Show Thread Enhancements - ThreadNav: scrolling New Posts navigation bar for Showthread

ThreadNav(2.1) puts almost all the information in New Posts or Today's Posts in a compact scrolling navigation bar in the thread display page (showthread). The location in showthread depends on the user's thread viewing settings. Buttons on either end scroll the list of new posts right or left and additional information is available in a drop down box when you hover over the lower portion of the post cell. The list automatically refreshes using AJAX once a minute (default).

In Version 2.1 you can now place ThreadNav in any vBulletin page. A simple setting will put it in Forum Home (index) and it can be added to other pages with a simple template edit (See instuctions in ThreadNav settings in your AdminCP for edits).

Updated Version 2.1
I've updated this recently to make it fully compatible with updates to Thread & Forum Ignore System, if it is installed. I also got rid of the text jiggle in some browsers when you hover over a cell to display the drop box.

Features:

General:

• Searches for New Posts or Today's Posts
• List scrolls right or left with buttons at ends
• Automatically refreshes once a minute (default setting)
• Cell width adjusts automatically to fit available space
• Hovering over lower portion of partially exposed cell
  snaps the cell into full view
• Automatically integrates with Thread & Forum Ignore System
  if installed

In the cell for each thread:

• Go to first unread post button (New Posts only)
• Thread link goes to either first or last post depending
  on user settings for viewing threads
• Name of last poster
• Last post button

In the drop down box:

• Date/time
• Forum
• Thread starter
• Peplies
• Views
• Links for previewing first and last posts

User settings:

• Turn ThreadNav off
• Get New Posts
• Get Today's Posts

Admin Control Panel:

• On/off
• Other pages to show ThreadNav
• Set refresh interval
• Maximum minutes ThreadNav will continue refreshing
• Allow or disallow guests to see ThreadNav
• Maximum number of posts to show
• Minimum width of each post cell.
• Excluded forums

Upgrading to version 2.0

• Upload the new product xml file in Plugins & Products and overwrite the old file.
• Be sure to revert all threadnav templates, including threadnav.css.
• Some pages will require simple template edits. See the ThreadNav setting sin the Admin CP for more information.

Bugs Fixed:

• Now compatible with vBSEO
• All text in phrases
• More tips on styling in threadnav.css
• Resolved major incompatibilities with some styles
• Miscellaneous aesthetic changes
• Resolved misalignment of borders of cell and drop box in some styles
• Improved closing of drop boxes when you mouse out
• Fixed more incompatibility issues with some some styles
• Fixed incompatibility issue with IE (GRRRRRRRRRR....)
• Overhauled system for opening and closing drop boxes

Style is based on borders, font-color and background-colors of postbits. For styles with darker colors a note at the top of threadnav.css gives helpful styling tips. If you need to add space above or below ThreadNav see top of threadnav.css. Don't use line breaks.

Installation is simple: upload the XML file to Products and you're ready to go -- no external files or edits.

Version 2.0 was developed in vB4.2.2 but should work in any vB4 version.

[Alan_SP]

How server intensive is this mod? Does it do one search for all users who have access to it, or one search for each user every minute (or whatever we specify in ACP)?

[nerbert]

Originally Posted by penmai.com

Let me know which template i have to edit. i am using vb4.1.5.

Sorry I didn't get back to this earlier. Thanksgiving vacation, business, blah blah blah.....

I think this should do it -- Modify the ThreadNav Search plugin as follows:

PHP Code:


if(($vbulletin->options['TN_onoff'] AND $show['member']  
AND $vbulletin->userinfo['tn_control'] != 0) 
OR (!$show['member'] AND $vbulletin->options['TN_allow_guests'])) 
{ 
    $threadbits = search(); 
    if($numthreads > 0) 
    {         
        $templater = vB_Template::create('threadnav'); 
            $templater->register('threadbits', $threadbits); 
        //$template_hook['showthread_above_posts'] .= $templater->render(); 
        $templatevalues['threadnav'] = $templater->render(); 
        vB_Template::preRegister('SHOWTHREAD', $templatevalues);
    }         
} 
if($_REQUEST['do'] == search) 
{ 
    $threadbits = search(); 
    die($threadbits); 
} 


Now place {vb:raw threadnav} wherever you wish in the navbar template. If the drop boxes don't show I'll have to find the appropriate division and edit in a z-index. See how it works.

[nerbert]

Originally Posted by Alan_SP

How server intensive is this mod? Does it do one search for all users who have access to it, or one search for each user every minute (or whatever we specify in ACP)?

I searches every minute for every member. You can set the refresh interval to a very large number and save server loading and bandwidth

[osix]

i just install it on my new forum 4.1.8
after some setting it does not seem to appear .

any idea .

[nerbert]

Do you have any other product that puts anything at the top of the showthread page?

[nerbert]

If you don't have any other products at the top of showthread I'll have you do a simple diagnostic. Paste the following in at the bottom of the Threadnav Search plugin:

PHP Code:

$diagnose = 1;
if($vbulletin->userinfo['username'] == 'osix' AND $diagnose == 1)
{
        die($numthreads . ' threads found');
} 


Change "osix" to your forum username. Refresh showthread and you should get a white page with the number of threads found in the search. If you have just clicked "Mark Forums Read" you won't get any results until someone posts a new thread. You may want to go to your user settings and click on ThreadNav Control and switch to "Today's Posts". You can disable the code I just posted by editing $diagnose to a value of 0

[bada_bing]

I like this mod but I would like to see a feature that allows you to only include the forums you want to show up rather then exclude forums, I have way more forums I want to exlude then include and this becomes a pain to manage when you have sponsors that come and go and forums that get altered.

[thang28101993]

not work http://downloadphimhd.com, help me

[nerbert]

Originally Posted by thang28101993

not work http://downloadphimhd.com, help me

This hasn't been working for some other people either and I'm not sure why.

Try this:

Admin CP > Options > General Settings > Thread/Forum Read Marking Type.

If it's not set to "Database (automatic forum marking)", change it to that and put some number in the next option if there isn't one there already. See if that makes it work.

[osix]

is this working for 4.1.10