Module: Last Forum Post

Re: Module: Last Forum Post

Ulf Dunkel — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 03:32:28 -0500

Thank you for the workaround, but following your recommendation, I have downgraded to 5.2.20. :)

Re: Module: Last Forum Post

Oliver Riesen-Mallmann — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 03:12:21 -0500

Hi Ulf,

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Ulf Dunkel
This module still uses ./include/format_functions.php which is deprecated in the current 3.0-dev version of Phorum.

"current 3.0-Dev" means branch 5.3...

format_functions.php doesn't exist in 5.3 but the included functions are automatically available via /api/deprecated.php. So as a workaround it should be sufficient to add a "@" before the include command.

Regards
Oliver

Re: Module: Last Forum Post

Ulf Dunkel — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 08:22:01 -0500

This module still uses ./include/format_functions.php which is deprecated in the current 3.0-dev version of Phorum.

Re: Module: Last Forum Post

Maurice Makaay — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 04:39:22 -0600

There is no option, nor a module for that. At least, if I understand your question right. Do you want to display the last post for a group of forums within a folder? If your requirement does not match what this module does, then there's no option.

Re: Module: Last Forum Post

Akaris — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 02:45:40 -0600

Is there a way to pull the last post from a forum inside a folder on the main page ?

Re: Module: Last Forum Post

Robert Angle — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 08:13:33 -0500

Posts imported with the External Phorummail Module doesn't jive with this Last Forum Post module. I even modified External Phorummail to call the after_post hook (for other reasons than this).

What can I change and where can I add it so that after the email gets saved to the database, the Last Forum Post information gets updated as well (author and subject)?

Re: Module: Last Forum Post

Maurice Makaay — Wed, 12 May 2010 02:17:50 -0500

Phorum works differently: it is designed and programmed for speed. Therefore the module does not retrieve the information on the fly on every index page request. Instead, it stores the info when a new message is posted. By doing so, not a single extra SQL query is used for showing the last post info.

Anyway, enjoy Phorum and this module!

Re: Module: Last Forum Post

2009address — Tue, 11 May 2010 23:42:57 -0500

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Maurice Makaay

When updating the subject, there would be a race condition between the update action and a possible newer thread that is posted at the same time. That race condition could result in the new thread subject being overwritten by the updated subject from the edited thread.
I could put a lot of effort and time into designing a system that would keep the last forum message on the index page exactly in sync with updates to that message, but I frankly see no gain in doing so when comparing it to the effort it would cost.

Of course; if it's something that isn't solvable by a quick fix - and it certainly doesn't sound like that - then it's not worth the effort. I thought index.php might be dynamically generated and would simply read the current title of the latest post (mind you, this is coming from a non-programmer).

Anyhow, thanks for the module and for the explanation! :)

Cheers

Re: Module: Last Forum Post

Maurice Makaay — Tue, 11 May 2010 18:00:19 -0500

I do not consider that to be a bug.
I consider that nitpicking ;-)

The case where the subject of the last post is edited, is not a very frequent one.
The moment a newer thread is posted, the subject will be gone anyway.
When updating the subject, there would be a race condition between the update action and a possible newer thread that is posted at the same time. That race condition could result in the new thread subject being overwritten by the updated subject from the edited thread.

I could put a lot of effort and time into designing a system that would keep the last forum message on the index page exactly in sync with updates to that message, but I frankly see no gain in doing so when comparing it to the effort it would cost.

Re: Module: Last Forum Post

2009address — Tue, 11 May 2010 16:55:37 -0500

Hi Maurice,

I might have found a bug in the module.

Editing a post title doesn't affect the post's title in the index.php view. There you still see the version before the edit was done.

I already posted it here: [www.phorum.org]

Re: Module: Last Forum Post

Diego — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:38:21 -0600

I have this mod implemented on my forum, and date format on this mod is the 12h AM/PM format, unlike the default values on rest of forum. Where should I change this in order to get same date time format than rest of forum?

thanks

Re: Module: Last Forum Post

sheik — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:57:13 -0500

This module works perfectly, thanks!
One addendum to the documentation for a suggested change to the Emerald template is to remove the nowrap="nowrap" tag from the relevant
If you don't do this, posts with reasonably long subject headers will force the "last post" column to expand greatly, spoiling the look of the main forum list.

I've also wrapped my output with but that's just preference.

/\dam

Re: Module: Last Forum Post

Ulf Dunkel — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:11:36 -0500

@amnesia: Are you familiar with comments in HTML code? You will probably have damaged one of them in your template file index_new.tpl to which I already pointed you.

