Thread Creation Date - Enhanced Version

Thread Creation Date - Enhanced Version v1.3.5


Version: 1.3.5
vB Version: 3.0.4
Developer: Ocean
Install Difficulty: Moderate


Description:

This hack will add a new sortable column to your ForumDisplay, as well as the UserCP for Subscribed Threads, that will show the Date of Creation of each of your threads. In addition, you can also sort by Creation Date via the Display Options of ForumDisplay.



Release History:


Version 1.3.5 Notes:

Fixed the column span issue for Searches


Version 1.3.4 Notes:

Fixed the column span issue for Thread Redirects


Version 1.3.3 Notes:

Fixed the column span issue for Announcements and Soft Deleted Threads


Version 1.32 Notes:

Minor changes to code being searched for (Updating for most recent version of vB). If you successfully installed 1.31, you don't need to worry about 1.32.


Version 1.31 Notes:

I have added the sort by Creation Date option for the Display Options of ForumDisplay


Version 1.3 Notes:

I have added the ability to sort by Creation Date for both ForumDisplay, as well as Subscribed Threads. (Thanks, KirbyDE for your help with this!)


Version 1.2 Notes:

This hack was originally released by VBDev. There were a number of issues, however, that needed to be dealt with. As VBDev was no longer responding to his Thread on vBulletin.org, nor was he responding on his home forum, I updated this hack to correct the following issues:


1. The "Threadbit" template had changed between 3.0.0 and 3.0.3.

2. The original version of this hack did not support the Subscribed Threads section in your UserCP.

3. The original version of this hack caused problems with the Subscribed Threads section of the UserCP. An additional empty column was created, where the Thread Creation Date should have been - but that threw the synchronization off between column headers and data.

[btappan]

Ocean, thanks for the reply

thats what i was getting at. do you know how i might modify the search.php file to make the default sort by creation date?

[Ocean]

Originally Posted by btappan

Ocean, thanks for the reply

thats what i was getting at. do you know how i might modify the search.php file to make the default sort by creation date?

1. In the "Search.php" file, find:

PHP Code:

 
'sortby' => 'lastpost', 


2. Change it to this:

PHP Code:

 
'sortby' => 'threadstart', 


3. Now, Find:

PHP Code:

 
$sortby = 'lastpost'; 


4. And change that to this:

PHP Code:

 
$sortby = 'threadstart'; 


That should do it!

[btappan]

still having problems

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...d=1#post548909

[Ocean]

Originally Posted by btappan

still having problems

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...d=1#post548909

Try this, and see if it does the trick for the "New Posts" link:


In the "Search.php" file, Find:

PHP Code:

 
ORDER BY lastpost DESC 


Replace it with this:

PHP Code:

 
ORDER BY threadstart DESC 


[btappan]

I tied that as well, no luck ......theres another instance of laspost just after that as well that i tried changing to no work either.

[Ocean]

Originally Posted by btappan

I tied that as well, no luck ......theres another instance of laspost just after that as well that i tried changing to no work either.

Hmm. Well, rather than making you jump through more hoops - I'd say the fastest way for you to get an authoritative answer to this is to post this question in the "How Do I" forum on vBulletin.com.

[Bad Bunny]

Originally Posted by btappan

I tied that as well, no luck ......theres another instance of laspost just after that as well that i tried changing to no work either.

Does this make it possible to make the thread sort by creation date automatically?

[nelto]

I tried to install this but I cant.

********************************

30. Now, Find:

**********

case 'postusername':
$sqlsortfield = $sortfield;
break;

********************************

That is to find on the subscription.php fiel but I cant find that in there.
Im runing VB 3.0.3

How can I do it?

[Ocean]

Originally Posted by nelto

I tried to install this but I cant.

********************************

30. Now, Find:

**********


case 'postusername':
$sqlsortfield = $sortfield;
break;


********************************

That is to find on the subscription.php fiel but I cant find that in there.
Im runing VB 3.0.3

How can I do it?

Be careful that you're searching the right file. vBulletin has a Subscription.php as well as a Subscriptions.php file. You want the singular version of the file, NOT the plural.

In addition, a lot of text editors have a problem doing searches that include a line break. So, try searching for just "case 'postusername':" and make sure that the instance you find is the correct one by visually matching the surrounding code to the code specified it the Instructions.

[nelto]

Ah great Ocean
btw one question

How can I had a new template to the VB?
Im trying to add some other hacks that require a new template but I dont knwo hwo to find it.

I'll let you know in a bit how this hack of yours works (if I got it installed.)