It should have a little more configuration support than what I have currently seen out there, and most importantly, it shows you "Latest Posts" for every forum that you are able to see as an authenticated user. We have lots of hidden forums on our boards, and seeing latest posts from only public view boards just wasn't cutting it.

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so this now includes ALL forums, even private? (i know hidden is)

This is my first block. It's original code (except the query that I borrowed from viewposts.php).

It should pick up all permissions, including usergroup level permissions, and show private and hidden assuming that the user has access to the private or hidden groups.

It's completely untested outside of my site environment so I would really appreciate some feedback if people find it useful and would like for me to make it more useful.

Well, it's the same principal as the block we pack with our themes.
Yours does call the images and css style from the Forums template. However, it uses the modules/Forums/templates.

The Nuke 6.5 themes, by default, have the forum template and Nuke theme all together. There are no templates in the templates folder, other than subSilver for the Forum admin part. :?
And actually, the theme change on the phpBB side in Nuke 6.5 should be removed altogether in my opinion.

So if you could make it call the style from the themes/YourTheme/forums directory where the theme for Nuke6.5 with phpBB forums is called from...

Use DeepBlue theme from the Nuke6.5 theme pack as a source..it's the best place to start for getting an idea of how the Nuke6.5 themes SHOULD work according to how FB designed it.

Your modification would actually work really well with Nuke 6.0/phpBBport2.0.6 themes

mikem

Sorry. I am a Nuke n00b. Only been using it about a month. I didn't realize there was a packaged block of the last posts thingy. I only saw one for 6.0 which was theme specific and took a fair amount of modding to make work with 6.5. I decided to just write one from scrath instead. I agree with the unified theme thingy. I was thinking that seemed pretty stupid while I was writing it.

I guess I will discontinue development since this sounds like a dupe.

Sorry for the n00bness.

I went ahead and changed this to work on the new unified themes.

Originally Posted by Sataere

Sorry. I am a Nuke n00b. Only been using it about a month. I didn't realize there was a packaged block of the last posts thingy. I only saw one for 6.0 which was theme specific and took a fair amount of modding to make work with 6.5. I decided to just write one from scrath instead. I agree with the unified theme thingy. I was thinking that seemed pretty stupid while I was writing it. I guess I will discontinue development since this sounds like a dupe. Sorry for the n00bness.

Hey no..your Block isn't a Dupe. Our blocks in our packages are Hardcoded. Yours is not. I hope I didn't offend you. Your Block is actually GREAT.
If you could somehow manage to get it to work with the Nuke6.5 themes it would be even greater.
There have been a few users that have tried to do what you have pretty much accomplished but have been unsuccessful.
Don't give up now :-)

The main problem you may run into is that not all tempaltes use cellpics as their main bg images for the cells. But most of them do.

mikem

Yeah I updated it last night to work off of the unified 6.5 style sheet, instead of the phpBB one. I probably won't be able to mess with it much more until next week. The main thing I noticed is that all the classes I was using (row1, row2, etc.) don't seem present in most of the themes/<theme>/forums/style/style.css.

The cellpics shouldn't be a problem, I don't think, because those can be referenced via style (as below). They would be just as portable and specific as the individual theme and don't have to be hardcoded or db pulled. The themes would probably have to use standardized naming conventions for table related style classes though.

I don't really know anything about nuke theme standards yet, as my only experience is modifying phpBB subSilver to look like NukeNews theme, and now the switch to 6.5 forums themes.

Are there any specs, or good docs or tools which related specifically to style creation and standards for Nuke 6.5?

Code:

td.rowpic { background-color: #FFFFFF; background-image: url(/modules/Forums/templates/NukeNews/images/cellpic2.jpg); background-repeat: repeat-y; }

Thanks for the words of encouragement. I wrote what I have now (completely alpha and untested) in about 6 hours, so who knows what kind of fun stuff I can pull off if there is interest.

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Are there any specs, or good docs or tools which related specifically to style creation and standards for Nuke 6.5?

the only good tool I know of was I used the DeepBlue theme from the Nuke6.5 package to understand hwo the themes work in 6.5.
No official tools though.

mikem

Aha! Now I get it. I found the separate forums.css file in a ../themes/<theme name>/forums/. That appears to have everything I need for reference.

I have updated my Latest Posts block download and tested it with every 6.5-specific theme available for download on this site. The only one that has noticable issues is NukeCops Sunset 6.5 theme, because apparently they are still using the generated in-line style sheet for the forums in that theme, instead of the forums.css file which is present, but belongs to a different theme.

To recap:

This block shows all latest posts on the front page that the logged in (or anon/guest) user is authorized to see, including public, hidden, and private forums where authorized.

It works dynamically with all tested 6.5 unified style themes.

The mechanics of what is actually shown are still largely untested. I am anxiously waiting for bugs/comments/suggestions/compatabilityetc. !

Lastest Posts Block