First post in hover box thing
- rubberfishy
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First post in hover box thing
At the moment when you hover your mouse over a thread title a box comes up that states if there is any new posts or not, I really like it on forums when you hover over the thread title and a box comes up that contains the majority of the first post, I don't know how hard this is to implement or if you wanna implement it but I think it would be really useful if we had it here.
Re: First post in hover box thing
AFAIK, that's vBulletin exclusive. It could be replicated in a plugin, but I'm unsure if one exists for phpBB.
Re: First post in hover box thing
Or you could hard code it with an SQL query.
- raocow
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Re: First post in hover box thing
Uhm... am i alone in questioning the worth of the hassle of such a thing? I mean, just wheel click on the thread, it's all I do...
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Re: First post in hover box thing
The problem with doing this is that you now have to execute an SQL query for each thread on the page to pull down the first post, regardless of whether you are going to view it or not. Since phpBB doesn't have this feature by default, there isn't an appropriate index set up in the database to do this in an efficient manner.
In laymen's terms, it's going to slow down the forums a LOT.
In laymen's terms, it's going to slow down the forums a LOT.
- rubberfishy
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Re: First post in hover box thing
I could write a jQuery snippet that generates the preview on the fly when you hover over the title. This doesn't slow the forum down as it's just one jQuery call.