vb.org Archive - sorting threads

Make a copy of newthread.php and forumdisplay.php now!!!

Then open newthread.php On line 209 replace

PHP Code:


		
			
      $DB_site->query("INSERT INTO thread (threadid,title,lastpost,forumid,open,replycount,postusername,postuserid,lastposter,dateline,iconid,visible,attach) VALUES (NULL,'".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($subject))."','".time()."','$forumid','1','0','".addslashes($postusername)."','$bbuserinfo[userid]','".addslashes($postusername)."','".time()."','$iconid','$visible','$attachcount')");

with

PHP Code:


		
			
      $DB_site->query("INSERT INTO thread (threadid,title,lastpost,forumid,open,replycount,postusername,postuserid,lastposter,dateline,iconid,visible,attach,datestarted) VALUES (NULL,'".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($subject))."','".time()."','$forumid','1','0','".addslashes($postusername)."','$bbuserinfo[userid]','".addslashes($postusername)."','".time()."','$iconid','$visible','$attachcount','".time()."')");

Save and close. Then, Execute the folowing command on your vbulletin mysql database.

Code:

ALTER TABLE thread ADD datestarted VARCHAR (50) not null

Open forumdisplay.php and around like 308 find

PHP Code:


		
			
switch ($sortfield) {

  case 'title':

  case 'lastpost':

  case 'replycount':

  case 'views':

  case 'postusername':

  case 'voteavg':

and change that to

PHP Code:


		
			
switch ($sortfield) {

  case 'datestarted':

  case 'title':

  case 'lastpost':

  case 'replycount':

  case 'views':

  case 'postusername':

  case 'voteavg':

Then, around line 401 find

Code:

lastposter,thread.dateline,views,thread.iconid,notes,thread.visible,sticky,votetotal,attach

And replace with

Code:

lastposter,thread.dateline,views,thread.iconid,notes,thread.visible,sticky,votetotal,attach,datestarted

Save that.

Now, login to your admin and change the folowing templete
forumdisplay_threadslist

Find

PHP Code:


		
			
<select name="sortfield">

        <option value="title" $sort[title]>thread title</option>

and right under that add

PHP Code:


		
			
<option value="datestarted" $sort[datestarted]>date started</option>

Well, that should do it!... I tested it and it works...dont know how it will effect posts b4 this hack was installed.. :(

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