Creating a preview-area on a website Hey everyone, first of all, I'm very new to this whole thing, so maybe some of my questions may be silly or lack essential information - in that case, please just ask! I'm currently tasked with finding a solution for the following problem: The university website I work for has been using Phorum for a while now and is currently in the process of developing a new intranet. A planned small feature of this new intranet will be a "classifieds" section, i.e. sort of a "trading post", allowing for small ads to buy and/or sell stuff. Since Phorum seems to be a solid backbone for this (and it is already working with the central user database) I was thinking about using it for this task. However, I was asked if there is any way to create a small "preview"-area on the new intranet starting page that displays the 3-5 latest postings of the two sub-forums (Buying / Selling), containing not much more than the thread title, user name and date, as well as a link to the Phorum thread. Is there a plugin, script or something alike that can help me solve this task? Thanks a lot for your time! https://www.phorum.org/phorum5/read.php?28,153281,153281#msg-153281 Sun, 08 Mar 2026 14:22:34 -0400 Phorum 5.2.22 https://www.phorum.org/phorum5/read.php?28,153281,153301#msg-153301 Re: Creating a preview-area on a website https://www.phorum.org/phorum5/read.php?28,153281,153301#msg-153301
Please add the following to the script code: 
                $subj = trim(strip_tags($subj));
		$auth = trim(strip_tags($auth));
 
		if(!$subj) $subj = "- No Subject -";
		if(!$auth) $auth - "- No Author -";
 
                $subj = htmlentities($subj);
                $auth = htmlentities($auth);

That should make the code safe.]]> Maurice Makaay Phorum Integration Sat, 09 Feb 2013 05:50:04 -0500 https://www.phorum.org/phorum5/read.php?28,153281,153297#msg-153297 Re: Creating a preview-area on a website https://www.phorum.org/phorum5/read.php?28,153281,153297#msg-153297 KnutBoehmer Phorum Integration Fri, 08 Feb 2013 06:30:27 -0500 https://www.phorum.org/phorum5/read.php?28,153281,153283#msg-153283 Re: Creating a preview-area on a website https://www.phorum.org/phorum5/read.php?28,153281,153283#msg-153283
max is number of items to display
buy, sell are the numeric forum id numbers
phorum5/read.php?28,153281 - link to message
parent_id=0 thread starter 

Language: PHP
	$sql = "select * from phorum_messages WHERE  (forum_id=buy or  forum_id=sell)  and parent_id=0 and status=2 and moved=0 ORDER BY datestamp desc limit $max";
 
	mysql_select_db("phorum5");
 
	$res = mysql_query($sql, resource $link_identifier);
 
	while($row = mysql_fetch_object($res))
	{
		print "<li>";
 
		$mid = $row->message_id;
		if($row->thread) $mid=$row->thread;
 
		$subj = trimstring($row->subject,50);
 
		$auth = $row->author;
 
 
		$subj = trim(strip_tags($subj));
		$auth = trim(strip_tags($auth));
 
		if(!$subj) $subj = "- No Subject -";
		if(!$auth) $auth - "- No Author -";
 
		print "<a href=\"phorum5/read.php?$forum_id,$thread\"><b>$subj</b>";
 
		print date("H:i jS M Y",$row->datestamp);
		print " - posted by $auth";
		print "</a></li>";
 
	}
]]> DavidVonB Phorum Integration Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:24:17 -0500 https://www.phorum.org/phorum5/read.php?28,153281,153281#msg-153281 Creating a preview-area on a website https://www.phorum.org/phorum5/read.php?28,153281,153281#msg-153281
first of all, I'm very new to this whole thing, so maybe some of my questions may be silly or lack essential information - in that case, please just ask!

I'm currently tasked with finding a solution for the following problem:

The university website I work for has been using Phorum for a while now and is currently in the process of developing a new intranet. A planned small feature of this new intranet will be a "classifieds" section, i.e. sort of a "trading post", allowing for small ads to buy and/or sell stuff.
Since Phorum seems to be a solid backbone for this (and it is already working with the central user database) I was thinking about using it for this task.
However, I was asked if there is any way to create a small "preview"-area on the new intranet starting page that displays the 3-5 latest postings of the two sub-forums (Buying / Selling), containing not much more than the thread title, user name and date, as well as a link to the Phorum thread.

Is there a plugin, script or something alike that can help me solve this task?

Thanks a lot for your time!]]> KnutBoehmer Phorum Integration Wed, 06 Feb 2013 06:29:46 -0500