LastTitleHack

Deutsch:

Dieser Hack zeigt in der Spalte Letzter Beitrag unter dem Datum und den Usernamen des letzten Posters auch den Titel des Topics an.

um euch den hack anzusehen klickt hier:

www.the-afterburner.de

English:

This hack shows in the row "last post" on the mainpage below the date and the username of the last posting also the title of the last posting.

to see the hack in action click here:

www.the-afterburner.de

UPDATE: 8. September 2001 to Version 2
New:

You can set the length of the title in your CP
If a word is loger than your settings there are ... at the end
works also in subcategories
Link to the last posting

[Thomas P]

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

[Afterburner]

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.

[jamie]

great hack

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

[gmtalk]

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.

[webhost]

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.

[Thomas P]

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

[Scott MacVicar]

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

[Thomas P]

Well ... this one, too

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

[Scott MacVicar]

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.