Multi Forums??

[sinaluna]

If you set the forum to 0, then it no longer shows up on the jump menu or (more importantly) allows you to perform an advanced search on that forum. Is there any fix for that?

Thanks!

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Setting Display Order to 0, should not prevent the forum from showing up in the advanced search.

[Dismounted]

Originally Posted by Marco van Herwaarden

Setting Display Order to 0, should not prevent the forum from showing up in the advanced search.

Infact, it will. You'll need to code a few plugins to make it show up. I found this out from my own site.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

If that is the case, then i would report it to the bug tracker at vb.com

[Dismounted]

It's not a bug, as display order = 0 means don't display it. So it doesn't display it. It's correct behaviour.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Showing in the search should be controlled by 'Can Search this Forum', so you could argue if it is correct not to show when display order = 0 on the advanced search page.

Edit: Just had a discussion with the dev's about this. Their stance is at this time that display order = 0 will make it invisible everywhere, so not a bug. Just consistent.

[sinaluna]

I didn't think it was a bug. It seems reasonable for it to work that way.

Does anyone know a way to get around it though? I can't really use a tabbing system if they can't also use the advanced searches for those forums.

[Dismounted]

This is what I use, please don't re-distribute it though.

Search Menu - Hook: 'search_intro'

PHP Code:

$forumid = INSERTFORUMID;
$forum =& $vbulletin->forumcache["$forumid"];

$optionvalue = $forumid;
$optiontitle = "$forum[depthmark] $forum[title_clean]";
if ($vbulletin->options['fulltextsearch'] AND !($vbulletin->userinfo['forumpermissions']["$forumid"] & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_forumpermissions['canviewthreads']))
{
    $optiontitle .= '*';
    $show['cantsearchposts'] = true;
}
$optionclass = 'fjdpth' . iif($forum['depth'] > 4, 4, $forum['depth']);

if (in_array($forumid, $vbulletin->GPC['forumchoice']))
{
    $optionselected = 'selected="selected"';
    $noforumselected = '';
}
else
{
    $optionselected = '';
}

eval('$searchforumbits .= "' . fetch_template('option') . '";'); 


Forum Jump - Hook: 'forumjump'

PHP Code:

$forumid = INSERTFORUMID;
$forum = $vbulletin->forumcache["$forumid"];

$optionvalue = $forumid;
$optiontitle = $prependchars . " $forum[title_clean]";

$optionclass = 'fjdpth' . iif($forum['depth'] > 4, 4, $forum['depth']);

if ($curforumid == $optionvalue)
{
    $optionselected = 'selected="selected"';
    $optionclass = 'fjsel';
    $defaultselected = '';
}
else
{
    $optionselected = '';
}

eval('$jumpforumbits .= "' . fetch_template('option') . '";'); 


[sinaluna]

Thank you Dismounted! Its much appreciated.