Hot Topics

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What code are we using to get that Hot Topics sidebar thing working (or not working)? Is it hand coded or does it use some strange Vbulletin stuff?

I was just thinking, it would be easy to make a simple PHP script to get it to display threads which have over a certain amount of replies.

Katzenklavier

http://totse.info/bbs/showthread.php?p=97598

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I've seen that thread already. I just need to know how the current Hot Topics section works before I can have a crack at it

Katzenklavier

View source?

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If it's already a PHP script (which I assume it is) then I won't be able to view the source.

Hellish

Im not sure where DFG threw it.
Edit: got it.

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Damn it, it uses Javascript. Ill have a play with it though

Katzenklavier

Make a PHP script 4 us plz. Java sucks.

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Katzenklavier wrote: »

Make a PHP script 4 us plz. Java sucks.

JavaSCRIPT

Basically, I was thinking along the lines of setting a variable for the number of posts in a thread. Then you could say - if this number is higher than 20 (or whatever), then it takes the thread ID, puts it into a variable and echo's the link in the Hot Topics box.

Understand?

Not sure how I would do it though.

Dfg

A) this is data set it uses: http://www.totse.info/bbs/external.php?type=js
It uses a javascript which you can view in the source and it just sorts the data into title, links etc. It's nothing complicated. And it just loops ir around.
C) the output is mainly control by CSS and some basical html elements.


Can you rewrite it? Yeah sure it can be done but you remember it's taking data from this http://www.totse.info/bbs/external.php?type=rss2 [js].

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The only thing which is puzzling me is how I'm going to get the information for the number of posts which are in the thread.

Dfg

threads[3] = new thread(7869, 'It Felt Good, Didn\'t It?', 'Slartibartfast', '12-07-2010', '03:36 AM');

You can get the time, title,link but I don't think you can get the posts.

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Damn The posts is the only missing component here
Is there any line of code which represents the table which holds the number of posts?

(That was a terrible question but I can't word it any other way )

Katzenklavier

I don't like that idea, threads never even get 20 posts. Just make it show recently bumped threads like cocklet.

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If it was showing recently bumped threads, then why isn't it called "Recent Threads"?