Last Shout on Header

I put a shoutbox on most of my pages, at the bottom of the page. Users complained it was hard to see if there were any new shouts so I hacked up this lil' plugin to display it

1 - Import my plugin thelastshout_v11.xml (no bbcode parsing) or thelastshout_v12.xml (bbcodes parsed)

2 - On Header template
Find

<!-- content table -->
$spacer_open

BELOW that, add this code

<table align="center" width="100%"><tr>
<td align="right" class="smallfont"><a href='vbshout.php?{$session['sessionurl_q']}do=archive'>Last Shout by: $GLOBALS[thelastshout]</a></td>
</tr></table>

3 - You can add $thelastshout to any other templates where you want the last shout to show but you must install this mod first.
PS: You might have problems with empty values on $thelastshout. If that happens just edit my plugin and change the "hook" from "global_start" to "parse_templates"

PS: This was done here with the latest vBShout for flatfile, but it should work with the regular vBShout.

PS: Parsing bbcodes might mess up your forum layout, as smilies and images will make the one line entry on header higher. If you use that version (thelastshout_v12.xml) I recommend installing it on navbar not on header template.

[Snake]

Thanks!

[mrmike]

Great work!

[tirol07]

Installed and working.
Thank you. *clicks install*!

Have a question.
How can i display the last 10 shouts in marquee text on non vbpage?

[Renmiri]

Code for that wouldn't be hard as the shouts are saved already parsed to a database table. Want me to give it a try ?