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Hello Isabel,

That information isn't currently supplied to the template. On approach to adding that functionality that I can imagine would require a couple of steps:

(1) A new method would need to be added to the /componets/som_simplestforum/models/topiclist.php file which extracts the latest post for a given topic;
(2) Add a loop in the model's getData function which iterates over the items to be returned and gets the latest post by calling the newly added latest post method
(3) Add the latest post as a new field of each topic
(4) echo the new latest post fields as desired in the template

There are other ways that would use less queries but more PHP loops, etc. but this one is quick and easy to implement. Here is some sample code:

Add at line 143 of /components/com_simplestforum/models/topiclist.php:

/**
     * Returns the latest post associated with the specified topic id.
     * @param $topicId int the id of the topic
     * @return object the most recent post
    */
    function _getLatestPost($topicId)
    {
        $where = array(
            'a.thread = '.(int)$topicId,
        );

        require_once(JPATH_COMPONENT.DS.'helpers'.DS.'forum.php');
        if (!ForumHelper::verifyPermissions('moderate', $this->_forumId)) {
            $where[] = 'a.published = true';
        }

        $query = 'SELECT a.*, IF(b.id IS NOT NULL, b.name, IF(LENGTH(a.authorId) > 0 AND a.authorId != '.$this->_db->Quote('0').', a.authorId, '.$this->_db->Quote(JText::_('ANONYMOUS')).')) AS name
                  FROM #__simplestforum_post AS a
                  LEFT JOIN #__users AS b ON b.id = a.authorId
                  WHERE '.implode(' AND ', $where).'
                  ORDER BY a.date DESC
                  LIMIT 1'
        ;
        $this->_db->setQuery($query);

        return ($item = $this->_db->loadObject())?$item:new stdClass();
    } //end _getLatestPost

Add at line 134 of /components/com_simplestforum/models/topiclist.php:

foreach ($this->_data as $topic) {
                $topic->latestPost = $this->_getLatestPost($topic->id);
            }

Then modify the template as you see fit taking advantage of the newly added latestPost field for each item. For example:

// display the name of the user that made the last post
echo $item->latestPost->name;

// OR display the *unprocessed* text of the last post (to process the message check out the code in /components/com_simplestforum/view/postlist/tmpl/default.php and see how it's done there
echo $item->latestPost->message;

Cheers!