My pleasure, although I still need to ensure that chr(221) and chr(222) are not valid characters in your character set that may be used in a forum name.

I did notice that, however I am not aware of a way to solve this. I use the inbuilt php function "strcasecmp" to do the sorting which gives the result you see. If someone is aware of a php function that will sort correctly for a Vietnamese character set, I will be more than happy to investigate this further.

thank u

Is there a solution that does this not only for the forumhome but also when viewing category and forum pages?

Example:
My Forumhome , Category page , Forum page.

See how the last two could benefit from having the sub-forums organized like forumhome. This is the solution that I really need.

Can't see your examples at the moment, however I the PlugIn does work at any level. I'm sure that you have the Forum list display options / Forum home depth > 1 - Just make sure that the forum display option is also > 1

Hi Sorky, thanks for this great addition.

One question though:

I use a Depth of Forums - Forum Home = 2 and would like to contiune to use this setting. I'd like to have certain forumids show their subforums in your compressed list-style and leave te remaining ones as they are now. Is this possible with the current product?

Thanks
Thomas

Never considered that, but it is definitely possible! This is what I just tried in the options and I liked the result!

• Sorky03 - SubForum List Control - V1.8.0

  / Display SubForum Descriptions (combines with all previous settings)

  / Prefix text

  = <br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;
  

PS: I looked at your forum and you definitely can use this PlugIn to manage your SubForums! Enjoy!

Sure is! Have a look at just some of the options

Image was the earlier version with up to 5 columns and the text may not be clear, so a quick summary...

Choose any of the following as the default AND specify forum number(s) against any of them to override the default for that forum!

• No change
• Hide
• Formatting only (no columns)
• One column
• Two columns
• Three columns
• Four columns
• Five columns
• Six columns
• Seven columns
• Eight columns
• Nine columns
• Ten columns

Sorky I must say this plugin is great! vB should have incorporated all of these features to begin. My members definitely noticed a difference and all love it. Thanks a lot, and thanks for the help via PM's also!!!

Nominated + installed

I just found out about this... setlocale(LC_COLLATE, 'English');

If used with Vietnamese instead of English it may fix the sorting

Reference: http://www.w3schools.com/php/func_string_setlocale.asp

Simply awesome...
Very useful MOD.

Congratz... :up:

Great mod and good job on it. I wish I would have found it earlier. I have a small issue that I just can't figure out. I got the rest to look exactly how I want except for this.

I want to eliminate the space between the main forum's description and the sub-forum title. Attached is a screen shot.

I'm stumped. :o

Best you can hope for would be to use table formatting options to minimize padding and spacing or to adjust the position...

Put formatting in here: "SubForum Outer Box (table) formatting"
or here: "SubForum Table (table) formatting"

PS: You can use "style=...

I'm sorry but I don't understand what it is I'm supposed to do. :(

You can insert CSS style options into the HTML for either the inner or outer table so as to adjust the display of that table. I just googled "table position CSS" and found "http://www.w3schools.com/Css/css_positioning.asp" which has some great examples. I even tried one as follows...

SubForum Outer Box (table) formatting

style="position:relative;left:-10px;top:-10px;"

Enjoy!

I can't seem to get the subforums to display like I would like. I don't want to list the last post, threads and post colums in the forums that I have enable your mod (see attachment) I want the subforum list table to span across the width of the category table.

I played around forum listing display display options and it seems if I chose anything other than 2 for the depth of forum home, the subforums won't appear at all.

Any suggestions?

I have something like that (similar to for example http://ubuntuforums.org/) and you will have to edit templates (and be familiar with html) to achieve that.

Are you also using this mod to achieve that look, or is that all manual template mods you are using?

I'm using this mod as well. By the way: ubuntuforums does have a last post (in a different layout), we don't.

You can have a look at http://www.globalhealingcircle.net/community/index.php
(The forums itself are members only, but you can see the front page.)

In vBulletin, you can have a Forum or a Category [See option "Act as Forum (Will act as category if no)"]. If you made "Coral" a Category, the last post, etc would not appear, but it would also no longer allow posts in that location, just in the SubForums.

