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.

[GHC Webmaster]

Thanks. Are you planning on recoding it for VB 4.0?

[Sorky]

Originally Posted by GHC Webmaster

Thanks. Are you planning on recoding it for VB 4.0?

I do intend to.

[Veer]

Originally Posted by Sorky

I do intend to.

Good luck, I'll wait.

[GHC Webmaster]

Good to hear. As we purchased a license for the full suite and intend to use it.

Thanks in advance!

[Thomas P]

How many queries does this add to forumhome please?

Thanks

[Alfa1]

Im not sure about that, but it runs fine on my large board and I have at least 6k concurrent users most of the time.

Originally Posted by Sorky

I do intend to.

I appreciate it Sorky.

[Thomas P]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Im not sure about that, but it runs fine on my large board and I have at least 6k concurrent users most of the time

Have you measured the microseconds of php execution time before & after? I did 0.077 compared to 0.126
Honestly: Thanks for your post, if it runs fine with that much users online I'll give it a try.

[Bram H]

Dear Sorky,

Will you upgrade this mod to vB 4. All other subforum managers miss your feature to enable it only on forums you would like to display the subforums!!

Keep up the good work!

[Thomas P]

Hello Sorky,

great hack, as far as I tested it works good.

But: Validate is awful, a lot of (X)HTML errors are thrown:
http://validator.w3.org/
Maybe you could have a look, Thanks

[Sorky]

Originally Posted by Thomas P

Validate is awful, a lot of (X)HTML errors are thrown:
http://validator.w3.org/

Strange - I have previously done just that and cleaned up anything I saw - maybe a variation in options shows up an issue - can you PM me a link to look at or email me the html produced (turn on the debug option)

Originally Posted by Bram H

Dear Sorky,

Will you upgrade this mod to vB 4. All other subforum managers miss your feature to enable it only on forums you would like to display the subforums!!

Working on it ;-)

Originally Posted by Thomas P

Thanks for your post, if it runs fine with that much users online I'll give it a try.

Nothing like a practical test for confirmation!

Originally Posted by Thomas P

How many queries does this add to forumhome please?

NO SQL at all. Just extra php code to adjust the information provided - amount of code it executes depends on the options you choose. See above answer ;-)