List no. NEW posts on homepage

Hi,

Im looking for a hack that when a user goes to the Hompage they see a column that lists the number of new posts in each forum since their last visit, it must use a cookie to do this as al my forums do not require any login at all.

Can this be done?

Thanks

Mat

yes I belive it can be done... when i have time i will revicse my script which is in this forum to function in that way... pretty busy lately thouhg with college among other things.

unless you know how to code it yourself, feel free to use my script.

I posted this request somewhere a while back and cant find where i put it. Anyways someone was working on a mod for it which worked but has a few issues...

If you find it let me know im looking for it again.

hello
im looking for this mod too, is anyone can help me ???

i too am waiting for this mod, and remember the original post. That was quite a while back so if anybody is still working on it, or if the person who was is no longer able to then could they reply here please,

cheers,

matt

The mod for this is quite simple. In index.php, find the line that starts with:
$posts = "$lNumPosts etc etc

above it, add these lines:

=============
// $index_old_message contains the last read message ID.
// $max_id contains the last post message ID.
// Subtract them, and you know how many new messages there are.
// If $index_old_message is not set, assume all posts are new.

if ($index_old_message) {
$new_posts = $index_max_id - $index_old_message;
} else {
$new_posts = $num_posts;
}
=============

and change the line mentioned above into something like this:

$posts="$lNumPosts: <strong>$num_posts</strong>&nbsp;($new_posts&nbsp;new)&nbsp;&nbsp;";


This should display the number of new posts on the bigger lists.

regards,

Yvo Brevoort

It might be a good idea to change the spaces in the last line above to (ampersant)nbsp like it is in the original line. For some odd reason phorum ate part of my reply :P

Yvo

anyone have this working.. i tried but seems to assume all posts are always new. This is in 3.4.1

nope, it doesn't work on 3.4.4 either...