html to php help

[John]

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?

[Bosconian]

"John" <Jo*********@nnnnnnnnn.nowherewrote in message
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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.

[Christoph Burschka]

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").

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CB

[John]

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:51:41 +0100, Christoph Burschka
<ch****************@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.

[Toby Inkster]

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.

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