vB3 Unanswered Threads Hack v1.3

vB3 Unanswered Threads Hack
Version 1.3
(By Boofo and Kirby)

What does this hack do?
This hack will provide you with a link that will pull up all unanswered threads on your forums and also unanswered threads on a forum by forum basis. Unanswered threads are threads that have no replies to them. This is great for forums that do any kind of tech support so you can find the posts that have not been answered and respond to them.

Version information:
Version 1.0 --Initial Release
Version 1.1 --Updated to allow Admins, Super Moderators and Moderators to see the link.
Version 1.2 --Added code for Forum Tools Menu links and Navbar Quick Links.
Version 1.3 --Fixed nasty bug with the semi-colon showing up by itself for unanswered threads. Now "Unanswered Threads --" (sans quotes) will show up in place of the semi-colon if the search is for unanswered threads.

Installation overview:
Files to edit: (1)
--search.php
Templates to edit: (6)
--search_results
--forumdisplay
--forumhome
--forumhome_forumbit_level1_post
--forumhome_forumbit_level2_post
--navbar

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by SpeedStreet

Boofo,

Another great hack. Iowa, right? Remind me to call my uncle and tell him to give you one "get out of a speeding ticket free" card

- John

Thank you. Hopefully I will never need it but it might be nice to have just in case.

What's his name? I might actually know him.

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by Oblivion Knight

This is the smallest of things, but when clicking the link and the results are displayed on the search category strip, this is shown:


Is there any way to remove the ; that is added?

I noticed vB.org doesn't have any such problem when showing installed hacks, so I figured it could be sorted for this? :nervous:

I'm not sure where to fix that at. I can't see how this hack would cause that but it might in some way. Any ideas?

[SpeedStreet]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Thank you. Hopefully I will never need it but it might be nice to have just in case.

What's his name? I might actually know him.

Hint:

My last name is Vilsack

[Boofo]

LOL That's your uncle? Yeah, I could definately use some things from him!

You ever get to visit him? You'll have to stop on by.

[SpeedStreet]

Originally Posted by Boofo

LOL That's your uncle? Yeah, I could definately use some things from him!

You ever get to visit him? You'll have to stop on by.

Technically great uncle

I was actually in des moines and mason city for several weekends before the January Caucus. My name does well for fundraising

[Boofo]

Well, the next time you're up this way, you'll have to stop on by and say 'Hi'.

[Oblivion Knight]

Originally Posted by Boofo

I'm not sure where to fix that at. I can't see how this hack would cause that but it might in some way. Any ideas?

Looking at the code of search.php, this looks like it's more work than it's actually worth to identify unanswered threads as a search option to replace the redundant ; (I can't quite figure out why this shows anyway) with "Unanswered Threads".

Unless Xenon or anyone else can shed any light on this, we're stuck with ;

[Boofo]

I'll work on it and see what I can come up with and, hopefully, in the meantime, someone might be able to help us figure out what to do about the ;.

[PET]

Can you please post a small screenshot to see how it...show up the links ?

[Oblivion Knight]

Here's how I have it set up..
Bare in mind though, i've done it for each forum individually. As the instructions mention, you add the code to the template where you want to, I just thought the Forum Tools was a good place for it.