Forum Display Enhancements - Thread Listing by Letter with ABC Navigation Menu

Thread Listing by Letter with ABC Navigation Menu
(please nominate for mod of the month)

Should work fine on 3.6x and up

See screenshot: click here

Special thank you to member 'Dead Eddie' who originally created this and gave me permission (via pm) to post this as a mod.

This will automatically display your forum's threads into alphabetical order when a member clicks a specific letter. It shows an ABC menu on top of the forum that you place the code into.

Tested on a fresh Vbulletin install and VBSEO enabled install. Works fine on both.

Description of MOD:

Member clicks on the letter 'A', it will show all threads that begin with the letter A in the thread title, only. Same for "#" symbol. Shows only threads that begin with a number 0-9.

Installation / Upgrade

1. Upload product attached (Go to admincp > manage products) (select 'allow overwrite' if upgrading)
   
2. Edit FORUMDISPLAY template and below $navbar place the following code:

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<td colspan="30" height="16" class="thead">
    <strong>Search topics by first letter</strong><tr align="center">
        <td class="alt2" style="padding:5px;text-align:center">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]">All</a></td>
        <td class="alt1" style="padding:5px;text-align:center">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=num">#</a></td>    
        <td class="alt1">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=a">A</a></td>
        <td class="alt1" style="padding:5px;text-align:center">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=b">B</a></td>
        <td class="alt1">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=c">C</a></td>
        <td class="alt1" style="padding:5px;text-align:center">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=d">D</a></td>
        <td class="alt1">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=e">E</a></td>
        <td class="alt1" style="padding:5px;text-align:center">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=f">F</a></td>
        <td class="alt1">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=g">G</a></td>
        <td class="alt1" style="padding:5px;text-align:center">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=h">H</a></td>
        <td class="alt1">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=i">I</a></td>
        <td class="alt1" style="padding:5px;text-align:center">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=j">J</a></td>
        <td class="alt1">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=k">K</a></td>
        <td class="alt1" style="padding:5px;text-align:center">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=l">L</a></td>
        <td class="alt1">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=m">M</a></td>
        <td class="alt1" style="padding:5px;text-align:center">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=n">N</a></td>
        <td class="alt1">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=o">O</a></td>
        <td class="alt1" style="padding:5px;text-align:center">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=p">P</a></td>
        <td class="alt1">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=q">Q</a></td>
        <td class="alt1" style="padding:5px;text-align:center">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=r">R</a></td>
        <td class="alt1">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=s">S</a></td>
        <td class="alt1" style="padding:5px;text-align:center">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=t">T</a></td>
        <td class="alt1">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=u">U</a></td>
        <td class="alt1" style="padding:5px;text-align:center">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=v">V</a></td>
        <td class="alt1">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=y">Y</a></td>
        <td class="alt1" style="padding:5px;text-align:center">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=x">X</a></td>
        <td class="alt1">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=y">Y</a></td>
        <td class="alt1" style="padding:5px;text-align:center">
        <a rel="nofollow" href="forumdisplay.php?f=$foruminfo[forumid]&letter=Z">Z</a></td>
    </tr>
</table>
<br />

Live Demo
http://www.talkjesus.com/scriptural-bible-answers/

?For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.?- Romans 1:20

Check out my other mods:

• Mods
  • Thread Listing by Letter with ABC Navigation Menu
  • Text Background Highlight
  • ESV Bible Verse with Audio
  • My Shelfari Bookshelf Profile Tab
  • Postbit Mini Box: Member Info Icons
  • MixPod Playlist MP3 Player in Profile
• Styles
  • Green Earth Admin Style
  • Purple Element Admin Style

Please show your appreciation by voting and clicking install :up:

*********** CHANGELOG ***********

August 24th 2009

• added ability to sort by numbers (#). Thanks to Dylanblitz (see thread)

May 5th 2009

• fix plugin version number to 2.00 accordingly (forgot to update the version number on May 4th's update - sorry)

May 4th, 2009

• improved column width layout
• changed hook location to fix reported issues by a couple members
• added "All" link to show all threads of forum
• Cleaned up code to remove some unnecessary extra bits
• replaced two different plugin versions with one, simplified plug-in instead
  

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* Please Note: No Support Provided via PM or Email, only in This Thread for those who click Install *

[synseal]

Loving this and working fine, cheers!, installed and nominated.

[MrKramer]

Originally Posted by NolF

@MrKramer
I added &pp=200 to the title to show 200 results in a page, you can change it to more or less depending how many threads you have. I'm not sure if it is limited by an ACP option which restricts the number of threads in forumdisplay though.

TY TY TY very much.
This is awsome.

There is just 1 more question. Ive orderd my website to set the newest thread on top.
So even when I use this alphabetic search... it will do the same.

Is there some way to keep the forum normal and only when I use this alphabetic search... that it will be orderd alphabetically?

[NolF]

@MrKramer
Not sure what you are asking for there :S

[MrKramer]

Originally Posted by NolF

@MrKramer
Not sure what you are asking for there :S

How do i make it in alphabetic order (after i searched on a letter)

[l_amhed]

Originally Posted by snoop1979

I have a lil problem it arrange the threads by the selected letter but when i go to the second page it show the normal second page not alphabetically
vbseo is installed could be that?

Will this be fixed someday ?
I can't click on "install" since this hack does not 100% work..

[NolF]

Originally Posted by MrKramer

How do i make it in alphabetic order (after i searched on a letter)

Ahhh!! Just add
&sort=title&order=asc

that will sort it alphabetically (thread title) and ascending so the least would look (here is a demo at my site)

Sally eats pie
Sand in my shoes
Socrates was cool

[l_amhed]

But what the point in doing this ?
You click on the "G" letter, you've got a first page with all the G letter starting threads, then you click on the next page link and got a page with threads starting with the letter "D" ...

Things are not supposed to work like this with this (very promising at first) hack.

[Chadi]

Originally Posted by l_amhed

But what the point in doing this ?
You click on the "G" letter, you've got a first page with all the G letter starting threads, then you click on the next page link and got a page with threads starting with the letter "D" ...

Things are not supposed to work like this with this (very promising at first) hack.

I'm already aware of the 'other pages' problem/bug.

I'm not a programmer, so I'm trying to get someone to help me fix that.

[jankoalek]

Installed...and waiting for a fix

[yotsume]

I'll watch this but I can not install this until all bugs are fixed.

Great Concept! Just post your request for a coder to help you in paid support and this will get fixed.

It would be a shame to not get any bugs fixed for this in a timely manner.