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Last X Blogs as cached front page 1.1.2
Mod Version: 1.1.2, by cad2go

Last X Blog Posts as Home Page (Or any page)

This mod simply produces a cached page with the last 5(or however any you want) blogs posted at your site. It's ideal if you have a forum at http://www.yourdomain.com/forum and want a simple blog front page at http://www.yourdomain.com

It supports showing avatar only IF they are held within the filesystem. I recommend you change this if you want to use this mod. In fact, I recommend using the filesystem for all images regardless of whether you use this mod or not.

Features:
*Last 5 Blogs
*Smilies/Images and all bbcode
*Avatars
*Tags
*Categories
*AME 2.5 - Media Embedding for posts, sigs, vm's, groups and blogs fully supported
*Three queries! (Per hour if you want!)
*No file or db changes
*Digg Proof
*Free!

To Install:

1. First create a writeable directory for the cache file with appropriate permissions (usually chmod the directory to 777)
2. Open index2.php [attached]

Edit the following:

$numblogs=5; //NUMBER OF BLOGS SHOWN
$cachetime=60; //HOW LONG (IN SECONDS) BETWEEN CALLS TO THE DATABASE TO CHECK FOR UPDATED CONTENT

$forumpath = '/var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/httpdocs/forum'; //no trailing slashes!
$cachepath = '/var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/cache';// no trailing slashes and writable!
These are the paths on your server NOT the web addresses.

Next edit:
$wwwavatarpath = '/forum/customavatars'; //no trailing slashes
$wwwforumpath = '/forum'; //no trailing slashes

These are relative paths so if your forums are at http://www.mydomain.com/forums then $wwwforumpath would be '/forums'

3. Upload index.php to your domain (http://www.yourdomain.com) and style.css to (yourdomain.com/styles)

4. Go to http://www.yourdomain.com in any browser and marvel at the glory of your new front page blogs

Demo:
http://www.rletc.com/index2.php

Next Steps:
Here's one I've added a header to
http://www.rletc.com/index_rletc.php

Feel free to mess around with the css to achieve whatever look you want. It's also not a problem renaming index2.php to blogfront.php or index.php if you want to retain an existing php file.

Have Fun!

Note: I plan to give minimal support but am available for custom solutions.

AFAIK this will work with any vbblog that supports tags even if it's running on 3.7.x

Update History:
Last5blogs.zip - 1st beta
last_x_blogs-1.1.zip : Added category support, minor fixes, added vb prefixes to tag queries, number of blogs and cachetime as variables.
last_x.blogs-1.2.zip : Fixed css, repackaged zip (index called index2.php to avoid over writing)