Forum Display Enhancements - All Topic / Master Forums - View Threads from Multiple Forums in a Master Forums

This a complete and total upgrade to version 2.0!

This mod is now an importable product, there are no more manual file edits.

In addition this mod will be able to auto edit your templates if you run the standard threadbit template, otherwise there are instructions in the zip file for manual template edits if needed.

What does this mod do? - Basically this is only the most awesomest mod ever for vBulletin. You can now view threads from other forums in "Master Forums" you designate.

For example on my site "Off Topic" is my "Master Forum" and virtually all other forums are assigned to the Master Forum offering user's the ability to browse 1 forum while seeing threads from many others.

New in version 2.0: You can now have multiple master forums.

See the screen shots for an example.

All instructions are included in the zip file.

As pointed out by phpdesk you must have at least 1 thread in your master forum for this to work.

I have tested this on VB 3.8.6 and am sure it will work on all 3.8 versions. I also strongly believe it will work as far back as VB 3.6 but can't test it myself.

This will not work for vBulletin 4.0, do not try to install it. The VB4 Version is here.

If you used the old version revert your forumdisplay.php file back to it's original condition before installing.

Please Mark as Installed if you use this.

You can mostly ignore all posts in this thread up to post #28. Old posts are not longer relevant to this new version. (Note: post #7 is still relevant if you have only 1 master forum.)

Upgrade to Version 2.1 (March 3, 2011)
Fixes a bug where the master forum wouldn't display as many pages as there were posts.

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by Amenadiel

I just checked the plugin in which you comment a large chunk of original code. It's absolutely breathtaking.

I wish every VB query had a way to do that. I'd pretty much rewrite most of them.

(Which I won't do by altering the core files)

Yeah, we got lucky with that... Unfortunately they screwed it up in VB 4.x so for 4.x version you need to do a manual file edit or live with the bug that not all posts are displayed- not a big deal for large forums (lots of posts) but very noticeable on small forums that just have a page or two of posts.

[Run!]

First off this is great - thanks a lot!

Secondly, is there any possibility of doing something similar for vB4? I've been trying to do something similar to this for a while so that we could have:

Australia Forum -> Subforums: Politics, Sport, News
New Zealand Forum -> Subforums: Politics, Sport, News

And then we could use the mod to have a Politics forum (with topics from both politics subforums) a sports forum and a news forum.

[BirdOPrey5]

The VB4 version is linked in the top post.

[Run!]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

The VB4 version is linked in the top post.

Brilliant - thank you.

[0ptima]

I installed this, but the Forumdisplay Thread Count is not working. When viewing the forum list, the master forum looks empty. When I click on the master forum, all the threads are shown. Im on VB 3.8.6

[BirdOPrey5]

<span style="text-decoration: line-through">This mod does not affect anything on Forumdisplay.</span> The thread counts remain the same because the threads really are in their original forums, this mod simply lets you see threads from multiple forums in one- it doesn't move or copy the actual thread.

[0ptima]

thanks for the info. What does these hooks, forumdisplay_query_threadscount and
forumdisplay_query_threadid do?

[BirdOPrey5]

Sorry I thought you were talking about forumhome earlier. What I meant to say is this mod does not affect forumhome. The hooks you mention change the database query to select all threads from all forums selected as part of the master forum.

[0ptima]

I was talking about forumhome.... oh well, its a neat mod anyway.

[Undertaker #59]

Quick question before I see if this will work for me.

In your screen shot, it shows the new thread button. How does that work? In which forum will the new thread appear?