REQUEST: Forum titles

[Patrick]

Original request:

My question, how can i put the Forum Title/Name for every post in the Headlines? i look in the "Valid Headline Tags" but i dont see... maybe for the next release? wink.gif I think that this could be a very useful Tag.

ETA: Unknown.
This feature would require some core edits, which of course requires updating every forum.

There are two possibilities here:
1) Retrieve forum/category name (such as "News").
2) Retrieve website name (such as "EP-Dev.com").

[twitch]

Yeah for the headlines (latest posts is what I use it for) I would like for it to have the option to show the stuff like what you see at the bottom of the news post, forum name, date, who posted it, and how many comments.

That would fill up a lot of dead space if I use this above my news like shown here
http://www.s2tg.com/testmonkey.php

I realize the headlines are made to be used in a block but if the option was there to add all that other stuff then it would look good above the news and I could put everything on the main page where the news content goes. I would donate some money to help get that going. Just let me know

Thanks again for the script, the documentation, and the support

oh yeah, I use vbulletin 3.5.0 Gold http://www.s2tg.com/forum

[DEF]

About retrieve forum name - I made a gif pics like in troubleshooting:
3. How do I display a specific image for each category id?
<img src="http://www.mysite.com/cat_images/!!THREADID!!.gif">

But there is a mistake, not !!THREADID!! but !!CATEGORYID!!. I made pics with names of forums.

I can't understand why do you name forum as "category" and

For example: $forum_obj->display_News("10", "2", "0", "2"); would display 10 news items from category id 2 of forum 0 (in config.php) using template 2 (from template.php).

First 2 is a forum, and what is 0 ? I tried to write other digitals, it doesn't work.

Forum is phpbb2. Sorry for offtopic.

Thank you.

[Patrick]

About retrieve forum name - I made a gif pics like in troubleshooting:
3. How do I display a specific image for each category id?
<img src="http://www.mysite.com/cat_images/!!THREADID!!.gif">

But there is a mistake, not !!THREADID!! but !!CATEGORYID!!. I made pics with names of forums.

I can't understand why do you name forum as "category" and

For example: $forum_obj->display_News("10", "2", "0", "2"); would display 10 news items from category id 2 of forum 0 (in config.php) using template 2 (from template.php).

First 2 is a forum, and what is 0 ? I tried to write other digitals, it doesn't work.

Forum is phpbb2. Sorry for offtopic.

Thank you.

Thanks for the update, it should indeed be categoryid instead of threadid.

There are multiple reasons for calling what you think of as individual forums by the name "category". First, some forum scripts use this terminology. Secondly, many inexperienced users will become very confused by the term "forum" which they think is applied to the script as a whole, as opposed to just a single forum (what the script calls a category). Third is the reason of the last sentence ... calling categories by the name "forum" confuses everyone, especially in a script where multiple categories and multiple forum scripts are support in conjunction at once.


As explained above, the forum news is special in the fact that it can pull from multiple forum / news sources and combine the posts into one news source.

For example, we can combine phpBB posts from site1.com, vBulletin posts from site2.com, IPB posts from site3.com, and phpBB posts from site4.com into a single news page. The "0" that you are referring to is referencing which forum to pull the posts from. Thus, "0" would pull from forum 1, "1" would pull from forum 2, and so on... Thus, something such as "0,1" would pull from forum 1 and forum 2.

In our example, the third value would be "0,1,2,3" to pull news from site1.com, site2.com, site3.com, site4.com... each being configured in the admin panel under forum1, forum2, forum3, and forum3.

Hope this helps to explain the confusion