Last post on forum home, working version

I had tried a version suggested by someone else instead of my own and well, all it did was send the load average up by about 10 times what it was.

This version inserts the last title into the forum database when it is updating the last post name and time. There is no difference in loading time as everything is called normally by vBulletin.

This works on 2.0.x and 2.2.x

Updated at 11:34 GMT on 28th September 2002

Thanks to floren for the latest update.

[Scott MacVicar]

ok, i discovered what it was, i will re-document in about 20mins after i have had some nice kebab :P

[Amasov]

Roger, have a nice eating.

[Scott MacVicar]

ok, i updated the documentation now to go have a beer :P

[Amasov]

Cheers!

Thanks for updating. I'll try it in a few hours.

Thanks.

Regards,
Chris.

[inetd]

In last post column it is displayed New worm "Ni.. Ni. though original thread title New worm [u]"Nimida"[/u.] Please fix it.
And how to reduce quantity of symbols deduced in the title of a thread?

[Scott MacVicar]

sorry about this i forgot to unhtmlspecialchars the title.


within index.php and forumdisplay.php look for the follow lines which you added.

PHP Code:

          if (strlen($forum['lasttitle']) > 30) {
            $forum['lasttitle'] = substr($forum['lasttitle'], 0, 28);
            $forum['lasttitle'] .= '..';
          } 


above that add the following

PHP Code:

$forum['lasttitle']=unhtmlspecialchars($forum['lasttitle']); 


this should solve the problem with the characters not being converted.

Also the decision on length is made by the top code a quick explanation is, if the length is over 30, remove everything after 28 characters and add two dots to the end.

Hope this helps, instruction file now updated.

[inetd]

Thx, PPN!
GOOD WORK!

[Scott MacVicar]

so this is one of the first versions to work without bringing the server to its knees?

:P

Mine works perfectly fine... Although I just combined a bunch of the ones that were posted before, sorta mad my own... don't remember what I did...

[Alien]

Works great, you did a really good job on this... Thanks so much!

I do have a question though.. How would I get the title to link to the actual post?

Thanks again!.