Public shouldn't be a prob, as we can use the forum permission function. My only thought about this is, on my forum which have ~55 active forums, I have ~100 queries for this page. OK its half the query size as when I go to edit forums in CP but its the CP and I don'T do this often.

So I could make this a public one as well, but remember this could make a lot load on you db.

That is a big problem. If you make that public, anyone can bring your server to its knees by setting that page to auto-refresh using a cron job. :) So better optimize it first.

Since I am just a little people person with little people members and little forums .. i think it wont be a problem, not many will use it, not even on a daily base!

In my personal case i would like to have it:
admins - through back-end {everything} and public like the (super)mods.
(super)mods - can view everybody (like the admin, but only public (my (super)mods don't have back-end access
registered - can only view their own information - not others. (maybe through userCP option?)
everybody else - no access to this feature at all

And ofcourse, if a registered member can't view the moderators forum - then they shouldn't - like normal protection. but thaz all.

Just to give an impression of what I have in my head about this.

A little extra code can prevent that with ease.

That's true. :) But having 2 queries for each forum is still too server-intensive.

Cool hack. Thanks :)

Nice idea, I'll surely install it whether or not you plan a public release.

/me installs

IF you will look at the code its one query for the numbers and one for every forum. I used the function from /admin/forum.php to show a sortet list of all forums.
Don't know if there is a better and fast way to create a list of all forums and its subforums? IF so, I would like to know, to make this code better.

thanx mate.. awesome hack :)

just one thing.. u named it countposts.php but the link goes to countpost.php... just thought I'd tell ya :p

Thx m8, didn't realised that, cause my server looks for same file names and took the closest result he gets ;)

Will fix this in next update.