[Add-on] Enable last topic titles 1.0

[Handyman]

Classification: Add-on
phpBB Part: Forum

MOD Name: Enable last topic titles
MOD Version: 1.0
Author: Handyman
MOD Description: Enables phpBB3 default last topic titles

Works with:

• phpBB 3.0 BETA => 4
• Will not work with any version before Beta4

Features:

• This tip adds the last topic titles using phpBB3s default functions... only one style change is needed

Language: N/A

Licence: N/A

Installation Level: Easy
Installation Time: 1 Minute
Format: Tip
Instructions: In spoiler below.

Spoiler:

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#
#-----[ OPEN ]-----------------------
#
styles/*/template/forumlist_body.html
#
#-----[ FIND ]------------------------
#
<p class="topicdetails">{forumrow.LAST_POST_TIME}</p>
#
#-----[ BEFORE, ADD ]----------------
#
<p class="topicdetails"><a href="{forumrow.U_LAST_POST}">{forumrow.LAST_POST_SUBJECT}</a></p>

Addition by Highway of Life to give a character limit.

Spoiler:

Open: /includes/functions_display.php
FIND:

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<?php $template->assign_block_vars('forumrow', array(

BEFORE, ADD:

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<?php         $last_post_subject = censor_text($last_post_subject);
        $last_post_subject_short = str_split($last_post_subject, 25);

FIND:

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'LAST_POST_SUBJECT'        => censor_text($last_post_subject),

REPLACE, WITH:

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'LAST_POST_SUBJECT_SHORT'    => $last_post_subject_short[0],
            'LAST_POST_SUBJECT'        => $last_post_subject,

Open: /styles/subSilver/template/forumlist_body.html
FIND:

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<p class="topicdetails"><a href="{forumrow.U_LAST_POST}">{forumrow.LAST_POST_SUBJECT}</a></p>

REPLACE, WITH:

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<p class="topicdetails"><a href="{forumrow.U_LAST_POST}" title="{forumrow.LAST_POST_SUBJECT}">{forumrow.LAST_POST_SUBJECT_SHORT}</a></p>

[Highway of Life]

Handy, you might want to revise that a bit...
All forum viewing is contained in one file now... forumlist_body.html
So it's just one file to edit.

[LEW21 Janusz]

Last Posts Titles MOD 0.6.0 - better implementation of this function

[Highway of Life]

I've done a minor edit that has improved the performance of this little feature, I'm going to report it as a bug report, because it was not limiting the number of characters shown, so it was able to display quite large, causing the template to look really strange.

Open: /includes/functions_display.php
FIND:

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<?php  $template->assign_block_vars('forumrow', array(

BEFORE, ADD:

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<?php          $last_post_subject = utf8_decode(censor_text($last_post_subject));
        $last_post_subject_short = str_split($last_post_subject, 25);

FIND:

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'LAST_POST_SUBJECT'        => censor_text($last_post_subject),

REPLACE, WITH:

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'LAST_POST_SUBJECT_SHORT'    => $last_post_subject_short[0],
            'LAST_POST_SUBJECT'        => $last_post_subject,

Open: /styles/subSilver/template/forumlist_body.html
FIND:

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<p class="topicdetails"><a href="{forumrow.U_LAST_POST}">{forumrow.LAST_POST_SUBJECT}</a></p>

REPLACE, WITH:

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<p class="topicdetails"><a href="{forumrow.U_LAST_POST}" title="{forumrow.LAST_POST_SUBJECT}">{forumrow.LAST_POST_SUBJECT_SHORT}</a></p>

[LEW21 Janusz]

Highway, and that's my 90% of "Last Posts Titles 0.6.0". Why are you rewriting it with all bugs that it had, but they are fixed? Your version does not work well with UTF8... and my does!

Ahh, now I know! Someone deleted link to newest version and uploaded 0.5.0 instead! I added new link, so you can download 0.6.0.

[Highway of Life]

Actually, I'm not sure what yours has.

I have not looked at it, I suppose I should now...

Edit: I just checked, I had downloaded your MOD a few weeks ago to whatever link Handy had put there, and it was indeed 0.6.0, so I know I had the right one.
Looking at it now...

Hmm... Okay, well, the only thing I missed was the utf8_decode();
Everything else is the same, or an alternate way of doing it. I'll update the bug.

[Highway of Life]

Acyd Burn updated the Bug: http://www.phpbb.com/bugs/viewreport.php?b=6710

[A_Jelly_Doughnut]

This seems to be a bug in phpBB3 itself, but if you create a new topic, then edit the title of that topic while it is still the most recent post in the forum, you see the original topic title rather than the edited title.

[A_Jelly_Doughnut]

I've reported the above as a bug in phpBB3: http://www.phpbb.com/bugs/viewreport.php?b=8046

[Michaelo]

Just added this mod to site and noticed the stretch... so used

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$last_post_subject_short = truncate_string($row['forum_last_post_subject'],20,FALSE,'...');


and then I read the rest of the posts... mind you as usual I prefer my fix as it add the dots '...'