Latest Threads On Forum Home

Latest Threads On Forum Home
Version: 1.0.2
vB-version: 3.0.0 Release Candidate 2
Developer: NTLDR
Install-difficulty: 1
File-edits: 2
Template-edits: 1

Description of the Hack:
This is taken from my vBindex hack and will display the latest X threads on your forum home page. Permissions are done automatically so forums users can't view will be excluded. Includes thread icon/goto new post image (if the thread is unread), title, last post info, number of views and replies.



Files modified for this Hack:
index.php


New templates for this Hack:
forumhome_latestthreadbit


Templates modified for this Hack:
FORUMHOME

New phrases for this Hack:
latest_threads

[Death Star]

Originally Posted by Loukrhtia

guys you underestimate vbulletin.com

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=158887

Tried it :disappointed:

[Lea Verou]

Originally Posted by Death Star

Tried it :disappointed:

What was the problem?

[Zidane007nl]

Installed the hack, nice work.
I inserted it into my welcome panel (only visible for users), with marquee tags, so I won't take up much space.

[MRGTB]

I know this is an old hack, but does anybody know how you can add the forum board in the stats where the latest threads are listed. So it also shows what forum the posts the thread came from at the end of the link stats

[MRGTB]

Originally Posted by Michelle

Help!!!!!! I modified the code so that it displays locked thread but now it displays the threads form the hidden forums as well!!!!!!!!!
Please help, I am in despair!!!!

How did you get it to display locked threads Michelle.

Also, remember it will show threads to you in hidden boards while you logged in as admin and have access to view the hidden boards. But if you log-out then login as a member who does not have access to view the hidden boards. You will not see the threads listed from that board based on permission.

But please let me know what you did to get it to show locked threads.

[fatwillie]

Will this hack work on a non VB page?

[MRGTB]

BUMP

Does does anybody know how to make this hack so it will display "Locked Threads"?

And if possible, also show the "Forum Board" threads are taken from

[norma-aguilera]

Hi,

I read all of the threads and this forum, but I don't think anyone is having the same problem that i am having.

I did all of the steps in the installation, checked twice and I get this error:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /index.php on line 493

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/mxfimrk/public_html/Forum/index.php on line 509

I looked at the code in index.php in line 493 and this is what is trying to do:

************************************************** ********

// [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'];
}
}

************************************************** ********

Also, I use cpanel to modify the files and I whenever I try to save the files I get the "The page cannot be displayed" error. So I tried chaning the file in my vi editor and coping and pasting to the cpanel editor and I still get that error. The second time I saved it is OK.

Had anybody experience this error or can help?

Thanks!

Norma Aguilera

[norma-aguilera]

I am still having the problem above. It was not a parsing error ( I had just updated the file with my original index.php).


I really want this hack for my web site, so I will really appreciate if someone can help me with any information.

I did ALL of the steps specified on the hack, but I am still having this error:

************************************************** **********

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /index.php on line 492

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/mxfimrk/public_html/Forum/index.php on line 509

I highlighted these two lines below.

Thanks!

************************************************** **********

// get total members and newest member from template
$numbermembers = vb_number_format($vbulletin->userstats['numbermembers']);
$newusername = $vbulletin->userstats['newusername'];
$newuserid = $vbulletin->userstats['newuserid'];
$activemembers = vb_number_format($vbulletin->userstats['activemembers']);
$show['activemembers'] = ($vbulletin->options['activememberdays'] > 0 AND ($vbulletin->options['activememberoptions'] & 2)) ? true : false;

// [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;
$thread['title'] = fetch_censored_text(fetch_trimmed_title(unhtmlspec ialchars($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']);
$thread['preview'] = htmlspecialchars_uni(fetch_trimmed_title(strip_bbc ode(fetch_censored_text($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 ]



// ### ALL DONE! SPIT OUT THE HTML AND LET'S GET OUTTA HERE... ###
($hook = vBulletinHook::fetch_hook('forumhome_complete')) ? eval($hook) : false;

[trickfly]

Hi there,

I've used your script and it is working fine (thanks!)

but how do I make it look like the one on:

http://www.cosforums.com/

Please PM me back thanks.

James