Exclude forum from New Posts

[maryx]

Thanks to the excellent suggestion from KW802 of making a plugin in this thread I have been able to exclude one of my forums from New Posts.

However, I would like to give my members the option of selecting whether or not to see this forum in New Posts.

This means that I need to make a drop down menu in the navbar under New Posts; one selection would say "exclude shopping", one selection would say "include shopping".

The problem is twofold: where to edit a drop down menu for New Posts, and then, how to attach the plugin that excludes shopping to that navbar selection.

Any ideas out there?

[glennybee]

First of all, there isn't a drop down menu for New Posts so you would need to create one. Open the navnar template.

Find:

<if condition="$show['member']">
<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getnew" accesskey="2">$vbphrase[new_posts_nav]</a></td>
<else />

Replace it with:

<if condition="$show['member']">
<td id="newposts" class="vbmenu_control"><a href="search.php?$session[sessionurl]" accesskey="2">$vbphrase[new_posts_nav]</a><script type="text/javascript">vbmenu_register("newposts"); </script></td>
<else />

Find:

<!-- NAVBAR POPUP MENUS -->

Add below:

        <div class="vbmenu_popup" id="newposts_menu" style="display:none">
                <table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">
                        <tr><td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getnew" accesskey="2">NIncluding Shopping</a></td></tr>
                        <tr><td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getnew&amp;exclude=x" accesskey="2">Excluding Shopping</a></td></tr>
                </table>
        </div>

Where x is the forumid of the shipping forum.

I always test new things on a default style that is not selectable to normal members before implementing it on my main board.

Good luck!

[Max Kwiatkowski]

You can also add a new plugin.

Hook Location: search_start
Title: Exclude from New Posts
Plugin PHP Code:

PHP Code:

if ($_REQUEST['do'] == 'getnew' OR $_REQUEST['do'] == 'getdaily')
{
     $_REQUEST['exclude'] .= ',xx';
} 


Replace 'xx' to ID of forum.

[Lynne]

Back on my 3.0 board, I created a profile field (fieldx) for the users and they could put in forumids they wanted excluded, ie. 3,4,7 - it had to be in that specific format (no spaces) and then I added a dropdown for New Posts with a new Your Search link that went to
search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getnew&exclude=$bbuserinfo[fieldx]

(I think that's what I did - I don't use that anymore.)

[maryx]

These are all great suggestions. I was able to make the changes the board needed. Thanks so much to all of you!

--------------- Added [DATE]1233618515[/DATE] at [TIME]1233618515[/TIME] ---------------

Now, a related question!

What code would give me, in a drop down box, a third selection of New Posts called Only Shopping. This New Posts choice would have posts only from one category of the forum - the Shopping category. The forum ID of this category is 27

Thanks for your help, all your suggestions were great and they worked!

--------------- Added [DATE]1233618552[/DATE] at [TIME]1233618552[/TIME] ---------------

Now, a related question!

What code would give me, in a drop down box, a third selection of New Posts called Only Shopping. This New Posts choice would have posts only from one category of the forum - the Shopping category. The forum ID of this category is 27

Thanks for your help, all your suggestions were great and they worked!