Simple, quick, "hack"...help plz...

[nocturnix123]

Okay, I run/own the site http://www.forum-forum.com

We will be looking at http://www.forum-forum.com/forum/ <-the forums.

What I am looking for is, youll notice in my "Forum Software Discussion Areas" that I made a custom table that links to these forums. The problem is, there is no way of seeing if there are any new threads in these forums...what I want is some directions, and code snippets needed to have these buttons "light up" or, basically display an "on" version of their current states when there are new threads in their respective forums.

Normally I would think you would just use the same code for the "on button" for the normal forums listed below, but these are actual forums...whereas the software discussion areas are in..."act as forum: no" mode. Therefor im not sure if the same code applies...anyways, tell me what you think, any help is greatly appreciated, i think if members could see that there were new posts in these areas they would be much more inclined to use them...so this is pretty important.

Thanks in advance,

-nocturnix

[Brad]

you can install this and edit to to your needs.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=41529

[nocturnix123]

Hmmm, checked it out, I think im gonna wait a little bit and see if there is an easier way...i tried installing that hack and for some reason it didnt work...not sure if i did it right, but i didnt see anything that edited the admin cp, like it showed in his screenshot...

anyways, im basically looking for a way to call...

{imagezfolder}$forum[onoff].gif for a specific forum...like maybe...

something like this? {imagezfolder}MANUALLY INSERT FORUMID HERE FOR EACH FORUM[onoff].gif

so what does $forum get replaced by exactly? just the forum id, or the sessionhash and the forumid or what? And how could i make it so this would work with new posts in categories?

p.s. intentionally spelled imagez with a z because vb was automatically replacing it with the path to vb.org's images folder.