[Simon]

Code last updated: 21st June, 2007

I made a small mod to let a user display the latest stories from a pligg site on their own. Demo here. It can be used in 1 of 2 ways:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://domain.com/feed/display.php"></script>

This will display a default configuration - the 5 latest published stories.

<script type="text/javascript">pligg_number='5'; pligg_status='1'; pligg_votes='1';</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://domain.com/feed/display.php"></script>

This will let the user configure what stories they want to display.

pligg_number = number of stories to show (max 10, default 5)
pligg_author = stories from a particular author (use author username)
pligg_status = published stories (1), upcoming stories (2), discarded stories (3)
pligg_category = display stories from a particular category only
pligg_votes = display vote total next to title (1), or not (0)

Uses an xml feed to keep the display updated, whilst keeping database calls to a minimum.

[kbeeveer46]

Nice Job! Keep up the good work. Something is wrong with the forum attachments. Can you possibly add a mirror for the files?

[Simon]

Sure thing - Mirror Here

[jitgos]

Perfect! Very sweet!

[Simon]

I really need to create a more efficient method of output. Right now it is 6 db calls for a 5 story output. It will probably end up being an xml / rss file that gets re-generated every x minutes, and then parsed when called in the iframe, to minimise database usage.

[Simon]

Just updated the display so that it now uses an xml feed of the stories to reduce calls to the database. If installing, you will need to set up a cron job (to run as frequently as you think necessary) on xml.php - to keep the feed updated on a regular basis.

[Simon]

Just made a small update to the mod (see download in 1st post), to parse out any bad characters like & etc...

[kbeeveer46]

Thanks. I knew the thread existed but could never find it again.

[Simon]

I didn't do the best naming job on this thread lol.

[boardsource]

would it be possible to display a certain user... say the user wants to display his stories on his site?