Comments on: How to show latest phpBB3 posts in your WordPress sidebar

By: OpenUser

OpenUser — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:47:49 +0000

This code worked for me (WP 3.2.1) in combination with PHP Code Widget ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/php-code-widget/ ), though some modifications were needed. The “die()” function seems to stop further execution of PHP code and can so prevent the remaining content from loading. So the code had to be rewritten like this (not pretending to be the most elegant way ;) ):

if($connection = mysql_connect("your_db_server","your_db_login","your_db_password"))
{
if($db = mysql_select_db("your_db_name",$connection))
{
$sql = "select * from phpbb_topics order by topic_last_post_time desc limit 0,10";
if($result = mysql_query($sql))
{
for($x=1;$x<=10;$x++)
{
$row = mysql_fetch_array($result);
echo "$row[topic_title]“;
}
}
else
{
echo(“Service temporairly unavailable”);
}
}
else
{
echo(“Service temporairly unavailable”);
}
}
else
{
echo(“Service temporairly unavailable”);
}
?>

Could the same really be accomplished without storing database login data in the script code? Please post the code if you know how to achieve that!

By: dahgapflilalf

dahgapflilalf — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 21:36:27 +0000

hi amazing topic you have going here.

By: lalami

lalami — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 09:47:30 +0000

The same problem as on the Slovenian site – only that my site is in Turkish.

Is there any way to make Turkish letters appear with diacritics?

I’m really greateful for the code, I’ve tried all available plugins and none of them works for my site (another explanation might be – your instructions are really good, so I could understand and put them in action;)

By: Marius

Marius — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 12:47:28 +0000

How to add UTF-8 support please help!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 09:43:54 +0000

I have my phpBB latest posts showing on home page, built into my theme properly.

http://www.webtechglobal.co.uk

If anyone needs help getting these things working and fully themed just go to my forum for some help.

Thanks for another good plugin.

By: niv

niv — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:19:38 +0000

UTF-8 Support please….

How can it be done?

By: paul

paul — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:57:28 +0000

This is a cool idea but there’s a security issue in here. Actually, you don’t need a password from the database and username, all you should have is msql server so the script can retrieve info/topics last 5 posts…etc

By: Marko

Marko — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 08:52:48 +0000

Hi,

I tried a lot of those PHP codes to show last posts on my page … but this one only works for me :-) … THX!!

I’m not using WordPress, but I manage to implement. But now I have “local” issue. In Slovenia we are using “Å ÄŒÅ½ – funny letters :-)” and I have problem showing them. OK just one letter “ÄŒ”. You can look on my page (www.drp-drustvo.si) under “..:: SveÅ¾e na forumu ::..” (light yellow notes) …

Thx in advance and thx again for really useful code!

Regards, Marko

By: Gofree

Gofree — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:34:48 +0000

Please, make this WP plugin.

By: vasilis

vasilis — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:34:30 +0000

how to show the post with utf8 support?