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Old 08-29-2008, 06:51 PM
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Default Highlighting Board Names When There is New Activity?

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:



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:



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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