Forum Home Enhancements - Latest X Posts on Forum Home

Latest X Posts on Forum Index
by: whitemike
Demo: Here

What this does?

This will add the latest x posts onto your forum index

What version does it work on?

This modification should work on any version 3.6.0 and up! Including the new 3.7

Features?

1. Enable/Disable - Master Switch to Turn Latest Posts on or off
2. Title - Change the title of the Site News
3. Posts to Show - Number of Last Posts to show
4. Cutoff Length - How many characters to show before the ... at the end
5. Exclude Forums - Choose what forums you do not want to be listed
6. Thread Title Width - Width of Title Table
7. User Title Width - Width of User Table
8. Forum Title Width - Width of Forum Table
9. Auto Location - Enable/Disable auto location
10. Location - Gives Options for Under navbar, above forum, or below forum

Added?

1. 2 Template
2. 3 Plugins
3. 10 Settings
4. 27 Phrases

Installation?

1. Import Product

Thats It!

Fixes?

2.3

1. Fixed the cutoff bug

2.2

1. Fixed Bug

2.1

1. Changed variables, so that you can see this, and latest X Threads on forumhome.

2.0

1. Feature Added: Time and Date
2. Added feature where if Cut Off is 0, then it will not display the row

1.9

1. XHTML and CSS Compliant

1.8

1. For some reason a phrase didn't save so I uploaded it with it.

1.7

1. Added option to enable/disable auto location
2. Added 3 automatic locations

1.6

1. Added Permissions based on forums

1.5

1. Fixed Look - Made Link Thread Title, with text under it

1.4

1. Fixed Bug - Was showing up hidden/moderated posts

1.3

1. Fixed Bug - Didn't display threads in excluded forums
2. Added Check Version

1.2

1. Cached Templates
2. Moved Plugin Location to allow global use of $latest

1.1

1. Added default value to excluded, which was causing an error if null
2. Made Collapsible

Please Click Install if you use

[SEOvB]

I'm not sure what was causing it, But i changed the forumhome_start plugin to global_start and disabled the forumhome_complete plguin and it works wonderfully

(and on all pages as i intended to do with it :0)

[Michael Biddle]

The reason that I have not made this on global_start is for a few reason. The biggest being that it adds a query to every single page. Also, their was a bug when I made it set to global, it was acting wierd. It was taking threads out of the actual forum listings.

[SEOvB]

I figured it'd add the query to all the pages, but i've got a design(or lack thereof) going where the latest posts are in the footer but you already know about that snazz

Actually you've just given me a better idea for it ty

[synisterk]

Is there a way to change $latest on either this or your threads one so that both can be used?

[silver_wing]

I have tried this on VB 3.7, and it is not showing up.

Originally Posted by synisterk

Is there a way to change $latest on either this or your threads one so that both can be used?

I would like to know this too.

[blebetanje]

make one for 3.7x, this is something that user realy want

[Sushubh]

i upgraded to 3.7 with this installed and it seems to be working fine on the new version.

[ngkong]

you should add 'AND thread.visible = 1' to the sql query, because posts still visible even the threads are soft deleted.

SELECT post.postid, post.pagetext, post.userid, post.username, post.visible, 
post.dateline AS date, thread.forumid, thread.title as thread_title, thread.threadid, 
forum.forumid, forum.title as forum_title
FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "post as post
LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread as thread on (post.threadid = thread.threadid)
LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "forum as forum on (thread.forumid = forum.forumid)
WHERE post.visible = 1 AND thread.visible = 1 AND $platest_and AND $platest_and_1
ORDER BY postid DESC
LIMIT $limit

thanks

[Pocket Aces]

I changed plugin to global_start. Since then an error occurs on the advance search key word field auto-generate a value of "Resource id #22". Whats that Resource id #22 error mean and how to fix it??

[Piratos]

hello
i tested on 3.7.1 and nothing added !!! it installed correctly but i don't saw the last news on forumhome!

Any help ??