Question [Solved] How to extend Recent Topics period?

I saw that you tried to duplicate your original request (made as a "common question") in the Support category. The Support category is not the appropriate place to ask for a "hack" and I have removed your question from there and put it back here as a question for someone to answer. Please note the description of the Support category and how you should use it in future:

This category is for Kunena version 1.6 issues only. For a faster response, please make sure you include your K 1.6 configuration settings report in your posts. We do NOT support test versions. Before asking for support, please read the guides posted as sticky topics in this category.

Please do not use this category to ask for help if K 1.6 does not work for you in the same way as it works here at this website. Please do not use this category to request a change to the standard behaviour of Kunena.

While Joomla 1.6 is still in beta, there is no support for J! 1.6-related issues.

I have replied once to this topic. Although the change is a fairly straightforward one to make, I don't know exactly what file needs to be changed. The developers and moderators have been hard at work trying to improve the quality and stability of Kunena as well as answer the fifty or so forum topics that are updated each day. If we had more people helping we would have more time to research and do things like you have asked.

There's an easy non-technical solution to your "problem": encourage your users to participate more in the forum. Then you wouldn't even need to worry about this matter.

Well Sozzled I'm sorry about that, but once I didn't get to move my post to support category, I've created a new one because I thought that the support forum was the best place for asking for support. When I ask for "hack", it means a change in the code once we don't have this option in the admin settings/menu implemented yet.

Anyway, I'll try to pay more attention when posting again at Kunena forums.

Still waiting for some help on this issue from somebody else.

I got to find the file that build the dropdown list, it's the latestx.php, but as a newbie in PHP I don't get to see where is the line that makes the default value as a "month". So, the default value of the dropdown list is "month", does anybody here have any idea how to make it become "year" as the default value?

Thanks in advance.

I don't have the code for K 1.6.0 handy, but this is what I have for K 1.6.1:

Change lines 52 and 65 from to I've quickly tested these changes. They seem to work. There's no guarantee that they will continue to work. If you make these changes, the risks are all yours if there are any problems. If you have further problems in any way with your website, we may have difficulty supporting you. Every time that you upgrade Kunena you will have to reapply these changes. As long as you are aware of the risks you are taking and the additional administrative overheads involved ... good luck.

Hey Sozzled, thanks a lot. It worked wonderful.

Just to share with others, the file changes mentioned by Sozzled above is the latestx.php within the folder ...\components\com_kunena\funcs\

Sozzled, send this one as suggestion for the developers, we would set it from the back-end (Kunena settings). ;0)


Thanks and have a nice weekend.

Sozzled, send this one as suggestion for the developers, we would set it from the back-end (Kunena settings). ;0)

I'm already asked this from the developers... answer was that is not coming in K 1.6.x series but might be in K 1.7