Forum names on Portal announcements

[leefish]

I was wandering about in the old threads here on MYBBHacks and came across this post:

http://mybbhacks.zingaburga.com/showthread.php?tid=50

I had a look at the code - I thought well, that doesn't seem to have changed much - I shall have a go. I made this code edit in my portal.php

PHP Code:

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$announcements = ''; $query = $db->query(" SELECT t.*, t.username AS threadusername, u.username, u.avatar, u.avatardimensions, f.name AS forumname FROM ".TABLE_PREFIX."threads t LEFT JOIN ".TABLE_PREFIX."users u ON (u.uid = t.uid) LEFT JOIN ".TABLE_PREFIX."forums f ON (f.fid = t.fid) WHERE t.fid IN (".$announcementsfids.") AND t.tid IN (0{$tids}) AND t.visible='1' AND t.closed NOT LIKE 'moved|%' ORDER BY t.dateline DESC LIMIT 0, ".$mybb->settings['portal_numannouncements'] );

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and put the edited file in my FTP. This was the result.....



I don't really understand why its doing this. Is the code non compatible now?

[ZiNgA BuRgA]

When you edited portal.php, do you have a blank line at the top of the file?
It should start with <?php with no blank lines, spaces or anything else before it.

[leefish]

Oh, I did not realise - yes, that has fixed it. Thank you

[leefish]

Well yay - I also managed to get the forum name and a link to it to show in the latest threads.....

Here is some fun for us - (Zinga and RateU not allowed to play) - based on the information in this thread, what is the href you need to put in the portal_latestthreads_thread template to have the forum name in the latest threads side box link to the forum name displayed?

Just in case it's not clear what I mean, here is the code snippet from the template xxx is the html you need to fill in (line 4 of the code block)

Code:

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<tr> <td class="{$altbg}"> <strong><a href="{$mybb->settings['bburl']}/{$thread['threadlink']}">{$thread['subject']}</a></strong> <span class="smalltext"><em><a href=xxx>{$thread['forumname']}</a></em></span> <span class="smalltext"><br /> <em>{$lang->latest_threads_lastpost}</em> {$lastposterlink}<br /> {$lastpostdate} {$lastposttime}<br /> <strong>&raquo; </strong>{$lang->latest_threads_replies} {$thread['replies']}<br /> <strong>&raquo; </strong>{$lang->latest_threads_views} {$thread['views']} </span> </td> </tr>

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