HTML comments are always formatted like this:

Re: Module: Last Forum Post

amnesia — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:11:29 -0500

I ended up adding

so it looks like this

because I don't know where that it showing up from.

edit: I just deleted the whole line at the end of the day.

Re: Module: Last Forum Post

amnesia — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:02:22 -0500

nope sadly that wasn't it.

Re: Module: Last Forum Post

amnesia — Mon, 12 May 2008 04:33:00 -0500

@maurice, yep

@ulf, I'll check it as soon as i'm off work

Re: Module: Last Forum Post

Ulf Dunkel — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:41:37 -0500

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amnesia
I thought I should mention that > ex_new.tpl --> pops up at the bottom of my forum

@amnesia: When you grep the phorum files, you will find that index_new.tpl has two lines which end with 'ex_new.tpl -->'.
You will probably have damaged the code of your template's index_new.tpl when adding the Last Forum Post stuff.

Check out that the first and last lines are intact and look like these:

1:
55:

Good luck.

Re: Module: Last Forum Post

Maurice Makaay — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:16:30 -0500

Sorry... is this about this module? Is "> ex_new.tpl -->" a bit of text that you see in your forum? If yes, then it's probably something that has gone wrong in the template editing or so. If you disable this module, does this addition disappear?

Re: Module: Last Forum Post

amnesia — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:53:04 -0500

I thought I should mention that > ex_new.tpl --> pops up at the bottom of my forum

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Re: Module: Last Forum Post

Ulf Dunkel — Thu, 08 May 2008 05:20:55 -0500

I did so when I did the migration work from ANSI to UTF in order not to mix things up ...

Re: Module: Last Forum Post

Maurice Makaay — Thu, 08 May 2008 05:16:51 -0500

Why did you rename a core file? I don't know why we should put such thing in any documentation frankly. It's the default fallback language file and Phorum cannot guess for it if you rename it. You should not rename it in the same way as you should not rename list.php to list_something.php.

Re: Module: Last Forum Post

Ulf Dunkel — Thu, 08 May 2008 05:11:01 -0500

I guess it might be a good idea to point admins to the fact that the english base language file is expected to be named english.php only! (Mine was named english_utf8.php which didn't even throw an error message.)

Re: Module: Last Forum Post

Ulf Dunkel — Thu, 08 May 2008 04:32:07 -0500

Hi Maurice.

I'm afraid my "Manuage Language Files" doesn't work right. I choose an existing language, e.g. "Dansk - Danish", click on "Generate updated language file" and the page redraws. No file has been written or updated.

When I check the source code of the redrawn admin web page, I see that the page output stops somewhere ...

I will dig the code and come back soon.

Re: Module: Last Forum Post

Maurice Makaay — Thu, 08 May 2008 04:17:30 -0500

To check if a language file is complete, go to the admin interface -> Language Tools. There you can generate a language file for the active Phorum version, which will get extra keys put in there if they are missing. Still a bit experimental and freaky code, but it is what I use for checking my Dutch files too.

Re: Module: Last Forum Post

Thomas Seifert — Thu, 08 May 2008 04:11:18 -0500

well, that would still be a double include instead of a single one.

Re: Module: Last Forum Post

Ulf Dunkel — Thu, 08 May 2008 04:06:48 -0500

This is exactly what I understood, Thomas.

To give this thread a sensible turnaround:
I wonder if there is any fallback mechanism if a requested phrase isn't available in $PHORUM['DATA']['LANG'].

It should be easy to implement it where loading $PHORUM['DATA']['DEFAULTLANG'] into $PHORUM['DATA']['LANG'] first, then load the /lang/ specific file, rather than running through the whole $PHORUM['DATA'] to see if a $PHORUM['DATA']['LANG'] phrase is empty.

Re: Module: Last Forum Post

Thomas Seifert — Thu, 08 May 2008 03:20:48 -0500

I guess that means you were using that one which is for 5.1 only? ;)

Re: Module: Last Forum Post

Ulf Dunkel — Thu, 08 May 2008 03:19:12 -0500

Oops ... (where is the 'shame on me' smiley?)

Re: Module: Last Forum Post

Thomas Seifert — Thu, 08 May 2008 02:24:38 -0500

you are not talking about [www.phorum.org] , right?

Re: Module: Last Forum Post

Ulf Dunkel — Thu, 08 May 2008 02:19:20 -0500

I found the bug:

I use the UTF-8 files from the language package but most of them miss the entries:

$PHORUM['long_date_time']
$PHORUM['short_date_time']

Dutch does not, so I could find out.