Shrink Old Posts in Thread

Hi all,

This is a brand new addition to my own BB, so I don't even know how my own users will react to it, let alone how you guys would

Hack Description:

• Posts you have already read in a thread, will show up with their header only (a row that includes the username, post subject and date only). New posts only will appear in full.
• This is user selectable via the 'Edit Options' page: each user can decide if he wants this option on or not. (By default all existing and new users will have this turned Off).
• A link at the top of the thread offers to "expand all" posts or "contact all" posts.
• by clicking on the + sign on a shruk post, it will expand without the page reloading. By clicking on the - sign on an expanded post, it will shrink without the page reloading.
• [high]this option is available for your IE users only! Netscape users will see no difference and will not be affected anyway at all by the change[/high]

How to install:

• Please download the attached zipfile.
• Upload plus.gif and minus.gif to your images directory
• Upload install_contractposts.php to your admin directory and run that script.

Note: there are quite a few changes to make (primarily additions, not replacements) to the vb scripts and templates. The process should take you several minutes, so I recommend you close your Bulletin Board while installing the hack.

Demo:

You are welcome to visit my Bulletin Board, at http://www.atlasf1.com , to see what the additions look like. To test it in full (ie, the option of old posts being shrunk by default), you will have to register and modify your options after you have received your password.

Cheers,

Bira

[Sadie Frost]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by bira
You should find getforumrules($forum,$getperms); at the very end of the script. [/code]

[bira]

VirtueTech,

I wanted to check what you're saying, so I ran &explain=1 on a thread with 29 posts, on a limited resources server. First I did it on an "out of the box" vb 2.2.1:

Page generated in 1.5668079614639 seconds with 19 queries,
spending 0.098392963409424 doing MySQL queries and 1.4684149980545 doing PHP things.

The I did with with only this hack added:

Page generated in 1.57904504776 seconds with 19 queries,
spending 0.098688006401062 doing MySQL queries and 1.4803570413589 doing PHP things.

I am the only user on this server, so it's pretty much "lab tested".

Also, the load average on my server right now is 0.66, 0.73, 0.75 with ~80% CPU idle and 334 processes.

There are currently 67 members on my BB. I don't know how many guests (my who's online page doesn't seem to count guests, always saying 0 for that :/)

So from my own standpoint, I haven't noticed a change in load. But I really don't know much about this stuff so I'm all ears if you have suggestions.

Thanks,

Bira

[VirtueTech]

I think your correct. I do know that is causes a slight bandwidth increase...thus possiblity of a smaller load increase for the web server...but I don't know off hand.

[LuBi]

Well it's a picture, that should make a difference..

[Twig Deez]

very excellent indeed.

[Lionel]

I think that this hack is one of the best, if not the best.

[GameZilla]

for some reason my yes or no thing always is on NO i tried click it a ton of times but it switch back to no after i like modify

any idea y?

[Lionel]

On your forum if there is no title you show the first few words. On mine it is blank. How do you set this up?
thanks

[bira]

Lionel, look for FireFly's instructions, in post #50 of this thread.

GameZilla - sounds like the selection is not stored in the database. Check to see if you edited member.php fully and whether you ran the installer as requested.

[GameZilla]

i checked it all
can u e-mail the mysql stuff it need i think my sever does not let the script make the tables it self

e-mail me the tables i need to gamezilla@socal.rr.com