vb3 Latest Forum Post Hack

Sorry for making all these hack posts but I'm all about the layout this hack is originally made by NTLDR, well that's what it says in the file. I'm pretty much using everything that he used, which you will see in the credits and in the coding. The only thing different from his hack and mine, is how it's displayed. Instead of at the bottom of the page under the statistics content, it's above all forums, where the Guest message is shown.. Anyway lets get started.

I'll go over the basics from the installation file.

Open index.php

Find 

'forumhome_subforumseparator_post'

Replace with

// [START HACK='Latest Threads On Forum Home' AUTHOR='NTLDR' VERSION='1.0.0' CHANGEID= 1 ]
'forumhome_subforumseparator_post',
'forumhome_latestthreadbit'
// [END HACK='Latest Threads On Forum Home' AUTHOR='NTLDR' VERSION='1.0.0' CHANGEID= 1 ]

Find

// ### ALL DONE! SPIT OUT THE HTML AND LET'S GET OUTA HERE... ###

Add above it
--DO NOT INCLUDE IN BELOW CODING--
Note: Change 5 in this part of the query to change the number of threads to show: DESC LIMIT 5
Change ORDER BY lastpost to ORDER BY dateline to stop it showing threads with new posts.
--DO NOT INCLUDE IN BELOW CODING--

// [START HACK='Latest Threads On Forum Home' AUTHOR='NTLDR' VERSION='1.0.0' CHANGEID= 2 ]
// #################### PROCESS LATEST THREADS #######################
// fetch the permissions for each forum
$forumperms = array();
foreach($forumcache AS $forum) {

	$forumperms["$forum[forumid]"] = fetch_permissions($forum['forumid']);

	// ## HIDE FORUMS WITHOUT THE CANVIEW OR CANVIEWOTHERS PERMISSION ##
	if (!($forumperms["$forum[forumid]"] & CANVIEW) || !($forumperms["$forum[forumid]"] & CANVIEWOTHERS)) {
		$limitfids .= ','.$forum['forumid'];
	}
}
unset($forum);

if ($vboptions['threadpreview'] > 0) {
	$previewfield = ', post.pagetext AS preview';
	$previewjoin = 'LEFT JOIN '.TABLE_PREFIX.'post AS post ON(post.postid = thread.firstpostid)';
}

$getthreads = $DB_site->query("
	## GET LATEST THREADS ##
	SELECT thread.*,thread.iconid AS threadiconid $previewfield
	FROM ".TABLE_PREFIX."thread AS thread
	LEFT JOIN ".TABLE_PREFIX."deletionlog AS deletionlog ON(thread.threadid = deletionlog.primaryid AND type = 'thread')
	$previewjoin
	WHERE open = '1'
	AND forumid NOT IN (0$limitfids)
	AND thread.visible = '1'
	AND deletionlog.primaryid IS NULL
	ORDER BY lastpost
	DESC LIMIT 5");

while($thread = $DB_site->fetch_array($getthreads)) {

	$threads = true;
	$thread['title'] = fetch_censored_text(fetch_trimmed_title(unhtmlspecialchars($thread['title']), 22));
	$thread['date'] = vbdate($vboptions['dateformat'], $thread['lastpost'], 1);
	$thread['time'] = vbdate($vboptions['timeformat'], $thread['lastpost']);
	$thread['preview'] = preg_replace('#\[quote(=("|"|\'|).*\\2)?\](.*)\[/quote\]#siU', '', $thread['preview']);
	$thread['preview'] = htmlspecialchars_uni(fetch_trimmed_title(strip_bbcode(fetch_censored_text($thread['preview']), false, true), $vboptions['threadpreview']));
	$thread['replycount'] = vb_number_format($thread['replycount']);
	$thread['views'] = vb_number_format($thread['views']);

	// thread icon
	$show['icon'] = false;
  $icon = fetch_iconinfo($thread['iconid']);

  if (is_array($icon)) {
      $show['icon'] = true;
      $thread['threadiconpath'] = $icon['iconpath'];
      $thread['threadicontitle'] = $icon['title'];
  }

