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If you want to have recent posts in your news forums show up in the Latest Forum Discussions list on your vBHome page, in vBHome's index.php find:

PHP Code:

  $iforumperms = 'AND forumid<>' . $articleforum . ' AND forumid IN (' . implode(',', $iforumperms) . ')'; 


Replace with:

PHP Code:

  $iforumperms = 'AND forumid IN (' . implode(',', $iforumperms) . ')'; 


Find:

PHP Code:

  if ($thread['forumid']!=$articleforum)
  {
    eval("\$threadbits .= \"".gettemplate('home_threadbits')."\";");
  } 


Replace with:

PHP Code:

eval("\$threadbits .= \"".gettemplate('home_threadbits')."\";"); 


Also, if you want your Latest Forum Discussions list to show the date/time/poster of the last post in a thread, rather than the default date/time/poster of the first post in the thread, in vBHome's index.php find:

PHP Code:

SELECT threadid,forumid,title,replycount,postusername,dateline,views 


Replace with:

PHP Code:

SELECT threadid,forumid,title,replycount,lastposter,lastpost,views 


Find:

PHP Code:

  $thread[time] = vbdate($timeformat, $thread[dateline]);
  $thread[date] = vbdate($dateformat, $thread[dateline]); 


Replace with:

PHP Code:

  $thread[time] = vbdate($timeformat, $thread[lastpost]);
  $thread[date] = vbdate($dateformat, $thread[lastpost]); 


In the home_threadbits template, find:

$thread[date] <font color="{timecolor}">$thread[time]</font> <a href="$bburl/member.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=getinfo&userid=$thread[postuserid]">$thread[postusername]</a><br>

Replace with:

$thread[date] <font color="{timecolor}">$thread[time]</font> by $thread[lastposter]<br>

Last but not least, if you're using the alt description hack to give your threads a sub-heading, and you want that sub-heading to show up on your vbHome index page, in vBHome's index.php find:

PHP Code:

  thread.lastposter,thread.dateline,articlepost.pagetext as pagetext 


Replace with:

PHP Code:

  thread.lastposter,thread.dateline,articlepost.pagetext as pagetext,thread.description 


In the home_articlebits template, find:

$article[title]</b></a>

Replace with:

$article[title]</b></a><br><smallfont>$article[description]</smallfont>

And the results of all the above will be what you see on the vBHome page at my X-Fan Web site!