Thread of the day

With this hack you can select a thread of the day

The thread of the day is a thread randomly picked from all threads STARTED
the day before. Then the thread of the day appears at your forumhome.

You can customize different options in the threadoftheday.php file, for the people that installed my member of the day hack this one is very similar, but it selects a thread instead of a member to show at the forum home.

*Update* For showing always the thread with most replies instead of a random thread: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....9&postcount=14

Info for hackers:
You may modify, improve, upgrade, redistribute this hack, include it
in another hack or yours or translate it provided you do it free of
charge and you distribute it in www.vbulletin.org at least, there is no
need to pm me asking for permission
Some portions of the code are (c) Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.

[Mike Gaidin]

Is there a way to add a feature to this that displays something like a Top New Thread of the Day? It might be a way to help encourage new threads to blossom instead of die out.

[Chris-FH]

Nice hack...

BUT...

Is it possible, to show a random thread, so every refresh the thread changes?

C.

[Kentaurus]

Originally Posted by Mike Gaidin

Is there a way to add a feature to this that displays something like a Top New Thread of the Day? It might be a way to help encourage new threads to blossom instead of die out.

What is a top new thread of the day? Is it the thread created yesterday that had most posts?

Originally Posted by Chris-FH

Nice hack...

BUT...

Is it possible, to show a random thread, so every refresh the thread changes?

C.

That would be another hack... this is a cached thread for optimal resource use, but I can write a random version also.

[Kentaurus]

For showing always the thread with most replies instead of a random thread use this file instead of threadoftheday.php

Please note, this doesn't make a single thread to always appear in the top of the page because only threads started the day before are considered, so there is a new pool of threads each day.

[Chris-FH]

That would be another hack... this is a cached thread for optimal resource use, but I can write a random version also.

That would be nice. My members will thank you...

C.

[sabret00the]

ok not sure what's the easiest way to ask this so i'll just ask.

i'd like this to use only threads that have been active in the past 7 days but not a thread that has been chosen within the past 14 days, does this already do this?

[RaZor Edge]

Would be great if we can actualy select the thread we like to show on the forum home page... (can be like this vb2 hack -- https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=53170)

[James Collins]

I agree.

Is an avatar supposed to show up as well? If so is it restricted in size as your pic has one, yet I cant get one to show in our development forum.

Anyway also to make the horizontal size match so it takes up less space, and match with the default forum styles. Excellent hack just not keen on the size.

[Nj?rd Eriksson]

It's a great hack.

Style improvement. Replace the threadoftheday template with:

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="thead" colspan="2">
<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onClick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_threadoftheday')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_threadoftheday" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_threadoftheday].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
Top Thread of the Day
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_threadoftheday" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_threadoftheday]">

<tr>

<td class="alt2"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_link.gif" alt="Top Thread of the Day" border="0" /></td>

<td class="alt1" colspan="0"><div class="smallfont">
<table class="alt1" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
  <td><img src="image.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$tday[postuserid]" height="100"></td>
  <td>
    <span class="smallfont"><b>Top Thread of the Day:</b> <a target="_top" href="showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]t=$tday[threadid]">$tday[title]</a><br/><br/>
    <b>Posted by:</b> <a href="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$tday[postuserid]">$tday[postusername]</a><br/>
    <b>Posted on:</b> $tday[dateline]<br/><br/>
    <b>Preview:</b> $tday[pagetext]</span>
  </td>
</tr>
</table>
        </div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<br/>

This controls the size of the avatar, by the way:

<img src="image.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$tday[postuserid]" height="100">

Replace height="100" with the pixel height you want.

@Kentaurus: Can one actually get this thing somehow to parse URLs and smilies?

I agree that a possibility to select the thread of the day would be a good addition.

[deaconxgp]

can you have more than one thread of the day?