Pre-Beta test requests: Persistant Mark Forum Read

[edschaum]

Hi,

I just wrote a persistant mark forum read routine. It was very easy to implement, it only required a few small modifications.

If I can get some sense that this actually works and there's some interest in this hack, I will package it up and release it as a beta in a few days.

How it works:
Clicking the Mark Forum Read link in a forum now marks that forum read as of the moment you click the link. New messages remain "new" until you click Mark Forum Read again in that forum.

To view ONLY new messages, click on the lightbulb instead of on the forum name.

The mod requires 1 new table. Displaying new messages simply hijacks the $ daysprune function by plugging in the time that the forum was last marked read.

The standard Active Topics (View New Posts) function is unaffected, except that the lightbulb is no longer connected to that routine. The lightbulb now indicates if the forum has been marked read with this routine. In addition, the Mark Forum Read link now only works with the Mark Forum Read routine instead of the "view new posts" routine.

Please check it out at http://test.afterhoursbbs.com and let me know if it works for you. Feel free to post test messages, this is not a live board, it's just a copy.

Still to do:
add Mark All Forums Read
clean up forumdisplaynew.php

Ed