Taking Posts made in PHPBB and putting them outside the foru

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TanisLinkEragon
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Taking Posts made in PHPBB and putting them outside the foru

Post by TanisLinkEragon »

Hey guys, I'm attempting to take some posts made in PHPBB3 and put them outside of the form (like a portal).

Its working fine, and I get the posts, the only problem is BB code...

say someone posts

Cool.


When I get it out of my database, and put it somewhere, it shows up as

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[b]cool[/b]
It does the same thing if you use HTML in your post.

HTML it gets stored into the database with < and > while BB code gets put it as regular BB code.

The best solution would probably be some way to decode the BBcode and change it into HTML. Any suggestion?

Current code on testing page:

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<?php
$con = mysql_connect("my host","my username","my password");
if (!$con)
  {
  die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
  }

mysql_select_db("my DB", $con);

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM phpbb_posts WHERE forum_id='39' ORDER BY post_subject");

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
  {
  ?><font color=#C7C7C7>
  <?php
  echo $row['post_text'];?>
  <br><br>
<img src="/divide.jpg"><br><br>
<?php

  }

mysql_close($con);
?>
note: the <br><br>
<img src="/divide.jpg"><br><br> is there to separate the posts, and the font color tag is there to, well, change the font color.


Argg... If only phpBB3 supported HTML...

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Re: Taking Posts made in PHPBB and putting them outside the foru

Post by profpete »

Include the bbcode class, and call it to decode the post?

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Re: Taking Posts made in PHPBB and putting them outside the foru

Post by Highway of Life »

I'll be very brief, as phpBB does not support Modifications at this time, but here is what you need to do.

There are literally dozens of ways you can do it, but I think the best way is to include your "portal" in phpBB.

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<?php define('IN_PHPBB', true);
$phpbb_root_path = './forum/'; // make sure this goes to the path that phpBB is installed.
$phpEx = substr(strrchr(__FILE__, '.'), 1);
include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.' . $phpEx);
include($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/functions_display.' . $phpEx);
include($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/bbcode.' . $phpEx);
Then if you want to use sessions to control elements of your page:

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// Start session management
$user->session_begin();
$auth->acl($user->data);
Then use the BBCode parsing method found in the viewtopic.php page to parse your bbcode in your page.
Hint:

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<?php $bbcode->bbcode_second_pass($message, $row['bbcode_uid'], $row['bbcode_bitfield']);
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TanisLinkEragon
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Re: Taking Posts made in PHPBB and putting them outside the foru

Post by TanisLinkEragon »

I know that mods are currently not supported.

But anyways, where would I put

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$bbcode->bbcode_second_pass($message, $row['bbcode_uid'], $row['bbcode_bitfield']);
?




Script so far:

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<?php define('IN_PHPBB', true);
$phpbb_root_path = '/forums/'; // make sure this goes to the path that phpBB is installed.
$phpEx = substr(strrchr(__FILE__, '.'), 1);
include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.' . $phpEx);
include($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/functions_display.' . $phpEx);
include($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/bbcode.' . $phpEx);

$con = mysql_connect("db536.perfora.net","gone","gone.");
if (!$con)
  {
  die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
  }

mysql_select_db("gone", $con);

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM phpbb_posts WHERE forum_id='39' ORDER BY post_subject");

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
  {
  ?><font color=#C7C7C7>
  <?php

  echo $row['post_text'];?>
  <br><br>
<img src="/divide.jpg"><br><br>
<?php

  }

mysql_close($con);
?>
Last edited by karlsemple on Sun Dec 24, 2006 5:41 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: Removed your database username and pasword ;)

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Re: Taking Posts made in PHPBB and putting them outside the foru

Post by ChALkeR »

Use the phpBB class, do not do manual changing to html. :D
Rember about security and custom bbcodes. ;)
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Sorry for my bad English....

TanisLinkEragon
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Re: Taking Posts made in PHPBB and putting them outside the foru

Post by TanisLinkEragon »

ChALkeR wrote: Use the phpBB class, do not do manual changing to html. :D
Rember about security and custom bbcodes. ;)

How does that help?

That really didnt answer my question....

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Re: Taking Posts made in PHPBB and putting them outside the foru

Post by Ectoman »

Maybe not post your database username and password in a forum?

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Re: Taking Posts made in PHPBB and putting them outside the foru

Post by Tienchen »

Well, that's not so clever. But perhaps some moderator is in Christmas mood and will delete the certain database passwords in his code. :)
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TanisLinkEragon
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Re: Taking Posts made in PHPBB and putting them outside the foru

Post by TanisLinkEragon »

First: as it isn't a live forum and the database will be deleted in a month or two anyways, I dont really care.

Second: Only one person has even ATTEMPTED to help.
Last edited by TanisLinkEragon on Thu Dec 28, 2006 3:34 am, edited 1 time in total.

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Re: Taking Posts made in PHPBB and putting them outside the foru

Post by muse-ic »

^ that doesn't make sense

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