Invision Power Board forum bridge
This is a script we use on the norwegian community root.no to show the latest messages from our IPB forum in our WordPress blog template.
I already published this on my norwegian blog so I figgured I’d do the english speaking world a favor and publish it here as well in case someone was searching for “Invision Power Board forum bridge” and found the norwegian language one 
The script can be downloaded here.
It will output the latest X number of messages from the forum (with forum_id’s specified in the script) in the format: <li> titled link </li> – so throw some <ul>’s around the include in your template.
Here’s how we use it:
<h2><em>Latest in the forum</em></h2>
<ul class="posts">
<?php include "../inc/ipb_last10.php"; ?>
</ul>
Edit the script before you upload it to your server. It should be pretty self-explanatory, but if you run into any problems just write a comment on this entry.
The script is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License, so enjoy.
Hi thanks for tha beautiful script… but I tried to install it on my site but is doesnt work… I just have a blank page :/ Problem may come from the root path to the forum.. should it start like this : /customers/neo-rammstein.com/…. ?
Any ideas otherwise? thx
Hello Thomas,
you need to find the path to the /forum/conf_global.php somehow. You can try with a relative path (like ../forum/conf_global.php etc) but if that doesn’t work you can ask your webhost for that path.
well i tried to find it with a PHP script :
and when i open it, it gives me a long path /customers/neo-rammstein.com/…. /index.php so i replace index.php with forum/conf_global.php
Well, first – it depends on where your forum is installed; is it located in /forum/ ? Also, when I visit your site I find phpBB – this script is for IPB.
Don’t pay attention on what you see for the moment, this is my old site (only one html page), i’m finishing my new php site. And there will be a IPB forum for it. It’s installed at the root of my server in /forum/
http://www.neo-rammstein.com/forum/
Okey, where did you upload the script?
Its located in a sidebar, i inclueded on every pages. But yesterday, a friend of mine created me a similar script. We tried to make yours working but we failed.
His script is working… but i still have some small problems (may I ask you to have a look on it to help me to fix it?
)
I mean – where on your server did you upload the script?
at the root
but i also tried to put it in the forum folder… but I had the same problem : blank page
ok, in the script located in the root, try setting the path like this:
require_once ‘./forum/conf_global.php’;
If this does not work, you need to contact your host to get the full path of the conf_global.php file and use that.
I will contact my host to get that path… becaus your fix still gives me blank page :/ Thanks for your help though