Here is how I configured the custom block:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=154027&stc=1&d=1452925677
And this is the "Content":
global $vbulletin, $db;
require_once('./includes/functions_user.php');
require_once('./includes/class_bbcode.php');
$bbcode_parser = new vB_BbCodeParser($vbulletin, fetch_tag_list());
$number_of_posts = 5;
$post_length = 25;
$output = '<ul class="restore">';
$recent_posts = $vbulletin->db->query_read("
SELECT post.*, thread.title, thread.forumid
FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "post AS post
INNER JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread AS thread
ON thread.threadid = post.threadid
ORDER BY post.dateline DESC
");
$pcount = 0;
while ($tpost = $db->fetch_array($recent_posts) AND $pcount < $number_of_posts)
{
if (($vbulletin->userinfo['forumpermissions'][$tpost['forumid']] & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_forumpermissions['canview']) AND (($tpost['visible'] == 1) OR can_moderate($tpost['forumid'])))
{
$pcount++;
$avatar_url = fetch_avatar_url($tpost['userid']);
$avatar = $avatar_url[0];
if (!$avatar)
{
$avatar = './images/misc/unknown.gif';
}
$tpost['title'] = fetch_censored_text($tpost['title']);
$tpost['pagetext'] = $bbcode_parser->parse($tpost['pagetext'], $tpost['forumid'], $tpost['allowsmilie']);
$tpost['pagetext'] = html_entity_decode($tpost['pagetext']);
$tpost['pagetext'] = Html::trim($tpost['pagetext'], $post_length);
$output .= '<li class="avatarcontent floatcontainer widget_post_bit">';
$output .= '<div class="widget_post_userinfo">';
$output .= '<div class="cms_widget_post_useravatar widget_post_useravatar">';
$output .= '<a class="smallavatar comments_member_avatar_link" href="member.php?' . $tpost['userid'] . '-' . $tpost['username'] . '">';
$output .= '<img alt="' . $tpost['username'] . '" src="' . $avatar . '" title="' . $tpost['username'] . '">';
$output .= '</a></div></div>';
$output .= '<div class="smallavatartext widget_post_comment">';
$output .= '<p class="widget_post_content">';
$output .= $tpost['pagetext'];
$output .= '</p><h5 class="widget_post_header">';
$output .= '<a class="title" href="showthread.php?' . $tpost['threadid'] . '-' . str_replace(' ', '-', $tpost['title']) . '&p=' . $tpost['postid'] . '#post' . $tpost['postid'] . '">' . $tpost['title'] . '</a>';
$output .= '</h5><div class="meta">';
$output .= vbdate($vbulletin->options['dateformat'], $tpost['dateline'], 1) . ',';
$output .= '<span class="time">';
$output .= vbdate($vbulletin->options['timeformat'], $tpost['dateline']);
$output .= '</span><br></div></div></li>';
}
}
unset ($recent_posts);
$output .= '</ul>';
return $output;
class Html{
protected
$reachedLimit = false,
$totalLen = 0,
$maxLen = 25,
$toRemove = array();
public static function trim($html, $maxLen = 25){
$dom = new DomDocument();
$dom->loadHTML($html);
$html = new static();
$toRemove = $html->walk($dom, $maxLen);
// remove any nodes that passed our limit
foreach($toRemove as $child)
$child->parentNode->removeChild($child);
// remove wrapper tags added by DD (doctype, html...)
if(version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '5.3.6') < 0){
// http://stackoverflow.com/a/6953808/1058140
$dom->removeChild($dom->firstChild);
$dom->replaceChild($dom->firstChild->firstChild->firstChild, $dom->firstChild);
return $dom->saveHTML();
}
return $dom->saveHTML($dom->getElementsByTagName('body')->item(0));
}
protected function walk(DomNode $node, $maxLen){
if($this->reachedLimit){
$this->toRemove[] = $node;
}else{
// only text nodes should have text,
// so do the splitting here
if($node instanceof DomText){
$this->totalLen += $nodeLen = strlen($node->nodeValue);
// use mb_strlen / mb_substr for UTF-8 support
if($this->totalLen > $maxLen){
$node->nodeValue = substr($node->nodeValue, 0, $nodeLen - ($this->totalLen - $maxLen)) . '...';
$this->reachedLimit = true;
}
}
// if node has children, walk its child elements
if(isset($node->childNodes))
foreach($node->childNodes as $child)
$this->walk($child, $maxLen);
}
return $this->toRemove;
}
}
Near the top, you can control how many posts a user will see, and how many characters of the post will be displayed, by altering these two lines:
$number_of_posts = 5;
$post_length = 25;
Users will only see posts they have permission to see. Give this a try and let me know how it works for you. :)
Note: You must have PHP version 5.3 or higher in order for this to work.