If you take a closer look to my sites' latest posts box, you'll see an enhancement of this hack. You'll get the full thread-title as soon as you hover over it with the mouse.

To get this, you can die two different deaths. Either, generate the link to the thread by yourself. Or hack the moduleLink-method, so it would take an additional parameter.

I did the later one, so the Eloi's short-url wouldn't be harmed.

As always, please make sure to have a recent backup before trying this hack. First, we need an additional parameter:

552 function moduleLink($title, $module=NULL, $getVars=NULL, $target=NULL,
$class=NULL, $anchor=NULL, $html=NULL){^M

...this should do nicely. Next, we'll just paste that parameter into the generated anchor tag:

635 return $link.$linkAnchor.'"'.$linkTarget.$linkClass.
$linkHtml.'>'.strip_tags($title, '').'';

That's it for the core-classes.

Back to Runtime.php. Here, we only need to call the new moduleLink method:

126     /**
127     * Displays block with next set of games in it
128     *
129     * @author   Don Seiler <don@NOSPAM.seiler.us>
130     */
131     function showLatestThreadsBlock() {
132 
133         // Get settings
134 
135         $settings               = $GLOBALS['core']->sqlSelect('mod_phpwsbb_settings');
136         $showblock              = $settings[0]['showlatestthreadsblock'];
137         $blocktitle             = $settings[0]['latestthreadsblocktitle'];
138         $limit                  = $settings[0]['maxlatestthreads'];
139         $allow_anon_view        = $settings[0]['allow_anon_view'];
140         $bboffline              = $settings[0]['bboffline'];
141 
142 
143         if ($bboffline && !$_SESSION['OBJ_user']->isDeity())
144                 return;
145 
146         if(!$showblock)
147                 return;
148         
149 
150         if(!$allow_anon_view && !$_SESSION['OBJ_user']->username)
151                 return;
152 
153         $block = NULL;
154 
155         // $sql = PHPWS_ genLatestThreadsSQL($limit);
156         $sql=PHPWSBB_Runtime::genLatestThreadsSQL($limit);
157 
158         $result = $GLOBALS['core']->getAllAssoc($sql);
159         $length=30;
160 
161         if($result)
162                 foreach($result as $nr => $row) {
163 
164                         $editor=$row['editor'];
165                         $owner=$row['owner'];
166                         $title=$row['label'];
167                         $posts=$row['pcount'];
168                         $id=$row['id'];
169 
170                         if(strlen($title)>$length)
171                                 $lbl=substr($title, 0, $length).'...';
172                         else
173                                 $lbl=$title;
174 
175                         $title="TITLE='$title'";
176 
177                         if(isset($editor))
178                                 $poster=$editor;
179                         else
180                         if(isset($owner))
181                                 $poster=$owner;
182                         else
183                                 $poster=$_SESSION['translate']->it('Guest');
184 
185 
186                         $link=PHPWS_Text::moduleLink($lbl, 'phpwsbb',
187                                 array(  'PHPWSBB_MAN_OP'=>'view',
188                                         'PHPWS_MAN_ITEMS'=>$id),
189                                 null, null, null, $title);
190 
191                         $block .=       "<p><strong>$poster</strong><br />".
192                                         "$link($posts)</p>";
193 
194                 }
195 
196         $GLOBALS['CNT_phpwsbb_latestthreadsblock']['title'] =
197                 $blocktitle;
198 
199         $GLOBALS['CNT_phpwsbb_latestthreadsblock']['content'] = $block;
200         
201     }// END FUNC showLatestThreadsBlock

...enjoy!