A phpBB extension that displays 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 amount 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
- No theme option, i.e.: native browser tooltip (does not support avatars or last posts)
- User option allows users to disable topic previews
- Previews are aware of browser window top/bottom edges and are responsive
- The last word in the topic preview is not cut off and will be followed by an ellipsis
- BBCode tags and URL links are removed for a cleaner text-only appearance
- Smileys are displayed as text :)
- Does not significantly impact server load (no additional db queries)
- Multiple languages are supported. View the pre-installed localizations.
- Built-in support for "Precise Similar Topics", "Recent Topics" and "Top Five" extensions
- Featured MOD of the Week in the phpBB Weekly Podcast, episode #143.
- phpBB 3.2.0 or higher
- PHP 5.4 or higher
- Download the latest validated release.
- Unzip the downloaded release and copy it to the
extdirectory of your phpBB board. - Navigate in the ACP to
Customise -> Manage extensions. - Look for
Topic Previewunder the Disabled Extensions list and click itsEnablelink.
- 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/.
Support is available for Topic Preview in the phpBB Extension Database.
© 2013 - Matt Friedman