SMF 2.0 SSI.php Examples

Recent Topics Function

Code (simple mode)

<?php ssi_recentTopics(); ?>

Code (advanced mode)

<?php ssi_recentTopics($num_recent = 8, $exclude_boards = null, $include_boards = null, $output_method = 'echo'); ?>

Result

[Lightguns]	DemulShooter (Dual light gun on DEMUL, Model2, Dolphin, Silent Hill, etc...) by argonlefou	Yesterday at 06:16:12 pm
[Monitor/Video Forum]	GreenAntz RGB to component transcoder by Zebidee	Yesterday at 11:47:24 am
[Project Announcements]	NOT A PROJECT V - Thread for Posting Images to Link in our project threads by Zebidee	June 15, 2026, 10:25:05 pm
[Lightguns]	[TESTING] OpenFIRE ESP32 v6.2-beta2: True Wireless Lightgun Firmware (Zero Lag) by Alessandro Satanassi	June 15, 2026, 08:29:23 pm
[Lightguns]	[LIGHTGUN] OpenFIRE ESP32 Firmware (Stable) - PICON-AS Battery-Powered Wireless by Alessandro Satanassi	June 15, 2026, 08:25:11 pm
[Software Forum]	Wheel2XInput, designed for mapping wheel and wheel accessories to XInput by robertdeniro22	June 14, 2026, 12:55:30 am
[Audio/Jukebox/MP3 Forum]	Rowe R-86 sprag issue: magazine doesn't latch, sometimes by kevinrontel	June 13, 2026, 02:49:30 pm
[MaLa Frontend]	malafe.net Website & latest Mala FE news by Joaquim2020	June 13, 2026, 10:48:56 am

Recent Poll Function

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<?php ssi_recentPoll(); ?>

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Top Boards Function

Shows top boards by the number of posts.

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<?php ssi_topBoards(); ?>

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Board	Topics	Posts
Main Forum	48606	505103
Everything Else	13303	250327
Project Announcements	6560	198330
Software Forum	16096	130125
Buy/Sell/Trade - non-retail	17939	96761
Monitor/Video Forum	12488	88826
Consoles	4048	58101
Miscellaneous Arcade Talk	4140	46873
Artwork	5398	42277
GroovyMAME	2951	37520

	Views	Replies
DemulShooter (Dual light gun on DEMUL, Model2, Dolphin, Silent Hill, etc...)	2723041	3680
LEDBlinky - Arcade LED Control software and Animation Editor - v8.2	1474738	2094
Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards	1386220	2420
CNC Cut Bartop Kits - Orders Open! New Models Available!	1348059	2633
Control Panel Database: Post a picture of your Control Panel!	1230146	1042
PGA Tour Golf by Global VR & EA Sports Owners Thread	1169599	2775
hiscore diff (with no nag/white box removal)	1143424	1245
GUN4IR - The Ultimate 4 Points Lightgun System	1095138	1130
Switchres: modeline generator engine	1060508	1297
Mission Control Project: 5 years on, what to do with the leftovers?	1022437	1809

	Views	Replies
DemulShooter (Dual light gun on DEMUL, Model2, Dolphin, Silent Hill, etc...)	2723041	3680
PGA Tour Golf by Global VR & EA Sports Owners Thread	1169599	2775
CNC Cut Bartop Kits - Orders Open! New Models Available!	1348059	2633
Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards	1386220	2420
LEDBlinky - Arcade LED Control software and Animation Editor - v8.2	1474738	2094
Re: NOT A PROJECT - Thread for Posting Images to Link in our project threads	842699	1944
Arcadeemulator.net, semi ann. clearance sale has begun look for the thread	689066	1917
WOW New LightGUN Info !!! Woot!!! :)	708273	1886
Mission Control Project: 5 years on, what to do with the leftovers?	1022437	1809
Retro-Futuristic Mame cabinet	790288	1749

Top Poll Function

Shows the most-voted-in poll.

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<?php ssi_topPoll(); ?>

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Latest Member Function

Shows the latest member's name and profile link.

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<?php ssi_latestMember(); ?>

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Please welcome Musashi80, our newest member.

Member of the Day

Shows one random member of the day. This changes once a day.

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<?php ssi_randomMember('day'); ?>

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carteyroovu
I want to build my own arcade controls!

Log Online Presence

This function logs the SSI page's visitor, then shows the Who's Online list. In other words, this function shows who are online inside and outside the forum.

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<?php ssi_logOnline(); ?>

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9527 Guests, 0 Users

Login Function

Shows a login box only when user is not logged in.

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<?php ssi_login(); ?>

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Logout Function

Shows a logout link only when user is logged in.

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<?php ssi_logout(); ?>

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Welcome Function

Greets users or guests, also shows user's messages if logged in.

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<?php ssi_welcome(); ?>

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Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?

