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

[GroovyMAME]	MAME moving to c++20 by Recapnation	Today at 05:30:34 pm
[GroovyMAME]	GroovyMAME/ARCADE32/64 custom build by Recapnation	Today at 05:27:29 pm
[Buy/Sell/Trade - non-retail]	Arcade Parts Spinner Trackball UltraSticks by Tbills	Today at 10:40:48 am
[Miscellaneous Arcade Talk]	In over my head, need major help to finish or salvage control panel project by Xiaou2	Yesterday at 09:59:30 pm
[Audio/Jukebox/MP3 Forum]	Rowe CD100E software needed. Just the files, I can burn. by pinballvideojuke	Yesterday at 04:50:36 pm
[GroovyMAME]	RX 6400 and LG C5 Oled by cybermat	Yesterday at 03:01:53 pm
[GroovyMAME]	CRT Emudriver - Non emulated compatible games by Recapnation	Yesterday at 12:36:39 pm
[Monitor/Video Forum]	GreenAntz RGB to component transcoder by Zebidee	Yesterday at 02:42:06 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	48596	505042
Everything Else	13303	250323
Project Announcements	6558	198283
Software Forum	16094	130114
Buy/Sell/Trade - non-retail	17936	96753
Monitor/Video Forum	12485	88782
Consoles	4048	58101
Miscellaneous Arcade Talk	4140	46872
Artwork	5398	42277
GroovyMAME	2945	37460

	Views	Replies
DemulShooter (Dual light gun on DEMUL, Model2, Dolphin, Silent Hill, etc...)	2221398	3667
LEDBlinky - Arcade LED Control software and Animation Editor - v8.2	1269483	2093
Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards	1250046	2420
CNC Cut Bartop Kits - Orders Open! New Models Available!	1143038	2633
Control Panel Database: Post a picture of your Control Panel!	1079770	1042
PGA Tour Golf by Global VR & EA Sports Owners Thread	1056317	2775
hiscore diff (with no nag/white box removal)	1017220	1245
GUN4IR - The Ultimate 4 Points Lightgun System	897351	1130
Switchres: modeline generator engine	873609	1297
Mission Control Project: 5 years on, what to do with the leftovers?	870028	1809

	Views	Replies
DemulShooter (Dual light gun on DEMUL, Model2, Dolphin, Silent Hill, etc...)	2221398	3667
PGA Tour Golf by Global VR & EA Sports Owners Thread	1056317	2775
CNC Cut Bartop Kits - Orders Open! New Models Available!	1143038	2633
Soft-15KHz - slim new tool for 15KHz on normal vga cards	1250046	2420
LEDBlinky - Arcade LED Control software and Animation Editor - v8.2	1269483	2093
Re: NOT A PROJECT - Thread for Posting Images to Link in our project threads	727344	1944
Arcadeemulator.net, semi ann. clearance sale has begun look for the thread	624992	1917
WOW New LightGUN Info !!! Woot!!! :)	655992	1886
Mission Control Project: 5 years on, what to do with the leftovers?	870028	1809
Retro-Futuristic Mame cabinet	726053	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 VPNbotMr, 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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segagen89
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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7574 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: 56466
Total Posts: 1732476
Total Topics: 152663
Total Categories: 7
Total Boards: 47

News Function

Shows random forum news.

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<?php ssi_news(); ?>

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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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save states

April 23, 2026, 07:02:19 pm by spisi

So, just learned how to use the save state function. Loved it, went through both my stand-up and cocktail mame cabs and updated all my shortcuts to bypass those annoying startup screens that a lot of our favorite games have. Alas, there's always something..... The wife and I are playing Gyruss and out of nowhere she goes ballistic and puts up the high score.....she was so excited! Well, the excitement soon turned to disappointment when we re-launched to see if it actually saved.....it did not

. I was wondering why it didn't save, since the scoreboard had a bunch of our initials on it from previous battles

After some testing, I learned that starting the game with the "-savestate 1" prevents Gyruss from saving high scores...bummer! My question is: Will this apply to all games??? Or do I have to check and see each one individually?

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Solenoid control ideas

April 11, 2026, 09:57:47 pm by Bulliesrevival

I am redoing my skeeball machine, I'm going to be removing the original controls and boards. I'm trying to see what ideas people have to control this solenoid for the ball release. I believe it runs on the full 110v's but with that part removed I'm trying to come up with
A) a way to run 110v to it and control it with a 5v system.
B) a way to release the balls using only 5v
C) some other method I'm not aware of yet

Sent from my Pixel 9 Pro XL using Tapatalk

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Need an Oscars Controls Mouse Board for my spinner

April 02, 2026, 12:06:52 am by Justin

Hi all. Im hoping someone has an older leftover (not in use) Oscar Controls USB Mouse board to connect my Oscar Controls spinner to. By board went bad. Cant find these anymore.

