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Thread Listing by Letter with ABC Navigation Menu · **Released**: 04-21-2009

Thread Listing by Letter with ABC Navigation Menu
(please nominate for mod of the month)

Should work fine on 3.6x and up

See screenshot: click here

Special thank you to member 'Dead Eddie' who originally created this and gave me permission (via pm) to post this as a mod.

This will automatically display your forum's threads into alphabetical order when a member clicks a specific letter. It shows an ABC menu on top of the forum that you place the code into.

Tested on a fresh Vbulletin install and VBSEO enabled install. Works fine on both.

Description of MOD:

Member clicks on the letter 'A', it will show all threads that begin with the letter A in the thread title, only. Same for "#" symbol. Shows only threads that begin with a number 0-9.

Installation / Upgrade

Upload product attached (Go to admincp > manage products) (select 'allow overwrite' if upgrading)
Edit FORUMDISPLAY template and below $navbar place the following code:

Code:

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<td colspan="30" height="16" class="thead">
    <strong>Search topics by first letter</strong><tr align="center">
        <td class="alt2" style="padding:5px;text-align:center">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]">All</a></td>
        <td class="alt1" style="padding:5px;text-align:center">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=num">#</a></td>    
        <td class="alt1">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=a">A</a></td>
        <td class="alt1" style="padding:5px;text-align:center">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=b">B</a></td>
        <td class="alt1">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=c">C</a></td>
        <td class="alt1" style="padding:5px;text-align:center">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=d">D</a></td>
        <td class="alt1">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=e">E</a></td>
        <td class="alt1" style="padding:5px;text-align:center">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=f">F</a></td>
        <td class="alt1">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=g">G</a></td>
        <td class="alt1" style="padding:5px;text-align:center">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=h">H</a></td>
        <td class="alt1">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=i">I</a></td>
        <td class="alt1" style="padding:5px;text-align:center">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=j">J</a></td>
        <td class="alt1">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=k">K</a></td>
        <td class="alt1" style="padding:5px;text-align:center">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=l">L</a></td>
        <td class="alt1">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=m">M</a></td>
        <td class="alt1" style="padding:5px;text-align:center">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=n">N</a></td>
        <td class="alt1">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=o">O</a></td>
        <td class="alt1" style="padding:5px;text-align:center">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=p">P</a></td>
        <td class="alt1">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=q">Q</a></td>
        <td class="alt1" style="padding:5px;text-align:center">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=r">R</a></td>
        <td class="alt1">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=s">S</a></td>
        <td class="alt1" style="padding:5px;text-align:center">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=t">T</a></td>
        <td class="alt1">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=u">U</a></td>
        <td class="alt1" style="padding:5px;text-align:center">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=v">V</a></td>
        <td class="alt1">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=y">Y</a></td>
        <td class="alt1" style="padding:5px;text-align:center">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=x">X</a></td>
        <td class="alt1">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=y">Y</a></td>
        <td class="alt1" style="padding:5px;text-align:center">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=Z">Z</a></td>
    </tr>
</table>
<br />

Live Demo
http://www.talkjesus.com/scriptural-bible-answers/

Quote:

?For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.?- Romans 1:20

Check out my other mods:

Please show your appreciation by voting and clicking install :up:

*********** CHANGELOG ***********

August 24th 2009

added ability to sort by numbers (#). Thanks to Dylanblitz (see thread)

May 5th 2009

fix plugin version number to 2.00 accordingly (forgot to update the version number on May 4th's update - sorry)

May 4th, 2009

improved column width layout
changed hook location to fix reported issues by a couple members
added "All" link to show all threads of forum
Cleaned up code to remove some unnecessary extra bits
replaced two different plugin versions with one, simplified plug-in instead

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* Please Note: No Support Provided via PM or Email, only in This Thread for those who click Install *

lazydesis · #2 04-22-2009, 10:16 PM

Man been waitin for this for almost 2 yrs now

Chadi · #3 04-22-2009, 10:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lazyindian

Man been waitin for this for almost 2 yrs now

Cool

Please click install and vote

Thanks

NolF · #4 04-23-2009, 03:35 PM

Hmmm doesn't entirely work :S

Code:

http://elrincondelmanga.com/foro/forumdisplay.php?f=19&letter=s
http://elrincondelmanga.com/foro/forumdisplay.php?f=19&letter=d

There should be far more entries :S

Also what happens if more than the result is larger than the maximum forumdisplay threads? the navigator links are not updated to reflect the query (add &letter=d)

Chadi · #5 04-23-2009, 04:36 PM

Nolf, that has nothing to do with the mod (re: 'more entries') because if it did, obviously the other letters would show the same problem as well.

Check your settings carefully including the code you pasted.

As you can see in my live demo, works perfectly fine.

NolF · #6 04-23-2009, 05:04 PM

Instead of pasting it where you said (nor that I could find it vbSEO feature?), I placed it directly in the forumdisplay template so I could apply it to many forums quickly and effectively

Code:

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<td colspan="30" height="16" class="thead">
    <strong>Buscar series por letra</strong><tr align="center">
        <td class="alt2" width="3%">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=s">S</a></td>
        <td class="alt1" style="padding:5px;text-align:center">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=d">D</a></td>
</tr></td></table>

That code renders the linked I posted earlier, and essentially is the same you instructed.

The forum I linked to, has 1500 threads, and I know for a fact they all start with different letters, so there should be well over 50 starting with S and far more than two starting with D These letters are examples all letters are affected.

I see no reason why putting the code in the template should make any difference on how the mod works. I also checked if other hacks could be affecting it, and no other mods are using the forumdisplay_query.

Thanks for your assistance

TheLastSuperman · #7 04-23-2009, 05:10 PM

Tagged... will check out later today.

Thanks for doing this

oskqqqq · #8 04-23-2009, 05:24 PM

its working properly..nominated

here is the demo

Chadi · #9 04-23-2009, 09:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NolF

Instead of pasting it where you said (nor that I could find it vbSEO feature?), I placed it directly in the forumdisplay template so I could apply it to many forums quickly and effectively

Code:

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<td colspan="30" height="16" class="thead">
    <strong>Buscar series por letra</strong><tr align="center">
        <td class="alt2" width="3%">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=s">S</a></td>
        <td class="alt1" style="padding:5px;text-align:center">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=d">D</a></td>
</tr></td></table>

That code renders the linked I posted earlier, and essentially is the same you instructed.

The forum I linked to, has 1500 threads, and I know for a fact they all start with different letters, so there should be well over 50 starting with S and far more than two starting with D These letters are examples all letters are affected.

I see no reason why putting the code in the template should make any difference on how the mod works. I also checked if other hacks could be affecting it, and no other mods are using the forumdisplay_query.

Thanks for your assistance

Sorry but I'm not an actual programmer. Just shared what others helped me create (this mod that is). All I can say is the mod does work. Something in your forum is clearly conflicting with this mod. Proof? My live demo and others confirming that it works. Try it out on a fresh installation / database and you'll see.

tommyturnage · #10 04-24-2009, 05:53 AM

Doesn't show ALL the threads under the selected letter

Fix the bugz and Ill click install again...

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