Forums with the same name but different categories

[pran]

I've got a problem moving forums having the same name but different categories. In the Admin CP, the Source Forum drop-down list will only give you the forum name and no clue to which category it is attached to. On the other hand, one can clearly see the affinity of a forum to a category when moving a thread to another forum.

Is there a hack somewhere that solves this problem? All I can think of right now is to rename the forum into something more descriptive unless there's a quick hack that I can put in.

[Admin]

In the drop down box, the forums are ordered by their category, then by the order you set. So you should be able to get which forum is which.
I'm trying to write a little code that will add a "-" before every subforum, so you can see what's what. I'll tell you if I succeed.

[pran]

Thanks! I'll wait for the results.

[Admin]

In adminfunctions.php replace

PHP Code:

  $result=$DB_site->query("SELECT title,forumid FROM forum WHERE forumid<>-1 ORDER BY title");
  while ($currow=$DB_site->fetch_array($result)) {

    if ($selvalue==$currow[$tableid]) {
      echo "<option value=\"$currow[forumid]\" SELECTED>$currow[title]</option>\n";
    } else {
      echo "<option value=\"$currow[forumid]\">$currow[title]</option>\n";
    }
  } // for 


with

PHP Code:

  $result=$DB_site->query("SELECT title,forumid,parentid FROM forum WHERE forumid<>-1 ORDER BY title");
  while ($currow=$DB_site->fetch_array($result)) {

    if ($selvalue==$currow[$tableid]) {
      if ($currow[parentid] == "-1") {
        echo "<option value=\"$currow[forumid]\" SELECTED>$currow[title]</option>\n";
      } else {
        echo "<option value=\"$currow[forumid]\" SELECTED>- $currow[title]</option>\n";
      }
    } else {
      if ($currow[parentid] == "-1") {
        echo "<option value=\"$currow[forumid]\">$currow[title]</option>\n";
      } else {
        echo "<option value=\"$currow[forumid]\">- $currow[title]</option>\n";
      }
    }
  } // for 


Currently it's just for one level forums, more than that will take a lot more hacking.