UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums UBB.threads 6 Version 6 Support What are Content Islands?

Am I the only one that doesn't know what a Content Island is? The UBB.T manual (page 23) introduces the subject like everyone knows all about Conent Islands. There is no explanation of what a CI is, or why I might want to implement this feature.

A search of the UBB.T forums doesn't produce anything useful, and a Google search finds other people's Infopop CI's.

So, would someone kindly point me to a place where I can learn more about this feature?

Thanks!

Content Island is a way to pull out informations from UUBt and use them on a homepage. You can pull postings, topics (posting headlines), recent visitors and latest registered and approved users.

Ubbt will allow you to use several formats to do this: HTML as a Javascript file, HTML as a SSI or PHP include or RSS Newsfeed.

For siteintegration you can use includes but you have to notice something: several provider block the php include for safety of the server. To use SSI (Server side include) you need to have a .shtml webpage. The best way seems to be the java include but this can cause trouble with some browsers on the user frontend if they block java.

The use of RSS feeds inside threads is real easy. Opera and Firefox can use RSS by itself. To provide content as a feed you can simple put in a line in your UBB headerinclude like this example:
2_rss20.xml is CI #2 and this is setup in the control panel for display the latest 10 postings of my news board. It's easy, try it.

Hope this helps a little bit.