This is an extension for phpBB 3.1 that will display a short excerpt of text from the first post in a tooltip while the mouse hovers over a topic’s title.
- Let your visitors peek at what's inside a topic before they click on it
- Admin options to display user avatars and text previews from the first and last posts
- Admin option to set the length of text shown in the preview
- Admin option to define BBCodes whose contents you want removed from the topic preview
- Admin options to customize the appearance and assign different themes to board styles
- Ships with four themes. Additional custom themes can be added using CSS files.
- User option allows users to disable topic previews
- Previews are smart: They are aware of browser window edges and they are responsive
- The last word in the topic preview will be followed by an ellipsis and is not cut off
- BBCode tags and URL links are removed for a cleaner text-only appearance
- Smileys are displayed as text :)
- Supports right-to-left languages
- Does not significantly impact server load (no additional db queries)
- Built-in support for "Precise Similar Topics" and "Recent Topics" extensions
- English
- Czech (translation incomplete)
- Dutch (translation incomplete)
- French
- German
- Italian (translation incomplete)
- Persian
- Polish
- Romanian
- Spanish
- Featured MOD of the Week in the phpBB Weekly Podcast, episode #143.
- phpBB 3.1.0-RC2 or higher
- PHP 5.3.3 or higher
Note: This extension is in development. Installation is only recommended for testing purposes and is not supported on live boards. This extension will be officially released following phpBB 3.1.0.
- Download the latest release and unzip it.
- Copy the entire contents from the unzipped folder to
phpBB/ext/vse/topicpreview/. - Navigate in the ACP to
Customise -> Manage extensions. - Find Topic Preview under "Disabled Extensions" and click
Enable.
- Navigate in the ACP to
Customise -> Manage extensions. - Click the
Disablelink for Topic Preview. - To permanently uninstall, click
Delete Data, then delete thetopicpreviewfolder fromphpBB/ext/vse/.
© 2013 - Matt Friedman (VSE)