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fdouteaud
dynamic content/article
27 September 2007 14:19
Anonymous Hi,
Is it possible to have an item (a category article) made of a php script to get dynamic content?

The fact is that I built my site with Drake but I am using punBB for the forum and I'd like to show the last 10 posts from the forum on the homepage.

PunBB provides a php script to get the last 'n' posts but I have no idea how I can use this to plug it into the homepage managed by drake....any idea?

Thanks,
Fabrice.
 
trex1512
Re: dynamic content/article
28 September 2007 00:47
Anonymous Hi

This Post may give you some ideas. It also points out the danger of including external scripts from within Drake CMS.

Come back and let us know how you go.

Good Luck...
 
legolas558
Re: dynamic content/article
28 September 2007 19:26
Anonymous Since punBB is a rather complex PHP application (it cannot be classified as a script), I would suggest the usage of an iframe.

Creating a wrapper menu item with the iframe option will do the job, in such case

By the way, punBB is an excellent forum application; I had in the past complained about its security, but it seems very secure now - and it's very fast!
 
fdouteaud
Re: dynamic content/article
02 October 2007 13:26
Anonymous Thanks a lot for your responses but I guess none of them are really doing the job.

The <script> html tag does not look like a very good option to me. It has XSS issues and let the browser do the include.

The <iframe> does not look like an option since I do not want a menu item with this, I only would like this on my homepage as well as other article...meaning that I'd like to be able to manipulate this item as I do with article.

For me, the best would be to be able to add PHP code in an article. This would allow the management of PHP scripts as articles. Example: you want to display some data from RSS feeds and you need to manage it as an article: just create a PHP script to get the feed, create an article with this script or 'linking' to that script and voila!

This is just an idea for now but I serouisly have no idea how I'll solve this for now.
 
legolas558
Re: dynamic content/article
03 October 2007 00:51
Anonymous Quote:

The <script> html tag does not look like a very good option to me. It has XSS issues and let the browser do the include.

Drake CMS does not endorse script tags at all..or am I wrong?

Quote:

The <iframe> does not look like an option since I do not want a menu item with this, I only would like this on my homepage as well as other article...meaning that I'd like to be able to manipulate this item as I do with article.

For me, the best would be to be able to add PHP code in an article. This would allow the management of PHP scripts as articles. Example: you want to display some data from RSS feeds and you need to manage it as an article: just create a PHP script to get the feed, create an article with this script or 'linking' to that script and voila!

This is just an idea for now but I serouisly have no idea how I'll solve this for now.


Then you might try the mod_wrapper in PHP mode (which includes the file as PHP) or drawrapper which allows to use the same mechanism for snippets in content items
 
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