An Idea for Thread Display Order
 

Would it be possible to create a hack that would allow the default thread display order for certain forums to be set to Alphabetical? I am thinking for book lists and FAQs this would be a nice feature.

Obviously the user can click the THREAD button to reorder the posts alphabetically or reverse alpha, but certain information-only forums really would benefit from a default presentation like this, plus very few new users know they can reorder the display of threads by thread/starter/replies/views/rating or Last Post.

Maybe what I am actually suggesting is that the admin could be able to select any of these options:

thread title/starter/replies/views/rating/lastpost

could be configurable as the Thread sort order, able to override "last post" order, which would remain the default.

Regards,

Matt

Very nice idea, actually.

in your forumdisplay.php you can find this:
just change $sortfield='lastpost'; into $sortfield='title';

But, that would change all the forums to the new order (alphabetic or views, etc) wouldn't it? I was really hoping to just affect one or two - the faq sorted by alpha; the booklist sorted by rating, and so forth.

Regards,

Matt

replace it with an if-clause:

Thanks Xenon!

This is great, Thanks!

Xenon, I can't find the string of characters:
$sortfield ='lastpost' in the template forumdisplay.
What is the exact name of the template I need to look for.

I am only interested for the time being by having the Thread display in the order: first created, first in the list.

I totally agree with Memobug. We should have the choice of orders'criterias in the Admin options.

Thanks for your help!

Catherine you should read more carefully:
i said forumdisplay.php not the forumdisplay template

Xenon,

Sorry for my stupid question but I am not a Java script specialist and am just trying to hack some of my templates based on my knowledge of other programming languages.
So where can I find forumdisplay.php?

Thank you to let me know.