Last post listing on index page

Another formatting suggestion:

$forum["last_post"] = "<a href='$url'>".substr($message[subject],0,30)."...</a><br/>{$PHORUM['DATA']['LANG']['by']} $message[author]<br />" . $forum["last_post"];

After I use this module "LastForumPost" for some days now, I introduced my first message of type "Announcement". Then I saw that LastForumPost does not list this Announcement in the list of forums.

I wonder if /phorum/include/db/mysql.php:phorum_db_get_recent_messages() should be updated or if noone even wants to see Announcements as last posts, too.

If the message type "Sticky" is used, LastForumPost aka phorum_db_get_recent_messages() works fine. But where is the difference? I wonder if it is the "closed" field in the SQL table "phorum_messages". An announcement seems to be a closed one-time message. But why should it be suppressed from this module resp. the Phorum function phorum_db_get_recent_messages() then?

Any hints?

Correct me if I'm wrong Brian, but the way I understand it is Announcments are set to a forum_id of 0 so aren't actually in the forum where you see it. So the script has no means of validating it currently with out some extensive modification to take into account all messages with a forum_id of 0 (zero) also. Hope that helps some.

http://www.krang.org

Am I getting it right that this fine mod is already included in Phorum 5.0.19 although it is listed in the module list of Phorum Developer's Wiki?

Sorry, now I can see the additional hint for the last post (not only the date but the title).
You can delete my post, it's annoying.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/12/2005 01:58PM by Data.

This works great with 5.1.11, in case anyone is interested.

Thanks Brian!

Steel Rat
[infinite-realities.com]

Hello,

How to I enable this mod? I copied the .php file to the mods directory. But it did not appear in the Admin's modules list.

Thanks.

the whole directory from the archive needs to be put in the mods-folder (including the lastpost directory itself!).

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Thomas Seifert

I would like to hide Announcements and Stickys since, as you said,
the forum_id is 0 and the links won't work.
Has anybody done this, is there a proper function already?

Oh, just had the "aha"-effect.
I opened my site in FF being logged in and saw the announcements,
then I opened a IE window and they were missing.
i was shocked at first, but the realized i wasn't logged in;)

so can only admins see the stickys or can any logged in member?!

if any registered member can, then i would still like to
hide the stickys:)

hi
is it possible to get this to appear in the last post column of list.php as well?
thanks