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Time travel to past discussions · **Released**: 12-30-2006

To see a live demo of this, go here and scroll to the bottom:
http://intpcentral.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=7

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Description in a nutshell:
Filtering the existing threads by a specific date to give the illusion that you are going back in time.

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Install instructions

1. Download product-timetravel.xml

2. Import product-timetravel.xml into your forum

3. Edit forumdisplay.php

The purpose of this is to make sure the timetravel GET variable is passed around when clicking on different page numbers.

At around line 933 of forumdisplay.php change this (or do a search for $pagenav to find it):

Code:

$pagenav = construct_page_nav($pagenumber, $perpage, $totalthreads, 'forumdisplay.php?' . $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl'] . "f=$forumid", ""

to this:

Code:

$pagenav = construct_page_nav($pagenumber, $perpage, $totalthreads, 'forumdisplay.php?' . $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl'] . "f=$forumid$hook_pagenav", ""

4. Go to vBulletin Options -> Time Travel Settings

5. Adjust the settings to suit your forum

6. Test the mod on your forum

7. Report back here with any comments/feedback

8. Finished

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changelog:
0.1
- initial release

0.1.1
- bug fix

0.2
- filter out stickies
- use vBulletin Options area to enable/disable mod, set start month, choice between filtering by last post or thread creation date, set default to filter by last post

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UltimateOreo! · #2 12-31-2006, 06:16 PM

This is VERY cool, the vbulletin staff should actually consider this instead of their archive. By the way, if you are getting a syntax error, just click the overwrite button, it worked for me.

fci · #3 12-31-2006, 06:28 PM

an XML syntax error? Does anyone else have this problem?

edit: I just did an export and re-upped it, if anyone else has issues let me know

tonyph33r · #4 12-31-2006, 06:39 PM

thank you

fci · #5 12-31-2006, 08:58 PM

I accidentally uploaded a version that hadn't been fully tested when I re-upped earlier but it is corrected now.

Ntfu2 · #6 01-01-2007, 04:05 AM

I dont understand?

fci · #7 01-01-2007, 03:51 PM

Ntfu2, here is what it is in a nutshell:
Filtering the existing threads by a specific date to give the illusion that you are going back in time.

DannyMilner · #8 01-01-2007, 03:57 PM

Thats a very cool idea! Very nice work

Paul M · #9 01-01-2007, 04:23 PM

Is the demo on your site broken ? I just set it to June 2005 and all the last post information still seemed to be for 2006 and the "Random Thread Generator" was still listed first (or maybe it doesn't work for guests ?)

fci · #10 01-01-2007, 07:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul M

Is the demo on your site broken ? I just set it to June 2005 and all the last post information still seemed to be for 2006 and the "Random Thread Generator" was still listed first (or maybe it doesn't work for guests ?)

mmm, I don't have it filtering the stickies. That should be relatively easy to fix (assuming there's hooks for it..).

To prevent some confusion, it filters by thread creation date not last post date which can make it appear that isn't actually filtering properly when looking at the last post date it displays.
At the demo I linked, there are a lot of old threads that appeared to have been bumped in 2006.

A better demo link would be this page which doesn't have several bumped old threads:
http://intpcentral.com/forums/forumd....php?forumid=7

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