I'm wondering if there can be some way to indicate on the main page if the subforums have new posts. In a main forum, where you have the subforums listed below it (under an hr), I'm thinking of some kind of little indicator, about the same size as the smallfont text. I guess we would have to have two new graphics, one to indicate on and one to indicate off, but could you write into your hack the code to make it light up appropriately?
Originally posted by JJR512 I'm wondering if there can be some way to indicate on the main page if the subforums have new posts. In a main forum, where you have the subforums listed below it (under an hr), I'm thinking of some kind of little indicator, about the same size as the smallfont text. I guess we would have to have two new graphics, one to indicate on and one to indicate off, but could you write into your hack the code to make it light up appropriately?
I've been wanting that as well...but I'd also like to have it add up the thread and reply count for all the sub-forums and show that too...as well as the last posted date, etc...
Originally posted by JJR512 I'm wondering if there can be some way to indicate on the main page if the subforums have new posts. In a main forum, where you have the subforums listed below it (under an hr), I'm thinking of some kind of little indicator, about the same size as the smallfont text. I guess we would have to have two new graphics, one to indicate on and one to indicate off, but could you write into your hack the code to make it light up appropriately?
Its possible, but a bit query intensive in my case cause of the markread table. Also it might be a bit cluttered.
Nice idea but in my case, I have lots of subforums, it would get cluttered as ethank said, haveing like 6 or less, its a good idea, bad idea for like 11 and up, and if you have like 1000+ members and all of them post in the subforums all the subforums would have a gif/jpg indicator that theres new post, and that would use up too much forum space, if you dont mind scrolling and scrolling all the time to get to a forum on index.php, lol, you get the idea.
I only meant a small little gif, like maybe a little dot or something...but OK. How about this then: Have the link to the subforum be one color if it has new posts, be another color if it doesn't? Or something along those lines.
I think you're missing the point. The graphic itself isn't the problem, but the fact that a lot more queries are nessesary to check for new posts throughout an entire forum hierarchy is excess load.
hehe was going to say that but didnt know how, me = limited in php.
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Originally posted by DarkReaper I think you're missing the point. The graphic itself isn't the problem, but the fact that a lot more queries are nessesary to check for new posts throughout an entire forum hierarchy is excess load.
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