Search: New Posts - Auto-refresh.

I tend to keep my browser on the New Post page to see if there are any new posts needing my attention.

With most popular web e-mail clients you see how many new e-mails there are in your browsers title bar along with an auto refresh to check for new e-mails, why not have the same for your forums?

I did this for my last forums and figured I would do it for vB, since this forum has given me tons of cool stuff already I enjoy trying to give some stuff back, hopefully someone else will find this u sefull.

This is very easy to do so give it a shot:

admincp > style manager > edit templates > search templates > search_results

Modify the header:
# ORIGINAL

<title>$vboptions[bbtitle] - $vbphrase[search_results]</title>

# HACKED

<title><if condition="$action == 'getdaily'">$numitems posts today - </if>$vboptions[bbtitle] - $vbphrase[search_results]</title>
<if condition="$action == 'getdaily'"><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="30" url="search.php?do=getdaily"></if>

Note the change of the title to add how many posts there are new and the check to see if we're on the search page, if so do the refresh every 30 seconds.


Really basic but very functional, got to love tabbed browsing and the ability to see all "new" activity without being on the tab, super lazy!

[gcphost]

The original code was updated, it is what you should use, not from the other posts.

I wonder if this would work as a hook?

[Rukbat]

thank you

[Rukbat]

Only thing is the 'todays posts' on reload also takes away any posts counts included that were done more than 24 hours prior to the reload/refresh....
So this won't work at all for the 'newposts' search at all?

[Rukbat]

Originally Posted by Borgs8472

Nice idea. One day this will be done via ajax with alert noises etc etc

that would be Excellent! Would be lovely if an alert noise could sound when someone on a person's 'buddy list' logs in... tho i suppose if wishes were fishes....