Latest topics

[Hunter Lyons]

Alright, so I've noticed latest topics functions a little weird.

I have a topics block above my forums configured to pull from my news forums. This works as I'd like. When a user makes a reply to any of them, it says the time / date that they posted and their username / avatar in the topics feed.

However I have a 2nd topics feed on my sidebar, and it acts differently. When a new user makes a reply, it instead shows the original poster's time / date and username / avatar. I've had a few users complain to me about this and honestly it doesn't make sense. Why does the full-width latest topics function differently than the sidebar latest topics? It's the same block.

I think they should all function as I described 1st: the replying user's time / date of posting and username / profile should show in the topics feed, not the original poster.

This thread I previously made also explained this phenomenon and there was some support for it there.

[MADMAN32395]

Yea I was wondering the same thing, it would make sense to show replier instead of OP. Maybe, if it was a different block maybe showing latest replies (displaying replier)? then latest topics (showing OP)? That may be a good solution. But I do agree that it would be nice to see replier.

[Tom Irons]

Here's a tutorial on how to switch that:

1. Go to ACP > Customization > Themes and choose 'Edit' on the theme you want to change
2. Go to forums > front > widgets > topicFeed and replace the following lines:

{template="userPhoto" group="global" app="core" params="$topic->author(), 'tiny'"}

with

{template="userPhoto" group="global" app="core" params="$topic->lastCommenter(), 'tiny'"}

and

<span>{lang="byline_nodate" htmlsprintf="$topic->author()->link()"}</span><br>

with

<span>{lang="byline_nodate" htmlsprintf="$topic->lastCommenter()->link()"}</span><br>

 

[emsonline]

That helped me a lot.

How can I change it from showing the start date to showing the date of the last entry?

[emsonline]

OK..  I changed this:

                                <span class='ipsType_light'>{lang="topic_started_date" htmlsprintf="\IPS\DateTime::ts( $topic->mapped('date') )->html()"}</span>

To this:

                                  <span class='ipsType_light'>{lang="topic_started_date" htmlsprintf="\IPS\DateTime::ts( $topic->mapped('updated') )->html()"}</span>

But how do I change the text from "Started" to "Updated"? 
 

[Tom Irons]

There isn't a language string that has Updated... but if your site is English only you can do this:

<span class='ipsType_light'>Updated {datetime="$topic->mapped('updated')"}</span>

 

[emsonline]

Perfect!   Thanks for the quick reply on that.

[chilihead]

On 3/17/2016 at 2:05 PM, Lyonharted said:

I have a topics block above my forums configured to pull from my news forums. This works as I'd like. When a user makes a reply to any of them, it says the time / date that they posted and their username / avatar in the topics feed.

However I have a 2nd topics feed on my sidebar, and it acts differently. When a new user makes a reply, it instead shows the original poster's time / date and username / avatar. I've had a few users complain to me about this and honestly it doesn't make sense. Why does the full-width latest topics function differently than the sidebar latest topics? It's the same block.

Honestly that sounds like a bug. They should be consistent.

[Hunter Lyons]

38 minutes ago, chilihead said:

Honestly that sounds like a bug. They should be consistent.

Not sure. Hulu's template edit fixed it, but it should probably be addressed in the suite itself.

[pequeno]

On 6/4/2016 at 3:21 AM, Tom Irons said:

There isn't a language string that has Updated... but if your site is English only you can do this:

<span class='ipsType_light'>Updated {datetime="$topic->mapped('updated')"}</span>

 

Thanks, one question.

How do to show "Started" in the first message (when the topic is created) and "Updated" from the first comment?

With your solution allways show "Updated".

[Tom Irons]

Try this, it should work... if not let me know.

<span class='ipsType_light'>Started {datetime="$topic->start_date"}</span>

 

[pequeno]

Hello Tom Irons, works fine but if I put

<span class='ipsType_light'>Started {datetime="$topic->start_date"}</span>    
<span class='ipsType_light'>Updated {datetime="$topic->mapped('updated')"}</span>

shows Started and Update at the same time.

How to display one or the other as appropriate?

[pequeno]

On 11 de julio de 2016 at 5:23 PM, pequeno said:

Hello Tom Irons, works fine but if I put

<span class='ipsType_light'>Started {datetime="$topic->start_date"}</span>    
<span class='ipsType_light'>Updated {datetime="$topic->mapped('updated')"}</span>

shows Started and Update at the same time.

How to display one or the other as appropriate?

Hello, any help about?

Thanks.

[Tom Irons]

Take out the line you don't want... it's not that hard to figure out.

[pequeno]

Hello Tom, and thanks for your support. I do not speak English very well and I think I have not explained.
If I remove a line, for example "Updated" line, only will the creation date (Started), and I do not want that.
I want to put "Started" in messages without answers,  and "Updated" in messages with answers.  I need to combine both lines as appropriate.

Thanks.

[Tom Irons]

This should fulfill your needs:

{{if ( $topic->posts - 1 ) === 0}}
<span class='ipsType_light'>Started {datetime="$topic->start_date"}</span>
{{else}}
<span class='ipsType_light'>Updated {datetime="$topic->mapped('updated')"}</span>
{{endif}}

 

[pequeno]

Many thanks Tom, works perfectly!