Help with plugin..

This old plugin kind of does what I'd like it to do

Widget:Forums Category names/links in cms for version 4.0.1 - omardealo - vBulletin.org Forum

A widget to display our Forum Categories on our CMS page.

but the coding only uses the standard forum category .php URL's. (non-seo'd version)

I'd like the SEO'd versions..and also a break <br> after each category...so each category is displayed on each line.

I'm guessing this shouldn't be too hard to do, but not enough php coding experience here to pull it off flawlessly.

Since you guys are the SEO dudes, I thought i'd post this here.

(my post is at the bottom of that thread....basically the same stuff)

maybe someone could even make this their own Plugin , once modified... Surprised there isn't one made already.

alright, i fixed the <br> part....i've got all categories on 1 line now.

I just need to display the SEO format of the links instead of the .php format.

It has something to do with this part -

<a href="forumdisplay.php?'.$forum[forumid].'" style="text-decoration: none">'.$forum[title].'</a>

can someone help me quick...shouldn't be too hard to figure out.

vBSEO Functions for Extensibility

a couple includes and a wrap is all you need.

thx bro, I was able to accomplish it with the following :

changed in Red.

ob_start();
$excluded = "1,2,3";
$forum_get = vB::$db->query_read("
SELECT * FROM ".TABLE_PREFIX."forum
WHERE forumid NOT IN ($excluded) ORDER by forumid");
$output_bits = '';
while($forum = vB::$db->fetch_array($forum_get))
{
$output_bits .= '<a href="http://www.mydomain.com/forum'.$forum[forumid].'" style="text-decoration: none">'.$forum[title].'</a>
<font color="#FF6600"><b><br /></b></font> ';
}
$output = $output_bits;
ob_end_clean();

you really shouldn't use a font tag. i'ts been deprecated for years. And whats the point of changing the font and bolding a line break?

Originally Posted by Brian Cummiskey

you really shouldn't use a font tag. i'ts been deprecated for years. And whats the point of changing the font and bolding a line break?

it was in the original coding... i'll remove it now. thx.