Display count of unread posts in welcome box

This modification is no longer available or supported.

* This hack only works if you use the new database thread marking system, if you don't, then you probably should be. *

With the new marking system I have found a simple count of the new posts since your last visit to be less informative and useful than it used to be - esp as the GetNew function now excludes threads you have read, but includes threads from before your last visit. Therefore I decided to try a new system that counts the actual number of posts that are still considered unread by you, and will show up in a GetNew search.

In fact this hack gives you two options (with a new setting in the vBulletin Options > General Settings). If set to yes, it will only count the unread posts since your last visit, if set to no it will count all posts considered unread. This setting reflects the divider in the GetNew display.

To install this hack simply download the xml file to your pc and then import it into vbulletin as a product - then alter the ACP setting to your preferred option (the default is 'no' (i.e. all unread posts).

Note: This hack injects the result direct into the navbar template during page construction, thus avoiding the need for a template edit. This requires that a certain text combination exists in your template. This will be fine for most boards that use a navbar based on the vB default, but you should bear this in mind if you have a totally custom navbar.



History:

v1.01 : First Release.
v1.02 : Minor changes, no update necessary.

[GoNz00]

happend to me on 3.5 and still on 3.5.1

would be nice if this could be fixed ???

[TygerTyger]

Originally Posted by GoNz00

happend to me on 3.5 and still on 3.5.1

would be nice if this could be fixed ???

It was supposed to have been in this version:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/bugs3...1518&status=20

I'm sure Paul would follow it up since he filed the original bug report.

[michaelbenson]

I would have preferred to be able to place the count of unread posts where we wanted in the navbar box much easier. I ended up having to made aload of edits to the search text bit to make it replace the correct area that i wanted!

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by TygerTyger

It was supposed to have been in this version:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/bugs3...1518&status=20

I'm sure Paul would follow it up since he filed the original bug report.

They only agreed to "fix" it for new threads, not new posts to existing threads.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by michaelbenson

I would have preferred to be able to place the count of unread posts where we wanted in the navbar box much easier. I ended up having to made aload of edits to the search text bit to make it replace the correct area that i wanted!

I don't see you would need to make "aload of edits". If you want to place it somewhere custom, just put a comment in the template at the location you want ( like <!-- unread posts here --> ) and change the search to look for that comment. Simple really.

[Bubble #5]

Originally Posted by Paul M

change the search to look for that comment.

So if I understand this correctly, if we want it to show up from our forumhome template, then we would change this line of code:

$vbulletin->templatecache['navbar'] = str_replace($search_text,$search_text.$unread,$vbulletin->templatecache['navbar']);

to this?

$vbulletin->templatecache['forumhome'] = str_replace($search_text,$search_text.$unread,$vbulletin->templatecache['forumhome']);

...and then add "<!-- unread posts here -->" in the forumhome template where we want it to show up? Is that correct Paul?

[Bubble #5]

Does it matter which one we have it set to "Database (no automatic forum marking)" or "Database (automatic forum marking)"?

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Bubble #5

Does it matter which one we have it set to "Database (no automatic forum marking)" or "Database (automatic forum marking)"?

It makes no difference to the working of this hack, either will do.

[vtx1800]

I installed in my board, 3.5.1, nothing showed.

Tried both settings of yes and no in the ACP, nothing.

[Cheertobi]

Originally Posted by vtx1800

I installed in my board, 3.5.1, nothing showed.

Tried both settings of yes and no in the ACP, nothing.

Do you have a customized style?!

Tobi