Rearrange Forum Home Hack

[Firestar]

Hi All,

So I just got the email about the Most Wanted Hack, and decided I'll throw one in that my users have requested a few times. Just for the record... I'll get them all to come and spam the devs here if you don't choose this one, mmmkay? ;)

Anyways, the idea of the hack is twofold. Firstly, it must enable each forum user to select which forums they wish to see on the Forum Home and which not. Then, after that, they must be able to rearrange the forums on their forum home page in whatever way they wish. For example, user one might want to create his own category, called "My Cat" or whatever. He must then be able to move (possibly via AJAX) forums to his category and drag them up or down the list and place them in the posision he wants them in. Certain users feel that the technology forums on my forum is more important, and others feel that the gaming forums are more important. I would like them both to be right. You could even allow them to have columns and then drag the forum into a column so that the gaming forums of his choise are on the left and the tech forums of his choise are on the right, with the other interesting, but less important forums (according to this user) will be at the bottom of the two, in a single column.

Man, I wish I could rather ask for easy stuff, but if it was easy, I'd have made it myself ;)

Thanks so much for the work you guys do. We all really do appreciate it. Now does that get me some brownie points? Hope so

[xodia]

i dont think that is easily possible without having a database for each member

[Firestar]

I agree with you 10%. However, HDD space is so cheap these days, that extra DB space is not really an issue. And I'm from South Africa! We have almost nothing compared to you guys. ;)

[xyz]

Originally Posted by Firestar

Hi All,

So I just got the email about the Most Wanted Hack, and decided I'll throw one in that my users have requested a few times. Just for the record... I'll get them all to come and spam the devs here if you don't choose this one, mmmkay? ;)

Anyways, the idea of the hack is twofold. Firstly, it must enable each forum user to select which forums they wish to see on the Forum Home and which not. Then, after that, they must be able to rearrange the forums on their forum home page in whatever way they wish. For example, user one might want to create his own category, called "My Cat" or whatever. He must then be able to move (possibly via AJAX) forums to his category and drag them up or down the list and place them in the posision he wants them in. Certain users feel that the technology forums on my forum is more important, and others feel that the gaming forums are more important. I would like them both to be right. You could even allow them to have columns and then drag the forum into a column so that the gaming forums of his choise are on the left and the tech forums of his choise are on the right, with the other interesting, but less important forums (according to this user) will be at the bottom of the two, in a single column.

Man, I wish I could rather ask for easy stuff, but if it was easy, I'd have made it myself ;)

Thanks so much for the work you guys do. We all really do appreciate it. Now does that get me some brownie points? Hope so

What version do you need it for? I have this for vB 2*, 3.0*, I never ported it to 3.5, but I think it would be easy to do. It does add 1 column to the user table for the user option, but there are no added querys! The admin configures what cats and forums can be hidden or moved up or down by a single user or it can be set by groups! The admin side, adds 1 table for the forum control and changes on query to add a LEFT JOIN so that forum order can be added to the admin panel (forum display controls)!

All the options for the forum home display control are cached in the permissions table for the admin control. The user control is added to the permissions array only when the page being requested is the forum home! It's a difficult mod to install, but your members will love you for it, but more importantly you will save your self a lot of bandwidth.

xyz

[Firestar]

Hey xyz,

I need it for 3.6. I've just recently installed the 3.6 RC1 and plan to go to gold once that's released.

Would you be able to port it?

Thanks for the reply.
Firestar

[spadez]

I also need a hack that allows users to select what catagorys apprear on the forum, id even pay for it. Preferably for 3.5.* but 3.6 would be fine too.

[xyz]

I think by Monday I should have it done! I rewrote the whole thing, because vBulletin 3.6 is really a mess. I would think the further the code is developed it would become cleaner, but it's not the case with this software. It a logic and memory usage nightmare!


Anyway check back Monday afternoon, it might be sooner if I can get my Save Drafts updates for vB 3.5 and 3.6 released, I am writing the install guide for them now!

demo

[spadez]

:o awesome GJ