Can't Find A Good One..

[mdlax1]

a mod that lets you preview a post in the index before clicking for 1.2/1.3 some busted ones came out a while back.. any info on this?

[mdlax1]

i can hear them crickets baby

[MikeC]

so do i LMAO

im not sure what type of hack you mean though

[Ash]

tried invisionhacks.com? :P

[mdlax1]

/---------------------------------------------------/
// Show First 300 Characters of The Topic (now vBulletin style)
// Written by ChrisK (webmaster@isubars.com)
//
// When a person hovers over the topic url
// it will show 1st 300 charecters of the post
/---------------------------------------------------/

/-----------------------------------------/
/Step 1: Open sources/Forums.php and find
/-----------------------------------------/

$topic['start_date'] = $std->get_date( $topic['start_date'], 'LONG' );

 -----------------------------------------
 add under:
******PAY ATTENTION TO THE AREAS THAT SAY [ ], YOU NEED TO ADD YOUR INFO TO THOSE SPOTS
THERE ARE 3 SPOTS TO EDIT IN THIS SECTION*******
 -----------------------------------------

$link = mysql_connect("localhost", "mdlax1", "ERIc1616") or die("Could not connect");
mysql_select_db("isubars_forum");
$tquery = "SELECT post FROM ibf_posts WHERE topic_id={$topic['tid']} ORDER BY pid ASC LIMIT 1";
$tres = mysql_query($tquery);
$tline = mysql_fetch_array($tres, MYSQL_ASSOC);
$text = $tline['post'];

$text = preg_replace('/<a href=\'(.*?)\'>(.*?)<\/a>/', '\\1', $text);
$text = preg_replace('/\' target=\'_blank/', '', $text);
$text = preg_replace('/<img src=\'(.*?)\'>/', '\\1', $text);
$text = preg_replace('/<img src=\'(.*?)\' \/>/', '\\1', $text);
$text = preg_replace('/http:\/\/www.[yourdomain].com\/forums\/html\/emoticons(.*?)alt=(.*?).gif/', '', $text);
$text = preg_replace('/\' border=\'0\' alt=\'user posted image/', '', $text);
$text = preg_replace('/\' \/>/', '', $text);
$text = preg_replace('/<span style=\'(.*?)\'>/', '', $text);
$text = preg_replace('/<span style=\'(.*?)\' \/>/', '', $text);
$text = preg_replace('/<\/span>/', '', $text);
$text = preg_replace('/<!--emo&/', '', $text);
$text = preg_replace('/<!--endemo-->/', '', $text);
$text = preg_replace('/-->/', '', $text);
$text = preg_replace('/<u>(.*?)<\/u>/', '\\1', $text);
$text = preg_replace('/<i>(.*?)<\/i>/', '\\1', $text);
$text = preg_replace('/<b>(.*?)<\/b>/', '\\1', $text);
$text = preg_replace('/<br>/', "\n", $text);

$maxTextLenght=300;
$aspace=" ";
if(strlen($text) > $maxTextLenght ) {
$text = substr(trim($text),0,$maxTextLenght);
$text = substr($text,0,strlen($text)-strpos(strrev($text),$aspace));
$text = $text.'...';
}

&nbsp;-----------------------------------------
&nbsp;then find:
&nbsp;-----------------------------------------

return $p_end . $this->html->RenderRow( $topic );

&nbsp;-----------------------------------------
&nbsp;replace that with:
&nbsp;-----------------------------------------

return $p_end . $this->html->RenderRow( $topic, $text );

/-----------------------------------------/
/Close sources/Forums.php
/-----------------------------------------/

/-----------------------------------------/
/Step 2: Open Skin/s*/skin_forum.php and find
/-----------------------------------------/

<a href="{$ibforums->base_url}showtopic={$data['tid']}" title="{$ibforums->lang['topic_started_on']} {$data['start_date']}">{$data['title']}</a>

&nbsp;-----------------------------------------
&nbsp;replace that with:
&nbsp;-----------------------------------------

<a href="{$ibforums->base_url}showtopic={$data['tid']}" title="{$text}">{$data['title']}</a>

&nbsp;-----------------------------------------
&nbsp;then find:
&nbsp;-----------------------------------------

function RenderRow($data) {

&nbsp;-----------------------------------------
&nbsp;replace that with:
&nbsp;-----------------------------------------

function RenderRow($data, $text) {


/-----------------------------------------/
/Close Skin/s*/skin_forum.php.php
/-----------------------------------------/

/-----------------------------------------/
/ALL DONE !!
/-----------------------------------------/






:)

[MikeC]

ahh right so doesnt that work?

[mdlax1]

sure does.. i did it on a 1.2 board im pretty sure it works on a 1.3 doesn't work on stickies/pinned though im gonna see if i can tackle that

www.civicland.com/forums is a example (you have to click on one of the parent forums first get to a topics index