Link on forum index, latest thread

This may sound confusing at first but.. bare with me..

I have been working with modifying PHP Fusion alot, and the forums on it are obviously a spin-off of phpBB. I have successfully made MANY modifications to the front page of the forum. There is one thing I want to do but cannot figure out, maybe the userbase here can help me, I've been sooo busy lately haven't had much time to post anyway :).

On the forum list, where it lists each available forum, total posts/topics, and the last user to post something as well as the date, I also want to have a link above the date that shows a link to the latest thread in that specific forum. Post here if you think you can help, and ill start posting code and screenshots of what im talking about, thanks in advance !!

can't you select the highest post-id directly from the database and use that to create the link? (view.php?post=123 or whatever the forum uses)

Mind_nl gives a good solution, but in any way you will need to do this with SQL.

Try to check if there are SSI functions in the phpfusion software (if there are it will help a lot)

i have unfortunately tried this method and can not get anything to show except the latest post DATE and who posted it, not a link to the thread itself :(

I guess you should create the link (it should be something with the thread id in database)

to update everyone on this, still cant get it to work, always get the same link no matter what forum it is, say for 5 forums, it will show the same topic on each forum :(

I think you should ask in the php fusion support area for this, as none here uses the software you use.

The only tip I can give you is that you should use the code that is created by the forum message index (the category) page

hah! get a reply on their support boards? you are more likely to get a solution here for software none of u know about, rather than getting a solution there.. i promise you that much.. if anyone is willing to work with me in private on this please PM me ? :)

Can you post (as an attachment) the board index, and the message index pages?

method, maybe you're using the wrong software ... lol

when you say the message index do you mean say the page that allows you to view threads? (forum/viewthread.php) & (forum/index.php)

Right :)

But I need both the template and the code pages (if they exist)

shouldnt need any theme/template files because its global across each page, it doesnt have a new template for each one (the php files really design it, the themes just color it) i will edit and attach files now :)

edit- ok i cant seem to find anywhere to attach the file :P so i will link you to text versions:

http://www.3rd-evolution.net/forum/index.txt

http://www.3rd-evolution.net/forum/viewthread.txt

Ok I will check those later, and I will let you know ;)