Forum Display Enhancements - Filter Threads By Post Icon

The 3.5.x version of this hack can be found here.

This hack allows you to click on a post icon, and it will show only the threads with this particular post icon. Once this happens an unfilter button will appear, allowing the user to once again view all threads.

As for WHY someone would want this, here's an answer to that question:

Some forums use the forum icons to convey if a thread has been sufficiently answered or not, or to convey some other meaning. If a poster wants to look for unanswered threads, they could sort by the icon used for the thread.

Think of this as a poor man's thread prefix hack

# of php page edits: 1
# of template edits: 2

Should take less than 5 min to install.

Don't forget to hit INSTALL!

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9-27-06: updated version number, clarified instructions, no actual code change

[RobParker]

Installed and this works fine.

Has anyone been able to add a collapsable box to the top of their forums which includes the post icons and allows you to filter by post icons from there (similar to what the SomethingAwful forums use for those familar with them)?

[bigdm]

is there a way i can set it to display the icons for all, but only let registered members filter posts??

*im sure there is, i just cant work it out

[sportsfroma2]

First off, Great hack, works well and is a great idea... Something I have been looking for quite some time. Thanks for this.

AS a result of how good this hack is, I have a couple of questions on how I would do a couple of things:

1) I would like to make it MANDATORY that a post icon (or would it be a thread icon?) has to be selected to start a new thread.

2) Is there any way to have different sets of thread/post icons depending on the forum/subforum?

3) Eliminate the hot threads/locked threads column, which is usually to the left of the post icons in the default template. I would like to do this so I can user bigger/wider post icons.

Thanks!

[vitnuce]

Bookmarked for the future use..

Thanks for great hack, Wired

[Muellmann]

That's cool, i have installed it.

[nicolerork]

Does this work for 3.6.5? I tried modifying the templates, but I couldn't even find some of the codes to change.

[rokked]

is there a way to display the post icons in a list on the forumdisplay?

[Skedoozy]

Hmm I have installed but when I click on a post icon it does not filter. The unfilter option comes up but everything is the same.

[Skedoozy]

Originally Posted by oz_moses

nice work, I really like this.

I did find step 2 slightly different from your instructions when using VB 3.6.1 - here's what I did instead

After:

    if ($daysprune != -1)
    {
        if ($vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] AND in_coventry($vbulletin->userinfo['userid'], true))
        {
            $tachyjoin = "LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "tachythreadpost AS tachythreadpost ON " .
                "(tachythreadpost.threadid = thread.threadid AND tachythreadpost.userid = " . $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] . ")";
            $datecut = " AND (thread.lastpost >= " . (TIMENOW - ($daysprune * 86400)) . " OR tachythreadpost.lastpost >= " . (TIMENOW - ($daysprune * 86400)) . ")";
        }
        else
        {
            $datecut = "AND lastpost >= " . (TIMENOW - ($daysprune * 86400));
            $tachyjoin = "";
        }
        $show['noposts'] = false;
    }
    else
    {
        $tachyjoin = "";
        $datecut = "";
        $show['noposts'] = true;
    }

Add:

 // Start Filter Threads By Post Icon Code Snippet

    if ($picon > 0 && is_numeric($picon) && $picon < 5000) { //who knows if all this is necessary - better safe than sorry 
      $pqr = " AND thread.iconid = '$picon' "; 
      $datecut .= $pqr; 
      } else 
        $picon = ""; 

 // End Filter Threads By Post Icon Code Snippet

Demo at http://www.gothetahs.com/forum/index.php if anyone's interested.

This solved my problem. Thanks!!

[Antivirus]

hmm... doesn't seem to work on v3.6.7 PL1. Any ideas?