Anyone have an iframe code to display recent posts/replies on a non XF site?

drastic · May 5, 2020

We use a different script (not WP) for our homepage and XF as our forum.

I'd like to use either an iframe or something else to display the recent posts/replies on our frontend.

Anyone have something to do this?

I think it could help our front-end readers see the activity and get engaged.

Thanks!

djbaxter · May 5, 2020

Maybe an RSS feed?

drastic · May 10, 2020

djbaxter said:
Maybe an RSS feed?

I need a stanalone code to display this in my other script's ad block....

cwe · May 10, 2020

XF already creates an RSS feed of latest threads/posts. You just need an RSS reader script to read the feed and display it in your home page ad block. Have a look at CaRP:

Free PHP RSS Parser / RSS to HTML Converter | CaRP Evolution

www.geckotribe.com

Mr Lucky · May 10, 2020

I would do this , as mentioned by others, with RSS feed.

However there is a bit of a workaround that I think might work. But don't blame me if not and be backed up before doing it.

Create a new style
edit the page_container template for that style so its stripped right down to just showing the contents of the widget
Create a page node with the whats new widget.
Give that page node a style override with the new style you created
Then use the URL of that page node in your iframe.

EDIT:

Page_container could be as simple as this

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html >
<head>
<base href="your_domain/" target="_PARENT">
</head>
<body>
{$content|raw}
</body>
</html>

This will not use your site's CSS, to do that add <xf:macro template="helper_js_global" name="head" arg-app="public" /> into the <head>

Mr Lucky · May 10, 2020

But I just found that xenforo seems to have X-Frame-Options blocked by deault, so you'd need to find out where to disable that

EDIT:

config.php

Code:

$config['enableClickjackingProtection'] = false;

drastic · May 18, 2020

Good info so far and appreciate it.

We have a custom script/homepage that doesn't use XF and we are struggling big time to get readers INTO the forum. I'm thinking that readers need to SEE the activity on our front-end to see what they're missing, because trying to convince them to "join" or "chat" in the forums hasn't worked in at least a year.

I have failed a LOT at growing a forum...

Mr Lucky · May 18, 2020

drastic said:
I'm thinking that readers need to SEE the activity on our front-end to see what they're missing, because trying to convince them to "join" or "chat" in the forums hasn't worked in at least a year.

In that case the simplest is an RSS feed, but as mentioned you can also use an iframe.

I have feeds from my forum onto my other site, and it works very well and is much simpler than setting up an iframe that shows just the posts.

See:

Latest Posts at Cafe Saxophone

RSS feed from Cafe saxophone -all the good saxophone news and debate

tamingthesaxophone.com

Here there are multiple feeds from various different forums/subforums

djbaxter · May 18, 2020

Mr Lucky said:
In that case the simplest is an RSS feed, but as mentioned you can also use an iframe.

I have feeds from my forum onto my other site, and it works very well and is much simpler than setting up an iframe that shows just the posts.

See:

Latest Posts at Cafe Saxophone

RSS feed from Cafe saxophone -all the good saxophone news and debate

tamingthesaxophone.com

Here there are multiple feeds from various different forums/subforums

Agreed. That's what I suggested earlier: