I want it so editing the last post in a thread bumps it

[ScottHughes]

On my forum, if users want to add to what they have posted in a thread bbut nobody has replied to that post in that thread yet, then they are supposed to edit the post rather than post an extra, consecutive post. In other words, if they were the last person to post in the thread and they want to add something they are supposed to just edit their last thread.

Anyway, when one edits the last post in a thread, it is not shown as a new post. The thread's 'last updated' time is still when the original post was made. The thread is not bumped to the top of the list. And the thread is not marked as unread for people who have read it before the last post was edited.

I found a hack that changes the time of the last post when it is edited to the time it is edited. I thought that would fix the problem but it doesn't bump the threads. In other words, a thread with the last post recently edited will be listed with a last post time that is fairly recent but will be lower in the list of threads than ones whose last post was made before the edit. I guess that hack changes the 'posted time' in the database for the specific post in the posts table but there must be a separate 'last updated' column in the topics table which that hack does not update. So I will probably just remove that hack since it does not do what I want.

Does anyone know of a hack that will do what I want? Or can anyone make one or tell me how to do this modification myself?

To reiterate, I want it so if a user edits their post and their post was the last one in a thread the thread will be bumped to the top of the list and the time displayed will be when the edit was made not when the edited post was originally posted.

Thanks!

[-Ram-]

I know a Bump Topic MOD.

[Wicher]

I did not test this, but if you want you can
backup below mentioned files and try this:

viewforum.php