Minor interim change to improve display of discussions on user page

because some of them are getting really long on moodle.org

Eventually this display will be completely different, with information
about all public data.

diff --git a/lang/en/forum.php b/lang/en/forum.php
index 9776488469c7a957826c910a5399085e3ac655e9..6a2818746a0e0f3462e2f2d46a2d5308413b3688 100644 (file)
--- a/lang/en/forum.php
+++ b/lang/en/forum.php
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ $string['discussion'] = "Discussion";
 $string['discussionmoved'] = "This discussion has been moved to '\$a'.";
 $string['discussions'] = "Discussions";
 $string['discussionsstartedby'] = "Discussions started by \$a";
+$string['discussionsstartedbyrecent'] = "Discussions recently started by \$a";
 $string['discussthistopic'] = "Discuss this topic";
 $string['eachuserforum'] = "Each person posts one discussion";
 $string['edit'] = "Edit";

diff --git a/mod/forum/lib.php b/mod/forum/lib.php
index 9a6aab8ff0638121a74f28385e9628c69d3bb4cf..fad723916628680047b91d0a1c73576471e09d64 100644 (file)
--- a/mod/forum/lib.php
+++ b/mod/forum/lib.php
@@ -653,7 +653,7 @@ function forum_get_user_discussions($courseid, $userid) {
                                AND p.userid = u.id 
                                AND u.id = '$userid' 
                                AND d.forum = f.id
-                          ORDER BY p.created ASC");
+                          ORDER BY p.created DESC");
 }
 
 
@@ -1389,13 +1389,20 @@ function forum_delete_post($post) {
 function forum_print_user_discussions($courseid, $userid) {
     global $CFG, $USER;
 
+    $maxdiscussions = 10;
+    $countdiscussions = 0;
+
 
     if ($discussions = forum_get_user_discussions($courseid, $userid)) {
         $user = get_record("user", "id", $userid);
         echo "<HR>";
-        print_heading( get_string("discussionsstartedby", "forum", "$user->firstname $user->lastname") );
+        print_heading( get_string("discussionsstartedbyrecent", "forum", "$user->firstname $user->lastname") );
         $replies = forum_count_discussion_replies();
         foreach ($discussions as $discussion) {
+            $countdiscussions++;
+            if ($countdiscussions > $maxdiscussions) {
+                break;
+            }
             if (($discussion->forumtype == "teacher") and !isteacher($courseid)) {
                 continue;
             }