Code:

 

<?php
$countstuff = opendir("./forumposts_{$forum}/");
$total_topics = 0;
while($file = readdir($countstuff)){
  if($file != '.' && $file != '..' && $file != 'sticky' ){
     $total_topics++;
  }
}
closedir($countstuff);

if ($total_topics != 0 ) {


$s = "./forumposts_{$forum}/";

 $handle = opendir($s);

 while ( $topic = readdir($handle ))

  {

    if( $topic == '.' || $topic == '..' || $topic == 'sticky' )
   
    continue;
     
    $forumtopiclist [$topic] = filemtime($s."/".$topic);

    }

// use arsort to show them by last modified date
// arsort also lets us have "bumped" topics because it doesnt go by creation but last modified.
// so when a topic is replied to, it gets bumped to the top because then it's "modified"
// get it?

 arsort($forumtopiclist);


 while(list($t)=each($forumtopiclist))

 {


// strip the .txt off the end of the topics.

$thetopic = "$t";

$topicstrip = strrpos($thetopic, '.');

$topictitle = substr($thetopic, 0, $topicstrip);

$counter = "./forumposts_{$forum}/$t";  
$hits = count(file($counter));  

if ($hits < 15) {
$img = "2";
} else {
$img = "0";
}

// ============================
// Pull up who the author is
//============================
$op = 0;
$filename ="./authors_latest/{$forum}_{$topictitle}_author.txt";    
$myFile = fopen($filename, "r");
$fcontents = file($filename);
$grab = $op; {
$yeah = $fcontents[$grab];
if($line != "3"){
echo "";
}
}      
fclose($myFile);


// ============================
// And now the last replier
//============================
$op2 = 0;
$filename2 ="./authors_latest/{$forum}_{$topictitle}_lastreply.txt";    
$myFile2 = fopen($filename2, "r");
$fcontents2 = file($filename2);
$grab2 = $op2; {
$yeah2 = $fcontents2[$grab2];
if($line != "3"){
echo "";
}
}      
fclose($myFile2);



    echo "<tr><td class=arcade1 valign=top></td><td class=arcade1 valign=top><a href='viewtopic.php?topicid=$topictitle&forum=$forum&topicname=$topictitle'>$topictitle</a></td><td class=arcade1 valign=top><div align=center>$hits</div></td><td class=arcade1 valign=top><div align=center>$yeah</div></td><td class=arcade1 valign=top><div align=center>$yeah2</div></td></div>";
  }
} else {

echo "<tr><td class=arcade1 valign=top></td><td class=arcade1 valign=top></td><td class=arcade1 valign=top></td><td class=arcade1 valign=top></td><td class=arcade1 valign=top></td></div>";

}
?>