An Idea for Thread Display Order

[memobug]

Would it be possible to create a hack that would allow the default thread display order for certain forums to be set to Alphabetical? I am thinking for book lists and FAQs this would be a nice feature.

Obviously the user can click the THREAD button to reorder the posts alphabetically or reverse alpha, but certain information-only forums really would benefit from a default presentation like this, plus very few new users know they can reorder the display of threads by thread/starter/replies/views/rating or Last Post.

Maybe what I am actually suggesting is that the admin could be able to select any of these options:

thread title/starter/replies/views/rating/lastpost

could be configurable as the Thread sort order, able to override "last post" order, which would remain the default.

Regards,

Matt

[Sho]

Very nice idea, actually.

[Xenon]

in your forumdisplay.php you can find this:

PHP Code:

switch ($sortfield) {
  case 'title':
  case 'lastpost':
  case 'replycount':
  case 'views':
  case 'postusername':
  case 'voteavg':
    break;

  default:
    $sortfield='lastpost';
} 


just change $sortfield='lastpost'; into $sortfield='title';

[memobug]

But, that would change all the forums to the new order (alphabetic or views, etc) wouldn't it? I was really hoping to just affect one or two - the faq sorted by alpha; the booklist sorted by rating, and so forth.

Regards,

Matt

[Xenon]

replace it with an if-clause:

PHP Code:

if($foruminfo[forumid]==x) $sortfield='title';
  elseif($foruminfo[forumid]==y) $sortfield='rating';
  else $sortfield='lastpost'; 


[Sho]

Thanks Xenon!

[memobug]

This is great, Thanks!

[Catherine]

Xenon, I can't find the string of characters:
$sortfield ='lastpost' in the template forumdisplay.
What is the exact name of the template I need to look for.

I am only interested for the time being by having the Thread display in the order: first created, first in the list.

I totally agree with Memobug. We should have the choice of orders'criterias in the Admin options.

Thanks for your help!

[Xenon]

Catherine you should read more carefully:
i said forumdisplay.php not the forumdisplay template

[Catherine]

Xenon,

Sorry for my stupid question but I am not a Java script specialist and am just trying to hack some of my templates based on my knowledge of other programming languages.
So where can I find forumdisplay.php?

Thank you to let me know.