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Top 5 "Hot" Topics on Forum Home Page · **Released**: 07-27-2005

This little one puts a list of the five threads with the most replies that have been active in the past 7 days on your forum home page.

You can change the query to make it 10 topics with most views or whatever suits your needs.

Things you may want to change:

To get the top 10, 20 or whatever topics instead of 5, change

Code:

LIMIT 5

to the number of your choice.

To get the top topics based on views instead of replies, change

Code:

ORDER BY replycount

to

Code:

ORDER BY views

To keep track of the top threads that are currently active, no matter when they were started, change

Code:

WHERE dateline > $datecut

to

Code:

WHERE lastpost > $datecut

Darth Gill · #2 07-28-2005, 10:14 PM

I installed it and modified the template a little bit to my liking. But you have a HUGE BUG!

Take this out of $topicstring in the plugin! "http://www.eaforums.com/forums/"

amykhar · #3 07-28-2005, 10:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Darth Gill

I installed it and modified the template a little bit to my liking. But you have a HUGE BUG!

Take this out of $topicstring in the plugin! "http://www.eaforums.com/forums/"

Oops. I never really intended to share this one. I'll fix that now.

amykhar · #4 07-28-2005, 10:42 PM

The problem is fixed in the zip.

Neal-UK · #5 07-28-2005, 11:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by amykhar

The problem is fixed in the zip.

still doing it on my forum

Neal-UK · #6 07-29-2005, 12:03 AM

...but sorted it 'mesell'

kall · #7 07-29-2005, 06:11 AM

Hahahahah! Love the 5th Topic's title amy!!

Boofo · #8 07-29-2005, 07:08 AM

That's our Amy!

If anyone is interested, I edited a few things to make this look more in line with the rest of the What's Going On box. See the attached pic.

It is also collaspable.

Darth Gill · #9 07-29-2005, 10:03 AM

I did the same thing... I made it collapseable as well as moved the number of replies to the title attribute so that it shows only on mouseovers. I also replaced the breaklines with spaces.... One more change is since my board likes to have long lengthy discussions over months at a time, I made it the 5 hottest topics for the month.

Here's a screenshot.

http://forums.5solas.org/

amykhar · #10 07-29-2005, 12:26 PM

Yeah, my what's going on box is very different than most people's. That's why I put in there that the html was only a suggestion

Amy