"recent topics" in SMF style

[Blue Steel]

could it be in the settings for SMF's recent topics  its self thats lower than the settings in your block just guessing

[RoarinRow]

could it be in the settings for SMF's recent topics  its self thats lower than the settings in your block just guessing

Thanks, but that didn't do it 

[jcortina]

I'm pretty sure that The RecentTopics function in SSI only searches for topics within the last X number of posts (where X is a function of the number of topics requested; something like 20 or 25 times that number; uses a WHERE clause like msg_id > (last_msg - X) ).

So (assuming 25 is the number used) asking for 35 topics will return up to 35 topics which were found in the last 875 (25x35) posts. It won't keep seeking backwards until 35 are found to return.

[RoarinRow]

I'm pretty sure that The RecentTopics function in SSI only searches for topics within the last X number of posts (where X is a function of the number of topics requested; something like 20 or 25 times that number; uses a WHERE clause like msg_id > (last_msg - X) ).

So (assuming 25 is the number used) asking for 35 topics will return up to 35 topics which were found in the last 875 (25x35) posts. It won't keep seeking backwards until 35 are found to return.

Ah ok. that explains it, thank you!

[deniz]

is it possible to show limited characters in subject field.

for example original subject: "is it possible to show limited characters in subject field"

limited characters in subject: "is it possible to show limi..."

thx.

[jcortina]

Instead of using $topic['subject'] in the code given, use $topic['short_subject'].

That's a shortened version of only 25 characters (not sure right now if that's 25 with or without the ellipsis '...').

[deniz]

there is no "$topic['subject']" in script

[jcortina]

Sorry. $topic['link'] has the full length subject embedded in it. It is this line:

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    echo '<tr><td class="windowbg" valign="middle">', $topic['link'];



Try replacing that with:

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    echo '<tr><td class="windowbg" valign="middle"><a href="' . $topic['href'] . '">' . $topic['short_subject'] . '</a>';



[RoarinRow]

Is it possible to make the Recent Topics view similar to the Unread Topics view. 

I would really like the 'Replies' and 'Views' columns in-between the 'Poster' and 'Time' columns.

[Techdomain]

try adding:

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<td class="windowbg2" valign="middle" width="10%">
                                                ', $topic['replies']['link'], '
                                        </td>
<td class="windowbg2" valign="middle" width="10%">
                                                ', $topic['views']['link'], '
                                        </td>

in there. you may have to fiddle with the percents, and possibly find out what the function calls for replies and views actually are (though logic tells me they would be called just that)