Release 0.1 Mark Forum Read/Mark All Read from database hack

Here's the hack I worked on this week, in rough and not too pretty form. I'll be beautifying it soon.

You can download an rtf with all the code changes listed at http://murmurs.com/codechanges.rtf. Also in that file is the table creation statement.

Attached is a zip of all the changed files. Comments are included, but not consistant yet.

You can see this in action at http://tony.murmurs.com. Only two forums, but still.

I'll pretty up the code this weekend and make better install instructions.

This is way beta, so if there are any problems just post. Don't put this on a production board yet

Ethan

[ethank]

Originally posted by SWFans.net
Thanks. I have the "View New Posts" working again, but the feature, still marks all forums as read when I use the link provided in the instructions to Mark Forum Read.

Hmmm...paste that link in here.

Ethan

[SWFans.net]

<a href="http://www.swforums.net/forum/" target="_blank">http://www.swforums.net/forum/</a>

<a href="member.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=markforumread&forumid=$forum[forumid]">Mark Forum Read</a>

[SWFans.net]

I went through and redid the modifications to session.php and the hack is fully functional now.

Thanks for putting up with my questions and providing this excellent hack.

[FWC]

I think I know what I'm going to be doing this weekend.

[ethank]

I'm looking at the other version of hte Mark Read code as well. Looking at his code, its very similar to my implementation and the functionality should be similar. The only difference is the search code and the code that does the forum lightbulbs (mine checks subforums individually instead of going by last-post because last-post gives inconsistent results).

I contacted the author of the other one, so maybe we can just combine efforts and distrubte one persistent mark-forum-read hack instead of having two.

Its not a hurry because this one at least works and has for a while, even if it is a bit sloppy in parts

Thank god for Araxis Merge! It makes this all so easy

EThan

[ethank]

Originally posted by SWFans.net
I went through and redid the modifications to session.php and the hack is fully functional now.

Thanks for putting up with my questions and providing this excellent hack.

I'm glad it works

Ethan

[JJR512]

After having and using this hack for a couple days now, an interesting idea for improving it has occurred to me. Why not make it automatic, so people don't have to click on any link to mark a forum as read. People don't have to do anything special to get a thread marked as read; why should they have to do anything special to get a forum marked as read? If all the new post indicators in a forum are off, the forum should automatically turn its own new post indicator off (in other words, mark itself as read).

I guess the way this would work is that whenever you view a page that has a forum list on it (forum home view, category view, forum with subforum view, etc.), the code would check to see if there are actually any new posts in any forums listed (in other words, check to see if you looked in the forum, would you see any new post folders?), and if not, the new post indicator for the forum would be off.

[ethank]

Well, judging from the new version of vBulletin, this hack might not be necessary. And that's cool!



Ethan

[JJR512]

Well I'll be a monkey's uncle. I noticed the "Version 2.something ;-)" earlier, but hadn't noticed the new links. Cool!

[tubedogg]

Don't be so sure...a database version of this may be just what I need (this cookie thing hasn't been working too well for me thus far).