Today's Calendar Function

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<?php ssi_todaysCalendar(); ?>

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Today's Birthdays Function

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<?php ssi_todaysBirthdays(); ?>

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Today's Holidays Function

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<?php ssi_todaysHolidays(); ?>

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Today's Events Function

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<?php ssi_todaysEvents(); ?>

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Recent Calendar Events Function

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<?php ssi_recentEvents(); ?>

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Forum Stats

Shows some basic forum stats: total members, posts, topics, boards, etc.

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<?php ssi_boardStats(); ?>

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Total Members: 56505
Total Posts: 1732756
Total Topics: 152702
Total Categories: 7
Total Boards: 47

News Function

Shows random forum news.

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<?php ssi_news(); ?>

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In 2027, BYOAC hits 30 years old. It started in 1997. It has cost saint somewhere between $25,000-$30,000 to host in its lifespan.

Board News Function

Shows the latest posts from read only boards, or a specific board.

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<?php ssi_boardNews(); ?>

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LEDBlinky issues freezes in CoinOps

June 06, 2026, 03:30:30 pm by jlcpremier

I just got a Ultimarc Pac Drive board and set up LEDBlinky (trial version for now) When CoinOps starts the buttons light up and animate for a few seconds, then freeze. If I launch a game though, the buttons used will light up correctly. Exiting out of the game the same stuck buttons light up in CoinOps FE. If I exit CoinOps I get an error from LEDBlinky.

Any idea how to fix this?

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Cloning a Golden Tee 2025 spring drive to ssd

June 05, 2026, 09:53:28 am by ericb215

Hello,

I have made several attempts to clone a spinning hard drive to SSD with no luck. I have tried R Disk Image, Macrium, Disk Genius. I have read the raw copy is the best, but I am having a difficult time with it since the source drive is 500gb and my target is 128gb. Golden Tee only uses about 55gb of space. Has anyone done this recently, any tips?

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New mame build, need to power monitor help??

June 03, 2026, 09:53:55 pm by excaliburlives

Hello, i'm making a new mame build from an empty gutted arcade 1up cab. I already built the pc and want to install a a 23" acer monitor that runs off a 12V power supply. Can i just tap into a 12v rail on my pc's PSu and get abarrel connector to power ir? I'm thinking i might mess something up. I'm afraid of the amps not the volts. Is this possible anybody? Looking for an expeert in this sort of thing. Thnaks for any help or advice i can get.

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Upgrading current single LED buttons to RGB and control

May 28, 2026, 05:45:43 pm by jlcpremier

I have a standard 2 player controller setup with 6 buttons per player, plus start/select and 4 admin buttons, all are static lit by the encoder board when the PC is on.

I only really care about controlling the 8 buttons per player and just leaving the admin buttons static so a Pac64 LED should be all I need from a LED control standpoint and then I�m planning to use LEDBlinky with the latest CoinOps ARISE build. This should work with that right? I�m currently using a single 2P encoder board from Amazon but my concern is the potential for the ports to change between the input board and LED control board. In which case maybe the iPac Ultimate would ensure that isn�t an issue. Is there a different option for a controller I can use? My buttons currently have labels for A,B,C etc so which RGB buttons would allow me to retain use of those?

Really just looking for the most economical way to accomplish this. Thanks!

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Looking for a few MAME bezels in this style. Anyone have any they would share?

May 23, 2026, 08:07:21 pm by killbill

Hey Everyone,
I have been looking for a couple of generic MAME bezels (horizonal and vertical) that maximize top and bottom of screen and have a black semi realististic looking bezel on the sides. Something like the ones I've attached. They are from TR Old School Gamer on Youtube from his videos. I reached out to him about them but he never got back to me.
Does anyone have any bezels in this style they could share?

Thanks.

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Menubar Function

Displays a menu bar, like one displayed at the top of the forum.

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<?php ssi_menubar(); ?>

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Quick Search Function

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<?php ssi_quickSearch(); ?>

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Recent Attachments Function

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<?php ssi_recentAttachments(); ?>

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File	Posted by	Downloads	Filesize
Debug_2026-06-16_12-07-43.txt	Musashi80	3	7.48kB
sync_comparisons.jpg	Zebidee	111	149.23kB
syncchipunder.jpg	Zebidee	88	135.69kB
syncchipmount.jpg	Zebidee	104	181.6kB
syncchipclose.jpg	Zebidee	96	205.71kB
syncccircuitproto2_close.jpg	Zebidee	82	212.65kB
syncccircuitproto2-2.jpg	Zebidee	56	247.63kB
Case-01.jpg	Ond	63	45.7kB
668804671.jpg	Joaquim2020	55	192.85kB
olx_image_2026-03-09_19-47-36.jpg	Joaquim2020	58	93.13kB

Show Single Poll

Shows a poll in the specified topic.

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<?php ssi_showPoll($topicID); ?>

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Not shown because it needs specific topic ID that contains a poll.

Show Single Post

Fetches a post with a particular IDs. By default will only show if you have permission to the see the board in question. This can be overriden by passing the 2nd parameter as true.

