vb.org Archive - Nested Boards should be BOLD as links...

Posted this in the wrong thread maybe? Hell, I'd even pay for this hack...

First, I did a search for this (here and .com) but couldn't find anything similar to what I want to do.

So... I have a new site with a lot of boards in the forum. Rather than list them all out in an expanded format, I have nested them and keep them hidden, so that they appear like this:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/08/1.gif

All of the words above are links with Northern Oregon taking you to a forum with all of those listed as subforums (Adventist, Benson, Cascade Gateway, etc.) and the names of the courses themselves being links to that particular board.

What I would like to do is make it so that when there are new posts in one of these boards since a last visit, that the title would be a different color. So, for example, I come back to the forum and someone has posted a new post in Trojan, it will look like this:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/08/2.gif

Here is a link to the board in case it is needed for reference:
http://www.nwdiscgolfnews.com/forum/index.php

Is there something already in place that would allow me to do this or does someone know of a quick hack to make this work?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

--------------- Added [DATE]1220062420[/DATE] at [TIME]1220062420[/TIME] ---------------

OK... so I found this function in functions_forumlist.php:

Code:

// returns 'on' or 'off' depending on last post info for a forum

function fetch_forum_lightbulb(&$forumid, &$lastpostinfo, &$foruminfo)

{



        global $bb_view_cache, $vbulletin;



        if (is_array($foruminfo) AND !empty($foruminfo['link']))

        { // see if it is a redirect

                return 'link';

        }

        else

        {

                if ($vbulletin->userinfo['lastvisitdate'] == -1)

                {

                        return 'new';

                }

                else

                {

                        if ($vbulletin->options['threadmarking'] AND $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'])

                        {

                                $userlastvisit = (!empty($foruminfo['forumread']) ? $foruminfo['forumread'] : (TIMENOW - ($vbulletin->options['markinglimit'] * 86400)));

                        }

                        else

                        {

                                $forumview = intval(fetch_bbarray_cookie('forum_view', $foruminfo['forumid']));



                                //use which one produces the highest value, most likely cookie

                                $userlastvisit = ($forumview > $vbulletin->userinfo['lastvisit'] ? $forumview : $vbulletin->userinfo['lastvisit']);

                        }



                        if ($lastpostinfo['lastpost'] AND $userlastvisit < $lastpostinfo['lastpost'])

                        {

                                return 'new';

                        }

                        else

                        {

                                return 'old';

                        }

                }

        }

}

And I have found this in the templates:

Code:

$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_$forum[statusicon].gif

Someone must know how these two interact. Rather than grab a specific image, I want to add a specific style to a link. This can't be that hard but it is just beyond me at the moment.

Little help?

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