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drynax
07-04-2008, 05:29 PM
What code would I use if I just want to show an array of just 2 fields:

Name of Link
URL Link

What would the two vba links field names be? And if I wanted to use a simple array to show links, what would that be?

Brian said that all the field names changed from 2.0 to 3.0, so I wondered what those would be for 3.0...

drynax
07-04-2008, 06:40 PM
Would I do something like they have in the RSS Feed Reader?

http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/showthread.php?t=29487

In the above thread, Brian stated for the RSS Feed:

Just include the includes/vba_links_functions_savelink.php file and you can use the fetch_meta(). You just need to make sure that an array called $link is set that would look something like the example below and then run that function before the data is inserted into the db.

$link = array(
'name' => 'Link title',
'description' => 'Description of link',
'linkurl' => 'http://website.com'
);

Oh, you'll also need to query the options and set the $vba_options variable, which this should take care of:
PHP Code:

$dstore = $vbulletin->db->query_first("
SELECT title, data
FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "datastore
WHERE title = 'adv_links_opts'
");


$vba_options = unserialize($dstore['data']);


Now this is for parsing and storing it from an RSS Feed with an array. I'm just looking for something to print it on the screen.

Brian
07-05-2008, 02:18 PM
Well, the first step would be to write a query to pull the links...