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[Vociferous]

Hmm.... I'm running 2.0.3 on the test board.

well, I did some testing and I got this to work I made some assumptions though.

I assumed (as soceris pointed out as a problem) that the following supposedly in the forumdisplay template

PHP Code:

<td bgcolor="$fbackcolor"><normalfont>$numnew</normalfont></td> 


was actually supposed to go into the forumdisplaybit template

however, if it goes into forumdisplaybit template then it should be as follows:

Step 1) In forumdisplaybit find:

<td bgcolor="#DFDFDF"><normalfont>$thread[views]</normalfont></td>

Step 2) Replace that with:

<td bgcolor="#F1F1F1"><normalfont>$thread[views]</normalfont></td>

Step 3) Insert the following above it:

<td bgcolor="#DFDFDF"><normalfont>$numnew</normalfont></td>

No errors for me though! Not sure why you are getting them Amy.

tubedogg, would you mind telling me/us whether I was correct in assuming the final step is supposed to be in the forumdisplaybit template?

Dave

[Vociferous]

okay, this board keeps turning my variables into hex color code!

Trying this again.

edit:

that didn't work...

[Vociferous]

fine, the step by step instructions (with the correct code) are in the attached txt file and I think if nothing else. tubedogg changed the variables just to get it to post here on these forums. lol

edit:

Even text files are against me!

okay, last shot at this.


Step 1) In forumdisplaybit find:
<td bgcolor="(secondaltcolor)"><normalfont>$thread[views]</normalfont></td>


Step 2) Replace that with:
<td bgcolor="(firstaltcolor)"><normalfont>$thread[views]</normalfont></td>


Step 3) Insert the following above it:
<td bgcolor="(secondaltcolor)"><normalfont>$numnew</normalfont></td>

just change the ( and ) to { and }

this better work-- I'm stubborn, but not that stubborn.

[Vociferous]

Okay, I made some changes to the code and here are the modified instructions:

In forumdisplay.php find

PHP Code:

$threadids='thread.threadid IN (0'.$stickyids; 


Replace it with

PHP Code:

$threadids='threadid IN (0'.$stickyids; 


Find

PHP Code:

// check to see if there are any threads to display. If there are, do so, otherwise, show message 


Right below it add

PHP Code:

$posts = $DB_site->query("SELECT COUNT(*) AS posts,threadid FROM post WHERE $threadids AND dateline>$bbuserinfo[lastvisit] GROUP BY threadid");
while ($post = $DB_site->fetch_array($posts)) {
$newpost[$post[threadid]] = $post[posts];
} 


Find

PHP Code:

if (($bbuserinfo[maxposts] != -1) and ($bbuserinfo[maxposts] != 0)) 


Right above it add

PHP Code:

if ($newpost[$thread[threadid]]) {
$newposts = $newpost[$thread[threadid]];
eval("\$numnew = \"".gettemplate('forumdisplaybit_newposts')."\";");
} else {
$newposts = "0";
eval("\$numnew = \"".gettemplate('forumdisplaybit_newposts')."\";");
} 


And then you need to add a template named forumdisplaybit_newposts with the following contents:

$newposts

And then edit the forumdisplay_threadslist template

<td bgcolor="{tableheadbgcolor}" nowrap><smallfont><a href="$sorturl&sortorder=desc&sortfield=replycount"><font color="{tableheadtextcolor}"><b>Replies</b></font></a> $sortarrow[replycount]</smallfont></td>

Right below it add

<td bgcolor="{tableheadbgcolor}" nowrap><smallfont><font color="{tableheadtextcolor}"><b>New Posts</b></font></smallfont></td>

Then find

<td bgcolor="{tableheadbgcolor}" width="100%" colspan="8" align="center"><smallfont color="{tableheadtextcolor}">

Important! Change the "8" to "9".


Then in the forumdisplaybit template do the following:

Step 1) In forumdisplaybit find:
<td bgcolor="(secondaltcolor)"><normalfont>$thread[views]</normalfont></td>


Step 2) Replace that with:
<td bgcolor="(firstaltcolor)"><normalfont>$thread[views]</normalfont></td>


Step 3) Insert the following above it:
<td bgcolor="(secondaltcolor)"><normalfont>$numnew</normalfont></td>

just change the ( and ) to { and }


And that's it!

*************************

After going through and changing the instructions I saw that it was indeed forumdisplaybit.

anyway, tubedogg-- you rock! thanks man!

Dave

[Vociferous]

doh! Hex code again! Well, you guys understand right?

one last thing tubedogg...

how do you get it to not change the code to hex?

[tubedogg]

My secret LOL

All I did was break it up with tags (kinda hard to explain, just look at the example below):
{secondaltcolor} <-- normally this would change, but when I add the following:
{second[b][/b]altcolor}
And then it appears correctly. Note I added some stuff for it to appear correctly for you, but the point is to use what I have actually put there and not what I used to make it. Confused yet? LOL

In the next version (2.0.4) you will be able to make these not change into hex by selecting the "disable smilies in this post" option.

Anyway you were right about the forumdisplay -> forumdisplaybit thing and I edited my post to reflect that.

[Vociferous]

Ohhhhh

I'll remeber that for next time! Thanks