if user has posted in a specific forum

[Dr.CustUmz]

is there a condition that exists already for detecting if a user has posted in a specific forum? I want to provide a link in the navbar if they have not posted in a certain forum. I was looking into how to be able to detect it:
post > threadid & userid
thread > threadid & forumid

which I could make something with, just dont feel a need to add queries to something that may exist already, so was wondering if anyone knew a way to detect if the user has posted in a specific forum.

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I have just went ahead and made a function with the following query to solve this:

SELECT count(postuserid) as count
FROM thread
WHERE postuserid = " . $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] . "
AND forumid = 5
AND lastposter != " . $vbulletin->userinfo['username'] . "

[lange]

Maybe a AND with

<if condition="$threadinfo['postuserid'] == $bbuserinfo['userid']"></if>

and this conditional

[Dr.CustUmz]

The condition you came up with is more for threadbit (forumdisplay) when the end goal needs to be able to detect if a user has posted in a specific forum, no matter where they are. (so navbar / header / ect.)

If user has posted in forum ID 34
show them something

also

If user has posted in forum ID 34 and they are not the last poster
show them something

I may come up with another way to do this, what I'm essentially trying to do is get notifications for my Hire Me section. Its a private forum (only me and the client can see their thread) If I have responded to their thread they get a notification on the navbar, yet if I havent responded to a thread I get a notification.

Maybe something along restricting getnew to that forum id may be the trick...

[PinkMilk]

Theory code only, not tested...

-- 1 --
Assuming single forum per client (rather than 1 forum multiple client threads) its not a navbar notification but is a possible alternative.

Change new posts link color

Give code a class rather than inline styling, throw in a little animation to cause it to flash.

.getmyattention {
  color:red;
  animation: blink 1s linear infinite;
}

@keyframes blink {  
  50% { opacity: 0; }
}

-- 2 --
Came up with this before above not really what your after but going to leave it here anyway rather then just delete.

Adds a getnew link to navbar to specific forum based on user id (does not check for, flash or give notification which is what your after):

Build a plugin using an Associative Array (userid => forumid)

PHP Code:

// fetch user id
$user_id = $vbulletin->userinfo['userid']; 

// user id => forum id
$forum_id = array(1=>"35", 2=>"37", 3=>"43");

// check exists and create link variable for navbar 
if (array_key_exists($user_id,$forum_id)) {

   $client_link = '<a href ="search.php?do=getnew&amp;forumid='.$forum_id[$user_id].'">Client Area</a>';
// add link to navbar
$vbulletin->templatecache['navbar'] = str_replace($template_hook['navbar_buttons_left'], $template_hook['navbar_buttons_left'].$client_link, $vbulletin->templatecache['navbar']);

  } else {

   $client_link =  '';

} 


then with each new client you just add to the array , 4=>"52" (userid => forumid)

[Dr.CustUmz]

That would not be a bad approach at all, it atleast gets me closer to what I'm after =) I'll put it to test after the project I'm working on and see if I can make use of it.

Thanks Pink