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kall
08-06-2005, 06:36 AM
Is anyone up to this?

Effectively, I would like to give people the ability to click the New Thread button and have the standard new thread options, but also a drop-down link to specify which forum the thread goes to.

The dropdown would need to be permission following, and would be similar to the Forum Jump dropdown.

Please?
ConqSoft
08-06-2005, 06:52 AM
heh. I just posted the same in response to this thread:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=149768
kall
08-08-2005, 08:55 AM
Bump.
Boofo
08-08-2005, 09:05 AM
So basically you want to be able to post in any forum FROM any forum, right?
kall
08-08-2005, 09:12 AM
So basically you want to be able to post in any forum FROM any forum, right?

Pretty much... but the 'Forum to Post to' option should ideally be in newthread.php and be auto-populating, based on permissions.

That's why I thought the Forum Jump code could be ustilised.
Boofo
08-08-2005, 10:17 AM
Pretty much... but the 'Forum to Post to' option should ideally be in newthread.php and be auto-populating, based on permissions.

That's why I thought the Forum Jump code could be ustilised.

But if you base it on the forumjump, wouldn't that add a load of queries everytime it showed? ;)
Logikos
08-08-2005, 10:23 AM
BooDoo has a point; it would add additional unnecessary queries to that page. Maybe I'm confused. What your wanting is; when a user clicks on the newthread.php page, it would have a drop down menu of which forum that thread should be posted in?
Boofo
08-08-2005, 10:25 AM
BooDoo is coming after Chicken Wire! ;)
kall
08-08-2005, 10:48 AM
BooDoo has a point; it would add additional unnecessary queries to that page. Maybe I'm confused. What your wanting is; when a user clicks on the newthread.php page, it would have a drop down menu of which forum that thread should be posted in?

OK, so my love affair with the forumjump is ill founded.

Yup, you are right. A permissions-based dropdown that effectively sets the forumid of the post.
Logikos
08-08-2005, 10:53 AM
BooDoo is coming after Chicken Wire! ;)
Don't walk to fast, wouldn't want you to break a hip. :p

OK, so my love affair with the forumjump is ill founded.

Yup, you are right. A permissions-based dropdown that effectively sets the forumid of the post.

Well there isn't a forumjump in the newthread.php page. I guess you can use the existing forumjump and place it between the <form></form> tags. But there is more to it then just that, thats the idea.
deathemperor
08-08-2005, 05:34 PM
I once thought of this, since you ask I may be on it.

/me adds this to his to-do list.