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.

[Scott MacVicar]

I was just against all the extra long queries that needed to be done as it increased loading time on a board with 40 forums

[DR2000]

Well, actually all those queries are processed on the server side, and none of that is being sent to the client. So it doesn't affect bandwith.

[LuBi]

This is exactly what I was looking for. I even posted a question in PPN's thread and no one helped me... but this comeso ut of the box pretty much the way i like it! Thanks I'll install this ASAP. goodjob!

*Edit - 2.0.3 AHHH!!! 2.2 needed, back to asking people on PPN's thread...

[DR2000]

I'll try to get v2.2.0 this weekend, and see if it's really different. I don't have time to update my board, but I'll let you know if that thing will work.

[LuBi]

Originally posted by DR2000
I'll try to get v2.2.0 this weekend, and see if it's really different. I don't have time to update my board, but I'll let you know if that thing will work.

Thanks from me and everyoner with 2.2, goodluck!

[DR2000]

Ok, I just tested it with 2.2.0, and everything works fine. I also added the number of the lines which need to be modified for 2.2.0, as well as for 2.0.3. Basically that's the only difference.

Have fun.

[SgtSling]

i usually have 100 people online at a time

wouldnt this kill my server?

[DR2000]

Why would it kill your server? Would running vBulletin kill your server?? What's changed?

[TheComputerGuy]

Well I like the way it looks personally...