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What is the best/easiest way to select the first post in a thread using PHP and SQL?
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Just a general bump to this post.
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You'll probably get a better response at the MOD Writers discussion, so moving there :)
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Ah, okay. Thankyou :)
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Darfuria wrote: What is the best/easiest way to select the first post in a thread using PHP and SQL?

What else do you know?

If you know the topic_id value, then it's fairly simple as the topic_first_post_id is stored on the topic row.

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$sql = 'SELECT t.stuff
, p.stuff
, pt.stuff
FROM phpbb_topics t
, phpbb_posts p
, phpbb_posts_text pt
WHERE t.topic_id = ???
and t.topic_first_post_id = p.post_id
and p.post_id = pt.post_id'
Replace "stuff" with the list of columns that you want to display from each table.
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I'm trying to write a script to pull the first post from the Announcements forum and display it on the homepage of a website.

This is the majority of what I have so far:

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<?php
	mysql_connect ($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpassword);
	mysql_select_db ($dbname) or die(mysql_error());
	
	$topics = mysql_query ("SELECT * FROM phpbb_posts INNER JOIN phpbb_posts_text ON phpbb_posts.post_id = phpbb_posts_text.post_id WHERE phpbb_posts.forum_id = " . $forumid . " ORDER BY post_time DESC") or die(mysql_error());
	
	while($row = mysql_fetch_array($topics))
	{
		echo('<strong>Post ID:</strong> ' . $row['post_id'] . ' <strong>Subject:</strong> ' . $row['post_subject'] . '<br />');
	}
		
?>
And this is what it returns. When I was using a GROUP BY, it wasn't selecting the correct posts.

I haven't seen topic_first_post_id in the database :S
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Darfuria wrote:

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SELECT * FROM phpbb_posts INNER JOIN phpbb_posts_text ON phpbb_posts.post_id = phpbb_posts_text.post_id WHERE phpbb_posts.forum_id = " . $forumid . " ORDER BY post_time DESC"


Just tack on the rest of the query suggested by drathbun, so it looks like this:

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SELECT * FROM phpbb_posts INNER JOIN phpbb_posts_text ON phpbb_posts.post_id = phpbb_posts_text.post_id 

inner join phpbb_topics on phpbb_posts.post_id = phpbb_topics.topic_first_post_id

WHERE phpbb_posts.forum_id = " . $forumid . " ORDER BY post_time DESC"
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Ah, thanks. That worked perfectly :)
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Hrm. Having done this. What is the best way of parsing the BBCode?
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Darfuria wrote: Hrm. Having done this. What is the best way of parsing the BBCode?


You can't unless your page is using the standard phpBB stuff up front, because bbcode uses the phpBB template system.
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How do you mean using it up front?
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The top of your php script has to look like this:

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<?php 
define('IN_PHPBB', true);
$phpbb_root_path = './'; 
include($phpbb_root_path . 'extension.inc'); 
include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.'.$phpEx); 
$userdata = session_pagestart($user_ip, PAGE_INDEX); 
init_userprefs($userdata);
Then you can also use the standard $db class to do your SQL.

You parse your message like this:

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include($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/bbcode.'.$phpEx);

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$message=bbencode_second_pass($message, $message_uid)
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A rather late reply to this, but I haven't had time to work on this particular project for quite a while.

I'm still attempting to write a news page which pulls posts from the forum database. Surely this must be quite a popular thing to do.

I'm still having problems parsing the BBCode. Any advise/pointers would be much appreciated.
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Darfuria wrote: I'm still having problems
Not very descriptive are we?
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Sorry, I meant to link to the page I was working on.

http://www.clanedge.co.uk/news2.php
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