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Can I display latest forum posts on pages outside of discuss?

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    x0149128 Reply #1, 10 years, 9 months ago
    hi, I'm considering using discuss for a new build as oppose to PHPBB.

    Is it possible to pull a feed of latest posts from a discuss forum for display on any modx page?

    How SEO friendly is it?

    Thanks
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      Dunnock Reply #2, 10 years, 9 months ago
      Yes it is doable and would say there is no effect on SEO, if there would be then 90% of the sites I follow would have bad SEO doe to having "recent ****" lists.

      This snippet should return 10 most posts (did not try it out but it is pretty straight forward)
      <?php
$discuss = $modx->getService('discuss','Discuss',$modx->getOption('discuss.core_path',null,$modx->getOption('core_path').'components/discuss/').'model/discuss/');
if (!($discuss instanceof Discuss)) return true;

$c = $modx->newQuery('disPost');
$c->where(array('private' => 0));
$c->limit(10);
$c->orderby('createdon', 'DESC');

$posts = $modx->getCollection('disPost', $c);

foreach ($posts as $post) {
    $temp = $post->toArray();
    $temp['url'] = $post->getUrl();
    // call chunks or what you want
    $out[] = $modx->getChunk('rowTpl', $temp);
}
return implode("\n", $out);
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        nuan88 Reply #3, 10 years ago
        I tried this code but it didn't seem to work, throws an error.
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          BobRay Reply #4, 10 years ago
          What error are you getting?
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            nuan88 Reply #5, 10 years ago
            Hi BobRay thanks for the message!

            Pls hold that thought for just a little while, I have been trolling the old forum threads, there are two scripts floating around to do this, and the other one (by mintnl) probably works.

            I will be trying both of these out next week, after I get a couple other things taken care of. At that time, I would love input from an expert like you.

            To be able to insert dynamic forum data into a page is the most awesome thing. It was always one on my main goals. If one of these works, its very, very big, because once the injection is possible then its open to such a wide range of different forum contents. I could fill a front page full of the latest posts, hottest threads, most liked and editor's picks, dynamically. That would be a dream.

            So, thanks again and I will post about this issue again very soon.
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              Gormytorysh Reply #6, 9 years, 10 months ago
              Quote from: BobRay at Apr 24, 2014, 10:40 PM
              What error are you getting?

              I don't know about nuan88's error, but this is what I am getting:

              Fatal error: Call to undefined method xPDOQuery_mysql::orderby() in /var/www/gcmodx/core/cache/includes/elements/modsnippet/92.include.cache.php on line 13
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                nuan88 Reply #7, 9 years, 10 months ago
                Yes that's the error I got as well, and it prevents the page from being created.