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SMF - Recent Topics solution?

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    misery Reply #1, 20 years, 4 months ago
    Hello all, I am new user to both MODx and SMF. I have searched the board and I have yet to find a true solution for displaying the Recent Topics to say, the Home page of MODx. Can someone correct me of my ignorance?

    MODx is really a fabolous application BTW, look forward to all future developments!
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      Garry Nutting Reply #2, 20 years, 4 months ago
      Hi, first of all, welcome to the MODx community smiley

      To get you started, what you will need to do is create a snippet that includes the SMF SSI.php and then you can utilise the SSI function, ssi_RecentTopics(). The code below illustrates the basic construct of the snippet:
      /**
* Snippet: Show SMF recent posts
*
*/

$basePath = $modx->getConfig['base_path'];

//-- CHANGE THIS TO THE FOLDER PATH OF YOUR SMF INSTALL
$smfPath = 'forums/';

include_once $basePath.$smfPath.'SSI.php';

return ssi_RecentTopics();

      Check out the function definition in SSI.php for the additional options you can set when calling the ssi_RecentTopics function. The above is only the basic output.

      Hope that helps,

      Garry
        Garry Nutting
        Senior Developer
        MODX, LLC

        Email: [email protected]
        Twitter: @garryn
        Web: modx.com
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        misery Reply #3, 20 years, 4 months ago
        Gary,
        Thanks for the welcome and the speedy reply. I tried your method, and I seem to get the same error that I did with my original code. Here is the debug output:

        Error: ini_set() [function.ini-set]: A session is active. You cannot change the session module's ini settings at this time.
File: /community/Sources/Load.php
Line: 1786 
Line 1786 source: @ini_set('session.use_trans_sid', false);


        Any thoughts? I’m still learning the flow of everything involved with MODx. The lack of limitation is fabolous!
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          Garry Nutting Reply #4, 20 years, 4 months ago
          Hi,

          Oops! I should’ve known that would happen ... check out the ’Fixing SMF’ section in the tutorial I wrote on setting up the SMF UserComments snippet - the same modifications to SMF apply to any SSI application.

          Hope that helps,

          Garry
            Garry Nutting
            Senior Developer
            MODX, LLC

            Email: [email protected]
            Twitter: @garryn
            Web: modx.com
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            misery Reply #5, 20 years, 4 months ago
            Garry,
            Thank you so much for your time. Everything works perfect now! I really appreciate it!