Forum Home Enhancements - Latest X Posts on Forum Home

Latest X Posts on Forum Index
by: whitemike
Demo: Here

What this does?

This will add the latest x posts onto your forum index

What version does it work on?

This modification should work on any version 3.6.0 and up! Including the new 3.7

Features?

1. Enable/Disable - Master Switch to Turn Latest Posts on or off
2. Title - Change the title of the Site News
3. Posts to Show - Number of Last Posts to show
4. Cutoff Length - How many characters to show before the ... at the end
5. Exclude Forums - Choose what forums you do not want to be listed
6. Thread Title Width - Width of Title Table
7. User Title Width - Width of User Table
8. Forum Title Width - Width of Forum Table
9. Auto Location - Enable/Disable auto location
10. Location - Gives Options for Under navbar, above forum, or below forum

Added?

1. 2 Template
2. 3 Plugins
3. 10 Settings
4. 27 Phrases

Installation?

1. Import Product

Thats It!

Fixes?

2.3

1. Fixed the cutoff bug

2.2

1. Fixed Bug

2.1

1. Changed variables, so that you can see this, and latest X Threads on forumhome.

2.0

1. Feature Added: Time and Date
2. Added feature where if Cut Off is 0, then it will not display the row

1.9

1. XHTML and CSS Compliant

1.8

1. For some reason a phrase didn't save so I uploaded it with it.

1.7

1. Added option to enable/disable auto location
2. Added 3 automatic locations

1.6

1. Added Permissions based on forums

1.5

1. Fixed Look - Made Link Thread Title, with text under it

1.4

1. Fixed Bug - Was showing up hidden/moderated posts

1.3

1. Fixed Bug - Didn't display threads in excluded forums
2. Added Check Version

1.2

1. Cached Templates
2. Moved Plugin Location to allow global use of $latest

1.1

1. Added default value to excluded, which was causing an error if null
2. Made Collapsible

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[Smoothie]

I noticed it says "Site News" and "Latest 5 Posts" on your site. Is it possible to be able to have these as user configurable settings?

[Michael Biddle]

Yes I could set that up for ya, as a temporary fix you can just edit the phrases. Will do in next small update

EDIT: By the way, the "Latest 5 Posts" Changes to like "latest 10 Posts" and so on. How ever many you have it grabbing, it changes that number

[Smoothie]

Originally Posted by whitemike

Yes I could set that up for ya, as a temporary fix you can just edit the phrases. Will do in next small update

EDIT: By the way, the "Latest 5 Posts" Changes to like "latest 10 Posts" and so on. How ever many you have it grabbing, it changes that number

Thanks, I noticed that. Will wait for the update.

[Michael Biddle]

think i might just make the "Site News" Changable, doing that now

[Michael Biddle]

Ok done, redownload

[ThorstenA]

You can grab the last # posts on forumhome by just adding some code in functions_forumlist.php without adding any query, I think !

[Subah]

Thanks

[taxick]

Hey nice hack..

I get the sql error, on my forum index page

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.5:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT post.postid, post.pagetext, post.userid, post.username, thread.forumid, forum.forumid, forum.title
FROM post as post
LEFT JOIN thread as thread on (post.threadid = thread.threadid)
LEFT JOIN forum as forum on (thread.forumid = forum.forumid)
WHERE thread.forumid not in ()
ORDER BY postid DESC
LIMIT 5;

MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ')
ORDER BY postid DESC
LIMIT 5' at line 5
Error Number : 1064
Date : Thursday, March 22nd 2007 @ 12:42:24 PM
Script : *********************
Referrer :
IP Address : ******************
Username : ******************
Classname : vB_Database

[KEKforce]

Same error here!