Comments on: Latest posts standalone script for phpbb3 and phpbb2

By: madhamster

madhamster — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:21:55 +0000

Thanx very much :)

Note, if you want to select time in correct format and guest usernames as well you could use:

SELECT ...
DATE_FORMAT(ADDDATE('1970-01-01', ROUND(p.post_time/86400)), '%d.%m.%Y') AS post_time,
IF(p.post_username = '', u.username, p.post_username) AS username

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:00:34 +0000

Hi. This is a great script. I've used it to put a latest post box to the right of one of my forums as a PHP include in the template. Works brilliantly.

Just one question. How would I change the script so instead of outputting the topic title, outputting the title of the latest post?

I understand (or imagine at least) I'll need to change the database query somehow, then change the "topic_title" in the output later to the post title as well as the link, but don't know what I'd need to query for, etc.

I.e. I can work out what I need to do, but don't know how to actually do it, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

All the best.

By: Indrit

Indrit — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:43:01 +0000

There are some problems on mouse over. These appared after upgraded to phpbb version 3.0.6

By: Mikeyyyyy

Mikeyyyyy — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:28:54 +0000

it doesnt work for me? i made a html page and paste this code you guys gave me and it shows all the codes....can you guys take a look at it....which part should i replace...
here is my phpbb2 websites http://anhsaobang.myfreeforum.org/

By: skidplate

skidplate — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:24:32 +0000

I am trying to change the font face and color, but it isn't changing (all i am seeing is ugly blue underlined text). Also, me not being very familiar with php… how do I change what is displayed? Are there any instructions for this??

By: bozz282

bozz282 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:36:48 +0000

Still no luck with the mouseover though. I have eliminated Front Page as the cause because I replaced the code using notepad as my editor.

Could it be that the mouseover won't work because it's nested inside a CSS Div ?

By: dan_vaida

dan_vaida — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:30:19 +0000

I am really glad that you managed to figure it out by yourself. that's what this is all about in the end. cheers

By: bozz282

bozz282 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:19:05 +0000

I trawled through the code until I discovered two “%22″ within the echo link tag. %22 = ” (quotation mark) which explains why there was a quotation mark added into my url.

I assumed that Microsoft Front Page interpreted the quotation mark badly and inserted the %22 instead?

At first I changed the %22 into ” but that made the code fail. So, I removed the %22 and it worked.

By: dan_vaida

dan_vaida — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:50:58 +0000

And how exactly did you tackle the first issue ?

By: bozz282

bozz282 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:17:01 +0000

Hi,

Great script. I have two issues which I can't seem to resolve. The first is that when I click on a recent forum topic, a new window opens (which is fine) but, the url is wrong because the script adds quotations to the link. Example : url is http://www.mysite.com/“forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&… which results in an error page (page not found) but, if I remove the quotes : http://www.mysite.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t... the page / link displays fine.

Second problem is that the mouse over doesnt work ? i.e. the scroll continues to scroll and I cannot stop it

Thanks for your time in developing this neat script !