Was looking for such hack but couldn't find one for 3.7.x, so I made my own, I hope this will save some time for the next guy.
Edit forumdisplay.php
find (3 of them):
PHP Code:
WHERE forumid = $foruminfo[forumid]
change all of them to:
PHP Code:
WHERE forumid IN ($foruminfo[forumid]," . implode(',',$foruminfo['childlist']) . ")
Note:
Remember to set the main forum to allow posting new threads, otherwise you won't see the thread list in forumdisplay.
If you don't want to allow posting of new threads in the main forum, but still want to display all the subforum threads, then make this additional change, beware that this quick method applies to all forums:
Edit forumdisplay.php (you only need this IF you have set the main forum to not allow posting new threads)
Find:
Not sure I understand this... Why have subforums, then? Couldn't something similar be achieved without subforums, requiring prefixes in the forum that are choice "subforum 1" "subforum 2" and "subforum 3"?
Not sure I understand this... Why have subforums, then? Couldn't something similar be achieved without subforums, requiring prefixes in the forum that are choice "subforum 1" "subforum 2" and "subforum 3"?
I haven't tried this mod yet but I plan on it later tonight. I'll use this are an organizational tool believe it or not. This will bring attention to threads in subforums the average user might not participate in. All this while still providing organization to those who wish to visit the subforum. For example, think of a general forum.. inside that general forum there is a subforum for new members. Most long time members won't waste time in the new members subforum. With this mod they might see a thread title that peeks their interest and in turn will reply. The only concern with this mod I would have is if people would stop using the subforum itself confusing the main forum with it and starting off-forum new threads.
As for prefixes, it might just be me but I hate how vB handles them. The original prefix hacks from previous versions of vB were much better.
I have a forum with a large number of images in different categories - i use this so that members can click a link that says new images and this pulls the list of images from all categories.
This is great- any ideas on how it might be adapted to work on other forums within the same site, not subforums... example if I have the following top level forums:
-Off Topic
-Health
-Cars
-Poker
-Home Improvement
As is people usually post topics only in "Off Topic" and I move them to the appropriate forum... it would be great if even after being moved the thread would continue to be viewable in Off Topic but the thread is physically located for lack of a better term in a different forum, and posts/replies to the thread from either forum get added to the original thread.
06-07-2008, 10:00 PM
09-21-2008, 10:19 PM
