How to hide certain forums from appearing from "view new posts" function?

[Big J]

Thanks for the feed back everyone! I'm running 2.2.9. i would like it so people can still use the search functions, just have it hidden from the "View New Posts" feature. If there's no way around it, then I guess I'll just have to make it so people cant search it.

Thanks again everyone!

[accyroy]

Originally Posted by mini2

This was on vBulletin 3, so if you're on vBulletin 2 I cant help, if you're on three, let me know and I'll post a brief "how to", it's very easy.

I'm on VB3 so if you could post the quick how to it would be grand!
Thanks!

[Steve St.Lauren]

For vB2.x look in the search.php file for:

$action=="getnew"

scroll down about 19 lines and you'll see two lines that start with:

$wheresql.=

Below those two lines add:

$wheresql.=" AND thread.forumid<>##";

replace ## with the forumid of the forum you don't want to include in view new posts. You can put multiple forums multiple forums in there by adding another AND thread.forumid<>## inside the quotes. You can find the forum ID by going to that forum and looking in the url. You can also do the same thing in the "View Today's Active Threads" for users not logged in by searching for:

$action=="getdaily"

in the same file and making the same changes.