Topic Preview for phpBB3

A phpBB 3.1 extension that displays a short excerpt of text from the first post in a tooltip while the mouse hovers over a topic’s title.

Browser support

4+ 3.5+ 3+ 6+ 10.5+

Let your visitors peek at what's inside a topic before they click on it
Admin options to display user avatars and text previews from the first and last posts
Admin option to set the amount of text shown in the preview
Admin option to define BBCodes whose contents you want removed from the topic preview
Admin options to customize the appearance and assign different themes to board styles
Ships with four themes, additional custom themes can be added using CSS files
No theme option, i.e.: native browser tooltip (does not support avatars or last posts)
User option allows users to disable topic previews
Previews are aware of browser window top/bottom edges and are responsive
The last word in the topic preview is not cut off and will be followed by an ellipsis
BBCode tags and URL links are removed for a cleaner text-only appearance
Smileys are displayed as text :)
Supports right-to-left languages
Does not significantly impact server load (no additional db queries)
Built-in support for "Precise Similar Topics", "Recent Topics" and "Top Five" extensions

Download the latest release and unzip it.
Copy the entire contents from the unzipped folder to phpBB/ext/vse/topicpreview/.
Navigate in the ACP to Customise -> Manage extensions.
Find Topic Preview under "Disabled Extensions" and click Enable.

Navigate in the ACP to Customise -> Manage extensions.
Click the Disable link for Topic Preview.
To permanently uninstall, click Delete Data, then delete the topicpreview folder from phpBB/ext/vse/.