An Idea for Thread Display Order

[Sho]

Catherine, forumdisplay.php is written in the PHP scripting language, not in JavaScript. You will find forumdisplay.php in the root directory of your vBulletin installation.

[Catherine]

Thank you!

[butty]

hi there, thanks very much for this tip its something that i have needed on my board for a while and didnt know it existed hat off 2 ya

only thing is could someone tell me how to change it so that the forum i am displaying by thread title so that it is sorted in ascending order aswel?

heres what i have at the moment in my forumdisplay.php file

PHP Code:


if($foruminfo[forumid]==17) $sortfield='title';
  else $sortfield='lastpost'; 


many thanks in advance

[Xenon]

just change it to:

PHP Code:

if($foruminfo[forumid]==17) {
  $sortfield='title';
  $sortorder='';
}  else $sortfield='lastpost'; 


but if you have this, you won't be able to change the sortorder for this forum anymore without changing it in the php-file

[butty]

hi there mate thanks very much for your help. Ive changed it but it doesnt seem to have taken effect - heres what my forumdisplay.php looks like

PHP Code:


default:
if($foruminfo[forumid]==17) {
  $sortfield='title';
  $sortorder='';
}  else $sortfield='lastpost';
} 


you can see the forum its supposed to be working on here and as you can see it still says descending wherease i would like it to be ascending

many thanks

[Xenon]

hmm, it should work, be sure it's below this block:
if ($sortorder!='asc') {
$sqlsortorder='DESC';
$order['desc']='selected';
} else {
$sqlsortorder='';
$order['asc']='selected';
}

have you uploaded the correct file?

[butty]

yeah definetly mate triple checked that and its underneath that block heres what more if it looks like..........

PHP Code:


if ($sortorder!='asc') {
  $sqlsortorder='DESC';
  $order['desc']='selected';
} else {
  $sqlsortorder='';
  $order['asc']='selected';
}
switch ($sortfield) {
  case 'title':
  case 'lastpost':
  case 'replycount':
  case 'views':
  case 'postusername':
  case 'voteavg':
    break;

default:
if($foruminfo[forumid]==17) {
  $sortfield='title';
  $sortorder='';
}  else $sortfield='lastpost';
}
if ($sortfield=="voteavg" and !$foruminfo[allowratings]) {
  $sortfield="lastpost";
}

$sort = array();
$sort[$sortfield]='selected'; 


[Xenon]

looool, damn sorry was my fault

change $sortorder=''; into $sqlsortorder='';

[TundraSoul]

Would it be possible to get a hack, which allows the user to set the thread order (forward or reverse) from the user control panel?

No matter what way I set it, half the group always wants it the other way.

Thanks!

[TundraSoul]

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