Mark Forum Read Hack

I, personally, think that ezboards best feature is the Mark Forum Read hack.

I don't especially like how vbulletin has a cookie timeout instead. I have a particularly active forum, and it's almost impossible to read every topic. Thus, I think implementing an alternative to the cookie timeout would be great.

Is there anyway someone could create this useful hack? Here is a basic breakdown of how it works:

Inside of every individual forum, there is a Mark Forum Read link. It marks every post in that individual forum read. On the ForumHome page, there is a Mark All Forums Read link. This would (obviously) mark every forum read.

I would certainly prefer this over the cookie timeout. Let me know if it can be done.

Excellent......you are a true star!

Regards

Onslo

[ethank]

Here's an RTF document with a summary of the changes I made. Not elegant, yet. I'll follow this post with a zip of the actual files.

You can see it in action at http://tony.murmurs.com

The UI for this feature needs some work, but we're working on it.

Ethan

[ethank]

Couldn't post the rtf, so I posted it at http://www.murmurs.com/codechanges.rtf

[ethank]

Zip of the changed files...

<zip removed due to violation of licensing agreement>

[Hooper]

Forgive me if I am mistaken, but I did not see a mark thread read function on your site as of yet. Did I miss something?

[ethank]

Also if anyone has tips on database tuning, if you think I should index a column or what not, do tell.

Ethan

Uhhh, how did he violate the licensing agreement?

[Mike Sullivan]

Posted several complete files.

[tubedogg]

He posted full vB2 files, I assume.

Sorry if I wasn't clear, ethank. I meant if you create any new files for the hack (like with my stars hack, I created a new file called stars.php), to put those up. You should not put up vBulletin files themselves.

[ethank]

So I understand live and learn. Anyhow, the rtf has the code modifications, but isn't clear as of yet where they go. So I'll work on that documentation tommorow.

EThan