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whodah

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Join Date: Feb 2004

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by whodah whodah is offline

02 May 2005

what this hack does: shows the last 48 hours worth of posts
difficulty to install (scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the hardest): 3
files to mod: 1
templates to mod: 1

i take no responsibility if this breaks your forums. this probably violates the vB warranty due to a file modification. u break it, u buy it, yaddi yaddi. don't do this hack... having said that...

so the 'New Posts' link doesn't always work... u sign on, u leave w/out reading all the messages, come back, some are marked as read and don't show up on 'New Posts'... things of that nature.

so on our old forum, pnphpbb, i added a search function to show just the last 48 hours of posts.

once we migrated to vB, this had to be the feature i got the most PM's on that my peeps missed!!!

ok, so it's a very easy hack. probably violates a vB warranty, so u break it, u buy it. i take no responsibility, yaddi yaddi..

here we go!

file: forums/search.php
find:

Block Disabled: (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

insert the 'elseif' statement right between the if and else as such (or just replace it w/ this code):

Block Disabled: (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

you are done. if you now visit:

Block Disabled: (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

it will show u the last 48 hours worth of posts.

(it should be pretty obvious how to modify it to show the last 7 days or whatever u want. we like 48 hours...)

so now, we added a link to that next to 'New Posts' on our NavBar...

to do this, edit your 'navbar' template. for those that dont' know how:

log on to your appliance admin: www.yourdomain.com/forums/admincp
click 'Styles & Templates' on the left, then 'Style Manager'.
on the right hand menu, drop down to 'Edit Templates' and choose 'Go'.
double click 'Navigation / Breadcrumb Templates'
double click 'navbar'

somewhere in here, add a link to your new search function. in our case, we put it next to 'New Posts'. to do this, find:

Block Disabled: (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

afterwards add:

Block Disabled: (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

enjoy!

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02 May 2005, 15:58

Zachery

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Join Date: Jul 2002

Real name: Zachery Woods

whoa.. try

search.php?do=getdaily&days=2

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02 May 2005, 16:27

Paul M

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Join Date: Sep 2004

Real name: Paul M

Originally Posted by Zachery

whoa.. try

search.php?do=getdaily&days=2

Just what I was going to say ....

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02 May 2005, 16:51

whodah

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Join Date: Feb 2004

(in joking voice)

i don't want to play w/ u anymore...

:P

oh man - i seriously overlooked this functionality... i'll remove the hack, heh!

oh, and thx btw!

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Last edited by whodah; 02 May 2005 at 16:57. Reason: Automerged Doublepost

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