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leatherlips
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AnonJr
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 Posted - 01 April 2008 : 13:32:58
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To be honest, I've just been building the sites around the forum. It simplifies a lot. 
default.asp gets changed to forum_home.asp (links get updated), and all my pages use inc_header.asp, I use a lot of the functions built in to Snitz, and the site just grows around the forum. Even if the Forum isn't central, it makes a dandy CMS.< |
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leatherlips
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AnonJr
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Posted - 01 April 2008 : 15:48:30
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That did make sense, and I kinda figured that was the situation you were in now. I'm just not sure of the best way to handle what you want.
One option would be to look at the syndication MOD and use it as a template for pulling content. I've done that with some internal apps here at the hospital. All they need is to include a <script> with a properly formatted URL and it pulls the next x classes from my system to a sidebar on their page. I'm not overly fond of sending some js to run on thier page, but it works.
I'd also looked at building a Flash app that talked to a script that fed it some XML... but seeing my Flash skills are more along the "simple animation" lines, that never got very far. 
Edit: Another option would be to re-write the RSS MOD to supply full posts and just have a built-in reader that was "subscribed" to that forum/topic/whatever.... I'd need to mull over that idea a little more...< |
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leatherlips
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AnonJr
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Posted - 01 April 2008 : 16:04:28
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| For the internal app, I made a copy of syndicate.asp and had adjusted it for my needs. That may be the best way for you to go as well. Once you open up syndicate.asp you'll see that its not that hard to see whats going on in the code.< |
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leatherlips
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AnonJr
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Posted - 01 April 2008 : 20:51:54
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Are you looking for something like this: http://forum.snitz.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=65954
but for pages outside the forum? Are you wanting to show the whole topic? or just the most recent post?
Maybe photoshop up a sketch of what you want. I think there are a few options we can still look at.< |
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leatherlips
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AnonJr
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Posted - 01 April 2008 : 21:28:54
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Just for clarification:
the discography pages are ASP pages? or at least pages that could process a little ASP?
Am I also to assume that each page would be pulling from a single topic?< |
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Jezmeister
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Posted - 02 April 2008 : 01:23:08
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Add a querystring and run it as a modified topic.asp? alternatively there's always what I've done for a 'topic of the week' in which the ID is predefined (in my case in the database but you could always hard code it) - I just pull the topic message and data from the database myself, you could do the same with replies... there's no real need to over-complicate things if you want to give it a go yourself, everything that you need is stored in the database. :) oh and remember to include inc_func_common and pass the posts through FormatStr if you want links etc to stay intact in your new page.
just some ideas :)< |
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leatherlips
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AnonJr
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Posted - 02 April 2008 : 10:43:55
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| I may not get to it today, if you don't hear back by Sat., bump this topic to remind me... < |
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salondon
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Posted - 03 April 2008 : 10:08:15
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| simple suggestion would be to use a link such as CD Review. clicking the link will take user to that topic page. otherwise to pull from db hav to use modified topic.asp.< |
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Classicmotorcycling
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leatherlips
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This stuff is a little over my head.