Mini - Post Counter in Split Thread

We have a forum that needs to remain on topic. I do a lot of thread splitting to move posts to our off topic forum. It can be a real pain sometimes. I've had Bira's post count in threads hack installed since last July. I realized I needed something similar for splitting threads. I did some tinkering using the concept from Bira's hack and came up with this mini hack. It's been working for a while, so I thought I would release it in case somebody else would find it handy. Intstructions attached.

I added a direct link to the post count so you can open the original thread in it's own window for comparison.

[FWC]

Here's a screenshot:

[Lesane]

this is a very usefull hack, thanks :up:

[FWC]

Originally posted by Lesane
this is a very usefull hack, thanks :up:

I'm glad you found it useful. I sure needed it.

[Michelle69]

Very nice, FWC

[TWTCommish]

I'm confused: is this hack the addition of the post # on the split thread view? IE: "Post #1," "Post #2," et cetera?

[FWC]

Originally posted by TWTCommish
I'm confused: is this hack the addition of the post # on the split thread view? IE: "Post #1," "Post #2," et cetera?

Yes, it's tiny, but it's something I needed.

[squawell]

i love this one :up: :up:

thankz FWC

[globalwin]

can anyone get this to work in 2.2.6?

PHP Code:

  $counter=0;
  $postbits = '';
  $countposts = 0;
  while ($post=$DB_site->fetch_array($posts)) {
    if (++$counter%2==0) {
      $post[backcolor]="{firstaltcolor}";
      $post[bgclass] = "alt1";
      $countposts = $countposts+1;
    } else {
      $post[backcolor]="{secondaltcolor}";
      $post[bgclass] = "alt2";
      $countposts = $countposts+1;
    } 


[FWC]

It does work in 2.2.6. Did you edit the threads_splitthreadbit template?