Coding Examples

This part of the website shall help you by giving you example codes to try out and to use within your own project. There is a great variety of examples. From one-liners to small/great projects.If you have a code example yourself, feel free to contact me, so I can put it into this very example site.
Code examples are grouped by topics (such as posts or users).

Examples: Threads

Following code examples are associated to threads of your board.

closeThread

- No example yet

createThread

Example 1:

$data = array(
    'fid' => 11,
    'subject' => 'New Thread',
    'uid' => $MyBBI->mybb->user['uid'],
    'username' => $MyBBI->mybb->user['username'],
    'ipaddress' => get_ip(),
    'message' => 'This is a supercool message'
);
$create = $MyBBI->createThread($data);
print_r($create); 

getBusyThreadsWithinTimespan

Example 1:

/**
 * This example is taken from my testing board
 * Parameter of function is "86400" (= 24 hours) by default
*/
$busy_threads = $MyBBI->getBusyThreadsWithinTimespan();
echo '<pre>'; print_r($busy_threads); echo '</pre>';

// Now here is an example output, where you can see the structure of the returned array

/*
Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [tid] => 2
            [fid] => 5
            [subject] => Testing
            [uid] => 1
            [username] => admin
            [lastpost] => 1243545630
            [lastposter] => admin
            [lastposteruid] => 1
            [views] => 4
            [replies] => 3
            [postamount] => 2
            [posts] => Array
                (
                    [0] => Array
                        (
                            [pid] => 5
                            [message] => omg lets make this one busy?!
                            [uid] => 1
                            [username] => admin
                            [dateline] => 1243545630
                        )

                    [1] => Array
                        (
                            [pid] => 4
                            [message] => hey hey hey
                            [uid] => 1
                            [username] => admin
                            [dateline] => 1243545623
                        )

                )

        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [tid] => 1
            [fid] => 11
            [subject] => New Dynamic Thread
            [uid] => 1
            [username] => admin
            [lastpost] => 1243545836
            [lastposter] => admin
            [lastposteruid] => 1
            [views] => 3
            [replies] => 1
            [postamount] => 1
            [posts] => Array
                (
                    [0] => Array
                        (
                            [pid] => 6
                            [message] => Now what is this - BUSY
                            [uid] => 1
                            [username] => admin
                            [dateline] => 1243545836
                        )

                )

        )

)
*/ 

getLatestActiveThreads

Example 1:

// Following code fetches the latest active threads and shows the thread titles
$latest_active_threads = $MyBBI->getLatestActiveThreads(2, 5, true);
foreach ($latest_active_threads as $latest_active_thread)
{
    echo $latest_active_thread['subject'].'<br />';
} 

getLatestThreads

Example 1:

// Following code fetches latest threads from the forums 4, 6 and 12
$forums = array('4', '6', '12');
$fields = 't.`tid`, t.`fid`, t.`subject`, t.`uid`, t.`username`, t.`dateline`, t.`views`, t.`replies`, t.`numratings`, t.`totalratings`'
$latest_threads = $MyBBI->getLatestThreads($forums, $fields, 5, true, true, false);
foreach ($latest_threads as $latest_thread)
{
    echo $latest_thread['subject'].'<br />';
} 

getThread

Example 1:

$thread = $MyBBI->getThread(1);
print_r($thread); // Output of thread data 

getUnreadThreadsOfForum

- No example yet

getThreads

Example 1:

/**
 * Following code returns the threads of two forums having replies
 * Threads are ordered alphabetically
*/
$forums = array(5, 6);
$query_options = array(
    'order_by' => 't.subject',
    'order_dir' => 'ASC'
);
$threads = $MyBBI->getThreads($forums, '*', 't.replies > 0', $query_options, true, true, false);
foreach ($threads as $thread)
{
    echo $thread['subject'].'<br />';
} 

incViews

Example 1:

$MyBBI->incViews(2); 

openThread

- No example yet

removeThread

- No example yet

updateThread

- No example yet