Forum Display Enhancements - Make Prefixes Clickable to Filter forumdisplay by Prefix

I decided to make this as a plugin. That modification is located here - Make Prefixes Clickable to Filter Forumdisplay

This is another modification which should be standard vbulletin. This template modification will make your thread prefixes clickable. If you click on the prefix, then the forumdisplay will only show threads with that prefix in that forum.


Version History:
1.0 2009-11-23: - initial release by Lynne at vbulletin.org

What to Do
This is a template modification. Open the threadbit template and Find:

{vb:raw thread.prefix_rich}

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Change to:

<a href="{vb:link forum, {vb:raw thread}, {vb:raw foruminfo}}&prefixid={vb:raw thread.prefixid}" rel="nofollow">{vb:raw thread.prefix_rich}</a>

That's it! If you then want to add a "Show All Threads" link next to the "Thread Starter" header, then you may edit the FORUMDISPLAY template also.

Find:

<a href="{vb:link forum, {vb:raw foruminfo}, {vb:raw pageinfo_postusername}}" rel="nofollow">{vb:rawphrase thread_starter}{vb:raw sortarrow.postusername}</a>

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Add beneath:

<vb:if condition="$_GET['prefixid']"> / <a href="{vb:link forum, {vb:raw foruminfo}}" rel="nofollow">Show All Threads</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</vb:if>

To install:

1. Make the above changes to the threadbit template and optionally the FORUMDISPLAY template.

To uninstall:

1. Undo the above changes to the threadbit template and optionally the FORUMDISPLAY template.


Screenshots
Clickable Prefixes



After Prefix is clicked, now you have the Show All Threads option:

[cloferba]

ho..thats really bad :|

vb4 should have this function to search by prefix in all forums

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and..well..instead of that, how can be the code to search on forumid1,forumid2 and forumid3?

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by cloferba

and..well..instead of that, how can be the code to search on forumid1,forumid2 and forumid3?

That sounds like a search function and this is just a mod to search this specific forum for all threads with that prefix. I think you'll have to look at the search.php page and look at the forumchoice[] and prefixchoice fields.

[willy888]

thanks ...very helphull

[W!cKeD]

Hello Lynne,

thank you very much for this mod but is it possible the prefixes becomes a own column?

See the attach its from vB3.7/3.8.

I know it need template modification in FORUMDISPLAY, threadbit and search_results..

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by W!cKeD

Hello Lynne,

thank you very much for this mod but is it possible the prefixes becomes a own column?

See the attach its from vB3.7/3.8.

I know it need template modification in FORUMDISPLAY, threadbit and search_results..

Yeah, I'm sure you could put them in their own column, but that isn't really what this mod is about. If you don't know how to do it, you should post in the vB4 forums for help.

[W!cKeD]

Thanks, i would to combinate it with your mod, thats reason why i ask :P

[Lynne]

I ended up writing this as a plugin. That mod is located here - Make Prefixes Clickable to Filter Forumdisplay

[ps2wiz]

Thanks for the original mod, I am putting it to use.

Originally Posted by W!cKeD

Hello Lynne,

thank you very much for this mod but is it possible the prefixes becomes a own column?

See the attach its from vB3.7/3.8.

I know it need template modification in FORUMDISPLAY, threadbit and search_results..

I am interested in finding a way to do this, anyone?

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by ps2wiz

I am interested in finding a way to do this, anyone?

I saw the request but it's easier to help if you guys post the code you have tried and then let us see the results. So far, no code has been posted so I can't really help with it.

[SpankMe]

I had to change the & to a ? before the prefixid to get it to work. With the & it just returned to the forum URL. I'm using "Advanced Friendly URLs" if that had anything to do with. No time to test.