[BirdOPrey5]

I made an optional update to this mod...
This will give users the option of turning this mod off if they would rather not see all the forums you've chosen in a 'master' forum. Install this ONLY if you want to give users a choice.

First in Admin CP go to the menu on the left and choose "Add New User Profile Field" under "User Profile Fields."

Choose "Single Selection Radio Box" from the drop down menu...

On the next screen set the following...

Title: All Topic
Description: Use this setting to enable or disable the 'All Topics' system. [or whatever description you want obviously]
Options:

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Field Required: Yes, at registration and...
Private/Field Searchable.../Display on... All "No"
Display Page: Options: Thread Viewing
Leave all other settings to default and hit "Save" to create the profile field.

Inform users the option now exists... The code below is designed so even if a user doesn't make a selection it is enabled by default so they only need to change it to 'opt out.'

Now we'll make the forumdisplay.php edits mentioned in the top post of this thread. Make those same edits except change all the IF statements to the one below:

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Replace the number 2 of course with the forumid of your "master" forum... Replace 'field5' with the profile field name that was auto created when added the profile field above. Go to "User Profile Field Manager" to see the name the field was given.

And that's that, you now have an "All Topics" system that can be turned on or off by each member.

[BirdOPrey5]

One more mod I suggest if you use this is to modify your "Quick Navigation" menu to add a quick link back to your master forum, perhaps on top of your menu... to do this modify your forumjump template and add a standard html link to your master forum... Just put it wherever works best for your site and style.

[Trek]

Kinda cool. =) I'm looking for something that allows for each user to select which ones they want. But I think that's a 3.8 mod that I haven't seen for 4.0 yet.

Anyway, nice work, I can see how this could be useful to many. =)

[BirdOPrey5]

Thanks... working on a couple additional options for this that I have for 3.8 but going nuts on the new template variables in vb4, never saw them before today.

[BirdOPrey5]

Thanks to the guy who rated this 1 star...

[sticky]

This would be a dream mod for me if it was possible to select the threads individually to mirror across multiple forums and not just selecting an entire forum as master.

[BirdOPrey5]

Yeah, unfortunately that would require a database modification and new interface to use it, and it currently beyond my abilities but if I ever figure it out I will post a link here. If someone else with that knowledge wants to use this as a foundation they are welcomed to do so.

[TyPenn613]

I apologize if this is me asking for too much, and I'm not too tech savvy to have any idea what it would take.

Can you run multiple versions of this at the same time? For instance, I run a sports site where team boards are grouped together by sport, conference/division, etc. I'd love to find a way where I could set up regional boards. As in, all the forums in the New York area are fed into one, all Chicago area into another, etc. Is this possible?

As if I'm not asking enough, I assume there is no way that a user can create a thread in the Master forum, and select it to be placed on one of the secondary forums is there?

Great work on this mod nonetheless. It's tagged and I'll likely use it.

[BirdOPrey5]

What you ask can be done... you can have multiple 'master forums' - so a master forum for NY, one for Chicago, etc... what you can't do is filter so that some posts from one forum go to master forum "A" and other posts go to master forum "B" - but if you just need multiple master forums do the following mod to the code... I shied away from sharing this because I didn't want to make it too daunting looking for most users who only need 1 master forum.

To have multiple master forums simply add an "elseif" statement below the if { } code and above the else { } code... for example in the first edit add to the middle:

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This would make the entire code for the first edit look like:

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In this case you'd change the number 7 to your second master forum id, and 7,8,9,10 to your secondary forum id's (and your master).

You can add as many elseif { } statements as you need for various master forums, and you can even have secondary forums be shared between multiple master forums so forumid '10' for example can be a secondary forum of master forum 2 and 7, there is no problem doing this.

Once you make this elseif{} addition for the first edit you need to make similar edits for the second (optional) and third (required) edits. Just copy the entire 'if' statement for each starting with "if" and ending with "}" then copy and paste it below the if statement, change it from "if" to "elseif" and set the forum id numbers as needed.

It sounds more complicated then it is but can get messy quick if you have a lot of master forums... on the plus side conditionals are very efficient as coding goes and there should be no noticeable decrease in performance no matter how many you realistically have.

Let me know if I can be of further help... and if this isn't what you needed maybe it can at least help someone else.

[Ark del KAOS]

Bird, I don't know enough English to be able to say how much I love U...

....shit, I was trying to make this around 4 months, and only got errors.

TT_________TT


Seriously, with only this I'm going to make you a shrine with candles and all....

BUT...if you can help me with an improvement...pff, I'm going to make the fuk'n shrine in the feedback forum of my community XD
I have one forum who contain the "multiforum" threads.
From this forum I want to load some threads in some other forums.
It's like a "official threads forum" about games, but then I want to show a game for the 360 and the PS3 into de x30 forum and the PS3 one.
How do I select this? With a prefix.

Can I filter the threads depending of the thread prefix it have?
Like (select all the threads from forumid 1 or (forum2 with prefix3))

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by Ark del KAOS

Bird, I don't know enough English to be able to say how much I love U...

....shit, I was trying to make this around 4 months, and only got errors.

TT_________TT


Seriously, with only this I'm going to make you a shrine with candles and all....

BUT...if you can help me with an improvement...pff, I'm going to make the fuk'n shrine in the feedback forum of my community XD
I have one forum who contain the "multiforum" threads.
From this forum I want to load some threads in some other forums.
It's like a "official threads forum" about games, but then I want to show a game for the 360 and the PS3 into de x30 forum and the PS3 one.
How do I select this? With a prefix.

Can I filter the threads depending of the thread prefix it have?
Like (select all the threads from forumid 1 or (forum2 with prefix3))

LOL you're very welcome... I had been looking for this for years myself and am surprised no one figured it out sooner despite multiple requests from me and others...

As for your thread prefix situation I don't know the answer off hand... let me play with some things and see what I can come up with.

[Ark del KAOS]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

LOL you're very welcome... I had been looking for this for years myself and am surprised no one figured it out sooner despite multiple requests from me and others...

As for your thread prefix situation I don't know the answer off hand... let me play with some things and see what I can come up with.

That's exactly the same thing I think about when I started searching for some kind of official addon.
And, well, the solution of adding some "if" magic to the php code who make the list its the first thing I think about...but I'm more the designer guy than the developer one, and every one told me it can't be so easy XD
So I started to try some basics with the code, but I wasn't doing any progress with it.

This is a option so useful I don't know how anyone do it earlier ^ ^

[TyPenn613]

Bird, that's totally awesome! Thank you very much. I'm a bit behind with getting around to undertaking that plan, but once I get to it, I will be sure to give this a try and let you know how things go. Great work!

[Ark del KAOS]

Hey crack!
To filter them by prefix, I only need to chage this :

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Very simple with your base work ^ ^