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<?php ssi_fetchPosts($postIDs, $isOverride); ?>

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Not shown because it needs a specific post ID.

Show Single Member

Shows the specified member's name and profile link.

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<?php ssi_fetchMember($memberIDs); ?>

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Not shown because it needs a specific member ID.

Show Group Members

Shows all members in a specified group.

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<?php ssi_fetchGroupMembers($groupIDs); ?>

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Not shown because it needs specific membergroup IDs.

Home Page Sample

This sample uses the following features: ssi_recentTopics(), ssi_logOnline(), ssi_welcome(), and ssi_boardNews(). ssi_recentTopics() is fetched using the array method, to allow further customizations on the output.

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<?php require("SSI.php"); ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
	<title>SSI.php example for home page</title>
	<style type="text/css">
		body { font-family: Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 80%; background: #DFDFDF; color: #FFFFFF; margin: 0 }
		ul,ol { padding-left: 19px; margin: 0; }
		li { font-size: 11px; }
		h1,h2,h3 { margin: 0; padding: 0; }
		h3 { font-size: 15px; }
		a:link,a:visited { color: #FF9000; text-decoration: none; }
		a:hover { text-decoration: underline; }

		#container { background: #52514E; width: 100%; border: 1px solid midnightblue; line-height: 150%; margin: 0; }
		#header,#footer { color: lightgray; background-color: #2A2825; clear: both; padding: .5em; }
		#leftbar { background: #DF7E00; float: left; width: 160px; margin: 0; padding: 1em; }
		#leftbar a { color: #000000; text-decoration: underline; }
		#content { margin-left: 190px; padding: 1em; }
		#navigation { float: right; }
		#navigation a:link,#navigation a:visited { color: #FF9000; }
	</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
	<div id="header">
		<div id="navigation">
			<a href="#">Link</a> | <a href="#">Link</a> | <a href="#">Link</a> | <a href="#">Link</a> | <a href="#">Link</a>
		</div>
		<h1 class="header">YourWebsite.com</h1>
	</div>
	<div id="leftbar">
		<h3>Recent Forum Topics</h3>
		<ul>
<?php
// Using array method to show shorter display style.
$topics = ssi_recentTopics(8, null, null, 'array');

foreach ($topics as $topic)
{
	// Uncomment the following code to get a listing of array elements that SMF provides for this function.
	// echo '<pre>', print_r($topic), '</pre>';

	echo '
			<li><a href=\"', $topic['href'], '\">', $topic['subject'], '</a> ', $txt['by'], ' ', $topics[$i]['poster']['link'], '</li>';
}

unset($topics);
?>
		</ul><br />
		<h3>Online Users</h3>
		<?php ssi_logOnline(); ?>
	</div>
	<div id="content">
		<?php ssi_welcome(); ?><br /><br />
		<h2>News</h2>
		<?php ssi_boardNews(); ?>
	</div>
	<div id="footer">
		<a target="_blank" rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/publicdomain/88x31.png" /></a>
		This sample website layout is dedicated to the <a target="_blank" rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/">Public Domain</a>.
	</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

[Lightguns]	Re: DemulShooter (Dual light gun on DEMUL, Model2, Dolphin, Silent Hill, etc...) by argonlefou	Yesterday at 06:16:12 pm
[Lightguns]	Re: DemulShooter (Dual light gun on DEMUL, Model2, Dolphin, Silent Hill, etc...) by Musashi80	Yesterday at 05:30:36 pm
[Lightguns]	Re: DemulShooter (Dual light gun on DEMUL, Model2, Dolphin, Silent Hill, etc...) by argonlefou	Yesterday at 04:56:03 pm
[Lightguns]	Re: DemulShooter (Dual light gun on DEMUL, Model2, Dolphin, Silent Hill, etc...) by Musashi80	Yesterday at 02:05:34 pm
[Lightguns]	Re: DemulShooter (Dual light gun on DEMUL, Model2, Dolphin, Silent Hill, etc...) by argonlefou	Yesterday at 12:37:43 pm
[Monitor/Video Forum]	Re: GreenAntz RGB to component transcoder by Zebidee	Yesterday at 11:47:24 am
[Project Announcements]	Re: NOT A PROJECT V - Thread for Posting Images to Link in our project threads by Zebidee	June 15, 2026, 10:25:05 pm
[Monitor/Video Forum]	Re: GreenAntz RGB to component transcoder by Zebidee	June 15, 2026, 10:13:37 pm

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Recent Topics Function

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Recent Posts Function

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Recent Poll Function

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Top Boards Function

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Top Topics

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Top Poll Function

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Top Poster Function

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Latest Member Function

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Member of the Day

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Who's Online Function

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Log Online Presence

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Login Function

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Logout Function

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Welcome Function

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Today's Calendar Function

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Today's Birthdays Function

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Today's Holidays Function

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Today's Events Function

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Recent Calendar Events Function

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Forum Stats

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News Function

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