[ddatchi]

I'm looking for a way to create a "Sticky" topic in each forum I create that will display a complete list of the Thread Titles in that particular forum/sub-forum, Sorted A-Z as hyperlinks. It's basically a live index of the sub-forum. Very Useful to me.

I have created this for a phpbb board but I can seem to figure out how to do it in Vbulletin.

What I do in phpbb is create a thread and for the topic body I type %FORUMSYNCLIST% and is runs the forum query and display the forum threads as if I typed them in the post itself - and it is always current since it's a query that runs everytime the thread is open.

This is used to help me stop duplicate threads from being created.

Here is a code snippet from the phpbb version. Does anyone know how to modify and insert this into the showthread.php file so it displays what I want?

The below code uses the existing sql query that displays the threads in phpbb viewtopic.php.

Any help would be appreciated.

PHP Code:

$sql = $db->sql_build_query('SELECT', $sql_array);
    $result = $db->sql_query_limit($sql, 10000, 0);
    $synclist = array();
    while ($row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result)) {
        $sync_id = $row['topic_id'];
        $sync_title = ucfirst($row['topic_title']);
        $synclist[$sync_id] = $sync_title;
    }
    $db->sql_freeresult($result);
    asort($synclist);
}

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if ( strstr($message,"%FORUMSYNCLIST%") && $xpluginsynclist ) {
        $synclistpage = "<b>Synchronization (Sync) System - Forum List Displayer Version 0.3</b><br>";
        $synclistpage = $synclistpage."<br><b>Total Results:</b> ".count($synclist)."<br>";
        $excludedpage = "";
        $currentset = "";
        foreach ( $synclist as $sync_id => $sync_title ) {
            $testchar = $sync_title[0]; $sync_item = "";
            if ( is_numeric($testchar) || $testchar == "." ) {
                if ( $currentset == "" ) {
                    $currentset = "#";
                    $sync_item = "<br><b><span style='color:#FF0000;'>#</span></b><br>";
                }
                $sync_item = $sync_item."<a href='viewtopic.php?f=".$forum_id."&t=".$sync_id."'>".$sync_title."</a><br>";
            } else if ( strstr("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ",$testchar) ) {
                if ( $currentset != $testchar ) {
                    $currentset = $testchar;
                    $sync_item = "<br><b><span style='color:#FF0000;'>".$testchar."</span></b><br>";
                }
                $sync_item = $sync_item."<a href='viewtopic.php?f=".$forum_id."&t=".$sync_id."'>".$sync_title."</a><br>";
            } else {
                $excludedpage = $excludedpage."<a href='viewtopic.php?f=".$forum_id."&t=".$sync_id."'>".$sync_title."</a><br>";
            }
            $synclistpage = $synclistpage.$sync_item;
        }
        if ( $excludedpage != "" ) {
            $excludedpage = "<br><b>Excluded (Please Fix Your Topic Tittle!)</b><br>".$excludedpage;
        }
        $message = str_replace("%FORUMSYNCLIST%",$synclistpage.$excludedpage,$message);
        $xpluginsynclist = false;
    }