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11/26/2006 6:33 AM

Liz Christopher

www.busykiddies.co.uk
Joined: 3/25/2006

Posts: 68

Forum Teaser

Hi,

After finding the What's New forum module it doesn't really do what I want.

Does anyone know of module that puts either the most recent 3 threads or a random set of thread links that can act as a teaser on other pages to entice people to visit the forum.

I wouldn't want the module to be very big, probably displaying just the thread titles and maybe who it is posted by.

I know its probably a long shot but you never know so I thought I'd ask.

Thanks
Liz
DNN 3.2

Liz Christopher
www.busykiddies.co.uk
www.owlsmoorpta.org.uk

11/27/2006 11:28 AM

Chris Paterra

Joined: 4/5/2003

Posts: 4377

Re: Forum Teaser

Hmm, I thought you could set all that in the settings of the What's New module.

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11/27/2006 1:27 PM

wildfiction

www.headvert.com
Joined: 6/17/2006

Posts: 240

Re: Forum Teaser

Considering that Crispy wrote the forum module I am guessing that his suggestion is the best here.

Alternatively you could take the RSS feed from the Forum and use the XML/XSL module to filter, format and display it in any manner you want. You will need to learn XSL first if you don't already know it.

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11/27/2006 1:42 PM

Davin Dubeau

www.bugnetproject.com
Joined: 8/7/2004

Posts: 29

Re: Forum Teaser

I went the custom RSS feel route and it works great.    I limit the front page rss feed to 10 items using xsl.
I found this on a DNN website somewhere....but I forget.

My site is www.bugnetproject.com for an example and here is the stylesheet that I use:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:param name="TITLE"/>

<xsl:template match="rss">
    <style type="text/css">
        .info{
            position:relative; /*this is the key*/
            z-index:24;
            text-decoration:none}

        a.info:hover{z-index:999;text-decoration:none;}

        a.info span{display: none;}

        a.info:hover span{ /*the span will display just on :hover state*/
            display:block;
            position:absolute;
            text-decoration:none;
            top:2em; left:0.5em; width:170px;
            font-size:10px;
            font-weight:normal;
            border:1px solid #ccc;
            background-color: #efefef; color:#000;
            text-align: left;
        }
    </style>

<xsl:for-each select="channel/item[position() < 9]">
    <br />

    <strong><a class="info" href="{link}" target="_main"><xsl:value-of select="title"/><span><xsl:value-of select="description"/></span></a></strong>
<br/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="description">
<br>
    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
</br>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

11/27/2006 2:03 PM

Rodney Joyce

www.pokerdiy.com
Joined: 4/28/2004

Posts: 2796

Re: Forum Teaser

I use the RSS Feed approach but I randomly get an error:

FEED ERROR!
News Feed Is Not Available At This Time. Error message:The remote name could not be resolved: 'www.pokerdiy.com'

An error has occurred.
Error: From the Forums Stay tuned with the PokerDIY Forum Feed! is currently unavailable.

So every now and again I have to make it viewable by Admin only until it goes away (normally lasts a day or two)

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