Topic: Single Post

[mforum]

Hi
what about the ability to add a single post as article ?
In that case only a Read More link is needed .... a write a comment link would be confusing. 

[AngelinaBelle]

I was thinking about this!  I was thinking SMF needs a function to retrieve just the body of the post, perhaps with options to show or not show the author, profile info, avatar, etc.
 
The body of a recent post about a club event could be a perfect "Welcome" block.
As in http://rockhallsailingclub.org/smf/SPStandalone.php, where I copy/pasted the contents of a post into a custom HTML block.
 
I think it would be better/easier if I could have a block that was defined as a single post.  Or the ability to embed the post contents in a custom HTML or BBC block.
 
I think this is a great idea.  If the SimplePortal team rejects it, it might be a good mod.
AB

[130860]

smf has an ssi funtion to fech a single post from db:

try this:

<?php $post = ssi_fetchPosts(1, NULL, NULL);
echo $post[0]['body'], '<br />'; ?>


where 1 es the ID of the post you want it to show.

more info:

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?action=search2;search=ssi_fetchPosts


greetings!

[[SiNaN]]

For SMF 1.1:

http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=357

For SMF 2.0:

ssi_fetchPosts() would work as 130860 noted.

[AngelinaBelle]

Doh!  Thanks!

[AngelinaBelle]

That SSI Single Message mod was exactly what I wanted. 
 
After installing the mod, all you need is a custom php block with the following code.  Whenever you want to change the contents of the block, just change the number of the message (it's the msg=, not the topic=)

$msg=1;
 
 
$one_message=ssi_grabMessage($msg,'array'); 
echo $one_message[0]['body'];
echo '
<p>' , $one_message[0]['link'], '</p>';

[mforum]

in smf 1 i use TP with SSI single message
in smf 2, SP with custom php block

Code: [Select]

<?php $post = ssi_fetchPosts(1, NULL, NULL);
echo $post[0]['body'], '<br />'; ?>
where in 1 i put the id of the post i want to show

Thank you all

are you willing to include this as a block to next version of SP ?

[[SiNaN]]

I don't think so. This isn't something essential and can be easily handled with Custom PHP block.

[mforum]

  ok
thanks for your reply