News Fader: NEWS FROM A BOARD

[Wormopolis]

Browser tested: IE and FF
Placement: Main Footer

Pulls last post info from a specific board and adds to News Fader Scroller.


<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
//  pull latest post from a board  v1.2
// by Wormopolis

 var board_name='(announce|shouts|special)';   //edit board name here
 var msg_title = "LATEST NEWS:";  //edit the top of announcement
 var linkable_board=true;  //make thread title a link to thread
 // dont need to edit below unless you want to change how it works

 if (!location.href.match(/action=/i)) {
   var hmm = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
   for (i=0; i<hmm.length; i++) {
     if (hmm[i].href.match(new RegExp("board="+board_name,'i'))&& !hmm[i].parentNode.innerHTML.match(/onclick/i) && hmm[i].parentNode.parentNode.width=='24%') {
       var msg_a= hmm[i].parentNode.innerHTML;
       var msg_time=msg_a.split(/\<br/i)[0];
       var msg_auth=msg_a.split(/by /i)[1].split(/\<br/i)[0];
       tmp=document.createElement('div');  tmp.appendChild(hmm[i].cloneNode(true));
       var msg = (linkable_board ? tmp.innerHTML : hmm[i].innerHTML);
       var msg_final = msg_title + "<br>"+msg+"<br>"+msg_time+" by "+msg_auth;
       var fscroll = document.getElementById("fscroller");
       if (fscroll) fContent[fContent.length]=msg_final;
       fscroll.parentNode.height=100;
       fscroll.style.valign="middle";
     }
   }
 }

// -->
</script>




Preview: (Ill get this soon)

[Wormopolis]

edited to accomodate multiple boards