[PHP] News to toolbar (ticker)

2002-08-01 Thread Jeff Lewis

vBulletin has a file called ticker.php that allows users to have latest
posts sent to their toolbar in Windows. An example can be found on this
site: http://www.whitesoxinteractive.com/Ticker.htm

How exactly do they do this? I can't manage to get my hands on the file to
take a look but it's something I'd like to look at.

Jeff



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Re: [PHP] News to toolbar (ticker)

2002-08-01 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes

It just pulls up a PHP page...what's the big deal? Make up a PHP page that
pulls the newest post out, displays it, and refreshes itself ever minute or
so... It looks extremely annoying to me. Why would to want that on your
toolbar? Just open up IE with the same page.

---John  Holmes...

- Original Message -
From: Jeff Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 7:27 AM
Subject: [PHP] News to toolbar (ticker)


 vBulletin has a file called ticker.php that allows users to have latest
 posts sent to their toolbar in Windows. An example can be found on this
 site: http://www.whitesoxinteractive.com/Ticker.htm

 How exactly do they do this? I can't manage to get my hands on the file to
 take a look but it's something I'd like to look at.

 Jeff



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Re: [PHP] News to toolbar (ticker)

2002-08-01 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes

Well, Just make a PHP page that shows what you want. Use a META-REFRESH tag
to have it refresh itself every 60 seconds (I'm assuming that'll work in the
toolbar). I'm not sure of the specifics for vBulletin, but the database
structure isn't that difficult. Just pull use LIMIT to pull out the latest
post, format it, and display it on the page...

Do you still need help? Maybe you should get more specific as to what you
want...

---John Holmes...

- Original Message -
From: Jeff Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 1LT John W. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 8:34 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP] News to toolbar (ticker)


 I was being sarcastic. Trust me, you won't see me running the thing on my
 computer but for the open source project I run, users like all kinds of
 weird things :)


 - Original Message -
 From: 1LT John W. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: Jeff Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 8:26 AM
 Subject: Re: [PHP] News to toolbar (ticker)


  I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not. It's hard to tell over
 email.
  I didn't mean to discourage you, I was just giving my personal opinion.
 
  ---John Holmes...
 
  - Original Message -
  From: Jeff Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  To: 1LT John W. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 8:13 AM
  Subject: Re: [PHP] News to toolbar (ticker)
 
 
   You're right, it's a stupid idea, I don't know why I ever thought of
  posting
   it on the list.
  
   I don't know what I was thinking, I'll crawl back under my rock now.
   - Original Message -
   From: 1LT John W. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   To: Jeff Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 8:06 AM
   Subject: Re: [PHP] News to toolbar (ticker)
  
  
It just pulls up a PHP page...what's the big deal? Make up a PHP
page
  that
pulls the newest post out, displays it, and refreshes itself ever
 minute
   or
so... It looks extremely annoying to me. Why would to want that on
 your
toolbar? Just open up IE with the same page.
   
---John  Holmes...
   
- Original Message -
From: Jeff Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 7:27 AM
Subject: [PHP] News to toolbar (ticker)
   
   
 vBulletin has a file called ticker.php that allows users to have
  latest
 posts sent to their toolbar in Windows. An example can be found on
  this
 site: http://www.whitesoxinteractive.com/Ticker.htm

 How exactly do they do this? I can't manage to get my hands on the
  file
   to
 take a look but it's something I'd like to look at.

 Jeff



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