This is requested elsewhere, but I though I post it here. It essentially use the SSI function for collecting the recent topics, and lay them out like the threads overview of the forum.
- use a PHP type block and just insert the code down below.
- use it preferably on a centerblock or frontblock - since its quite wide.
- looks best with "do not use title/frame" for the block, it has it own titlebar.
- add board ID number like to the function if youw ant to narrow down the boards recent topics are taken from. change it to ssi_recentTopics('8', array('3','56') , 'array') where the numbers 3 and 56 are examples of board ID's.
global $scripturl;
echo '
<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4" class="bordercolor">
<tr><td colspan="3" class="titlebg">Recent topics</td></tr> ';
$what=ssi_recentTopics('8', NULL, 'array');
foreach ($what as $topic)
{
echo '
<tr>
<td class="windowbg" valign="middle">
', $topic['link'];
// Is this topic new? (assuming they are logged in!)
if (!$topic['new'] && $context['user']['is_logged'])
echo '
<a href="', $scripturl, '?topic=', $topic['topic'], '.from', $topic['new_from'], '#new"><img src="', $settings['images_url'], '/', $context['user']['language'], '/new.gif" alt="', $txt[302], '" border="0" /></a>';
echo '
</td>
<td class="windowbg2" valign="middle" width="20%">
', $topic['poster']['link'], '
</td>
<td class="windowbg2" valign="middle" width="35%">';
if ($settings['images_url'] != $settings['theme_url'] . '/images' || file_exists($settings['theme_dir'] . '/images/icons/last_post.gif'))
echo '
<a href="', $topic['href'], '"><img src="', $settings['images_url'], '/icons/last_post.gif" alt="', $txt[111], '" title="', $txt[111], '" border="0" style="float: right;" /></a>';
echo '
<span class="smalltext">
', $topic['time'], '
</span>
</td>
</tr>';
}
echo '
</table>';
edit: added a extra line on top, since errors were created.
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