Forum-news

[LeeGoldsmith]

Hi

I am a little lost about this script and how to configure it. I have stated that the news items should be 6 and headlines 3. Now in the forum config I get everything correct, but I am lost as to what to put for Catagory ID. If I look at how I have Invision Power board setup I have one catagory and MySQL says its id 3. Under that catagory I have 4 forums, and their IDs are 3, 4, 5 and 6 for IDs from MySQL.

If I want to display only headlines (Topic Title) and for only one forum what do I enter and where???

Thanks

Lee

P.S. Your counter script is working fine for me and I really like the idea of this forum-news script. Hope I can get it to work.

[Patrick]

I think I will add an additional help button for this in the next version.

The easiest way to figure out what category/forum id (they are called different things in different forum scripts) you want to pull news from is to get it from the URL it in your forum. Using this forum (Dev-Forums.com) as an example, if I wanted to pull news from "EP-Dev.com News" forum (http://www.dev-forums.com/index.php?showforum=12 ), then the category id inside the forum-news script would be 12.

I hope this helps. If you still cannot figure it out simply post your forum URL here and tell me what forum you want to pull news from.

[LeeGoldsmith]

Patiek

Thanks for the help. I found out the ID's but what I wanted to do I do not think can be done. I have 4 forums in my Invision Power board all under one catagory. They are numbered 3, 4, 5 and 6. I wanted to pull the two most recent posts from each forum and list them on my home page. I found that this is not doable. So I am going to get the 5 most recent posts from any of the forums, this works for me so I am all set.

Thanks again.

Lee

P.S. Give me a little more time and I will get a link up to your page soon, I also use the counter script as well and that is super good.

[Patrick]

Patiek

Thanks for the help. I found out the ID's but what I wanted to do I do not think can be done. I have 4 forums in my Invision Power board all under one catagory. They are numbered 3, 4, 5 and 6. I wanted to pull the two most recent posts from each forum and list them on my home page. I found that this is not doable. So I am going to get the 5 most recent posts from any of the forums, this works for me so I am all set.

Thanks again.

Lee

P.S. Give me a little more time and I will get a link up to your page soon, I also use the counter script as well and that is super good.

That is an interesting feature. I will see if I can incorporate it into the next version.