Changing $getnewpost and $getnewthread variable (exclude forums)

[feldon23]

That's going to get complicated.

Are you trying to make these forums invisible, or only make it possible for users to search for new topics but exclude certain forums?

I could see a cool hack out of this (but the index thing sounds too hard).

-modify search.php to look in a new user profile field "view_new_posts_ignored" and explode(",", $bbuserinfo['view_new_posts_ignored']); or something to get an array of forumids they want ignored.

-modify forumdisplay template to have a "exclude this forum from searches" button. Clicking the button takes you to the user_cp with &ignoreforumid=XX in the URL.

-modify usercp to recognize the ignoreforumid and paste/append it into the "View New Posts Ignored" user profile field.

Is this out of left field?