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By: dlassen (offline) on November 03 2009 11:46 AM (Read 279 times)

dlassen

Hi guys,

Quick forum question: how can I get the more detailed topic listing into the center block on the front page.

Right now I'm able to show a not very detailed listing of latest posts for all forums (no user name, date, number of replies etc.).

Could I get the more detailed view (I can live with doing this for one forum only, but ideally it would be nice to see the last X posts from any forum).

Thanks in advance,

Dennis

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By: Geiss (offline) on November 03 2009 11:52 AM

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Just to make sure you're aware, if you hover over any of the Topic or Latest Post entries in the Forum Centerblock, it provides a lot of that info already ( user name, date, number of replies etc.)

Thx!

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By: dlassen (offline) on November 03 2009 12:11 PM

dlassen

Thanks Geiss - I am aware of that, but it's just that the more detailed view would be useful in my situation.

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By: Geiss (offline) on November 03 2009 12:21 PM

Geiss

No worries. I'm going for the low hanging fruit first!

The function that creates the centerblock lives in private/plugins/forum/functions.inc, and starts on line 1022:

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function plugin_centerblock_forum ($where = 1, $page = 1, $topic = '')

...

In the function, you'll see all the template tags that you can use in the .thtml file, for example:

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        $block->set_var ('phpself', $_CONF['site_url'] .'/index.php');

        $block->set_var ('startblock', COM_startBlock($LANG_GF02['msg170']));

        $block->set_var ('endblock', COM_endBlock());

        $block->set_var ('site_url', $_CONF['site_url']);

        $block->set_var ('layout_url', $_CONF['layout_url']);

        $block->set_var ('LANG_title', $LANG_GF02['msg170']);

        $block->set_var ('LANG_FORUM', $LANG_GF01['FORUM']);

        $block->set_var ('LANG_TOPIC', $LANG_GF01['TOPIC']);

        $block->set_var ('LANG_LASTPOST', $LANG_GF01['LASTPOST']);

        $block->set_var ('LANG_viewlastpost', $LANG_GF02['msg160']);

        $block->set_var ('LANG_forumjump', $LANG_GF02['msg195']);

and then further down towards the end of the function:

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            $block->set_var ('lastpostinfo', $lastpostinfo);

            $block->set_var ('lastpostid', $lastid);

            $block->set_var ('topicinfo', $topicinfo);

            $block->set_var ('cssid', $cssid);

            $block->set_var ('forum_id', $A['forum']);

            $block->set_var ('forum_name', $A['forum_name']);

            $block->set_var ('topic_id', $A['id']);

            $block->set_var ('topic_subject', $A['subject']);

            $block->set_var ('fullsubject', $fullsubject);

            $block->set_var ('views', $A['views']);

            $block->set_var ('replies', $A['replies']);

            $block->set_var ('date',$lastdate );

            $block->set_var ('lastpostby',$A['name']);

            $block->parse ('block_records', 'record',true);

You can use those tags in the private/plugins/forum/templates/blocks/ templates and edit them to your liking Specifically for the centerblock, you'll want to change centerblock.thtml and centerblock_displayline.thtml.

Make sure to copy whatever .thtml file you modify into the /custom folder in the same directory, that way you won't lose your changes on an upgrade.

Thx!

Eric