Thread Category / Prefix Hack

[marc_t]

Thanks for this info. So I'll be waiting ;)

[Mystics]

<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=99925" target="_blank">Thread Prefixes for vBulletin 3.5</a>

[WreckRman2]

Is there a way to call up a search function that shows all threads from a certain category thats forum wide.

Currently you can do this however it only pulls from one forum... I'd like to do it via multiple forums.

Lets say it shows all posts from Category "BLA BLA" even if the posts are in forums 1, 5, 8, etc...

[Imperial Fritz]

would it need alot of coding to use images for each category ,instead of descriptions?
thanks in advance

I'm thinking the html markup option is our friend here.

Say I add a cathegory "Important"

Then I put this html <img src="http://mydomain.com/forum/images/cathegory_icons/{1}.gif" alt="{1}">

And have a folder in /forum/images/ called cathegory_icons and in it I have Important.gif

I think this should work, haven't tried yet though.

[Nutz]

This is a very good hack. Good work Mystics,
I would love to see some more hacks from you :)

Thanks,
Mat

[sybakaos]

Is there a way that, when filtering a forum by a certain category and choose "search this forum" it searches only the currently present threads?

[Mystics]

Is there a way that, when filtering a forum by a certain category and choose "search this forum" it searches only the currently present threads?Edit the FORUMDISPLAY template and find:<input type="hidden" name="childforums" value="1" />Add below: <if condition="$searchthreadprefix = $vbulletin->GPC['threadprefix']">
<input type="hidden" name="threadprefix" value="$searchthreadprefix" />
</if>(you have to do this 2x)

[sybakaos]

Sadly it didn't work as you described. When I filter a forum by category X and search for "example", it displays all results like it normally does (all threads).

[Mystics]

Sadly it didn't work as you described. When I filter a forum by category X and search for "example", it displays all results like it normally does (all threads).Works fine for me. Did you allow the prefix search in your vBulletin options?

Do you have a link to your site and an test user?

[sybakaos]

Works fine for me. Did you allow the prefix search in your vBulletin options?

Do you have a link to your site and an test user?

At first I had chosen the following option: "Yes - Only Automatically Created List" then did tested all options with no luck (on the normal search.php it works good).

I'm testing the vbulletin hacks locally.

[Protonus]

Is there any plan to port this to vB 3.6.x?

[marc_t]

Is there any plan to port this to vB 3.6.x?
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=123033

[Dioxin]

hey, nice hack.

replaced my custom category hack with this one :)

i changed you installer a bit:
$db->query_write("ALTER TABLE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread ADD threadprefix varchar(100)");

to:
$db->query_write("ALTER TABLE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread ADD threadprefix varchar(100) NOT NULL DEFAULT ''");

could you include this change in your next version?

[reddyink]

ERROR with 3.6.8
when I run category install.php ...here is the error I am getting.

Warning: require_once(.//categoryinstall_text.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in \admincp\categoryinstall.php on line 20

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required './/categoryinstall_text.php' (include_path='.;C:/Program Files/EasyPHP 2.0b1\php5\pear\') in C:\Program Files\EasyPHP 2.0b1\www\upload\admincp\categoryinstall.php on line 20

[reddyink]

Can anyone please help me on fixing this below error.
I copied 2 files categoryinstall and categoryinstall_text in both upload folder and admincp folder. when i run in internet explorer. I am getting following error. What am I doing wrong? I noticed global.php exists in both folders.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function globalize() in C:\Program Files\EasyPHP 2.0b1\www\upload\admincp\categoryinstall.php on line 23

[Mystics]

You really should use the version for 3.6.x, not this version which is designed for 3.0.x. :)
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=123033

[reddyink]

Thanks for the reply. I need thread category also because. I want the categories to come from database. Is this 3.6 thread prefix mod gets categories from DB. Looks like from your screen shots I am understanding that we have to manually enter the prefix in the form to show up in Thread prefix dropdown box.
Am I correct or we this latest version mod we can also get categories from database.
Please advice.
Thanks