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I think you'd need to plugin to the forumdisplay_start hook and re-order $vbulletin->iforumcache[] according to the lastpost data in the forumcache.

Something like:

Code:

function lastpost_sort ($a, $b) {

        global $vbulletin;

        if ($vbulletin->forumcache[$a]['lastpost'] == $vbulletin->forumcache[$b]['lastpost'])

        {

                return 0;

        }

        else

        {

                return ($vbulletin->forumcache[$a]['lastpost'] > $vbulletin->forumcache[$b]['lastpost'] ? -1 : 1);

        }

}



uksort($vbulletin->iforumcache[$vbulletin->GPC['forumid']], 'lastpost_sort');

-- hugh

--------------- Added [DATE]1201676889[/DATE] at [TIME]1201676889[/TIME] ---------------

Well poop. That won't work because cache_ordered_forums(), which builds the iforumcache, is called AFTER forumdisplay_start.

There's a hook in cache_ordered_forums itself, but I'm still trying to work out how to use it.

I'm needing to do almost exactly the same thing, so I hope I'll find a workaround soon ...

-- hugh

--------------- Added [DATE]1201712842[/DATE] at [TIME]1201712842[/TIME] ---------------

Well, good news for me, bad news for you. I worked out how to do this for my requirement (which uses some fields I added to the forum table, for forum rating). Uses this code on forumdisplay_start, which is very similar to the code I first posted, but sorts the actual forumcache, not the iforumcache. Turns out the iforumcache is simply derived from the ordering of forumcache:

Code:

<?php

function forumrate_sort ($a, $b) {

        global $vbulletin;

        if ($vbulletin->forumcache[$a]['votetotal'] == $vbulletin->forumcache[$b]['votetotal'])

        {

                return 0;

        }

        else

        {

                return ($vbulletin->forumcache[$a]['votetotal'] < $vbulletin->forumcache[$b]['votetotal'] ? -1 : 1);

        }

}



uksort($vbulletin->forumcache, 'forumrate_sort');

?>

Theoretically, this should work for you by just using 'lastpost' instead of 'votetotal'. But for reasons I don't understand, 'lastpost' isn't in the forumcache. Even though I can see it in the serialized data in my datastore table when init.php run the datastore->fetch().

-- hugh

--------------- Added [DATE]1201716914[/DATE] at [TIME]1201716914[/TIME] ---------------

OK, I finally got this to work. It's one of those chicken and egg problems. The 'lastpost' info is added to the forumcache by cache_ordered_forums(), but the only hook we can use is called before cache_ordered_forums(). So the only solution I can find is to modify the above code, and add a call to cache_ordered_forums() before the uksort().

This works, but adds a query to the forumdisplay page load, because forumdisplay is going to call cache_ordered_forums() again after our hook runs (but this time, it'll build it from our re-ordered forumcache).

If you can live with this, then the following code (still on the forumdisplay_start hook) does what you want. Tested in 3.7b3, but should work on 3.6:

Code:

<?php

function forumrate_sort ($a, $b) {

        global $vbulletin;

        if ($vbulletin->forumcache[$a]['lastpost'] == $vbulletin->forumcache[$b]['lastpost'])

        {

                return 0;

        }

        else

        {

                return ($vbulletin->forumcache[$a]['lastpost'] > $vbulletin->forumcache[$b]['lastpost'] ? -1 : 1);

        }

}

cache_ordered_forums(1, 1);

uksort($vbulletin->forumcache, 'forumrate_sort');

?>

You might want to "unset($vbulletin->iforumcache);" as the last line, just in case.

-- hugh

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