New Posts Module

Hello there,

Is there a module available that creates an alert when there are new posts in a subforum? Something like a yellow mark or a change of picture?

Thanks!

Phorum already has "new" markers for new messages/threads but I am not sure what situation you are talking about here. Please, define a "subforum" for me.

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
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guessing here - i often think it would be nice to be mailed if a new topic appears on a forum - "follow forum" rather than "follow topic"

but surely, that's what RSS gives you anyway?

Follow forum on a subscription level can be problematic if lots of people follow the topic, because on posting, Phorum could possibly have to cope with a lot of messages to send out. That would really slow down the posting process a lot. To handle such thing, a different posting mechanism is required. Example options are:

* a mailinglist to which the interested users are subscribed
* a queued mail sending mechanism for Phorum

I have plans for that second option, because I want to be able to hand out forum subscriptions on my forums too. In the queued system, Phorum would only keep track of who should get a message and a scheduled task on the system would do the actual sending of the queued items.

However, I am not fully sure that Rob is talking about this specific feature too, since he's requesting some visual feedback.

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
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He means this:
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This is very common on many (phpbb) boards. This is a screenshot of a forum index. Every subforum has an icon before its name, and when the icon is yellow, it means that there are unreaden posts in that forum. The OP wants to know if there is a mod/hack for Phorum that adds those colorchanging icons before every subforum.

In what way does Phorum not support that then? This would be a template change. There's no need for a module to handle this, because all the required data is setup already from the Phorum core. Here's some example code that could be used:

{IF FORUMS->new_messages}
    ...HTML for showing icon for new messages...
{ELSE}
    ...HTML for showing icon for no new messages...
{/IF}

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
my blog linkedin profile secret sauce