Forum Display Enhancements - Thread Listing by Letter with ABC Navigation Menu

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

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.

Installation / Upgrade

1. Upload product attached (Go to admincp > manage products) (select 'allow overwrite' if upgrading)
   
2. Edit FORUMDISPLAY template and below $navbar place the following 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">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]">All</a></td>    
        <td class="alt1">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$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 (using VBSEO)
http://www.talkjesus.com/scriptural-bible-answers/

Live Demo (fresh Vbulletin install)
http://www.talkjesus.com/test/forumdisplay.php?f=2

?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:

• Mods
  • Thread Listing by Letter with ABC Navigation Menu
  • Text Background Highlight
  • ESV Bible Verse with Audio
  • My Shelfari Bookshelf Profile Tab
  • Postbit Mini Box: Member Info Icons
  • MixPod Playlist MP3 Player in Profile
• Styles
  • Green Earth Admin Style
  • Purple Element Admin Style

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

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

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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[dvbusuario]

Without vBSEO is a very very slow

[Chadi]

Originally Posted by dvbusuario

Without vBSEO is a very very slow

That has nothing to do with this mod. This is nothing but a tiny plugin and 26 links.

[lolo?]

thnaks work great

[dvbusuario]

The correct syntaxis to code on NON-VBSEO users is

Wrong:
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.yourdomain.com/forumdisplay.php/f=2&letter=a">A</a>

Correct
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.yourdomain.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2&letter=a">A</a>

Only change "/" with "?"

And Works perfectly.

Install & Nominated!!!

Thank you very much!

P.S. Sorry for my bad english

[lolo?]

do you think it's possible to add number 0-9 ?

[Hornstar]

this is awesome! I had wanted this for a cheats forum that I was working on a while back but I could never work out how to do this, and now this is done but I don't need it anymore lol oh well, maybe I will start a new project because this could be very useful. Thanks.

[Hornstar]

Just had a thought. What about special characters and 0-9. how are they taken care of?

[Chadi]

Originally Posted by lolo?

do you think it's possible to add number 0-9 ?

I don't know how, but if someone else does please share and I'll update it.

[Darat]

Just been trying this on a forum in which we have it set to display all the threads back to the beginning but your Mod only seems to be pulling up threads for the last 30 days?