A spcified post allways be shown on top ?

Hi all,

I searched for a solution, but didn't find any, so here's my problem:

Is it possible, to have a specified message always be listed on top of the messages ?

e.g. as a moderator i'd like to set a flag like "always on top" so the message will always be the first one in the list.
(maybe set the last-post-date to a date int eh future)

Is there a hack for this or can anyone help me for a solution ?

Thanks in advance
and greetings,
Al

If you have acces to your forum tabel, you can change the "time stamp" value of the specified message. Changing only the first digit to a 9 will result in a date like this: 01-01-70 00:59. Phorum will use the "time stamp" (or whatever) value to determine the place of a message.
So your message will stay on top till january 1st 2070. I hope that's long enough ;)

Sorry, I was wrong. It should be "modifystamp" NOT "timestamp"
English.... :(

Hi and thanks,

Sadly i have no access to the table cause I have no idea how to change it.
The Forum is hosted by Strato, so i dont know how to access the database manually.

I tried to change the modifystamp by modifying the post-functions.php for test, and it worked, but as my php-knowledge is limited, i am not able to insert some checkbox in the related page, that activates it.

Greetings,
Al :)

Hi,

more or less i got it now (allthough not satisfying)

I changed the post-functions.php a little,
i checked the $author against a special Username to set the
$modifytimestamp to high-value if true.

Greetings
Al

this is all useless because if another user posts a reply that will update the modifystamp to current time!

then you lock the post so no one can reply to it.

also on your message board list "Last Post" will always be set to the date of the "top" message.

I think a better way would be to look at how Phorum 5 handles it and recreate the same behavior for Phorum 3. I think it's a matter of having a boolean field and when listing posts, order them by the ones that have "STICKY" to true.