Display threads creation date

Display thread's creation date

Total hack's description : http://www.vbulletindev.net/forums/h...hack&hackid=69



Please click if you like this hack


I've created this hack, and I saw then that it was already done here, but with my hack, you can display the date from the searcH.php and it adds a new column :nervous:

With this small hack, you'll add the thread's creation date in the forumdisplay (and search results)

[Ocean]

Originally Posted by snake-boy

Hi,

Everything looking good, I hit a snag right at the start:

This line does not exist in my forumdisplay.php? (V3.0.3) Am I just crazy?

-snake

If you check the instructions, you will see that that line is found in the ForumDisplay Template, not the PHP file.

[snake-boy]

Doh! Sorry, I opened my eyes and followed the instructions, and everything went fine (installation-wise), but now I have a problem:

The sort creation date column is there, but I should mention that column "Date of Creation", although it is there, it is not clickable. And in the dropdown options "Sort By", I don't have an option to sort by Creation Date?

Threads still appear to be sorted by most-recently-replied to.

Update: I just went through all the changes I made to make sure I didn't miss something, and everything's there.

Do I need to rebuild something or enable this feature in the admincp somewhere before it becomes active? Your advise would be greatly appreciated to acomplish this.

-snake

[turbidblue]

thanks ocean, yours worked great!

[snake-boy]

Originally Posted by turbidblue

thanks ocean, yours worked great!

Are you running 3.0.3? Is your "date of creation" column clickable? Do you have the option to sort by date of creation from the dropdown?

-snake

[turbidblue]

actually no, i didnt know it was supposed to do that, i wouldnt want it to do that anyway..

yes i am on 3.0.3

[snake-boy]

Ocean - I guess maybe I missed the point? Does your hack allow sorting by thread creation date or not? If not, then I guess it is working correctly, (my misunderstanding), but I would like to ask if you could give us the code that will allow sorting by this new column. (newest to oldest preferrably)?

I know frighfully little about php, but surely this can't be too hard to do now that there is a field that can be sorted?

I'd really appreciate it if you could add this feature to this mod?

-snake

[Natch]

KirbyDE's instructions work to sort by Creation Date - follow those after using Ocean's code and you should be apples ...

This is of course dependant on whether you want to be apples ...

[Ocean]

Originally Posted by snake-boy

Ocean - I guess maybe I missed the point? Does your hack allow sorting by thread creation date or not? If not, then I guess it is working correctly, (my misunderstanding), but I would like to ask if you could give us the code that will allow sorting by this new column. (newest to oldest preferrably)?

I know frighfully little about php, but surely this can't be too hard to do now that there is a field that can be sorted?

I'd really appreciate it if you could add this feature to this mod?

-snake

That was one improvement I had not gotten around to testing. The changelog in my post and the Instructions lists the new features/fixes that I put in.

Even without the sorting (which I will hopefully add to my instructions soon), it's still worth using over VBDev's, because of all of the other improvements.

But I'll try to update my instructions soon to add Sorting.

[Ocean]

I have revised my instructions (which are now Version 1.3).


I added KirbyDE's code modifications so that you can sort by Thread Creation Date on ForumDisplay. However, I did some further modification so that you can also sort by Creation Date for Thread Subscriptions as well.


Thanks, KirbyDE!

[snake-boy]

Thanks a mil for this! I have just downloaded this, but as I already made the V1.2 changes, I'm not sure which parts are 'new'.

Would it be possible to have a 'diff' of the two versions so that I can upgrade the code to allow the sorting, or must I go through it all again going over the changes I previously made?

Thanks again for this long awaited mod

-snake

Edit: Oh, and how do I make this the default sort order?