #ubuntu IRC channel gave me some fantastic - not to mention time saving! - advice.

If you have any long commands you can easily shorten them through the use of aliases.

For instance, with LAMP the command to start Apache was the long ...
etc etc.... I didn't realise you were tinkering with linux battye. I also didn't realise you were playing with web server software. Can I feel a new home for CMX coming on?
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Rat wrote:etc etc.... I didn't realise you were tinkering with linux battye. I also didn't realise you were playing with web server software. Can I feel a new home for CMX coming on?
No :)

I wanted to have a local web server set up so I could test PHP scripts and the like, primarily something I am helping to work on with the MOD Team at phpBB.com.
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Articles Bot wrote:
It was incredibly hard to create a title to summarise this article. I like The Young Veins a lot and I didn't want to imply that the depatures of Ryan Ross and Jon Walker automatically made Panic! At The Disco, hot on the heels of their new album "Vices & Virtues" a better band.

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Track listing for "Take A Vacation!" by The Young Veins
1. Change
2. Take A Vacation!
3. Cape Town
4. Maybe I Will, Maybe I Won't
5. Young Veins (Die Tonight)
6. Everyone But You
7. The Other Girl
8. Dangerous Blues
9. Defiance
10. Lie To The Truth
11. Heart Of Mine
12. Security
13. When You Walk In The Room

Good article Battye.
I sampled the tracks and have added: Take A Vacation! to my iTunes library.
The track listings are slightly different on iTunes to those listed above.
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Hello :)

Firstly, thank you very much for taking the time to write this very useful guide.

A question if I may trouble you:

I would like to have one block retrieving x amount of latest posts from a specific forum (*done*) and several other blocks (9 in fact) retrieving x amount of latest posts from other specified forums. What is the best way to achieve this please?

The code I'm using for the 1st block is this:

1st segment

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/* create_where_clauses( int[] gen_id, String type )
* This function outputs an SQL WHERE statement for use when grabbing
* posts and topics */

function create_where_clauses($gen_id, $type)
{
global $db, $auth;

$size_gen_id = sizeof($gen_id);

switch($type)
{
case 'forum':
$type = 'forum_id';
break;
case 'topic':
$type = 'topic_id';
break;
default:
trigger_error('No type defined');
}

// Set $out_where to nothing, this will be used of the gen_id
// size is empty, in other words "grab from anywhere" with
// no restrictions
$out_where = '';

if ($size_gen_id > 0)
{
// Get a list of all forums the user has permissions to read
$auth_f_read = array_keys($auth->acl_getf('f_read', true));

if ($type == 'topic_id')
{
$sql = 'SELECT topic_id FROM ' . TOPICS_TABLE . '
WHERE ' . $db->sql_in_set('topic_id', $gen_id) . '
AND ' . $db->sql_in_set('forum_id', $auth_f_read);

$result = $db->sql_query($sql);

while ($row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result))
{
// Create an array with all acceptable topic ids
$topic_id_list[] = $row['topic_id'];
}

unset($gen_id);

$gen_id = $topic_id_list;
$size_gen_id = sizeof($gen_id);
}

$j = 0;

for ($i = 0; $i < $size_gen_id; $i++)
 {
$id_check = (int) $gen_id[$i]; // If the type is topic, all checks have been made and the query can start to be built if( $type == 'topic_id' ) { $out_where .= ($j == 0) ? 'WHERE ' . $type . ' = ' . $id_check . ' ' : 'OR ' . $type . ' = ' . $id_check . ' '; } // If the type is forum, do the check to make sure the user has read permissions else if( $type == 'forum_id' && $auth->acl_get('f_read', $id_check) )
{
$out_where .= ($j == 0) ? 'WHERE ' . $type . ' = ' . $id_check . ' ' : 'OR ' . $type . ' = ' . $id_check . ' ';
}

$j++;
}
}

if ($out_where == '' && $size_gen_id > 0)
{
trigger_error('A list of topics/forums has not been created');
}

return $out_where;
}
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$search_limit = 3;

$forum_id = array(337);
$forum_id_where = create_where_clauses($forum_id, 'forum');

$topic_id = array(0, 0);
$topic_id_where = create_where_clauses($topic_id, 'topic');
3rd segment:

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$topics = 'SELECT * FROM ' . TOPICS_TABLE . '
' . $forum_id_where . '
AND topic_status <> ' . ITEM_MOVED . '
AND topic_approved = 1
ORDER BY topic_id DESC';

$topics_result = $db->sql_query_limit($topics, $search_limit);

while ($topics_row = $db->sql_fetchrow($topics_result))
{
$topic_title = $topics_row['topic_title'];
$topic_author = get_username_string('full', $topics_row['topic_poster'], $topics_row['topic_first_poster_name'], $topics_row['topic_first_poster_colour']);
$topic_date = $user->format_date($topics_row['topic_time']);
$topic_last_post = append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}viewtopic.$phpEx", "p=" . $topics_row['topic_last_post_id'] . "#" . $topics_row['topic_last_post_id']);
$topic_last_author = get_username_string('full', $topics_row['topic_last_poster_id'], $topics_row['topic_last_poster_name'], $topics_row['topic_last_poster_colour']);
$topic_link = append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}viewtopic.$phpEx", "t=" . $topics_row['topic_id']);

