I am working on that, I added a simple query to the index.php file to get the title of the last post. But now this happened:
www.bydebrasdesigns.com/biblestudy/forum/forum.php
Only one of my four forums shows up.
Here is the deciding part from the file (I have the sub forum mod):
// Print the categories and forums
$result = $db->query('SELECT c.id AS cid, c.cat_name, f.id AS fid, f.forum_name, f.forum_desc, f.redirect_url, f.moderators, f.num_topics, f.num_posts, f.last_post, f.last_post_id, f.last_poster, f.parent_forum_id FROM '.$db->prefix.'categories AS c INNER JOIN '.$db->prefix.'forums AS f ON c.id=f.cat_id LEFT JOIN '.$db->prefix.'forum_perms AS fp ON (fp.forum_id=f.id AND fp.group_id='.$pun_user['g_id'].') WHERE (fp.read_forum IS NULL OR fp.read_forum=1) AND (f.parent_forum_id IS NULL OR f.parent_forum_id=0) ORDER BY c.disp_position, c.id, f.disp_position', true) or error('Unable to fetch category/forum list', __FILE__, __LINE__, $db->error());
$cur_category = 0;
$cat_count = 0;
while ($cur_forum = $db->fetch_assoc($result))
{
$moderators = '';
if ($cur_forum['cid'] != $cur_category) // A new category since last iteration?
{
if ($cur_category != 0)
echo "\t\t\t".'</tbody>'."\n\t\t\t".'</table>'."\n\t\t".'</div>'."\n\t".'</div>'."\n".'</div>'."\n\n";
++$cat_count;
?>
<div id="idx<?php echo $cat_count ?>" class="blocktable">
<h2><span><?php echo pun_htmlspecialchars($cur_forum['cat_name']) ?></span></h2>
<div class="box">
<div class="inbox">
<table cellspacing="0">
<thead>
<tr>
<th class="tcl" scope="col"><?php echo $lang_common['Forum'] ?></th>
<th class="tc2" scope="col"><?php echo $lang_index['Topics'] ?></th>
<th class="tc3" scope="col"><?php echo $lang_common['Posts'] ?></th>
<th class="tcr" scope="col"><?php echo $lang_common['Last post'] ?></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<?php
$cur_category = $cur_forum['cid'];
}
$item_status = '';
$icon_text = $lang_common['Normal icon'];
$icon_type = 'icon';
// Are there new posts?
if (!$pun_user['is_guest'] && $cur_forum['last_post'] > $pun_user['last_visit'])
{
$item_status = 'inew';
$icon_text = $lang_common['New icon'];
$icon_type = 'icon inew';
}
// Is this a redirect forum?
if ($cur_forum['redirect_url'] != '')
{
$forum_field = '<h3><a href="'.pun_htmlspecialchars($cur_forum['redirect_url']).'" title="'.$lang_index['Link to'].' '.pun_htmlspecialchars($cur_forum['redirect_url']).'">'.pun_htmlspecialchars($cur_forum['forum_name']).'</a></h3>';
$num_topics = $num_posts = ' ';
$item_status = 'iredirect';
$icon_text = $lang_common['Redirect icon'];
$icon_type = 'icon';
}
else
{
$forum_field = '<h3><a href="viewforum.php?id='.$cur_forum['fid'].'">'.pun_htmlspecialchars($cur_forum['forum_name']).'</a></h3>';
################################################################################
########################### Sub Forum MOD (start) ##############################
################################################################################
$n_t = 0;
$n_p = 0;
$l_pid = $cur_forum['last_post_id'];
$l_pr = $cur_forum['last_poster'];
$l_post = $cur_forum['last_post'];
for ($i = 0; $i < $db->result($subforum)+1; $i++)
{
if ($sfdb[$i][0] == $cur_forum['fid'])
{
$n_t = $n_t + $sfdb[$i][1];
$n_p = $n_p + $sfdb[$i][2];
if ($l_pid < $sfdb[$i][3])
{
$l_pid = $sfdb[$i][3];
$l_pr = $sfdb[$i][4];
$l_post = $sfdb[$i][5];
}
}
}
$num_topics = $n_t + $cur_forum['num_topics'];
$num_posts = $n_p + $cur_forum['num_posts'];
################################################################################
########################### Sub Forum MOD ( end ) ##############################
################################################################################
}
if ($cur_forum['forum_desc'] != '')
$forum_field .= "\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t".$cur_forum['forum_desc'];
// If there is a last_post/last_poster.
if ($l_post != '')
{
//EDIT: fetches last post's topic's subject
$result = $db->query('SELECT subject FROM '.$db->prefix.'topics WHERE last_post_id='.$l_pid) or error('Unable to fetch subject of last active topic', __FILE__, __LINE__, $db->error());
while($l_post_title = $db->fetch_assoc($result))
$last_post = '<a href="viewtopic.php?pid='.$l_pid.'#p'.$l_pid.'">'.$l_post_title['subject'].'</a><br /><span class="byuser">'.format_time($l_post).'<br /><em>'.$lang_common['by'].'</em> '.pun_htmlspecialchars($l_pr).'</span>';
}
else
$last_post = ' ';
if ($cur_forum['moderators'] != '')
{
$mods_array = unserialize($cur_forum['moderators']);
$moderators = array();
while (list($mod_username, $mod_id) = @each($mods_array))
$moderators[] = '<a href="profile.php?id='.$mod_id.'">'.pun_htmlspecialchars($mod_username).'</a>';
$moderators = "\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t".'<p><em>('.$lang_common['Moderated by'].'</em> '.implode(', ', $moderators).')</p>'."\n";
}
?>
<tr<?php if ($item_status != '') echo ' class="'.$item_status.'"'; ?>>
<td class="tcl">
<div class="intd">
<div class="<?php echo $icon_type ?>"><div class="nosize"><?php echo $icon_text ?></div></div>
<div class="tclcon">
<?php echo $forum_field."\n".$moderators ?>
</div>
</div>
</td>
<td class="tc2"><?php echo $num_topics ?></td>
<td class="tc3"><?php echo $num_posts ?></td>
<td class="tcr"><?php echo $last_post ?></td>
</tr>
<?php
}
Especially the long query
$result = $db->query('SELECT c.id AS cid, c.cat_name, f.id AS fid, f.forum_name, f.forum_desc, f.redirect_url, f.moderators, f.num_topics, f.num_posts, f.last_post, f.last_post_id, f.last_poster, f.parent_forum_id FROM '.$db->prefix.'categories AS c INNER JOIN '.$db->prefix.'forums AS f ON c.id=f.cat_id LEFT JOIN '.$db->prefix.'forum_perms AS fp ON (fp.forum_id=f.id AND fp.group_id='.$pun_user['g_id'].') WHERE (fp.read_forum IS NULL OR fp.read_forum=1) AND (f.parent_forum_id IS NULL OR f.parent_forum_id=0) ORDER BY c.disp_position, c.id, f.disp_position', true) or error('Unable to fetch category/forum list', __FILE__, __LINE__, $db->error());
at the beginning causes me trouble (not really good with SQL). Does anybody know how to fitch the latest post subject with that query? Fast help is welcome 
