Open Category; Others Auto-Close

[Knightmane]

(Please forgive the title, as I wasn't sure what to title this thread to get the point across.)

This mod request is going to be difficult to describe, but I am going to do my best to make it clear. I tried to search for this on the board, but nothing seemed to be what I was specifically looking for.

This mod is extremely useful for anyone who owns/runs a huge board with many forum categories.

HOW IT WOULD WORK:

Because the forumhome index page is your public image on the Internet, you want your guests to see a nice clean presentation. (This is good if you don't use a portal.)

My idea is this... primarily, the only forum category that would be open is the last one the member had open at the time. To reduce clutter on the forumhome, what I am suggesting is a modification to the affect that if you click to open another category, any others would automatically close (collapse). And this would only occur on the forumhome page.

EXAMPLE:

If Forum 1 is open, then 2 and 3 would auto-collapse to reduce page-viewing clutter.

Cat: Forum 1 (open)
Cat: Forum 2 (collapsed)
Cat: Forum 3 (collapsed)

If you then clicked on forum 3, then forum 1 would auto-collapse.

Cat: Forum 1 (collapsed)
Cat: Forum 2 (collapsed)
Cat: Forum 3 (open)

This would assist in making page loading times on the forumhome quicker, as there wouldn't seem to be as much there to open, and would allow you to get to what you wanted to access quicker.

(Many might argue: ...but how would people know what was posted in a collapsed forum without taking the time to open it? I personally use the Top X Statistics plugin. Problem solved. ;) )

Does anyone know of a modification that does what I am suggesting for this case? If so, where can it be found? If not, then I would like to request that someone create it, please.

[reddyink]

Any luck with this. I am also looking for this.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Never sen such a modification, but i guess it should not be too difficult to make in JS.

I doubt however if it will help with page loading, as collapsed items are still sent to the clients browser, and collapsed/expanded at the client side.

The collapsing thing can be replaced by AJAX loaded content... but the more you use AJAX, the more browser-dependant your site will be... if you have browsers not supporting that kind of feature, your users will be stuck with no content.

[Booost This]

I would also like to see something like this. It would be nice if we could have the option to use it in the forumdisplay.php alongside the index.php. or one or the other. I guess it all depends on the application.

+1 for the mod proposal.