Hi again neuro!!

Again, my 2 cents says to leave it as a navigation aid instead of a link to the profile. I'll go out on a limb and say that MOST users want to get to the most recent POST before they want to know WHO posted it. Once there, they can always get the profile of the poster.

Again, just my 2 cents...but IMVVVHO it is USELESS with a link to the poster's profile.

To answer your question, though, I'll have to revisit the docs and get back to you.

Thanks Vipermad, that's really a good point about leaving the links as navigational aids. Made me wonder "what the heck was I thinking?" to want to change it in the first place.

Unfortunately there was more than one problem with the way this modification worked on my board, and I decided that I would just remove it. I found that some usernames are rather long, and having to display them in the "last post" table threw off the other fields to the extent that in some forums the "last post" field was longer than the subject field. It just didn't look aesthetically pleasing to me.

Also, for some reason when you click on the username link, rather than take you to the user's final post in the thread it took you to the beginning of the thread. Not sure why. Anyway, I just figured the negatives outweighed the positives so I said adios to the hack.

Thanks again for all your repeated help and insight, Vipermad. You rule.

Yeah what you should do is if you don't want the long usernames just edit the Maximum charecters allowed in a username. The deafault is 25 so something like 15 won't hurt the tables tooo much.

Good idea there Lord...but once the board is up and has a bunch of users it might be too late. Good thing to possibly add into the archives for new 5.xx users (yes, I think there are MANY who prefer a 5.xx board over 6 ).

Neuro, you are correct. I have done extensive testing with max length usernames, and it IS something that can be annoying. What I did on one board was I modified the text, and the layout of the "last post by....." so it was much shorter and didn't affect the cell width as much.

If I was starting over, I would combine what I have already done, with Lord's idea, for a much happier place!!

I'm revisiting this hack and since I just can not get the link to the "last user to post" to go to that user's last post (it just goes to the top of the thread and you still have to scroll down to get to the last post), I'm once again considering having it link to the user's profile instead. It says in the hack database description:



I don't see that option, can anyone shed some light on this? I suspect I may have to change something in:

if ($replies >= 1) {
$lastAuthName = qq(
Latest reply by: <a href="$lastpage#$threadinfo[3]">$lastName</a> );
} else {
$lastAuthName = "";
}

But I'm not sure exactly what.

The link to the instructions is here, if anyone is interested in looking into it for me:

http://www.ubbdev.com/hacks/latestreplybyinforumdisplay.txt

Thanks in advance. I'm sure that there will be some future users that will be interested in this option as well.

Guys.. i really need this mod for my 5.47e version, but the link no longer works.. can anyone tell me how I can add author name to the summary of last posts to the forums??

thanks!

Sorry guys! I just saw the last post, missed that before.. thanks! all sorted.

Anyone know where this elusive option is?

Download "Last post in Ultimate.cgi" from the v5 Database.

Indeed dude...
I trying to collect all the 5.xx series hacks, so people don't keep on gettin broken links <img src="frown.gif" border="0" alt="" />

Yeah. There are also alot of hacks missing from UBBDev's database. SpAwN's database (when it was up) had 140 V5 Hacks.

Is spawn's ever going back up ?
If not, can someone lemme know where I can get a hold of all the hacks..
I'll make a little site for 'em

It was up but it went down because Piratecove switched servers and he has to wait for SpAwN to move the files.

ohh..
Is he still around ?