Forum Subject: making the topic starter's name stay under author

Posted on: 06/14/04 06:05pm
By: Superchicken

Hi, I don't know why but the forum plug-in has a weird "feature" of putting the topic's most recent replying author under the author heading. Any idea how I would change this to the topic starter?

making the topic starter's name stay under author

Posted on: 06/14/04 07:17pm
By: JohnnyWormtown

as I said over on the portalparts.com forum, it's not really the code that's wrong, it's the table label... it should read "Last Poster" and not "Author".

Look for the variable $lastreplyby and $by (which is eventually passed to the template) in index.php of you forum directory to see what I mean.

I wanted to add the author's name as well, so I threw the last poster's name in the table cell with the last post time and made a column for Author over on the other side of Views and Replies (a la phpB.

all I really had to do in the index.php was add a line that said

$author = '<A HREF="' .$_CONF['site_url']. '/users.php?mode=profile&uid=' .$forumdisplay['uid']. '">' .$forumdisplay['name']. '</a>';

near the $lastreplyby stuff (I added it right after it), and then pass that variable to the template as well... then edit my templates to display them both.

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making the topic starter's name stay under author

Posted on: 06/21/04 12:43pm
By: Blaine

This is actually being caused by the SQL statement that I am using.

Have a look at forum/index.php - around line 712 for this line

$lastreply = DB_query("SELECT * FROM {$_TABLES['gf_topic']} WHERE id={$forumdisplay['id']} OR pid={$forumdisplay['id']} ORDER BY 'id' ASC LIMIT 1");

The line above has been corrected. The change begin to use ASC instead of DESC so I get the parent record (smallest record id number) instead of the last ID

making the topic starter's name stay under author

Posted on: 08/23/04 10:14am
By: Anonymous (xie)

JohnnyWormtown or Blaine (anyone), could you explain the steps to do this as I've been looking for a feature (hack) like this.