	// show goto new post
	$show['firstnew'] = false;
	$bbforumview = fetch_bbarray_cookie('forum_view', $thread['forumid']);

	if ($bbforumview > $bbuserinfo['lastvisit']) {
		$lastread = $bbforumview;
	} else {
		$lastread = $bbuserinfo['lastvisit'];
	}

	if ($thread['lastpost'] > $lastread) {

		$threadview = fetch_bbarray_cookie('thread_lastview', $thread['threadid']);

		if ($thread['lastpost'] > $threadview) {
			$show['firstnew'] = true;
			$show['icon'] = false;
		}
	}

	exec_switch_bg();

	eval("\$threadbits .= \"".fetch_template('forumhome_latestthreadbit')."\";");
}
if ($threads) {
	$show['latestthreads'] = true;
}
// memory saving
unset($thread, $threads);
$DB_site->free_result($getthreads);
// [END HACK='Latest Threads On Forum Home' AUTHOR='NTLDR' VERSION='1.0.0' CHANGEID= 2 ]

Create the following phrase

section: GLOBAL
name: latest_threads
text: Latest Threads

All that above was created by NTLDR and let all know that he owns that coding. Onto my revisions.

Open template FORUMHOME

Find

$forumbits

Above this add

<!-- remodded by Jay -->
<!-- [START HACK='Latest Threads On Forum Home' AUTHOR='NTLDR' VERSION='1.0.0' CHANGEID= 1 ] -->
<!-- latest threads -->
<if condition="$show['latestthreads']">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<thead>
	<tr>
		<td class="tcat" colspan="2">$vbphrase[latest_threads]</td>
	</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
	<tr>
		<td class="thead" colspan="2">
			<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_latestthreads')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_latestthreads" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_latestthreads].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
			Last 5 posts on our forums
		</td>
	</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_latestthreads" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_latestthreads]">
	<tr>
		<td class="alt1"><div class="smallfont">$threadbits</div></td>
	</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<br>
</if>
<!-- /latest threads -->
<!-- [END HACK='Latest Threads On Forum Home' AUTHOR='NTLDR' VERSION='1.0.0' CHANGEID= 1 ] -->
<!-- remodded by Jay -->

Create a new template called forumhome_latestthreadbit

Insert this coding

<div class="smallfont">
	<if condition="$show['firstnew']">
		<a href="showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]threadid=$thread[threadid]&goto=newpost"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/firstnew.gif" alt="$vbphrase[go_to_first_new_post]" border="0" /></a>
	</if>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td width="30%"><div class="smallfont"><a href="showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]threadid=$thread[threadid]" title="$thread[preview]"><strong>$thread[title]</strong></a></div></td>
<td width="30%"><div class="smallfont"><em>$vbphrase[last_post]:</em> $thread[date] <if condition="$vboptions['yestoday'] != 2"><span class="time">$thread[time]</span></if></div></td>
<td width="16%"><div class="smallfont"><phrase 1="member.php?$session[sessionurl]find=lastposter&threadid=$thread[threadid]" 2="$thread[lastposter]">$vbphrase[by_x]</phrase></div></td>
<td width="12%"><div class="smallfont">$vbphrase[replies]: $thread[replycount]</div></td>
<td width="12%"><div class="smallfont">$vbphrase[views]: $thread[views]</div></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>

Done. Easy as that. It SHOULD work but you won't for sure until everything is installed. Like I said throughout I just remodded a already hack. Good luck.

[lasto]

serious - this hack has been covered before and out of them all one stands heads above the rest and that is anime webbys hack called the X last stats or something,go check that out if u want decent stats.

Infact here is the link :https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=59609

[ProperMethodz]

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_DO, expecting T_VARIABLE or '$' in /home/xhmgami/public_html/forum/index.php on line 420

I did the hack and got this error

[ProperMethodz]

It works!!!


www.7hmgaming.com

[ProperMethodz]

Jay... I am attempting to use the template so that I can collapse it on the top, and also so that it melds with the rest of the site.

Here is the code for a forum header, would you mind helping me as to where it should be inserted into the code so that it will behave like a catagory?

<!-- top category table setup -->
<table width="100%" style="background-image:url($stylevar[imgdir_misc]/cat_back.gif)" border="0" 

cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
  <tr>
    <td width="140" height="27" align="left" valign="top"><img 

src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/cat_top_ls.gif" width="140" height="27" alt=" " border="0" /></td>
    <td width="100%" class="tcat" style="background-image:url($stylevar[imgdir_misc]/cat_back.gif)" 

align="center"><div class="smallfont"><strong>$vbphrase[whats_going_on]</strong></div></td>
     <td width="140" height="27" align="right" valign="top"><img 

src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/cat_top_rs.gif" width="140" height="27" alt=" " border="0" /></td>
  </tr>
</table>
        <!-- End top category table setup -->

[ProperMethodz]

great hack...