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vBulletin FAQ Forums > Building and Managing Your vBulletin Community > Setting up and Customizing your Forum > GET data - active topics PDA GET data - active topics clasione 03-12-2005, 10:45 AM How or what is the easiest way to GET data from the forum to display on the home page? This way I can show some active topics???? Home page is static html..... infopop used to have a feature like this called a channel I think? clasione 03-12-2005, 11:07 AM I found this - I'll try it.... <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.vbulletin.nl/community/external.php?type=js"></script> <script language="" type="text/javascript"> <!-- for (i = 0; i < 5; i++) { document.writeln("<a href=\"http://www.vbulletin.nl/community/showthread.php?threadid="+threads[i].threadid+"\">"+threads[i].title+"</a><br /> - by: "+threads[i].poster+"<br />"); } //--> </script> clasione 03-12-2005, 11:16 AM poop - it didn't work.... :( clasione 03-12-2005, 11:29 AM This site I see data: http://www.vbulletin.nl/community/external.php My site I don't: http://www.longislandexchange.net/long-island-chat/external.php There must be some way to enable that.... Anyone know how? or maybe that file needs certain permissions? clasione 03-12-2005, 12:56 PM Boom - Got it --- It's got to be enabled.... vBulletin Options -> External Data Provider noppid 03-12-2005, 01:25 PM Boom - Got it --- It's got to be enabled.... vBulletin Options -> External Data Provider Very nice piece of Java, beats the hell out of the php method I whipped up. However, that's 5 hits to external per page view it seems. clasione 03-12-2005, 04:11 PM However, that's 5 hits to external per page view it seems. Is That Bad? Joeychgo 03-12-2005, 04:58 PM You might want to go over to vbadvanced.com and install CMPS - Its a homepage / portal system. Oh, and its not Fashizzle its Forshizzle..... Friggin NY Greaseball. :D clasione 03-12-2005, 06:01 PM :D :D :D :D noppid 03-12-2005, 10:17 PM Not to start a portal war, they make a great home page IMO, however I like vBIndex for it's simplicity. It's a home page. clasione 03-12-2005, 11:44 PM Now I've got two to check out....... yep...... no sleep tonight either.... :rolleyes:
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