$template->assign_block_vars('announcements', array(
'TOPIC_TITLE' => censor_text($topic_title),
'TOPIC_AUTHOR' => $topic_author,
'TOPIC_DATE' => $topic_date,
'TOPIC_LAST_POST' => $topic_last_post,
'TOPIC_LAST_AUTHOR' => $topic_last_author,
'TOPIC_LINK' => $topic_link,
));
}
Would I need to duplicate all segments (renaming all the strings) or just the last 2 segments? or can I somehow use this same code in a seperate file yet have the results appear on the same template with different assign_block_vars definitions?

Sorry to bother, I'm learning...

Thanks for your time.
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I think I'm getting somewhere actually, so don't waste your time just yet :P
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I managed to figure it out. If another noob finds this, then this is how I did it:

forum/main.php:

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<?php

define('IN_PHPBB', true);

$phpbb_root_path = (defined('PHPBB_ROOT_PATH')) ? PHPBB_ROOT_PATH : './';
$phpEx = substr(strrchr(__FILE__, '.'), 1);

include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.' . $phpEx);
include($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/bbcode.' . $phpEx);
include($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/functions_display.' . $phpEx);
include($phpbb_root_path . 'a_new_folder_to_contain_your_files/functions.' . $phpEx);


// Start session management
$user->session_begin();
$auth->acl($user->data);
$user->setup('viewforum');

page_header('Page_Title');

include($phpbb_root_path . 'a_new_folder_to_contain_your_files/news_block_1.' . $phpEx);
include($phpbb_root_path . 'a_new_folder_to_contain_your_files/news_block_2.' . $phpEx);

$template->set_filenames(array(
	'body' => 'main.html',
));

page_footer();

?>
forum/a_new_folder_to_contain_your_files/functions.php:

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<?php

define('IN_PHPBB', true);

/* create_where_clauses( int[] gen_id, String type )
* This function outputs an SQL WHERE statement for use when grabbing
* posts and topics */

function create_where_clauses($gen_id, $type)
{
global $db, $auth;

$size_gen_id = sizeof($gen_id);

switch($type)
{
case 'forum':
$type = 'forum_id';
break;
case 'topic':
$type = 'topic_id';
break;
default:
trigger_error('No type defined');
}

// Set $out_where to nothing, this will be used of the gen_id
// size is empty, in other words "grab from anywhere" with
// no restrictions
$out_where = '';

if ($size_gen_id > 0)
{
// Get a list of all forums the user has permissions to read
$auth_f_read = array_keys($auth->acl_getf('f_read', true));

if ($type == 'topic_id')
{
$sql = 'SELECT topic_id FROM ' . TOPICS_TABLE . '
WHERE ' . $db->sql_in_set('topic_id', $gen_id) . '
AND ' . $db->sql_in_set('forum_id', $auth_f_read);

$result = $db->sql_query($sql);

while ($row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result))
{
// Create an array with all acceptable topic ids
$topic_id_list[] = $row['topic_id'];
}

unset($gen_id);

$gen_id = $topic_id_list;
$size_gen_id = sizeof($gen_id);
}

$j = 0;

for ($i = 0; $i < $size_gen_id; $i++)
 {
$id_check = (int) $gen_id[$i]; // If the type is topic, all checks have been made and the query can start to be built if( $type == 'topic_id' ) { $out_where .= ($j == 0) ? 'WHERE ' . $type . ' = ' . $id_check . ' ' : 'OR ' . $type . ' = ' . $id_check . ' '; } // If the type is forum, do the check to make sure the user has read permissions else if( $type == 'forum_id' && $auth->acl_get('f_read', $id_check) )
{
$out_where .= ($j == 0) ? 'WHERE ' . $type . ' = ' . $id_check . ' ' : 'OR ' . $type . ' = ' . $id_check . ' ';
}

$j++;
}
}

if ($out_where == '' && $size_gen_id > 0)
{
trigger_error('A list of topics/forums has not been created');
}

return $out_where;
}

?>
forum/a_new_folder_to_contain_your_files/news_block_1.php:

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<?php

define('IN_PHPBB', true);

$search_limit = 5;

$forum_id = array(123);
$forum_id_where = create_where_clauses($forum_id, 'forum');

$topic_id = array(123);
$topic_id_where = create_where_clauses($topic_id, 'topic');

$topics = 'SELECT * FROM ' . TOPICS_TABLE . '
' . $forum_id_where . '
AND topic_status <> ' . ITEM_MOVED . '
AND topic_approved = 1
ORDER BY topic_id DESC';

