Favorite thread hack or favorite post hack

I know favorite forum hack, but can anyone say me about this hacks(Favorite thread hack or favorite post hack). I think, it will be fine, when the user can store in a thread or a post and in the next session, he see this threads or post in a separate windows or in an separte area and he can delete this in this ares.

Anyone know this?

For instance. First version only for favorite thread.

quick and ...?
Add a field "favoritesthreads" in table "user".
There I add the threads, they can the user use with a new button under the table of the thread (Edit template.), with a script, which I started.
The various threads I implode and expplode with the php-function. When I use "OR" as "character who stand between the threads" I can use the whole field as the end of the sql-statement.
Is that an idea?

or .. make a favorite threads table that contains a userid field that corresponds to the user's id and a field that contains the threadid so it looks like:


Userid Threadid
1 765
1 755
1 764
5 987
5 876


[Edited by rangersfan on 08-02-2000 at 04:27 PM]

couldn't this be a potential resource hog?

Thread Hog? It is no different than what you did other than to make it more streamlined in its own table.

there are alot more threads than there are forums. A favorite forum listing can only have soo many things, but a favorite thread can have a ton of threads for each user. To me it seems like it could *potential* resource hog, if each user puts a ton of favorites.

But, I have no idea what I'm talking about, so it probably isn't :)

The only time it would be accessed is when the user goes to the "Favorite Thread" page that lists their threads. It would grab all their thread ids from the favorite table then look up the thread title in the thread table, a simple join could be used to accomplish this. It then shows the threads to the user.

But the whole email notification system needs to be reworked so that Favorite Threads are the threads that get email notification. Just like Fusetalk does it. So replying to a thread isn't needed to put it under Email Notification. I talk about it all the time so I should get to it an write it. I haven't donme it because it would require some major hacking to database to accomplish it.

I dont think, its a potential resource hog, but the dirty way to put this as an array in the user table its quicklyer. I think about 4000 user and 15 favorites per user - it can be a big table and I must search for relations in other big tables.

But, maybe I put this in a favorite table, i can put a field of kind in it and I can store favorite post too or or forums.
Your oppions?

well i just added the basic bookmark a thread thing someone here posted... so they just click a link to bookmark the thread

Yes, that is one possibility, but i wont, that the user can see her favorites in my forum as a part of the forum and because of this I must it store in the database!

I installed tat too eva, but what he wants is something like the fav forums hack, where they can click click to a script that keeps track of their favorite threads.

oh i see :) would be a nice addition... for me i just don't want to add too much to the functioning of the forum, which would seem like more work for members to do :)

Originally posted by Intec
I dont think, its a potential resource hog, but the dirty way to put this as an array in the user table its quicklyer. I think about 4000 user and 15 favorites per user - it can be a big table and I must search for relations in other big tables.

But, maybe I put this in a favorite table, i can put a field of kind in it and I can store favorite post too or or forums.
Your oppions?

There is already a favorite forums hack around here somewhere.

What is the ETA on vbhackers.org so one can just point to it and say "that hack is right there"?

Yes, but no favorite theards hack. Can I change the forum script to do this?

Many boards using the thread bookmar hack. I think an integreted script would be better as the javasript function and not using the database.

I've actually done some thinking on how to adapt the favorite forums hack to do just this.

If it were set up in the same manner, where someone had to click a link to a "myTopics" page, it wouldn't be that great a strain on the database.

If I'm thinking this correctly, all you would need is a 2 column table to store a userid and threadid. The actual descriptions for the page could be pulled from the thread table that already exists.

The thing I would what to add, though, that might be a little tricky to code, would be that when a person started a topic it was automatically added to the list.

Also, instead of using a checkbox on the list like the Fave Forums hack does, I would prefer to have a link inside the topic that could be clicked on to add it, and if it was already on your your list, to remove it. The check to determine whether the topic was already on a user's list and place the approproate link might add a little time to rendering, though.

[Edited by Martin on 08-05-2000 at 09:34 PM]

No news regarding this hack? :)

No, I havent no time to programming it self.

I am waiting for the "big summer (read Fall) release" of vB before making any more hacks.

Yes, i think thats the right way to wait, and i hope we dont wait along for the "summer" release.

Originally posted by rangersfan
I am waiting for the "big summer (read Fall) release" of vB before making any more hacks. yeah i have to stop adding these tempting hacks... it's gonna be a pain when i upgrade :(

That's why I don't add hacks, I'm sure John is adding alot of these cool hacks to the official version :)