Forum Display Enhancements - Sorky - SubForum List Control

Purpose
This plugin allows extensive control of how SubForums are displayed.

• Use any mix of between 0 and 10 columns
• Different layouts can be used on specified forums
• Change formatting
• Display Thread/Post counts
• Limit the number of SubForums shown (Show More/Less)
• Collapse entire display
• Sort SubForum display order
• plus lots more!

Installation
Import XML file (as product): AdminCP > Plugin System > Manage Products > [Add/Import Product]

Options
To set the options go to: AdminCP > vBulletin Options > Sorky - SubForum List Control

Tips
To get it on the Forum Home page, set...

"vBulletin Options" > "Forum Listings Display Options" > "Depth of Forums - Forum Home" to "1"

For all other forums, set...

"vBulletin Options" > "Forum Listings Display Options" > "Depth of Forums - Forum Display" to "1"

You should also set...

"vBulletin Options" > "Forum Listings Display Options" > "Depth of Sub-Forums" to "1" Note: Setting it higher will also work!

Version Log
For previous versions see 3.7.x or 3.6.x Mods
v1.5.2 - 28th of January, 2009 = official release for 3.8.x (click here for more information)
v1.6.0 - 11th of April, 2009 = Removed (small bug found)
v1.6.1 - 13th of April, 2009 = Remember show/hide state + more (more information here)
v1.6.2 - 27th of April, 2009 = Debug opton + more (more information here)
v1.7.0 - 21st of May, 2009 = New & improved sorting (more information here)
v1.7.1 - 23rd of May, 2009 = alt text for show/hide image (more information here)
v1.7.2 - 17th of June, 2009 = Removed (small change simply combined with another in next version)
v1.7.3 - 17th of June, 2009 = Hide SubForums: prefix & count tool-tip as well as the SubForums (more information here)
v1.7.4 - 23rd of June, 2009 = Hide specific SubForums from the SubForum list (more information here)
v1.8.0 - 17th of August, 2009 = Display of SubForum descriptions (more information here)

Hall Of Fame (Donations - Greatly Appreciated - Thank You)
Fungsten US$25
Budweiser US$20
CreditForum US$25
lazyseller US$30
Alisa Lindsay US$10

Acknowledgement
Thanks (and apologies) to Cybernetec for the ideas & inspiration to generate this Mod.

Keywords
SubForum, SubForums, Sub-Forum, Sub-Forums, Table, List, Grid, Child, Children, Parent

Settings, Demonstration Screenshots, Notes, etc
See v1.5.2 post (click here)

If you like this Mod please click INSTALL.

[Sorky]

Originally Posted by xuanhuy238

Thank you and love you so much!

My pleasure, although I still need to ensure that chr(221) and chr(222) are not valid characters in your character set that may be used in a forum name.

Originally Posted by xuanhuy238

Correct (in vietnamese): 1 - 2 - 3 - A - ? - ? (or ? Ạ ? Ả) - B - C ... - Z

I did notice that, however I am not aware of a way to solve this. I use the inbuilt php function "strcasecmp" to do the sorting which gives the result you see. If someone is aware of a php function that will sort correctly for a Vietnamese character set, I will be more than happy to investigate this further.

[Log on]

thank u

[mhackl]

Is there a solution that does this not only for the forumhome but also when viewing category and forum pages?

Example:
My Forumhome , Category page , Forum page.

See how the last two could benefit from having the sub-forums organized like forumhome. This is the solution that I really need.

[Sorky]

Originally Posted by mhackl

Is there a solution that does this not only for the forumhome but also when viewing category and forum pages?

Can't see your examples at the moment, however I the PlugIn does work at any level. I'm sure that you have the Forum list display options / Forum home depth > 1 - Just make sure that the forum display option is also > 1

[Dontom]

Hi Sorky, thanks for this great addition.

One question though:

I use a Depth of Forums - Forum Home = 2 and would like to contiune to use this setting. I'd like to have certain forumids show their subforums in your compressed list-style and leave te remaining ones as they are now. Is this possible with the current product?

Thanks
Thomas

[Sorky]

Originally Posted by MikesSite

Great plugin!! Is there a way I can get the Sub-Forum description to be on the line below?

Never considered that, but it is definitely possible! This is what I just tried in the options and I liked the result!

• Sorky03 - SubForum List Control - V1.8.0

  / Display SubForum Descriptions (combines with all previous settings)

  / Prefix text

  = <br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;
  

PS: I looked at your forum and you definitely can use this PlugIn to manage your SubForums! Enjoy!

[Sorky]

Originally Posted by Dontom

I use a Depth of Forums - Forum Home = 2 and would like to contiune to use this setting. I'd like to have certain forumids show their subforums in your compressed list-style and leave te remaining ones as they are now. Is this possible with the current product?

Sure is! Have a look at just some of the options

Image was the earlier version with up to 5 columns and the text may not be clear, so a quick summary...

Choose any of the following as the default AND specify forum number(s) against any of them to override the default for that forum!

• No change
• Hide
• Formatting only (no columns)
• One column
• Two columns
• Three columns
• Four columns
• Five columns
• Six columns
• Seven columns
• Eight columns
• Nine columns
• Ten columns

[MikesSite]

Sorky I must say this plugin is great! vB should have incorporated all of these features to begin. My members definitely noticed a difference and all love it. Thanks a lot, and thanks for the help via PM's also!!!

Nominated + installed

[Sorky]

Originally Posted by xuanhuy238

Sorting fuction seems to be work but some characters in Vietnamese was sorted not correctly.

Now: A - B - C .. - Z - ? - ? - 1 - 2 - 3 (???)

Correct (in vietnamese): 1 - 2 - 3 - A - ? - ? (or ? Ạ ? Ả) - B - C ... - Z

I just found out about this... setlocale(LC_COLLATE, 'English');

If used with Vietnamese instead of English it may fix the sorting

Reference: http://www.w3schools.com/php/func_string_setlocale.asp

[RavenXBR]

Simply awesome...
Very useful MOD.

Congratz... :up: