Hi Afterburner,
your hack works awesome on our forums, just two questions:

Any chance to get an "update 'last thread title'" feature and a correct handling of special chars like " (instead of "

I have no idea if this is hard to do, that's why I am asking...
Thanks,
-Tom

I know the problem and will fix it as soon as possible but no time at the moment to do this because I have another project (www.jg-scripts.de)

Awesome hack!

I have noticed one problem, perhaps I did something wrong, but when the last post is deleted the topic still shows it as last title.

[update]

Also It appears moving a topic doesn't update the last title either.

great hack :D

installed on my test board fine, i'll just play about to try and get the icos and the & character things done...hehe.

Any one test this out on 2.2.0? i had it on my 2.0.3 and it ran well. have not tried it in 2.2.0.

:)

Yea think it needs a little work, had problems with it on 2.2 If I remember right in was in functions.php didn't like it much will look at it tomorrow.

Works in 2.2.0 for me, I had problems replying to a poll, but it proved to be from another hack.
cu,
-Tom

The one within my sig is working on vb 2.2.x and 2.0.x

Well ... this one, too :D

Why don't you both work together on a more perfect "Lasttitle hack"? We don't need two, do we. ;)
But thanks for offering your alternative!

Just two questions to your implementation:
-What happens with the lasttitle if you move/delete or change threads?
-What happens if the thread title contains chars like " or ' etc.?

Thanks so far,
-Tom

if you delete or move it goes back to the next newest one in the forum and if you have characters like " it just uses the htmlspecialchars function then the unhtmlspecialchars function before showing it, this version also works on forumdisplay if you have sub forums within a forum.

Mine is based on a modification to the function that updates the post counts, thread counts and last poster name for the forum home page.

It also modifies the newreply, postreply and editpost files.