Suggestion: More Thread Image Icons
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Topic: Suggestion: More Thread Image Icons
Posted By: Dr Moocowz
Subject: Suggestion: More Thread Image Icons
Date Posted: 25 May 2004 at 6:52pm
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I have a request that I've gotten a few complaints about... at the bottom of the pages when you're viewing the topics in the forum where it has, "Top [no new posts]", "Sticky Topic", etc. I would like to see 2 more conditions added... 1) Sticky Topic [new post] Complaint I've gotten is someone will be browsing the forums and they will miss new posts in sticky topics or announcements because the icon is always the same. So I guess that would entail creating 2 new images and modifying the forum code to cover 2 additional conditions. My site isn't very high traffic, so stickies and announcements can get overlooked easily. Let me know if you think this is a doable suggestion. I very much like the Web Wiz Forum software!! Thanks. |
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Posted By: ljamal
Date Posted: 25 May 2004 at 9:54pm
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It's just a matter of creating the icons and modifying the code to check it the post is new since the last visit. There is code that currently does this for the other icons so it would just be a matter of adjusting that code. ------------- L. Jamal Walton http://www.ljamal.com/" rel="nofollow - L. Jamal Inc : Web/ Print Design and ASP Programming |
Posted By: Dr Moocowz
Date Posted: 07 June 2004 at 12:04pm
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maybe someone can tell me what's wrong with this code... granted I did try to do it in a sleep deprived state, but I don't have time to work on this stuff any other time In the forum_topics.asp... roughly line 469... between... 'If the topic is top priorty and locked then display top priporty locked icon and 'If the topic is top priorty then display top priporty icon I tried the following and variations there of for an Announcement with new replies... ElseIf intPriority > 0 AND blnNewPost = True Then I tried variations with parenthesis, but nothing seemed to make it work... still comes up with the plain Announcement icon. Any help is appreciated. |
Posted By: ljamal
Date Posted: 07 June 2004 at 12:17pm
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If you altering the announcement icon then you need to do it BEFORE the line :
ElseIf intPriority > 0 Then otherwise it will always be show the announcment icon. Use: ElseIf intPriority > 0 AND blnNewPost = True Then Response.Write("<img src=""" & strImagePath & "test.gif"" border=""0"" alt=""" & strTxtHighPriorityPost & """>") and then ElseIf intPriority > 0 Then Response.Write("<img src=""" & strImagePath & "priority_post_icon.gif"" border=""0"" alt=""" & strTxtHighPriorityPost & """>") ------------- L. Jamal Walton http://www.ljamal.com/" rel="nofollow - L. Jamal Inc : Web/ Print Design and ASP Programming |
Posted By: Dr Moocowz
Date Posted: 07 June 2004 at 2:55pm
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What you stated was exactly what I did... I should've put my prior post together better I suppose. It still basically ignores that line and displays the normal Announcement icon... I'm still not sure what the problem is... I don't think its my order... I'm thinking there's something wrong with my conditions it checks... though I wouldn't think an announcement post would have different properties than a normal post other than it has a 1 instead of a 0 in the database. |
Posted By: Dr Moocowz
Date Posted: 08 June 2004 at 1:10am
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ahh just found out my problem... I was getting burned by some cache issues in my browser... I deleted the cache and closed the browser and it behaved as I intended... I HATE problems like that, because its never the first thing to look for... Anyways, for those who are interested in 2 new states... 1) Sticky and New posts Add the following to your forum_topics.asp... line 467 to me ' START MOD 'If the topic is pinned then display the pinned icon That should take care of the tougher code, then of course it would be a good idea to add the new icons at the bottom in the legend. |
Posted By: weppos
Date Posted: 08 June 2004 at 4:49am
Remember that you need to change also search.asp and active_topics.asp pages to show the feature. 
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Posted By: Dr Moocowz
Date Posted: 08 June 2004 at 2:40pm
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yes, good point... thank you |
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