Preview the first post in a thread first.

Well after attempting to do this before I found that it was making too much of a load on the server so I redid it.

After getting advice from Chen, bira and wluke I have finally gotten this done.

It allows a member to preview the first post in a thread, in your forumdisplay page, by putting their mouse pointer on the thread title. A separate box pops up with the first 500 characters of that post in it so you can preview the message before going into the rest of the thread.

This only works with IE and Opera. It works partially with Netscape (what else is new!).

Upload the attached .php file to your main forum directory and run it. Then read the included readme.txt file for instructions on the modifications needed to your files and templates.

(I have updated the file and put in a later post)

Parker

[high]The hack's zip file can be found in post #7 of this thread[/high]

[Sadie Frost]

Just fyi - this hack conflicts with the custom post prefix hack, so you have to be careful to combine the two hacks or whichever you did first will stop working

[bira]

Parker Clark's zip file with the hack and the instructions can be found on post #7, as the first post of the thread states.

[Lesane]

Great hack, i luv it

[Parker Clack]

Sadie:

How does it conflict with the cost post preview hack? I mean what does it do when you use both of these together?

Parker

[Sadie Frost]

What I was talking about was the hack to make custom prefixes like "Important:" or "Sticky:".

I had done this one first, and then did the custom post prefex one. But you're editing the same section of forumdisplay.php, so when I changed forumdisplay, it made the preview first post stop working.

Then in your forumdisplay.php file find

$threads=$DB_site->query("
SELECT $dotuserid $votequery ".iif($foruminfo[allowicons],'icon.title as icontitle,icon.iconpath,','')."
thread.threadid,thread.title,lastpost, forumid,pollid,open,replycount,postusername,postus erid,
lastposter,thread.dateline,views,thread.iconid,not es,thread.visible,sticky,votetotal,attach
FROM thread
".iif($foruminfo[allowicons],'LEFT JOIN icon ON (icon.iconid = thread.iconid)','')."
$dotjoin
WHERE $threadids
ORDER BY sticky DESC, $sortfield $sqlsortorder
");

and replace with

$threads=$DB_site->query("
SELECT $dotuserid $votequery ".iif($foruminfo[allowicons],'icon.title as icontitle,icon.iconpath,','')."
thread.threadid,thread.title,lastpost, forumid,pollid,open,replycount,postusername,postus erid,
lastposter,thread.dateline,views,thread.iconid,not es,thread.visible,sticky,votetotal,attach,preview
FROM thread
".iif($foruminfo[allowicons],'LEFT JOIN icon ON (icon.iconid = thread.iconid)','')."
$dotjoin

To have both, you just need to add ",customprefix" after "preview". Then you also have to do the same thing in newthread.php

I hope that's what you were asking

[Parker Clack]

Sadie:

Oh, I see. Yep. That happens when you have a hack that the other person doesn't. Thanks for pointing that out.

Parker

[Sadie Frost]

Well, I just thought that for other newbies like me who don't think to check whether they've changed something in there already lol, it might save some headache

[Gutspiller]

Is there a way to make the popup title box stay there for as long as the mouse is over the text? I ahve IE 6 and the box only stays there for a little bit and then disappears again, and if you want to continue to read, you need to move your mouse a little bit to bring the window back up. Any way to fix this?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[Erwin]

My users and mods love this! Thank you!

[dost]

Would it work on vB 2.0.3?