Chronological Thead Display By Start Date

Works with 2.2.0 and up!

This hack was suggested by Lionel at this thread. https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=35707

Its a small hack but it does what he wants.

##### In forumdisplay.php Replace #####

PHP Code:

// look at sorting options:
if (!isset($sortorder)) {
  $sortorder = "";
}
if (!isset($sortfield)) {
  $sortfield = "";
} 


### with ###

PHP Code:

// look at sorting options:
if ($foruminfo[forumid]=="xx" || $foruminfo[forumid]=="xx") {
    if (!isset($sortorder)) {
      $sortorder = "asc";
    }
    if (!isset($sortfield)) {
      $sortfield = "asc";
    }
} else {
    if (!isset($sortorder)) {
      $sortorder = "";
    }
    if (!isset($sortfield)) {
      $sortfield = "";
    }
} 


to set it for a certain forum edit this code like

PHP Code:

if ($foruminfo[forumid]=="xx" || $foruminfo[forumid]=="xx") { 


xx would be the number of the forum you want to have this be used on.

[Lionel]

Neo, it does exactly what I was looking for. Upon entering the forum, the thread are properly sorted. :up:

[Neo]

No prob man. I am happy to serve.

[Admin]

Why are you setting $sortfield to 'asc' as well?

[Neo]

He wanted to have it so that the first made was at the top instead of the bottom... so the newest one would start or be placed at the end of the page... and as you know ASC is a MySQL command.

[Admin]

$sortfield is the column to sort by, not the order. $sortorder holds the order (ASC/DESC).

[Neo]

Yeah... thats what I ment to say.

[Admin]

And I'm asking why are you setting $sortfield (not $sortorder) to ASC?

[SystemLogic]

Works perfectly, thanks a lot bud!

[SystemLogic]

Hmm odd, I thought it worked, but it's actually putting the replies back at the top even though the start date is much earlier then the most recent post.