Handy link to search for "New Posts in Only This Forum"

[Tralala]

Not a blockbuster by any means. Just a simple (yet effective) little link, makes it easy to find the new posts in that particular forum. (If there are NO new posts in a forum, the text link on forumhome says "old" instead.)


In FORUMDISPLAY template, find:
<td class="tcat" width="100%">$vbphrase[threads_in_forum]<span class="normal"> : $foruminfo[title]</span></td>

Replace with:
<td class="tcat" width="100%">$vbphrase[threads_in_forum]<span class="normal"> : $foruminfo[title] <a href="search.php?do=getnew&include=$foruminfo[forumid]">(new in <b>bold</b>)</a></span></td>



In forumhome_forumbit_level1_post template, find:
<a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$forum[forumid]"><strong>$forum[title]</strong></a>

Replace with:
<a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$forum[forumid]"><strong>$forum[title]</strong></a> <span class="smallfont"><a href="search.php?do=getnew&include=$forum[forumid]">$forum[statusicon]</a></span>




...done. :o




Screenshot/attachment shows what it looks like.

[Tralala]

Reserved.

[rjmjr69]

Dont work for me

[Tralala]

Doesn't work, how? Does the link not show up at all? Or does clicking it not result in showing that forum's new posts?

[rjmjr69]

Sorry for being so vague. No it does not appear at all. I have VB 3.6.5 checked the edit multiple times still not displaying.

[Tralala]

Check both screenshots. Neither of those show up?

[rjmjr69]

Nope neither show. And I made multiple new post's

www.binarytechzone.com

[Tralala]

I suspect it's an issue with your unique skin. Can you try in another skin, like the vBulletin default, just to confirm? By no means am I an advanced coder... but this is a real simple one, and it works for me with two skins.

-shrug-

[rjmjr69]

I tried the default still nothing. does OLD show up instead of new? lol Cause I have that showing on some threads....lol

[WhaLberg]

rjmjr69, you are doing something wrong. I checked whether there's something wrong in the codes or not, but there is nothing wrong.

Congratulations and thanks Tralala.

[rjmjr69]

Must be me usually is. But I have gone over this a million times and cleared all cache and everything oh well was worth a shot. Thank you though.

[rjmjr69]

I do not know what the heck is happening now. Here are the two templates to edit I can't figure out what I did

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[Tralala]

I do not know what the heck is happening now. Here are the two templates to edit I can't figure out what I did


For starters, you didn't add the code to the FORUMDISPLAY template.

(I searched for "search.php?do=getnew&include=$foruminfo[forumid]" -- the important bit -- and found nothing.



You have a heavily modified skin, so with mods like this you'll often have to figure things out on your own. In your case, at least for FORUMDISPLAY, find:

<td class="tcat" width="100%" align="left"><span class="smallfont"><strong>$vbphrase[threads_in_forum]:</strong> $foruminfo[title]</span></td>

and replace it with:
<td class="tcat" width="100%" align="left"><span class="smallfont"><strong>$vbphrase[threads_in_forum]:</strong> $foruminfo[title] <a href="search.php?do=getnew&include=$foruminfo[forumid]">(new in <b>bold</b>)</a></span></td>

[harlita]

Ah! Good! I was looking for where to add the span class.

You rock. thanks so much! Yeap - works great and I'm running 3.6.5

[LisaD1]

Installed on my forum and works great! :up: Thanks :D

[Atakan KOC]

Thanks........

[Darat]

What a nice little mod that is really useful for members, the best kind - thanks!

[rotti]

Hi where I can this chance from old to neu. i have a german board and old was in englisch am spent.

old >> alt
new >> neu

thanks

[harlita]

Installed again on 3.6.8 and works exactly as indicated. Thanks dude

[ringleader]

Still works on 3.7.3 PL1 - Thanks for the awesome and handy template edit.