Forum Display Enhancements - All Topic - Master Forums - Shows threads from multiple forums in one forum

This a complete and total upgrade to version 2.0!

New Version: 2.2

NOTE: VB 4.2.0(and over) Users DO NOT do the Manual File Edit on forumdisplay.php in the directions.

1 manual file edit is required to fix a bug where the thread count may be wrong in the master forum. Details in instructions in zip file.

You can now specify an * to denote "all forums" when creating a master forum. See instructions for details.

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.

New in 2.2: Show or hide sticky threads from slave forums on the master forum.

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 4.0.8 and am sure it will work on all 4.0/4.1 versions to date. There is a separate version for VB 3.x.

You can mostly ignore all posts in this thread up to post #25. Old posts are no longer relevant to this new version. (Note: post #7 is still relevant if you have only 1 master forum.)

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[vbandroid]

also this doesn't import stick threads from the slave forums, is their a way around this?

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by vbandroid

This is a great mod! Thanks. I was wondering if its possible to have some sort of work around for this? perhaps add a condition code to the master board, like if forum id=X, then pull stats from a,b,c. That we can manually add. I'm not very good at this but would this be possible?

No, not going to happen with this mod unfortunately.

Originally Posted by vbandroid

also this doesn't import stick threads from the slave forums, is their a way around this?

This on the other hand is possible... In fact the first time I did this mod I had it show slave stickies too but then people didn't like all the stickies being shown so I took them out.

I will work on adding an option so you can choose to work with stickies or not.

[Alan_SP]

About sticky threads, if you can make them normal (not sticky) in master forum? Is it possible?

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by Alan_SP

About sticky threads, if you can make them normal (not sticky) in master forum? Is it possible?

Interesting proposal... I will have to research this.

[vbandroid]

Thanks for getting back to us bird of prey, again fantastic mod.

[BirdOPrey5]

Updated to 2.2. You can now choose whether to show stickies from slave forums or not. If yes they will also be sticky threads in your master forum. I wasn't able to implement the suggestion to show them as normal threads- will keep trying for that though.

[Nik S]

I really like this mod. Thanks!

Would it be possible for threads in the master forum to link to their sub forums?

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by Nik S

I really like this mod. Thanks!

Would it be possible for threads in the master forum to link to their sub forums?

Are you talking about where it gives the name of the forum the thread is really in? Yes that can be done... I will make it an option in the next version but in the mean time if you want to do this do the following:

Got to Admin CP -> Plugin Manager
Edit the All Topic in Threadbit Plugin
Erase all the PHP code and replace it with the following:

if ($vbulletin->options['alltopic_enable'] AND $vbulletin->options['alltopic_tempen'])
{
   require_once(DIR . '/includes/adminfunctions_template.php');

   $find = trim(preg_replace('#^\$final_rendered = \'(.*)\';$#s', '\\1', compile_template('{vb:rawphrase started_by_x_y_z_a, {vb:link member, {vb:raw thread}, null, \'postuserid\', \'postusername\'}, {vb:raw thread.postusername}, {vb:raw thread.startdate}, {vb:raw thread.starttime}, {vb:stylevar dirmark}}')));

if ($vbulletin->options['alltopic_ss'])
 {

   $replace = trim(preg_replace('#^\$final_rendered = \'(.*)\';$#s', '\\1', compile_template('{vb:rawphrase started_by_x_y_z_a, {vb:link member, {vb:raw thread}, null, \'postuserid\', \'postusername\'}, {vb:raw thread.postusername}, {vb:raw thread.startdate}, {vb:raw thread.starttime}, {vb:stylevar dirmark}}<vb:if condition="($thread[\'forumid\'] != $forbopid)">&nbsp;-&nbsp;<a href="forumdisplay.php?f={vb:raw thread.forumid}">{vb:raw thread.forumtitle}</a></vb:if>')));
 }
else
 {
   $replace = trim(preg_replace('#^\$final_rendered = \'(.*)\';$#s', '\\1', compile_template('{vb:rawphrase started_by_x_y_z_a, {vb:link member, {vb:raw thread}, null, \'postuserid\', \'postusername\'}, {vb:raw thread.postusername}, {vb:raw thread.startdate}, {vb:raw thread.starttime}, {vb:stylevar dirmark}}<vb:if condition="!$thread[\'sticky\'] AND ($thread[\'forumid\'] != $forbopid)">&nbsp;-&nbsp;<a href="forumdisplay.php?f={vb:raw thread.forumid}">{vb:raw thread.forumtitle}</a></vb:if>')));
 }
   $vbulletin->templatecache['threadbit'] = str_replace($find, $replace, $vbulletin->templatecache['threadbit']);
}

Save the Plugin.

Forum names will now be linked.

[Gripi]

installed.. thanks alot for this great mod

[Alan_SP]

Excellent, this linking to forum names. :up:

I added this change to combined including and excluding master forums (attached).

BirdOPray5, if you manage to make sticky threads into normal threads, please also do excluding variant of this mod.