Thread start time/date in forum-display

show the date/time of the first posting of a thread on forum-display

[biome.pat]

If anyone's interested in sorting by "thread start-time" (after installing this mod, of course), then do this:

Open FORUMDISPLAY template and replace

$vbphrase[thread] Title / $vbphrase[thread_starter]

with

$vbphrase[thread] Title / $vbphrase[thread_starter] / $vbphrase[thread_time]

then replace

		<a href="$sorturl&amp;order=asc&amp;sort=postusername" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[thread_starter]</a> $sortarrow[postusername]

with

		<a href="$sorturl&amp;order=asc&amp;sort=postusername" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[thread_starter]</a> $sortarrow[postusername] /
		<a href="$sorturl&amp;order=asc&amp;sort=dateline" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[thread_time]</a> $sortarrow[dateline]

then finally, make a custom Global vbphrase called thread_time, and make it whatever you want the sort link to say (mine was "Thread Start-Time").

No need to change any PHP, because it looks like the coders had it set up to sort by a thread's dateline, but there's simply no button for it.

Cheers all