looking for a "Users recent posts" hack

[Mntsnow]

I want to put a link next to my logged in user's names on the forums index page that would link to a search page listing their recent posts. I have ran a couple of searches and not found one. Help?


Want it to come up with info such as this (my user name for example)
http://www.xtremepccentral.com/vbforums/search.php?s=&action=finduser&userid=1

So in short there would be a link at the top of the forum that looked like this that did the search I listed above. instead of the normal "view new posts" which searches for posts since the users last visit (or better yet have both links :) )

[Mntsnow]

NeverMind I got figured it out...

Basically edit your forum home template / forumhome and at around line 23 change

<td align="right"><smallfont>$welcometext<br><b>$newposts<b></smallfont></td>
to
<td align="right"><smallfont>$welcometext<br><b>$newposts<br>
<a href="search.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=finduser&userid=$userid">Your Recent Posts</a></b></smallfont></td>

It will look like this

[Boofo]

That doesn't work for me. :) How far back is it supposed to go?

Originally posted by Mntsnow
NeverMind I got figured it out...

Basically edit your forum home template / forumhome and at around line 23 change


to


It will look like this

[Mntsnow]

Durring my testing on 2 different boards (2.2.2 and 2.2.6) it is able to actually go back to the start of both of my boards (a bit over 8 months for one and 4 months for the other)

When you say it's not working for you is it not doing anything or what?

[Boofo]

It keeps giving me the "try some different terms" error.

Originally posted by Mntsnow
Durring my testing on 2 different boards (2.2.2 and 2.2.6) it is able to actually go back to the start of both of my boards (a bit over 8 months for one and 4 months for the other)

When you say it's not working for you is it not doing anything or what?

[Mntsnow]

Other hacks in use? what happens when you try a straight forward search such as http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/search.php?s=&action=finduser&userid=1 ? (substitute the user ID for whoever's ID you want to try but #1 is usually the board admin)

[Boofo]

When I try it like you suggested here, it works fine. Are you sure this is the line you are using? (I'm just asking since it works with it the other way. :))

<a href="search.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=finduser&userid=$userid">

Or should it be this?

<a href="search.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=finduser&userid=$userinfo[userid]">

Originally posted by Mntsnow
Other hacks in use? what happens when you try a straight forward search such as http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/search.php?s=&action=finduser&userid=1 ? (substitute the user ID for whoever's ID you want to try but #1 is usually the board admin)

[Mntsnow]

<td align="right"><smallfont>$welcometext<br><b>$newposts<br>
<a href="search.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=finduser&userid=$userid">Your Recent Posts</a></b></smallfont></td> is an exact cut & paste out of my 2.2.6 board.

[Boofo]

I figured it out. I am putting it in the forumhome_welcometext template which is called in the forumhome template. If I put it in the forumhome template, it works. It won't work when I put it in the forumhome_welcometext template. And ideas how to make it work there? :)

[Mntsnow]

Sorry I dont off the top of my head but I will snoop around on my beta board and see if I can come up with something...

But you should have told me earlier that you were trying to put it elsewhere as I did list where the hack was to be done Basically edit your forum home template / forumhome and we could have prevented the running around

[Boofo]

Basically it IS in the forumhome template. The welcometext template is in the forumhome template. But Xenon helped me figure it out. I had to use bbuserinfo[userid] instead of userid. Sorry I troubled you with the "running around". :)

Originally posted by Mntsnow
Sorry I dont off the top of my head but I will snoop around on my beta board and see if I can come up with something...

But you should have told me earlier that you were trying to put it elsewhere as I did list where the hack was to be done and we could have prevented the running around