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"Dragon Castle" game for USSR Arcade "Multitron" (1990-1991?)

March 09, 2026, 07:38:26 am by Ivan555

Hello everyone!
I'm new to the forum and need expert help.
I've been searching for the "Dragon Castle" game for the Soviet Multitron arcade machine for five years now.
This machine was manufactured by the Vilnius Calculating Machine Plant in 1990-1991. It was a late modification of the Soviet TIA-MC machine, but featured a single board, interchangeable ROM cartridges (like the NEO-GEO), and reduced sound. This machine also featured the already discovered "SOS" and "Fisherman Cat." There was also a game called "Dragon Castle," about which nothing is known.
The Multitron had a smooth, light green case.

The only visual confirmation is an interview with the machine's creator, Mikhail Safyan, and a magazine clipping. https://anatomyofarcades.tilda.ws/michail_safian
https://static.tildacdn.com/tild6438-3338-4631-b866-346265636637/04.jpg
On the left side with the houses is "Fisherman Cat," on the right screen of the machine is the sought-after game "Dragon Castle" (with trees, a forest, and a little man).

I'll also attach descriptions of the gameplay of "Dragon Castle" from eyewitnesses.

"Dragon Island is similar to The Little Humpbacked Horse, also a sidescroller with Pitfall-style missions, but we control Ivan on foot�the blond guy with the headband, apparently wearing a white Russian shirt, blue striped pants, and red boots. He wields a sword�for close-quarters combat like chopping off Gorynych's heads�and a bow. The long one knocks down birds and spiders, and has a jump and crouch. First, he walks through the forest. On the second screen, pine cones fall on him, birds drop apples, and spiders cast snowflakes. He reaches a cliff from which he must jump into a boat. He rows to an island, and along the way, other things rain down on him. On the island, he approaches a castle. A spider with a cross sits on the gate and casts snowflakes. He must shoot it down with his arrow in time. He passes through a castle with enemies, and at the end, the Dragon Gorynych spits fire at him across the screen like Bowser, and behind him stands the princess. He must jump over the fire and crouch, and upon reaching the Dragon, slash it with his sword.

Professional help is desperately needed!

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I-Pac4 Help: Hybrid mode? Xinput+Keyboard

March 05, 2026, 09:13:54 pm by smileyhowler

Hey All!
I'm working on my first build; mostly done but working on making it as user friendly as possible. I have 4 player pedestal: P1/2 have 7 buttons & P3/4 have 6 buttons. I have 4 'admin' buttons. I'm using an I-pac4 on Firmware 1.56 and have been switching between Mode 1 (keyboard) and Mode 3 (Xinput) and seeing what works best for our setup. I'm a big fan of Mode 3 because this allows for not only arcade emulation but also playing some arcade style windows programs; think Cuphead and TMNT Shredder's Revenge. I've been scouring the interwebs trying to find an answer on how to accomplish this. I've heard (remember it's the internet) that it is possible to use the I-pac4 in xinput mode but still have some buttons mapped to keyboard buttons. The 4 admin buttons are wired to P3/4 buttons 7 and 8. I've found workarounds through scripts in Launch/BigBox but it does not hold up for every emulator and/or game. Would love to have these 4 buttons mapped to Esc, P, F1, etc.

Is this possible or am I dreaming?

I'm trying to stay away from x360ce and keyboard2xinput; trying to keep it simple and I've run into issues trying those out. If this is not possible with the I-pac4 I'm certainly open to other suggestions.

Appreciate any insight!

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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
GreenAntz20_proto_PWR3.jpg	Zebidee	77	179.1kB
GreenAntz20_proto_PWR2.jpg	Zebidee	73	710kB
GreenAntz20_prototypes.jpg	Zebidee	75	340.07kB
004.jpg	Ond	134	613.78kB
005.jpg	Ond	157	772.18kB
pinbot.jpg	Ond	142	762.79kB
attack_from_mars.jpg	Ond	154	713.82kB
sfa3logfullscreen.txt	Sarda	11	28.29kB
IMG_20260424_092135.jpg	danny_galaga	32	2282.87kB
20260413_100857.jpg	Ond	234	628.6kB

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>

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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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