[HACK] Most Recent Comments

Name: Latest Comments List
Author: BadDog
Updated by: Flexer
CuteNews Compatibility: 1.3.6 - * (no incompatibility reported yet)
Description: This will list the latest x number of comments made. This doesn't take post order in account, only the posting date of all comments.
Requirements: This original version has some problems when used with php5. So only use this when you have php 4 or lower.
Download: get the file here
Instructions:
Make a file with the following code in it. Don't forget to change the variables at the beginning of the file.
<div class='codetop'>CODE</div><div class='codemain' style='height:200px;white-space:pre;overflow:auto'><?php
/* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Update of Georgi Avramov's latest_comments.php by BadDog
Made more campatiable for CN 1.4 and also to include
title of the news for which the comment belongs to make it
usable in a sidebar.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ */
//absolute path to cutenews
$mPath = "C:/httpd/htdocs/cutenews";

//number of latest comments to show
if(!isset($comments_number)) $comments_number = 5;

//URL to where you include your news, example: http://site.com/news.php
$site_url = 'http://127.0.0.1/index.php';

//more help on the format: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
$date_format = 'd M y';

//can use: {url}, {name}, {date}, {comment}, {ip}, {mail}, {newsid}, {comid}, {title}
$ctemplate = ' {title}  by {name}
';

    $latest_comments = array_fill(1, $comments_number, array('newsid'=>'0','comid'=>'0','name'=>'','mail'=>'','ip'=>'','comment'=>''));

    function check_latest_comment($comment_line, $newsid){
        global $latest_comments;
        $tmp_latest_comments = $latest_comments;
        $comment_arr = explode("|", $comment_line);
        foreach($latest_comments as $key=>$latest_comment){

            if($latest_comment['comid'] < $comment_arr[0]){

                $previous = $latest_comments[$key];
                foreach($latest_comments as $my_key=>$latest_comment_arr){
                    if($key < $my_key){
                     $current = $latest_comments[$my_key];
                     $latest_comments[$my_key] = $previous;
                     $previous = $current;
                    }
                }

                $latest_comments[$key] = array(
                                       'newsid'    => $newsid,
                                       'comid'    => $comment_arr[0],
                                       'name'    => $comment_arr[1],
                                       'mail'    => $comment_arr[2],
                                       'ip'    => $comment_arr[3],
                                       'comment'=> $comment_arr[4],
                          );
            }
        }
    }

   $all_comments = file("$mPath/data/comments.txt");
    foreach($all_comments as $comment_line)
    {

  $comment_line_arr = explode("|>|", $comment_line);
        $newsid = $comment_line_arr[0];
        $comment_arr = explode("||", $comment_line_arr[1]);
  foreach($comment_arr as $single_comment)
  {
            check_latest_comment($single_comment, $newsid);
  }
    }

    foreach($latest_comments as $comment){
  $output = $ctemplate;

          if ($comment['name']){

          $title = get_title($comment['newsid'], $mPath); //make sure path is passed to prevent open errors
 
     $output = str_replace("{url}", $site_url."?subaction=showcomments&id={newsid}#{comid}", $output);
     $output = str_replace("{name}", $comment['name'], $output);
     $output = str_replace("{title}", $title, $output);
     $output = str_replace("{mail}", $comment['mail'], $output);
     $output = str_replace("{ip}", $comment['ip'], $output);
     $output = str_replace("{comment}", $comment['comment'], $output);
     $output = str_replace("{date}", date($date_format, $comment['comid']), $output);
     $output = str_replace("{newsid}", $comment['newsid'], $output);
     $output = str_replace("{comid}", $comment['comid'], $output);
          echo $output . "\n";
          }
}

function get_title($id, $mPath){
   
       $all_news = file("$mPath/data/news.txt");
       foreach ($all_news as $news) {
       $news_arr = explode("|", $news);
    if ($news_arr[0] == "$id") {
       $title = $news_arr[2];
       }
       }
     $title = ereg_replace("<[^>]*>","",$title); // incase there is html tags
     $title = str_stop($title, 40); // keep the title length under 40 chars, edit to taste
     return $title;
}

function str_stop($string, $max_length){
     if (strlen($string) > $max_length){
         $string = substr($string, 0, $max_length);
         $pos = strrpos($string, " ");
     if ($pos === false) {
          return substr($string, 0, $max_length)."...";
        }
          return substr($string, 0, $pos)."...";
        }else{
          return $string;
        }
}
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