Module: Last Forum Post

Maurice Makaay

Re: Module: Last Forum Post
May 08, 2008 12:16PM

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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?

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Ulf Dunkel

Re: Module: Last Forum Post
May 08, 2008 02:41PM

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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.

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amnesia

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May 12, 2008 04:33AM

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@maurice, yep

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

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amnesia

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May 12, 2008 09:02AM

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nope sadly that wasn't it.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/12/2008 09:07AM by amnesia.

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amnesia

Re: Module: Last Forum Post
May 12, 2008 09:11AM

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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.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/12/2008 09:23AM by amnesia.

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Ulf Dunkel

Re: Module: Last Forum Post
May 13, 2008 02:11AM

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@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:

<!-- Comment text -->

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sheik

Re: Module: Last Forum Post
June 20, 2008 06:57AM

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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 <td>
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 <small> but that's just preference.

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Diego

Re: Module: Last Forum Post
December 23, 2008 10:38AM

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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?

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2009address

Re: Module: Last Forum Post
May 11, 2010 04:55PM

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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]

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Maurice Makaay

Re: Module: Last Forum Post
May 11, 2010 06:00PM

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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.

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