https://forums.webwiz.net/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:23:36 +0000 Tue, 09 Nov 2004 19:29:56 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.08 360 https://forums.webwiz.net/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=12479 https://forums.webwiz.net/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://forums.webwiz.net/ https://forums.webwiz.net/cookie-problems-regarding-new-posts_topic12479_post69204.html#69204 Author: NathanMc
Subject: 12479
Posted: 09 November 2004 at 7:29pm

Well, I did it, and I don't think there were the performance tradeoffsyou mentioned. A simple, elegant solution is usually viable :)

The forum already tracks what individual threads have been read in aforum through the session.  It was a simple enough matter tomodify the session code to allow for individual forum session dtmvalues to be tracked.

If there is interest I can provide detail of the mod, just need to adda link to the forum pages now to allow for a "Mark all threads read" byforum.
]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2004 19:29:56 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/cookie-problems-regarding-new-posts_topic12479_post69204.html#69204 https://forums.webwiz.net/cookie-problems-regarding-new-posts_topic12479_post69169.html#69169 Author: WebWiz-Bruce
Subject: 12479
Posted: 09 November 2004 at 3:46am

The icon on the main forum page shows if the forum contains unread topics since your last visit.

This is not updated as this would be a big performance hit slowing downthe whole forum as you would eirther have to hold the ID of each topica user looks at in the database or a cookie, both of which would be abig performance hit.

You would then each time you look at the main forum page have to doquite an intensive database hit for each forum checking the dates sincelast login, each of the topics read since then, etc. to see if any ofthe topics do still remain unread.
]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2004 03:46:39 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/cookie-problems-regarding-new-posts_topic12479_post69169.html#69169 https://forums.webwiz.net/cookie-problems-regarding-new-posts_topic12479_post69165.html#69165 Author: NathanMc
Subject: 12479
Posted: 09 November 2004 at 1:53am

Hi Guys,

I am a new WWF board owner, and am generally quite impressed.

There is an issue that I and a few of my users are experiencing withthe "new unread topic" notification. I have not been able to findanything on this in any of the threads here.

It appears to be working sporadically across a session - my own experiences include:

1. The forum index will not update when all of the contained threads have been read.
2. If a new post is made during a session, a new post indicator willlight up at the forum index link level, but the new posts will not behighlighted at the forum level.
3. This is more of a mod request / enwuiry I suspect, however myusers (all fresh form phpBB where this is standard) have enquired intoa "Mark forum read" link. At the moment it would appear that this ispossible only as a serverwide option.

Thank you very much for producing such a quality product, and for anyassistance possible with this! I have some additional questions andthings to raise, but I'll keep them one issue to a topic, and will tryto avoid spamming you all :)
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