mode

Controls the main behaviour of the module.

• LAT (Last Active Topics) retrieves topics, which contain the newest posts. (I guess this will be the most commonly used mode of operation)

• LCT (Last Created Topics) retrieves topics, which were most recently created. It does not pay any attention to whether there are recent postings in one of those topics. Topic creation time is all that counts.
• LCP (Last Created Posts) retrieves no topics but the most up-to-date single postings. These can share the same topics.

Display body instead of subject

Defines what to do if the module encounters an empty subject. This is sort of impossible for topics but pretty much regular for a posted message inside a topic. Question is: Do you want the body (or part of it) to be displayed? 

• Only if subject is empty If we encounter an empty subject, use the body text instead. Otherwise stick to the subject.
• Only if using LCP mode In LCP mode, the chance that you encounter subjectless postings is quite high of course. This option always displays the body instead of the subject, but ONLY if you are using LCP mode.
  
• Always Doesn't matter whether we have a subject or not. Always use message body instead!
• Never Don't even think about using the message body

LAT/LCT subject/body display

Defines whether to display the subject or body from the last (most recent) posting or from the topic itself. Only works in LAT/LCT mode. 

LAT/LCT User display

Defines which username to choose for display. The one that posted the last (most recent) posting or the one that created the topic. 

LAT/LCT Date

Defines whether to use the topic creation or the last (most recent) post date.

Toggle from which forum to display stuff

Define from which type(s) of forum you want to display posts/topics. For example, if you select "Public only", topics/posts from registered, private and moderator forums won't show up. 

Forum (id's) to use

Here you can specify a range of forum ids the module should include in his search run.  It is written as a comma separated list, for example 1,4,7 tells the module to use forums with the ids 1, 4 and 7 when searching for posts. Leaving this field blank results in all forums being included in the search.

You can find out a forum id, by hovering your mouse pointer over the forum name on the main phpbb page. In your browsers status bar it should say something like: http://yourdomain.com/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=2 , now notice the f=2 at the end of the url, f stands for forum id, and the 2 is the actual id number you want.

Display character limit

Limits the number of characters the module tries to display. If there are more characters to write than allowed by this configuration value, the text will be cut off after reaching the character limit and a "..." will be appended. 

Results

Number of results (postings/topics) to fetch and display. Default value is 5 which is a good start I guess. Change according to your needs. 

Custom date format string

If you leave this field empty, the module will use the _DATE_FORMAT_LC2 definition from within joomla. If you want something else instead, customize it to your liking using format switches according to the php strftime() function.

 Custom timezone offset

This option lets you set a timezone offset in hours from your phpbb mysql server time. For example of you are GMT+1 and your server is GMT, enter "1". If you and the server share the same timezone set this to 0.

Result order

Sort the resulting lines ASCending or DESCending

Show date

Show or hide the date-/time-strings of the topics/postings 

Show user

Show or hide the usernames of topics/postings

Username link type

Display the poster username as a link to his/her phpbb profile