Last post WITH icon on first page (no database modifications needed)

#### Subject Preview by DR2000 ####
I looked at all other hack avaliable for this, and all of them
are trying to do too much by editing your database structure,
and modifying the way data is inserted. Why overcomplicate
things, when all data is already there, and it only needs to be
extracted...

#### DEMO ####
To see this hack in action take a look at
http://forum.4adrive.com

#### FEATURES ####
- Shows the subject of the last active post on the front page
- Shows the icon of the last active post on the front page
- No need to alter database, and risk to screwing something up
- Only one file to change
- If the subject was very long, shows trunkated version of it,
and replaces the rest with '...', preventing your main page
layout from being screwed up.

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Nov 14, 2001
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Note: Tested with 2.0.3, 2.2.0 and 2.2.1.

[Alex]

No, they aren't... can look in my forum ( http://www.spassforen.de ). The Team-Forum is private. At the moment we make Points in the threadt title like these ...

[Alex]

please help... we can't use our team-forum as we want to at the moment.

[DR2000]

Originally posted by AlexD
No, they aren't... can look in my forum ( http://www.spassforen.de ). The Team-Forum is private. At the moment we make Points in the threadt title like these ...

Here:

Find this:

PHP Code:

      if (!$hideprivateforums) { 


and right before that line insert this:

PHP Code:

      if (!$forumperms['canview']) {
        $forum['dots'] = '';
        $forum['thtitle'] = 'Subject Hidden';
      } 


This will do it. Admins (or whoever got permissions to see that forum) will see the subject, everyone else won't. Tell me how it works out.

[Alex]

Thank you very much! That worked fine!

[SugarChick]

Great script DR2000, fast easy install and it's great addition, ty.

[Prince]

There is a problem with this hack, check out my screen shot!

The thread that I have circled, it says that w8lifter was the last member to post, well she was not.
She did not vote in the poll, and there are 2 posts after hers in that thread.

any ideas?

[Prince]

here!

[Prince]

bump!

[LuBi]

For some reason my dost don't show up, I believei t's because I have one really long topic down at the bottom of my site... could anyone take a look at assist me in fixing this problem?

Suprascene.com

Basically one title takes up to much room so now everything is spaced wrong..

[DR2000]

Just use the html that I've provided. It optimizes the space use. I don't want to put anyone down, but if you are not really proficient with HTML why change something that works?