vB3 Unanswered Threads Hack v1.3

vB3 Unanswered Threads Hack
Version 1.3
(By Boofo and Kirby)

What does this hack do?
This hack will provide you with a link that will pull up all unanswered threads on your forums and also unanswered threads on a forum by forum basis. Unanswered threads are threads that have no replies to them. This is great for forums that do any kind of tech support so you can find the posts that have not been answered and respond to them.

Version information:
Version 1.0 --Initial Release
Version 1.1 --Updated to allow Admins, Super Moderators and Moderators to see the link.
Version 1.2 --Added code for Forum Tools Menu links and Navbar Quick Links.
Version 1.3 --Fixed nasty bug with the semi-colon showing up by itself for unanswered threads. Now "Unanswered Threads --" (sans quotes) will show up in place of the semi-colon if the search is for unanswered threads.

Installation overview:
Files to edit: (1)
--search.php
Templates to edit: (6)
--search_results
--forumdisplay
--forumhome
--forumhome_forumbit_level1_post
--forumhome_forumbit_level2_post
--navbar

[italks]

i am waiting for 3.5 version too.

[Eagle Creek]

Any news?

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by ice9

You can use the forumchoice option to limit your searches to certain forum(s). Not sure what you mean by #2 and #3.

Number 3 could be done by wrapping the link in forum permission tags.

As far as porting this, I saw no reason to do it as you can now do it via links in 3.5 (I think). I will look into it and see if it would be worth porting to 3.5

[-=Sniper=-]

Boofo; I just had a go at doing this for vb 3.5 and it worked

add a new plugin in the hook: search_process_start

use this code, very little change in the code.

PHP Code:

if ($exclude)
        {
            $zzzz_notforumchoice = "";
            $zzzz_excludelist = explode(',', $exclude);
            foreach ($zzzz_excludelist AS $zzzz_key => $zzzz_excludeid)
            {
                $zzzz_notforumchoice .= intval($zzzz_excludeid).",";
            }
            $zzzz_notforumchoice = substr($zzzz_notforumchoice,0,-1);
            if ($showposts)
            {
                $post_query_logic[] = "thread.forumid NOT IN ($zzzz_notforumchoice)";
            }
            else
            {
                $thread_query_logic[] = "thread.forumid NOT IN ($zzzz_notforumchoice)";
            }
        } 


then use exclude e.g. search.php?do=process&replyless=1&replylimit=0&day s=7&dontcache=1&searchdate=7&exclude=22,70,71,72

where the numbers are the forums you want to exclude.

[FLMom]

Just downloaded and am having trouble with finding the right template codes to edit I wish this was easier lol


off to try again! wish me luck!

[Boofo]

So, basically, the code you are using here is for excluding forums only, right? If you don't want to exclude any forums, then we don't need any plug-ins at all. Or am I missing something (like I usually do)?

Originally Posted by -=Sniper=-

Boofo; I just had a go at doing this for vb 3.5 and it worked

add a new plugin in the hook: search_process_start

use this code, very little change in the code.

PHP Code:

if ($exclude)
        {
            $zzzz_notforumchoice = "";
            $zzzz_excludelist = explode(',', $exclude);
            foreach ($zzzz_excludelist AS $zzzz_key => $zzzz_excludeid)
            {
                $zzzz_notforumchoice .= intval($zzzz_excludeid).",";
            }
            $zzzz_notforumchoice = substr($zzzz_notforumchoice,0,-1);
            if ($showposts)
            {
                $post_query_logic[] = "thread.forumid NOT IN ($zzzz_notforumchoice)";
            }
            else
            {
                $thread_query_logic[] = "thread.forumid NOT IN ($zzzz_notforumchoice)";
            }
        } 


then use exclude e.g. search.php?do=process&replyless=1&replylimit=0&day s=7&dontcache=1&searchdate=7&exclude=22,70,71,72

where the numbers are the forums you want to exclude.

[FLMom]

I wanted to add this in the quick links and it is showing up but when I click on it I get this error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/ctyler06/public_html/forums/search.php on line 487

What does this mean? How can I fix this? It worked for all of 10 seconds then the error popped up Help!

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by FLMom

I wanted to add this in the quick links and it is showing up but when I click on it I get this error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/ctyler06/public_html/forums/search.php on line 487

What does this mean? How can I fix this? It worked for all of 10 seconds then the error popped up Help!

What version on vb are you running?

[FLMom]

the latest...3.5.4

[FLMom]

Seems like some of my members can use it for a few seconds, then the error comes on too..