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 *

[mr.trichomes]

ahhh thank you so much Chadi, i tried to figure it out myself and failed miserably

[Chadi]

Glad you like it

[NolF]

Lovely, thanks for the update, works like a charm ^^

[MrKramer]

When I click on 1 of the letters... it only shows all results which is on the 1st page...
For example:
if I have 10 threads with the letter M
and 3 of them are on the 1st page... than only those 3 are visible.

[Chadi]

Originally Posted by MrKramer

When I click on 1 of the letters... it only shows all results which is on the 1st page...
For example:
if I have 10 threads with the letter M
and 3 of them are on the 1st page... than only those 3 are visible.

Support is provided to those who click install only.

[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.

[snoop1979]

Hi there thanks for this mod i've been waiting for something like this for a long time.

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?

[Chadi]

Originally Posted by snoop1979

Hi there thanks for this mod i've been waiting for something like this for a long time.

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?

Please consider reading the OP. Support is provided for those who click install only.

[alik4277]

Originally Posted by snoop1979

Hi there thanks for this mod i've been waiting for something like this for a long time.

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?

Same here

[l_amhed]

Originally Posted by alik4277

Same here

Yep same here too (but not VBSEO installed), but I guess I won't have any help cause I didn't click on the 'installed' link since the product does not work as expected for now.