Forum Display Enhancements - Make Prefixes Clickable to Filter forumdisplay by Prefix

I decided to make this as a plugin. That modification is located here - Make Prefixes Clickable to Filter Forumdisplay

This is another modification which should be standard vbulletin. This template modification will make your thread prefixes clickable. If you click on the prefix, then the forumdisplay will only show threads with that prefix in that forum.


Version History:
1.0 2009-11-23: - initial release by Lynne at vbulletin.org

What to Do
This is a template modification. Open the threadbit template and Find:

{vb:raw thread.prefix_rich}

.
Change to:

<a href="{vb:link forum, {vb:raw thread}, {vb:raw foruminfo}}&prefixid={vb:raw thread.prefixid}" rel="nofollow">{vb:raw thread.prefix_rich}</a>

That's it! If you then want to add a "Show All Threads" link next to the "Thread Starter" header, then you may edit the FORUMDISPLAY template also.

Find:

<a href="{vb:link forum, {vb:raw foruminfo}, {vb:raw pageinfo_postusername}}" rel="nofollow">{vb:rawphrase thread_starter}{vb:raw sortarrow.postusername}</a>

.
Add beneath:

<vb:if condition="$_GET['prefixid']"> / <a href="{vb:link forum, {vb:raw foruminfo}}" rel="nofollow">Show All Threads</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</vb:if>

To install:

1. Make the above changes to the threadbit template and optionally the FORUMDISPLAY template.

To uninstall:

1. Undo the above changes to the threadbit template and optionally the FORUMDISPLAY template.


Screenshots
Clickable Prefixes



After Prefix is clicked, now you have the Show All Threads option:

[mgurain]

could it be in a single xml product instead of manually changing template ?

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by mgurain

could it be in a single xml product instead of manually changing template ?

If you want to write that, feel free to post it. I took a quick stab at writing it as a plugin, and couldn't get the syntax right, but if you have the time, then go for it.

[Sarthek]

One question: can it be arranged that clickable prefixes with images on hover change background. Can this be arranged with CSS

Like for example reply buttons in vB4.0

[Lynne]

You can do that with css, yes. You're going to have to play with it a bit and remember that if you use an id, you'll need to make it unique (so append the thread id to the end of it, or something like that).

[dacho]

Thanks Lymme nice one
Tagged for future use

[cloferba]

this is great!

and...how to search all threads with an specific prefix?
i mean..i want to add a button wich says "all threads with xx prefix"..the user clicks there and then he will be able to see all threads with that prefix on all forums/subforums

[mgurain]

This should be a standard feature .

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by cloferba

this is great!

and...how to search all threads with an specific prefix?
i mean..i want to add a button wich says "all threads with xx prefix"..the user clicks there and then he will be able to see all threads with that prefix on all forums/subforums

I think you would have to make the links not include the forumid in them if you wanted threads in any forum that have that prefixid.

[cloferba]

so how should be the code? :s

sorry, im very bad to understand programming

[Lynne]

Sorry, I was wrong. I just tried this without a forumid and it gives me an error (invalid forum specified). I guess you need to specify a forumid.