This is not a request for a hack but a request for ideas on how a hack could be implemented. As I would like to have a go at doing this hack if nobody has yet attempted it.
Often on my forum I have a situation where a thread is of equal interest to people in many forums. I really need a way to set a thread to be in more than one forum so people who regularly post in each can comment on it.
The difficulty I have in thinking on how to implement it is that each thread is indexed on what forum it resides in. So how do you run forumdisplay efficiently when threads are in more than one forum.
Or you could have a "pointer thread" which works in the same way as the current pointers, but you would have to find a way of updating the latest poster/post time on the pointer as well as the main thread whenever it is updated. This might be the best solution but I would be interested to hear your thoughts!!
09-30-2001, 12:29 PM
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