IP.Content - Recent Topics Block

[Mysterioux]

File Name: IP.Content - Recent Topics Block

File Submitter: Shaydx

File Submitted: 23 Jul 2011

File Category: Content Management

Supported Versions: IP.Content 2.1.x, IP.Content 2.2.x, IP.Content 2.3.x

Adds a very nice looking block that will show your 5 recent topics.

here to download this file

[3DKiwi]

You're charging $3.00 for this? Myself and others have freely posted code for creating your own Recent Topic blocks.

I don't have a problem with people making a few bucks making hooks and mods but not for really simple stuff like this. This should be a freebie in my opinion.

3DKiwi

[Mysterioux]

You're charging $3.00 for this? Myself and others have freely posted code for creating your own Recent Topic blocks.

I don't have a problem with people making a few bucks making hooks and mods but not for really simple stuff like this. This should be a freebie in my opinion.

3DKiwi

Sorry, this is my mistake :P this is supposed to be free!.

[Warzone]

Ey, make one for: last posts to :P

[3DKiwi]

Sorry, this is my mistake

this is supposed to be free!.

Yay!!

[Mysterioux]

Ey, make one for: last posts to

uploading it right now.

done: <- waiting for approval

[AZanetti]

" alt="" class="ipsImage" width="1000" height="121">

[Mysterioux]

" alt="" class="ipsImage" width="1000" height="121">

What does this have to do with my block?

[Warzone]

Nice, i hope it gets approved soon :)

[Michael]

@Shaydx
It means he couldn't download the file. I've directed him to contact IPS to check his account download permissions.

[Mysterioux]

@Shaydx

It means he couldn't download the file. I've directed him to contact IPS to check his account download permissions.

Alright Thanks! :)

Nice, i hope it gets approved soon

It just got approved :P

[Freeborne]

I've installed both Latest Posts and Latest Topics blocks. Thanks :)

The Latest Topics however was not displaying member photos. Comparing the code between these two blocks I noticed they are both very different for what I thought would be almost identical tasks.

Snipet of your code:

<ul class='ipsList_withminiphoto'>

   <li class='clearfix'>

<a href='{parse url="showuser={$r['member_id']}" seotitle="{$r['members_seo_name']}" template="showuser" base="public"}' title='{$this->lang->words['view_profile']}' class='ipsUserPhotoLink left'>{$this->settings['pics']}</a>


<div class='list_content'>

<a href='{parse url="showtopic={$r['tid']}" base="public" template="showtopic" seotitle="{$r['title_seo']}"}' rel='bookmark' class='ipsType_small' title='{$this->lang->words['view_topic']}'>{$r['topic_title']}</a>


<p class='desc ipsType_smaller'>{parse expression="IPSMember::makeProfileLink( $r['author_name'], $r['author_id'], $r['author_seo_name'] )"}

- {parse date="$r['start_date']" format="short"}</p>

</div>


					    </li>

        </ul>

I modified it (to get Member Photo's displaying):

<ul class='ipsList_withminiphoto'>

   <li class='clearfix'>

   <a href='{parse url="showuser={$r['member_id']}" seotitle="{$r['members_seo_name']}" template="showuser" base="public"}' title='{$this->lang->words['view_profile']}' class='ipsUserPhotoLink left'><img src='{$r['pp_mini_photo']}' alt="{$r['members_display_name']}{$this->lang->words['users_photo']}" class='ipsUserPhoto ipsUserPhoto_mini' /></a>

<div class='list_content'>

<a href='{parse url="showtopic={$r['tid']}" base="public" template="showtopic" seotitle="{$r['title_seo']}"}' rel='bookmark' class='ipsType_small' title='{$this->lang->words['view_topic']}'>{$r['topic_title']}</a>

<p class='desc ipsType_smaller'>{parse expression="IPSMember::makeProfileLink( $r['author_name'], $r['author_id'], $r['author_seo_name'] )"}

- {parse date="$r['start_date']" format="short"}</p>

</div>


					    </li>

  </ul>

All I really changed was the img source tag and used the code from your Latest Posts. It works, but I'm not sure if there are bugs I haven't discovered yet.


Also, could you please check the code for the DIV tags at the end. They start outside the IF tag, but are closed inside the IF tag.

[Mysterioux]

I've installed both Latest Posts and Latest Topics blocks. Thanks :smile:

The Latest Topics however was not displaying member photos. Comparing the code between these two blocks I noticed they are both very different for what I thought would be almost identical tasks.

Snipet of your code:

<ul class='ipsList_withminiphoto'>

   <li class='clearfix'>

<a href='{parse url="showuser={$r['member_id']}" seotitle="{$r['members_seo_name']}" template="showuser" base="public"}' title='{$this->lang->words['view_profile']}' class='ipsUserPhotoLink left'>{$this->settings['pics']}</a>


<div class='list_content'>

<a href='{parse url="showtopic={$r['tid']}" base="public" template="showtopic" seotitle="{$r['title_seo']}"}' rel='bookmark' class='ipsType_small' title='{$this->lang->words['view_topic']}'>{$r['topic_title']}</a>


<p class='desc ipsType_smaller'>{parse expression="IPSMember::makeProfileLink( $r['author_name'], $r['author_id'], $r['author_seo_name'] )"}

- {parse date="$r['start_date']" format="short"}</p>

</div>


						</li>

		</ul>

I modified it (to get Member Photo's displaying):

