Module: Subforums

Re: Module: Subforums

Vit. A. — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 06:56:17 -0600

The module works as described. But it's not give much benefits, because subforum topics don't appears on the top forum topics list :( Is it possible to do or it requires modification of the core?

Re: Module: Subforums

Maurice Makaay — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:32:16 -0600

The module is bundled with some templates for emerald. You might have to create a matching template for simple blue (in mods/subforums/templates). Nonetheless, I think that at least something should be visible when running the module. If you do not see anything happen, then something else is going on.

Easy to check of course: switch to Emerald and see if that helps.

Re: Module: Subforums

sandhyar01 — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:43:38 -0600

does the subforum works only in emerald ?

I am using Simple blue template ..But it is not working

Re: Module: Subforums

tankslap — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:54:59 -0600

I have the sub-forums module setup and it works perfectly when the forum is in flat structure, however when I switch to directory structure the sub-forums disappear and appear as folders at the top.

I did a little debugging of the code and it would appear then when in directory structure the folders and forums get split into separate variables within the main index.php code and only the forums array is passed into the module.

As you say, it would be good if it worked in all views but it's not a pressing concern. I am happy to help with testing / debugging if you do make any changes.

Thanks, Jon.

Re: Module: Subforums

Maurice Makaay — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:43:33 -0600

Not intentionally anyway. I guess it should work for other viewing modes as well. Are you having problems with this or are you just inquiring about the feature?

Re: Module: Subforums

tankslap — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:33:12 -0600

Hi,

Quote
Me
Previously wrote some stuff thats now irrelevant.

Does this module only work when the phorum is in Flat Structure mode ?

Thanks, Jon.

Re: Module: Subforums

Stefano — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:48:00 -0500

Hey,

i recently setup the subforum module and it works great so far.

Now i have a feature request or a bug report (don`t know):

First a illustration of my setup (taken from README)

Root
|
+--- Folder (category 1)
| |
| +--- Folder
| | |
| | +--- Forum (forum 1)
| | |
| | +--- Forum (subforum 1.1)
| | |
| | +--- Forum (subforum 1.2)

All forums are restricted to a user group and were not shown outside this group.
If i take a common folder (in flat view) and put my restricted forums into it, the folder was also hidden for non grouped users.
Not so if i use subforums. The category 1 is shown for all users, even public ones.

Did i something wrong or is there a bug inside the module?

Thanks in advance
Stefano

Re: Module: Subforums

Mkjones — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:08:49 -0500

Hi

I am using this subforum mod and it works great but I do notice that posts made in the subforums are not showing in the topic count of the main forum. Can this be coded in?

Regards
Mark

Re: Module: Subforums

Maurice Makaay — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:35:42 -0500

Released version 1.0.1 of this module, which solved a PHP warning about an undefind index ("TYPE"). You only need to upgrade, if the PHP settings for error reporting on your server will cause the PHP warning to be displayed in the browser.

Re: Module: Subforums

Maurice Makaay — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:12:52 -0500

No, I did not take sub-sub-forums into account here. That is just too obfuscated, since you'll only see those sub-sub-forums once you're in a sub-forum. With this implementation, you know at least what is coming. Feel free to take this implementation though and rewrite it for sub-(sub-)*forum support.

Re: Module: Subforums

flip3 — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:11:02 -0500

Hello Maurice,

Does this mod also support sub-sub-forums so that you can drill down within a topic and become more and more specific? I think that it only makes sense to display sub-sub-forums on the message list pages and not the start page.

Philip

Module: Subforums

Maurice Makaay — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:17:44 -0500

This module implements a simple subforums system for Phorum. It was build because we have regularly seen requests for an implementation of subforums on these forums. While we (the Phorum lead developers) still do not see the big advantage of using subforums over Phorum's approach of using folders + forums, it was a nice exercise to see what the Phorum module system is capable of ;-)

For a demo of a running 5.2 Phorum install with this module enabled, see my test system. You can login using username "phorum" and password "phorum" if you like to play around some more.

Features:

On the index page, subforums will be listed as simple links below each forum that has subforums;
Formatting of these subforum links is based on a template, so it is possible to modify this list to your needs (e.g. by creating a vertical subforum list instead of using the default horizontal one);
On the message list page, details for the available subforums are listed at the top of the page;
The breadcrumbs will be modified to represent the subforum structure;
When marking a forum as read on the index page, then its subforums will automatically be marked read as well;
No changes needed in Phorum's main templates.

The README in the module package describes in detail how to setup the subforums.

Changelog:
----------

2009-08-16 v1.0.1

   - Fix for an undefined index warning from PHP. There's no functional
     change in this release, but this prevents a PHP warning from
     being displayed on systems that have error reporting to the
     output page enabled.

2009-06-21 v1.0.0

   - Initial release.