Add drop down to certain boards and not others.

[SpawnedX]

I would like to add a drop down box to some of my boards. In this drop down box it would be a list of my prefixes for that board and when they click on one of the prefixes in the drop down it will sort that board by the prefixes.

I know I will have to have the forumdisplay template check the board ID and if is one of the board IDs I want the box on then display it. Could someone show me what the if statement would look like for checking the board ID? I can figure out the drop down menu part for myself.

Also on a related note, is there a way to add a tabid onto the address a board link opens?

[Simon Lloyd]

The search function already allows for searching and filtering by prefix. When you say "Sort the board" do you mean every forum or just the forum the member is viewing?

[SpawnedX]

Just the forum the member is looking at. This isn't filtering by prefix in the same manner. The forum covers a couple different models of cars and I have a prefix for each model. Currently I am using Lynne's plug to click on the prefixes and that will eliminate all threads without that prefix on the current board.

The problem is, the person has to search for a post with that prefix in the board they want to quick sort without fully searching. So if there is a drop down menu on the board at the top, they can just set it to whatever model they need to search for.

[Simon Lloyd]

Ok, go to Plugins & Products in your admincp, Add new plugin, give it a name and description, use hook loaction "forumdisplay_query" add this code

PHP Code:

$frm = array(1,2,3,4,5,6);
if (in_array($forumid, $frm)) { 
$fld = 'prefixid';      
$query= "SELECT DISTINCT $fld FROM ".TABLE_PREFIX."thread";   
$result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());    
$dropdown = "<form>\r\n<select name='myfld'>";    
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {  
    
$dropdown .= "\r\n<option value='$row[$fld]'>{$row[$fld]}</option>";}$dropdown .= "\r\n</select>\r\n<input type='hidden' name='f' value='$forumid'><input type='submit' value='Filter by Make (only for this page)' />\r\n</form>";  
  }

$vbulletin->input->clean_gpc('r', 'myfld',  TYPE_STR);  
$myfld = $vbulletin->GPC['myfld'];   
if (!empty($myfld))   
{   
$hook_query_where .= " AND thread.{$fld} = '" . $db->escape_string($myfld) . "' ";  
} 


Replace the forumids (i,2,3,...etc) for the forums that you want this to work on, then in your forumdisplay template put this under $navbar

PHP Code:

$dropdown<br /> 


[SpawnedX]

Unfortunately it only printed $dropdown on the page.

Is there no way to just add to a template a basic if $forumid = 11 then do this style thing? I know it's messy, but this vB4 code looks nothing like what I am familiar with in vB3.

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Even this doesn't work:

<vb:if condition="$forum[forumid] == 11">Show this if forum ID is 11.</vb:if>

I think I am just going to go back to vB 3.8.

[Simon Lloyd]

I dont have a copy of vb4 to work with at the moment, if you can wait a couple of days until i finish work i'll be able to check that out, or maybe someone will jump in before then, maybe you can try {vb:raw $dropdown}

Did you have the plugin enabled???

[SpawnedX]

Yeah I had it enabled. I have found a way to do it with a conditional if statement. That's good enough for me. Thanks though.