Advanced Forum Properties part 2

some time ago, i asked if it's possible to enter an extra sorting option for each forum.
a small but Ppowerful hint came up from FireFly, and i build a Hack around it.

I hope it works and you like it.

What it does: it adds new Fileds to every Forum-Properties and you can select, if the Board-defaults were shown when the forum is opend, or you you can say which Row schould be sorted. Ascending or Descending is also selectable.
To build it as much as flexible, I add an Admin-Page, where you can Select some of all Listed Colums existing in the forum-Table. Even new added through Hack. So have only These Colums in your Drop-Down Box.

Part 1 of this Hack is the DaysPruneOverride Hack.
Later i will release all of them in one Big hack.

I hope you like it.
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Update:
The SQL ALTER-Command was wrong. Fixed.
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Update:
I must be blind and used the wrong table. Fixed.

Demo:

[X-Fan]

Originally posted by Hoffi
If you installed all Correctly, it must work. So please take a look, if you changed all correctly, and upload your files again.

I think you forgot some Code in forumdisplay.php

I'm having a similar problem on v2.2.8 - it's only sorting by descending, not ascending even though I've got the sort order set to ascending. And I've triple-checked the code, and it's all been added/changed correctly.

Help!

[kevinnguyen]

02-08-02 at 11:18 PM LangTuDaTinh said this in Post #15
I did install as you said and but it seems that ascending doesn't work. it always display in descending order. (note i changed to ASC in my forum properties) pls tell me what should i need to fix.

i got the same prob on 2.3.0 *sigh*
i was looking for this hack

[kevinnguyen]

nevermind
fixed the problem

[X-Fan]

How'd you fix it?

[kevinnguyen]

somehow the code doesnt accept the capital letters (ASC, DESC) so i replaced them w/ (asc, desc)

in admin/forum.php
Find:

makecustomchoosercode ("Default sort order","sortdefault","ASC,DESC");

Change it to:

makecustomchoosercode ("Default sort order","sortdefault","asc,desc");

Find:

makecustomchoosercode ("Default sort order","sortdefault","ASC,DESC",$forum[sortdefault]);

Replace w/:

makecustomchoosercode ("Default sort order","sortdefault","asc,desc",$forum[sortdefault]);

It should work fine now

[X-Fan]

You mean admin/forum.php

[kevinnguyen]

yeah, sorry

[noonespecial]

Originally Posted by kevinnguyen

yeah, sorry

this is NEEDED for vb3

[Hoffi]

Originally Posted by noonespecial

this is NEEDED for vb3

Indeed. I will be build it next time.