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mintnl Reply #1, 11 years, 3 months ago

Hi, maybe i am overlooking something but have a question about recent posts.

Question 1:
How can i get a short overview of 10 most recent posts on discuss my frontpage (not my main forumpage)?

Question 2:
As an alternative I tried it with reading the recent.xml feed but that throws an error.
If I compare my feed against the modx feed (which produces correct results) i see in the source that row 1 is different.

On forums.modx.com

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
.....

This produces nice results.

On my page

{SPACE}<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
... etc

Which produces:
Warning: MagpieRSS: Failed to parse RSS file. (Reserved XML Name at line 1, column 38) in /home/user/domains/mydomain.nl/public_html/core/model/modx/xmlrss/rssfetch.class.php on line 237

On my page a space is added before the xml statement, which seem to produce the error.
Does anyone have a clue where to edit the controller- of template-file on discuss to remove this (whitespace)character?

*** EDIT: I can confirm that a XML-file without the space produces the correct result. Does anyone have a quickfix? ***

This question has been answered by multiple community members. See the first response.

[ed. note: mintnl last edited this post 11 years, 3 months ago.]

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mintnl Reply #2, 11 years, 3 months ago

Made my own snippet to retrieve the latest forumposts (look at http://www.javelin.nl for example).

Snippet Discuss.Recent

<?php
$weghalen = array(",", "/", "?", "<", ">", ";", ":", "[", "]", "{", "}", "!", "@", "#", "$", "%", "^", "&", "*", "(", ")", "_", "+", "=");
$vervangen = array(" ", ".");

$c = $modx->newQuery('modUser');
$c->leftJoin('modUserProfile','Profile');
$c->sortby('id','ASC'); 
// add column names that u want to show
$c->select(array(
    'modUser.*',
    'Profile.fullname',
    'Profile.email',
));
 
$users = $modx->getCollection("modUser",$c);
$naam[0] = 'Anoniem'; 
foreach($users as $user){
    $usr = $user->toArray();

$naam[$usr['id']] = $usr['username'];
$email[$usr['id']] = $usr['email'];
}

$tpl = $modx->getOption('tpl',$scriptProperties,'Forumposts.Recent');

$package_path = $modx->getOption('core_path').'components/discuss/model/';
$modx->addPackage('discuss', $package_path);
$vraag = $modx->newQuery('disPost');
$vraag->sortby('id','DESC');
$vraag->where(array(
   'board:!=' => 9,
   'board:!=' => 10,
));
$vraag->limit(6,0);

$regels = $modx->getCollection('disPost',$vraag);
$output = '';

foreach($regels as $regel){
$rglArray['post']= $regel->get('id');
$rglArray['thread']= $regel->get('thread');
$titel = strtolower($regel->get('title'));
if(substr($titel, 0,4)=="re: "){$titel = substr($titel,4);}
$titel= str_replace($vervangen, "-", str_replace($weghalen, "", $titel));
if(substr($titel,-1)=="-"){$titel = substr($titel,0,-1);}
$rglArray['threadname'] = $titel;
//$rglArray['threadname'] = $titel2;
$rglArray['title']= $regel->get('title');
$rglArray['message']= $regel->get('message');
$rglArray['author'] = $naam[$regel->get('author')];
$rglArray['createdon']= $regel->get('createdon');
$rglArray['gravatar'] = "http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/".md5(strtolower(trim($email[$regel->get('author')])))."?d=mm&s=50";
$rglArray['email'] = $email[$regel->get('author')];
$rglArray['nummer'] =$nummer;

$output .= $modx->getChunk($tpl,$rglArray);
}
return $output;

and the use of a Chunk called Forumposts.Recent:

<li>  <img src="[[+gravatar]]" class="avatar">
<em> door [[+author:isnot=`Anoniem`:then=`<a href="/forums/u/[[+author]]">[[+author]]</a>`:else=`[[+author]]`]] » [[+createdon:ago]]</em>
<h3><a href="/forums/thread/[[+thread]]/[[+threadname]]#dis-post-[[+post]]">[[+title]]</a></h3>
<p style='margin-top:-15px'>[[+message:strip:stripTags:ellipsis=`50`]]</p> 
					<div class="clear"></div>
</li>

In the page template it is called like:

[[!Discuss.Recent]]

In this case the boards 9 & 10 are restricted, so you don't want to show that on the page. Maybe you could integrate an user-id check, but haven't gone that route yet.

Maybe not the most elegant scripting but it works

Hope somebody can use it.

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mintnl Reply #3, 11 years, 2 months ago

To get back on topic: feed error resolved by removing the space before

 <?php

from file /core/components/discuss/model/discuss/dispost.class.php

**edit: This fixes the general RSS, recent.xml still has the problem ** [ed. note: mintnl last edited this post 11 years, 2 months ago.]

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outcastik Reply #4, 10 years, 2 months ago

Thank you very much. Can I display recent threads by dint of this snippet?

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nuan88 Reply #5, 10 years ago

Ah this looks fabulous, will try it out soon.

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andywade84 Reply #6, 9 years, 11 months ago

This is a great little snippet thanks mintl

Got it on my home page but it seems to be displaying the bb code ie

[b]Title,[/b]

Any ideas how I can strip those tags? I could build some jquery thingy to modify those tags but that's a hack. [ed. note: andywade84 last edited this post 9 years, 11 months ago.]

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nuan88 Reply #7, 9 years, 11 months ago

you were able to get it working just by putting it in? Did you have to do any conversion? I am going to try it out next week.

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mintnl Reply #8, 9 years, 11 months ago

You can try to add

$titel = strtolower(preg_replace('~\[b\](.+?)\[/b\]~is', '\1', $regel->get('title')));

instead of the "original" line 42 in the earlier post. This should strip the bold tag

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Gormytorysh Reply #9, 9 years, 10 months ago

Hi mintnl, thanks so much for this, it was one of the things I was looking for. One question though, where it should state the name of the user, it returns the name of the website administrator. I'm sure I am just missing something here, mainly knowledge (sorry, I work in HR and do this as hobby), hope you (or anyone else) can help me out.

EDIT: As for now, I just removed it which works fine for me now. [ed. note: gormytorysh last edited this post 9 years, 10 months ago.]

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