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milonguero · #1 09-10-2008, 01:30 PM

I want to display a list of main forum categories as html links. Not like forumjump listbox. How can I do that?

Lynne · #2 09-10-2008, 02:10 PM

If you just want them as plain html links, then just:

HTML Code:

<a href="/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=xx">Forum Name</a>

Is that what you are asking?

milonguero · #3 09-10-2008, 05:48 PM

I want them as plain html links but I want the links to be generated automatically.

(Also post counts for each category would be nice)

#4 09-10-2008, 06:14 PM

You're going to need some knowledge of SQL and PHP to do this, you could probably use the forum cache as a way to calculate the total post count of each categories...but it all depends where you want this data.

Lynne · #5 09-10-2008, 06:33 PM

As Danny said, you'll have to write some code for that. There are so many factors that would go into which categories to grab - do you need to worry about permissions, order, only top level categories or all, etc. You could use the datamanager/datacache (which I don't know how to do), but you have to define exactly what variables you want to consider when spitting them out.

milonguero · #6 09-10-2008, 06:48 PM

I tried to use forumjump variables but they don't work on forumhome.
I searched the addon forum. It seems that there are no addons for this.

Lynne · #7 09-10-2008, 06:57 PM

There is an add-on to add a forumjump menu to the navbar. That code may help you out.

Navbar Forumjump- Adds a DHTML "Forum Jump" menu to your Navbar

milonguero · #8 09-10-2008, 08:15 PM

Thanks but this addon doesn't work on version 3.7.3

Collapsible navbar menu function works but table menu doesn't work.

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