Module: Recent Messages

Thanks for the directions Maurice - my colleague had been 'testing' and didn't rewind an edit: 'ASC' returned to 'DESC'

Clue stick spanking time I'd say ;-)
I'm glad you guys found it.

Maybe it's an idea to run a copy from the 5.2 branch svn, so you'll always be able to see what has changed inside the core code.

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
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I have switched one of my folders to invisible. The module is still displaying messages of the forums which are contained in this folder. Is the module meant to work this way? Thank you!

Yes, it is meant to work like that. The forum visibility is not a security feature, in merely hides the forum on the index page. If you want messages from a certain forum to not end up at the recent messages page (and the RSS feeds I think), then make it inaccessible by means of access rights.

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
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Title update when using multiple vroot forums? I have a number of forums now and it can get a bit confusing with regard to looking at Recent Messages as the title is the same whichever forum you are on. Is there anyway to reflect the forum title in the recent message title, also taking into account the vroot complications?

What do you consider to be the "forum title"? The recent messages module shows messages from all readable forums. For me, the forum title would be the name of the forum, which is already displayed with all messages.

If you are talking about the "Recent messages" heading above the page: that one is coming from $PHORUM['DATA']['LANG']['mod_recent_messages']['RecentMessages']. You could change the language file, but that would replace all RecentMessages language strings with the new value of that variable. Not useful in case you also have the jumpmenu module enabled.

You could create an extra module that would run in the after_header hook to update $PHORUM['DATA']['HEADING'] with a heading of your choice on the recent messages page.

A module-free solution could be to modify your header.tpl to display a heading of choice using a template {IF} statement to decide whether or not the default should be shown.

Despite all the possible solutions that I can think of, is it really confusing for your end users what they are looking at? You as an admin are probably skipping over all of your vroots, but I can imagine that end users would end up on one of your vroots and that they would not be confused by just "Recent Messages" in the heading.

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
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Thanks for that info - will help a lot. Completely reworked the forums now to cut out unecessary navigation and they should be a lot easier to use. Will alter the title 'Read All Recent Messages' to something that indicates that they are messages related to the choice of forum.

When I had to switch my root folder to "vroot" for Joe's new "Forum Subscription" module, "Recent messages" delivered only an empty list. I looked into the module but couldn't find documentation for "$available_forums = phorum_api_forums_by_vroot($PHORUM['vroot']);". Can you please help?

korsakov, on my test Phorum I am able to see recent messages in vroots with both mods enabled. What version of the Recent Messages mod are you using? Can you provide a link (PM if needed) to see this problem?

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Joe Curia (aka Azumandias)
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Hi Joe, I run the latest "Recent Messages" module with v5.2.13. Do you recommend to upgrade? If this is not helpful I can PM you. Thank you!