 | Join Date: Jul 2007 | Posts: 29 | Location: North Texas |
Removing threads display from a forum to create a hybrid "sub-forum container"
I was asking if there is a way to remove thread display from a forum without converting it into a category. I then answered my own question. Here's the tip:
I made initially a dirty hack for this; I added a few conditionals to FORUMDISPLAY to exclude thread listing, icon key, and forum rules from the one forum where I don't want them to be displayed. But then I discovered that changing just one line in forumdisplay.php would do the trick, mostly. I changed the line around line 438 to This turns thread display, and the legend off for the forum that I want to only display the sub-forums (the number "13" represents the forum ID that you would see when viewing the forum normally, in my example it is "13", like so: http://community.zjournal.com/forumdisplay.php?f=13).
The $foruminfo['cancontainthreads'] variable that controls the thread display is set in the Forum Manager by "Act as Forum", but turning it off turns the forum into a category which won't list the total number of posts in the sub-forums, or show the most recent message title in the sub-forums like a regular forum does.
After the above addition the key for "Forum Contains New Posts", "Forum Contains No New Posts", and "Forum is Closed for Posting" is still displayed. Since I have replaced the sub-forum graphics with custom graphics in the "sub-forum container forum" that key is now irrelevant, and I took it out in FORUMDISPLAY template around lines 468..489 by locating "<!-- icon key -->"; it has an opening conditional "<if condition="$show['threadslist']">" and the corresponding "<else />" little ways down in the code. I then added the following immediately after the "<else />": .. and closed the conditional by placing "</if>" immediately before "<!-- / icon key -->".
"Columnists" is the name of the sub-forum container forum in my example, i.e. z/Journal Mainframe Community > Mainframe Forums > Columnists, and it's forum ID is "13".
The end-result is a category-like forum, or a forum-like category which is works well as a container for sub-forums.
My example can be seen here (it's the forum I created this hack for).
I made initially a dirty hack for this; I added a few conditionals to FORUMDISPLAY to exclude thread listing, icon key, and forum rules from the one forum where I don't want them to be displayed. But then I discovered that changing just one line in forumdisplay.php would do the trick, mostly. I changed the line
Code:
if ($foruminfo['cancontainthreads'])
Code:
if (($foruminfo['cancontainthreads']) AND ($foruminfo['forumid'] != 13))
The $foruminfo['cancontainthreads'] variable that controls the thread display is set in the Forum Manager by "Act as Forum", but turning it off turns the forum into a category which won't list the total number of posts in the sub-forums, or show the most recent message title in the sub-forums like a regular forum does.
After the above addition the key for "Forum Contains New Posts", "Forum Contains No New Posts", and "Forum is Closed for Posting" is still displayed. Since I have replaced the sub-forum graphics with custom graphics in the "sub-forum container forum" that key is now irrelevant, and I took it out in FORUMDISPLAY template around lines 468..489 by locating "<!-- icon key -->"; it has an opening conditional "<if condition="$show['threadslist']">" and the corresponding "<else />" little ways down in the code. I then added the following immediately after the "<else />":
Code:
<if condition="$foruminfo[title] != 'Columnists'">
"Columnists" is the name of the sub-forum container forum in my example, i.e. z/Journal Mainframe Community > Mainframe Forums > Columnists, and it's forum ID is "13".
The end-result is a category-like forum, or a forum-like category which is works well as a container for sub-forums.
My example can be seen here (it's the forum I created this hack for).
Last edited by Ville; 07-26-2007 at 12:49 PM. Reason: Converted a question into a hack/mod
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