Formatting and appearance of the rest of the forum display is outside the scope of this PlugIn.

Having the columns hidden if there are SubForums would be possible to achieve by doing custom template modifications or through another PlugIn.

Thanks for sharing - Looks like my PlugIn was perfect for you and your template mods work nicely with it! :up:

Thanks. Are you planning on recoding it for VB 4.0?

I do intend to.

Good luck, I'll wait.

Good to hear. As we purchased a license for the full suite and intend to use it.

Thanks in advance!

How many queries does this add to forumhome please?

Thanks

Im not sure about that, but it runs fine on my large board and I have at least 6k concurrent users most of the time.
I appreciate it Sorky.

Have you measured the microseconds of php execution time before & after? I did 0.077 compared to 0.126 ;)
Honestly: Thanks for your post, if it runs fine with that much users online I'll give it a try.

Dear Sorky,

Will you upgrade this mod to vB 4. All other subforum managers miss your feature to enable it only on forums you would like to display the subforums!!

Keep up the good work!

Hello Sorky,

great hack, as far as I tested it works good.

But: Validate is awful, a lot of (X)HTML errors are thrown:
http://validator.w3.org/
Maybe you could have a look, Thanks

Strange - I have previously done just that and cleaned up anything I saw - maybe a variation in options shows up an issue - can you PM me a link to look at or email me the html produced (turn on the debug option)

Working on it ;-)

Nothing like a practical test for confirmation!

NO SQL at all. Just extra php code to adjust the information provided - amount of code it executes depends on the options you choose. See above answer ;-)

Thanks, awesome
Ok, fair enough for me :)

Bit of a delay - holiday season and all ;-)

I had a look at your main & test boards and there is a variation in content, and the first validation error is in the content, not in due to my PlugIn - Would be a good idea for you to do a validation with my PlugIn uninstalled (or simply disabled) and then enable it and re-validate.

The next error look like an old rule violation (that actually worked) that I fixed a long time ago - what version of my PlugIn did you install? Make sure it is the latest, turn the debug option on and I will then take another look.

Thanks, ok.

I will send you PN as soon as we've installed your PlugIn. We use v1.8.0.

Ok, it's installed.

We had to change the following (last) line in the Plugin Sorky03 - SubForum List Control - forumbit_display
Since we don't use collapsible subforums the extra </div> caused many validation errors

Thanks, your AddOn works great.

Upgrading:

Thank you so much !
I need this like BAD Sorky.
I've created about 1,600 forums, and There'll just about ALL sub-forums.

Bless You,

Thanks,

Now that you have pointed it out, I remember noticing that my PlugIns subforum table start mark was not in your original page source and therefore the start div would have been omitted as well! Your solution of removing the ending div works by virtue of the fact that the start was not inserted, but it doesn't really solve the problem safely. The most likely cause for the start div not being inserted is a manual edit of the templates or using a style that is not fully compatible [I mention this in the release notes]. I'd be interested in hearing which it was for you.

My plugin inserts the start div where the <strong>$vbphrase[subforums]</strong>: is in these templates:

• forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost
• forumhome_forumbit_level1_post
• forumhome_forumbit_level2_nopost
• forumhome_forumbit_level2_post

To go back to using an unedited version of my PlugIn you can either (a) revert the templates to their original or (b) insert <strong>$vbphrase[subforums]</strong>: into the mentioned templates just before the $forum[subforums] // Don't worry as my PlugIn has an option to then edit/remove it!

I really like this modification, so I tagged it. I will download and install it when I know if this is compatible with vB 4.0 -- can you update it for compatibility?

Thanks!

@Sorky: I agree, it definetely could be our style. I'll check - thanks.

New update available for 4.0.x (WILL NOT WORK WITH ANY 3.x version of vBulletin)

No changes to the current version for those still on 3.8.x - just letting those wanting it on 4.0.x know I have migrated it across.

The current version (this thread) is for 3.8.x and also works for 3.7.x and 3.6.x

Has this functionality been added since then? If not, then could you please add it? I really need this.