Get number of new posts from a forum

[UberMensch]

How can I fetch the number of new posts from a specific forum? I doubt this can be done with templates alone, so I'm expecting a bit of php is required. How could I achieve this?

[Lynne]

You would do a query in a plugin - but which plugin would depend on where you want to use this count. You would also need to define 'new' - do you mean new in the last 24 hours, new since the user was last online, new in that the user has never read it, etc.

[UberMensch]

Originally Posted by Lynne

You would do a query in a plugin - but which plugin would depend on where you want to use this count. You would also need to define 'new' - do you mean new in the last 24 hours, new since the user was last online, new in that the user has never read it, etc.

The plugin would be the hook called when the board index is viewed. By "new" I mean the new posts since the user was last online

[Lynne]

You might want to see if this hack would do what you want since it's alreay written: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=122995

[UberMensch]

With a bit of editing, that should work out fine! Thanks for your help