Hmmm...paste that link in here.

Ethan

<a href="http://www.swforums.net/forum/" target="_blank">http://www.swforums.net/forum/</a>

<a href="member.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=markforumread&forumid=$forum[forumid]">Mark Forum Read</a>

I went through and redid the modifications to session.php and the hack is fully functional now. :)

Thanks for putting up with my questions and providing this excellent hack. :D

I think I know what I'm going to be doing this weekend. :)

I'm looking at the other version of hte Mark Read code as well. Looking at his code, its very similar to my implementation and the functionality should be similar. The only difference is the search code and the code that does the forum lightbulbs (mine checks subforums individually instead of going by last-post because last-post gives inconsistent results).

I contacted the author of the other one, so maybe we can just combine efforts and distrubte one persistent mark-forum-read hack instead of having two.

Its not a hurry because this one at least works and has for a while, even if it is a bit sloppy in parts :)

Thank god for Araxis Merge! It makes this all so easy :p

EThan

I'm glad it works :)

Ethan

After having and using this hack for a couple days now, an interesting idea for improving it has occurred to me. Why not make it automatic, so people don't have to click on any link to mark a forum as read. People don't have to do anything special to get a thread marked as read; why should they have to do anything special to get a forum marked as read? If all the new post indicators in a forum are off, the forum should automatically turn its own new post indicator off (in other words, mark itself as read).

I guess the way this would work is that whenever you view a page that has a forum list on it (forum home view, category view, forum with subforum view, etc.), the code would check to see if there are actually any new posts in any forums listed (in other words, check to see if you looked in the forum, would you see any new post folders?), and if not, the new post indicator for the forum would be off.

Well, judging from the new version of vBulletin, this hack might not be necessary. And that's cool!

:)

Ethan

Well I'll be a monkey's uncle. I noticed the "Version 2.something ;-)" earlier, but hadn't noticed the new links. Cool! :)

Don't be so sure...a database version of this may be just what I need (this cookie thing hasn't been working too well for me thus far).