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It's not defeating the purpose at all. Any form of plugin/admin tool/script has to be written. If it's a mod, you can't always guarantee exactly how it's going to work, or how reliably. Admin tools are supplied with your db for a reason. Cron is always the best option for automated running of anything. UI tools have a use for people who aren't comfortable with shell/command line, but true dexterity and functionality are always obtained via the latter rather than the former.

Cron and the proper db management tools are by far the best solution. UI's are an idle option.

Why would we want to waste our time? We do have lives and interesting things to do, thankyou.

Well, I've made the mod totally active on the test forum. It now has an 'Email link' button at the top of viewtopic, and I've integrated the captcha into it for guest use too. Didn't think it was wise to leave it wide open for anonymous use.

Still open to testing and suggestions.

The penny finally dropped.

$result = $db->query('SELECT t.id, t.posted, t.subject, t.poster, p.message, p.hide_smilies, p.posted AS pposted, f.forum_name AS forum, c.cat_name AS category FROM '.$db->prefix.'topics t LEFT JOIN '.$db->prefix.'posts p ON (p.topic_id=t.id AND t.posted=p.posted) INNER JOIN '.$db->prefix.'forums AS f ON f.id=t.forum_id LEFT JOIN '.$db->prefix.'categories AS c ON f.cat_id=c.id LEFT JOIN '.$db->prefix.'forum_perms AS fp ON (fp.forum_id=f.id AND fp.group_id=3) WHERE (fp.read_forum IS NULL OR fp.read_forum=1) AND t.moved_to IS NULL '.$where.' ORDER BY posted DESC LIMIT '.$postslimit) or error('Unable to fetch forum topics', __FILE__, __LINE__, $db->error());

It was due to retrieving the message content, I was still pulling from posts by topic id, so I've changed it to compare topic posted time by message posted time as in the above. Is that code above optimal, btw?

Cheers,

Matt

Noticed this site the other day:

http://www.loudblog.com/index.php

I know what you mean. I'm in the copy the link and e-mail it via the e-mail UA camp myself, but just noticed those links seem to be on quite a few sites. And you know what it's like once you start mulling an idea over......

Edit: Just tried one on another website and found out what the general format is like. Looks straight forward enough to do.

I thought it would be that straight forward initially, but they're sods with favicons on some sites. I've got it now with an 8x8 image at the bottom of a 16x16 layer/frame with transparent background. Problem is with the likes of Metacafe, (as a prime example). Their favicon is 16x16, but the image is approx. only 8x8, and it is also placed in the bottom right of the layer, hence the background image is slightly visible past it.

As it is now though, (if I made the background image any smaller it would be ne'er use nor ornament), I can live with the odd quirky favicon making it partially visible.

With it being a non local image, it would mean connecting to the remote site and seeing what code was returned, to integrate it in that way. T'would be a quick way to create a self inflicted DoS.

Yup. It's an extract from the parser.

Finally managed to get the background image showing through just trying everything I could think of one by one. Ended up with this:

img.favicon {
        width: 16px;
        height: 16px;
        position: absolute;
        margin-left: -8px;
        margin-top: 1px;
        background: no-repeat;
        vertical-align: bottom;
        background-image: url(../images/icons/no_icon.png);
}

Only thing I'm wondering now is if there's a way to hide the background image if the favicon is shown, to avoid having both visible if the overlying icon is less in size than 16x16.

Aye, that's one thing I was wanting to completely avoid. Especially due to the fact that this is one of those purely cosmetic with no real need type scenarios. I'd like to get it working, but wouldn't introduce load specifically for it.

Just been trying that, and not for the life of me can I figure out how to do it, (although my CSS skills aren't exactly legendary). This is what I've tried so far. (Can class= be used for img tags, btw)?

img.favicon {
        background-image: url(./images/icons/no_icon.png);
        height: 16px;
        color: #ffffff;
}

<img class="favicon" src="'.$icon_url.'/favicon.ico" alt=""/>

Am I barking up the wrong tree with that? It just doesn't seem to want to work. If I put text in the alt tag, that displays white as set, but the background image won't display if there is no favicon.ico.

Cheers.