Allow BB code in sticky thread titles

Sticky threads have a tendency to be overlooked by the users. So I came up with the idea of allowing BB tags and smilies to be used in the sticky thread titles to make them more noticeable. I made this hack for VB2 about a year or 2 ago, but I neglected to publish it. Another reason why this hack is limited to sticky thread titles is because there are less sticky threads in a forum than there are regular threads, and if this were to be expanded to include regular threads it would be nothing but a can of worms. And also due to the fact that it can only be used in sticky threads, it allows only admins and moderators to use this feature.

This hack is such a simple hack that I am actually embarassed to call it a hack since it actually takes 2 lines of code to do it.

The instructions and a screen shot of the hack are attached to this post.

[neocorteqz]

does this restrict the url tags??? cause if you use it, just like the old 2.x hack, it will go to the url instead of the thread. This can be misused.

[Borgs8472]

^ ^
it's a mods only feature, no problem.

[cinq]

Zzed, great idea!
But it doesn't show the bbcode parsed titles in many places, like the search, who's online, title in the threaddisplay page, the title on forumhome , print page etc etc.

It only shows on forumdisplay ( which figures since the only code change was there ).

Any plans to cover the rest as well ?
Would be a more complete hack that way

Hope to see updates soon !

[dutchbb]

Originally Posted by Zzed

I can look into trying to fix this. I'll see what I can come up with over the weekend.

Still would like this Zzed, but don't know how...

It isn't very professional to have these code brackets in a thread...

[Watson]

This been done for 3.0.3 yet, cause I keep getting the code showing up in the topic title within the actual post, and it dont actually work in the topic title

[dcarr]

It's certainly a great idea, but on my forumhome page...the title is coded for all to see...anybody figure this yet? It'd be a shame to have to dump it.

[ZombieAndy]

so has a fix been made yet to show this on threads and in posts aswell as in the forum?

[kompakt]

I'm waiting on a fix for showing on the rest of the forum too. I have it installed now and its only showing in the forum display like eveyrone else.

Thanks...

[EscortCossie]

Has the fix been published yet?

[kompakt]

I fixed it in a few places where I felt it was needed mostly.

1. To display in the search results
   in /search.php find

   // get info from thread
   $thread = process_thread_array($thread, $lastread["$thread[forumid]"]);

   and replace with

   // get info from thread
   require_once('./includes/functions_bbcodeparse.php');
   $thread['threadtitle'] = parse_bbcode($thread['threadtitle']);
   $thread = process_thread_array($thread, $lastread["$thread[forumid]"]);

2. To display on the top navigating bit of the thread
   in /showthread.php find

   $navbits[''] = $thread['title'];

   and add above it

   require_once('./includes/functions_bbcodeparse.php');
   $thread['title'] = parse_bbcode($thread['title']);

I couldn't figure out how to add it to the post titles :devious: This worked fine for the others though. Not bad for 1st timer

note: this would allow nonsticky's to show in the search results and the navbit but not in the forum dislpay