"Who Posted" Enhancement: View All Posts By User In This Thread

Hi all,

Don't know if there will be much interest here, but my users asked for this so I wrote a hack.

What is it?

When you click on the total replies in vBulletin, you can see a list of all posters who participated in the thread, and how many posts each had in that thread.

The hack adds a link to this pop-up window -- allowing you to view all posts by User X in that thread.

Where can I see a Demo?

I'm probably explaining it badly, so here's a demonstration:

Go to my bulletin board, at http://www.atlasf1.com/bb/index.php

Visit any one of the forums and click on the # of replies for any one of the threads (select one with lots of posts for better demonstration).

Click on the # of posts next to a username in the "Who Posted"
pop-up window

The result: you will get a page looking and behaving exactly like showthread for that thread, however it will include ONLY posts by that specific poster.

You can reply to the thread, quote a post, everything as if you were in the full thread.

You can also jump directly to the location of a specific post, by clicking on the post count to the right side of the post (you need to have Post Count hack installed for this).


How do I install it?

With almost no work at all.

Download the attachment - showposts.txt - and rename it to showposts.php. Upload it to your forums' main directory.

Edit template whopostedbit and replace

$post[posts]

with

<a href="showposts.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&threadid=$threadid&postuserid=$post[userid]" target="_blank">$post[posts]</a>

That's it

Cheers,

Bira

[Mark Hewitt]

Can this be made to work with your minimise unread posts hack. (The one thats installed on this forum).

As it stands it will show the thread with only that persons posts in it. I'd rather it showed the posts by that user maximised but everyone elses minimised. Thus then you have the option to take a look at what other posters are saying.