<ul class='ipsList_withminiphoto'>

   <li class='clearfix'>

   <a href='{parse url="showuser={$r['member_id']}" seotitle="{$r['members_seo_name']}" template="showuser" base="public"}' title='{$this->lang->words['view_profile']}' class='ipsUserPhotoLink left'><img src='{$r['pp_mini_photo']}' alt="{$r['members_display_name']}{$this->lang->words['users_photo']}" class='ipsUserPhoto ipsUserPhoto_mini' /></a>

<div class='list_content'>

<a href='{parse url="showtopic={$r['tid']}" base="public" template="showtopic" seotitle="{$r['title_seo']}"}' rel='bookmark' class='ipsType_small' title='{$this->lang->words['view_topic']}'>{$r['topic_title']}</a>

<p class='desc ipsType_smaller'>{parse expression="IPSMember::makeProfileLink( $r['author_name'], $r['author_id'], $r['author_seo_name'] )"}

- {parse date="$r['start_date']" format="short"}</p>

</div>


						</li>

  </ul>

All I really changed was the img source tag and used the code from your Latest Posts. It works, but I'm not sure if there are bugs I haven't discovered yet.


Also, could you please check the code for the DIV tags at the end. They start outside the IF tag, but are closed inside the IF tag.

The code you changed it into was that the profile photo of the topic starter wont get replaced with the one that replies. But if you want that, go with the code you have ;)

[Jazman]

is this supposed to move a topic to the top of the list whenever someone makes a reply?

[Mysterioux]

is this supposed to move a topic to the top of the list whenever someone makes a reply?

That's something that is automatically done, and not by me. Sorry!

[Freeborne]

is this supposed to move a topic to the top of the list whenever someone makes a reply?

You can easily change this by editing the block and going to "Sorting Options" tab. Just change it from "Last Post Date" to something else.

Thanks for this free block. Found it very useful :smile:


I made a few customizations to this code to suit my own site, and thought I'd post here in case someone else can use it. I didn't find it useful at all to include any details on the 'Topic Author' so I made the Avatar and 'Member Name' all for the "Last person to post". You'll see I added some text "Last post by" just to avoid confusion for my visitors. Also made it so clicking the links take you to your "Last Read Post" instead of the start of the topic.

Lastly, I've re-ordered the DIV tags because the default code had a DIV tag start outside the IF statement and end inside the closing IF statement (see AusArmA's post). This caused the block to look really weird on my Android phone so I guess it wasn't 100% legit HTML. It now looks okay.

<div class="maintitle">

<h3>{$title}</h3>

</div>

<div class="ipsBox">

<div class="ipsBox_container ipsPad">

<if test="is_array( $records ) && count( $records )">

  {parse striping="feed_striping" classes="row1,row2 altrow"}

  <foreach loop="$records as $r">

  <ul class="ipsList_withminiphoto">

  <li class="clearfix">

   <a href="{parse url="showuser={$r["member_id"]}" seotitle="{$r["members_seo_name"]}" template="showuser" base="public"}" title="{$this->lang->words["view_profile"]}" class="ipsUserPhotoLink left"><img src="{$r["pp_mini_photo"]}" alt="{$r["members_display_name"]}{$this->lang->words["users_photo"]}" class="ipsUserPhoto ipsUserPhoto_mini" /></a>


<div class="list_content">

  <a href="{$r["url"]}page__view__getnewpost" rel="bookmark" title="{$r["title"]}" class="ipsType_small">{parse expression="IPSText::truncate( $r["topic_title"], 50 )"}</a>

<br /><p class="desc ipsType_smaller">Last post by {parse expression="IPSMember::makeProfileLink( $r["lastpostername"], $r["last_poster_id"], $r["seo_last_name"] )"} - <span class="date"><abbr class="published" title="{parse expression="date( "c", $r["date"] )"}">{parse date="$r["date"]" format="short"}</abbr></span></p></div>

  </li>

  </ul>

  </foreach>

  </if>

</div>

</div>

P.S: You might want to use my code only as a reference. I couldn't copy and post my code as it turned any apostrophe into ascii code, so I replaced my apostrophe's with quotes.

[Jazman]

You can easily change this by editing the block and going to "Sorting Options" tab. Just change it from "Last Post Date" to something else.

Ahhh yes, i changed it to sort by start date, soo simple, thanks :)

[tenaki]

Can this be made to show the thumbnail of the last person to post, rather than the topic starter?

Works well, thanks for this btw

[Freeborne]

Tenaki, refer to my code 3 posts up.

Mine shows the Avatar of the 'last person to post'.
If you click the title of the topic, it will also take the person to the last post in that topic they have read (instead of to the start of the topic).

This is how I preferred it, and hopefully the author will make this the default view (or an option anyway).

This is what mine looks like. The avatars you see belong to the "last post by" member. No-where is the topic author mentioned or linked to (it's not useful for my requirements although I can see why it would be useful for other boards)

[tenaki]

Spot on thanks for sharing it.

[Mysterioux]

Thanks Freeborn :) - Im way to busy to even read the topics sometimes :) i really appreciate it ^^

[tenaki]

Getting a parse error on it, any chance of repositing that code or uploading it as text file?

[Freeborne]

Can't even upload text files. That's kind of lame.

Here's a zip file, that contains a text file with my block code.
freeborne_latest_topics.zip

Just copy and paste that into the "Template" tab of Shaydx's block if you want it looking like my version.

- Clicking topic title takes you to 'last read post'
- Avatar is for the "last person to post"
- Topic title is limited to 50 characters. Change the truncate value if you want short/longer titles depending on how wide you expect your block to be.

[tenaki]

Thanks again for sharing it.

[najaru_1]

any possibilitie to have the last post text and not the first post?