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  • John
    #1

    html to php help

    Hello,


    I have a html message board / forums and would like to take the last
    message posted and put it on the front of my website somehow. Does
    anyone know of a program that would do this automatically?



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    • Bosconian
      #2
      Re: html to php help

      "John" <John_nospam@nn nnnnnnn.nowhere wrote in message
      news:725nm2d35d kmq8riffh9v3t5t gk4cb0381@4ax.c om...
      Hello,
      >
      >
      I have a html message board / forums and would like to take the last
      message posted and put it on the front of my website somehow. Does
      anyone know of a program that would do this automatically?
      >
      >
      >
      I'd consult the developers of your forum package. More than likely they
      already have a snippet of code to accomplish such a task.


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        • Christoph Burschka
          #3
          Re: html to php help

          John schrieb:
          Hello,
          >
          >
          I have a html message board / forums and would like to take the last
          message posted and put it on the front of my website somehow. Does
          anyone know of a program that would do this automatically?
          >
          >
          >
          Question: What is an "html message board"? Surely the server side is
          powered with PHP or CGI? Where are the posts stored?

          I've done something this before with a message board that ran on another
          site and that didn't have a newsfeed (I wrote something that scraped the
          posts and returned an RSS feed). I don't recommend this if there is any
          other option.

          In your case, look first at what the supplier of your board software has
          to offer - possibly there is already a way to export an RSS newsfeed.
          It's very easy to use such a newsfeed to put the posts on your front page.

          The second option is to fetch the posts directly from the database (if
          one exists - I know some forums that use flat files, and maybe that's
          what you mean by "html").

          --
          CB

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            • John
              #4
              Re: html to php help

              On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:51:41 +0100, Christoph Burschka
              <christoph.burs chka@rwth-aachen.dewrote:
              >John schrieb:
              >Hello,
              >>
              >>
              >I have a html message board / forums and would like to take the last
              >message posted and put it on the front of my website somehow. Does
              >anyone know of a program that would do this automatically?
              >>
              >>
              >>
              >Question: What is an "html message board"? Surely the server side is
              >powered with PHP or CGI? Where are the posts stored?
              >
              >I've done something this before with a message board that ran on another
              >site and that didn't have a newsfeed (I wrote something that scraped the
              >posts and returned an RSS feed). I don't recommend this if there is any
              >other option.
              >
              >In your case, look first at what the supplier of your board software has
              >to offer - possibly there is already a way to export an RSS newsfeed.
              >It's very easy to use such a newsfeed to put the posts on your front page.
              >
              >The second option is to fetch the posts directly from the database (if
              >one exists - I know some forums that use flat files, and maybe that's
              >what you mean by "html").


              Hi - you are right it's a flat file type of message boards that stores
              the html files in a folder on my server. Therefore, there is no
              database used. The author doesn't have an rss feed for this board.

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                • Toby Inkster
                  #5
                  Re: html to php help

                  Christoph Burschka wrote:
                  The second option is to fetch the posts directly from the database (if
                  one exists - I know some forums that use flat files, and maybe that's
                  what you mean by "html").
                  Flat files *are* a database -- not a full-fledged ACID-compliant SQL
                  RDBMS, but a database all the same. And the data can be retrieved from
                  flat files fairly easily using fopen() and so forth.

                  --
                  Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
                  Contact Me ~ http://tobyinkster.co.uk/contact

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