$topics_result = $db->sql_query_limit($topics, $search_limit);

while ($topics_row = $db->sql_fetchrow($topics_result))
{
$topic_title = $topics_row['topic_title'];
$topic_author = get_username_string('full', $topics_row['topic_poster'], $topics_row['topic_first_poster_name'], $topics_row['topic_first_poster_colour']);
$topic_date = $user->format_date($topics_row['topic_time']);
$topic_last_post = append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}viewtopic.$phpEx", "p=" . $topics_row['topic_last_post_id'] . "#" . $topics_row['topic_last_post_id']);
$topic_last_author = get_username_string('full', $topics_row['topic_last_poster_id'], $topics_row['topic_last_poster_name'], $topics_row['topic_last_poster_colour']);
$topic_link = append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}viewtopic.$phpEx", "t=" . $topics_row['topic_id']);

$template->assign_block_vars('news_block_1', array(
'TOPIC_TITLE' => censor_text($topic_title),
'TOPIC_AUTHOR' => $topic_author,
'TOPIC_DATE' => $topic_date,
'TOPIC_LAST_POST' => $topic_last_post,
'TOPIC_LAST_AUTHOR' => $topic_last_author,
'TOPIC_LINK' => $topic_link,
));
}

?>
forum/a_new_folder_to_contain_your_files/news_block_2.php:

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<?php

define('IN_PHPBB', true);

$search_limit = 5;

$forum_id = array(456);
$forum_id_where = create_where_clauses($forum_id, 'forum');

$topic_id = array(456);
$topic_id_where = create_where_clauses($topic_id, 'topic');

$topics = 'SELECT * FROM ' . TOPICS_TABLE . '
' . $forum_id_where . '
AND topic_status <> ' . ITEM_MOVED . '
AND topic_approved = 1
ORDER BY topic_id DESC';

$topics_result = $db->sql_query_limit($topics, $search_limit);

while ($topics_row = $db->sql_fetchrow($topics_result))
{
$topic_title = $topics_row['topic_title'];
$topic_author = get_username_string('full', $topics_row['topic_poster'], $topics_row['topic_first_poster_name'], $topics_row['topic_first_poster_colour']);
$topic_date = $user->format_date($topics_row['topic_time']);
$topic_last_post = append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}viewtopic.$phpEx", "p=" . $topics_row['topic_last_post_id'] . "#" . $topics_row['topic_last_post_id']);
$topic_last_author = get_username_string('full', $topics_row['topic_last_poster_id'], $topics_row['topic_last_poster_name'], $topics_row['topic_last_poster_colour']);
$topic_link = append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}viewtopic.$phpEx", "t=" . $topics_row['topic_id']);

$template->assign_block_vars('news_block_2', array(
'TOPIC_TITLE' => censor_text($topic_title),
'TOPIC_AUTHOR' => $topic_author,
'TOPIC_DATE' => $topic_date,
'TOPIC_LAST_POST' => $topic_last_post,
'TOPIC_LAST_AUTHOR' => $topic_last_author,
'TOPIC_LINK' => $topic_link,
));
}

?>
styles/template/main.html

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<!-- INCLUDE overall_header.html -->
	
<div>
<!-- BEGIN news_block_1 -->
	<ul class="topiclist">
		<li class="row">
			<a href="{news_block_1.TOPIC_LINK}" class="topictitle">{news_block_1.TOPIC_TITLE}</a><br />
		</li>
	</ul>
<!-- END news_block_1 -->
</div>

<div>
<!-- BEGIN news_block_2 -->
	<ul class="topiclist">
		<li class="row">
			<a href="{news_block_2.TOPIC_LINK}" class="topictitle">{news_block_2.TOPIC_TITLE}</a><br />
		</li>
	</ul>
<!-- END news_block_2 -->
</div>
Sorry for spamming your forum.
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No worries neljan. Off the top of my head, a more efficient way would have been to put all of the forums you wanted to extract topics from into this array:

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$forum_id = array(337, 338, 339, ..., 350); // for example
And then inside the while loop...

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while ($topics_row = $db->sql_fetchrow($topics_result))
{
... // etc
Have some method of distinguishing between the forums. For instance, have an if statement to see if $topics_row['forum_id'] == 337 and if it does put the result into some array. And so on for each forum you want to distinguish results by. You could use a switch statement if you had many forums (9 in total I think you mentioned).

Then later on you could worry about the templating variables for each individual array.

If you have a working result though, I can understand you not wanting to change anything and you may ignore this post :)
If you are keen to keep learning about PHP (and phpBB) I recommend trying to reduce redundancy (ie. news_block_2.php and news_block_1.php are almost identical) and achieving the same result with as little code as possible :)
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Hello, I was wondering if you had any tips for adding a "View older entries" at the bottom of the blog posts, from the main page. So I could display 10 blog posts, and then click the link to view another 10 older posts.

Thanks. Using your blog code now and it helped me out a lot
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