Module for switching the read-/list-view

I've made a simple module which allows to switch the view (threaded / flat) on the list and/or read-page.

It switches the user-setting for showing flat/threaded list/read so it will remain set for all forums once used.

After you enabled the module you've got the new var SWITCHURL available in the templates which you can use to switch the view.
Just add this link somewhere in your templates.
I.e. I've put this in header.tpl:
{if SWITCHURL}
<a href="{SWITCHURL}">switch view</a>
{/if}

Have fun with it!

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Thomas Seifert

Hi Thomas,

thank you for the mod. First I tried it with 5.0.6 Beta but got an error-message, then tried with latest CVS but nothing - not even an Error ;-)

What's wrong?

thanx
pat

what error-message?
how did you include it?
did you enable it in the admin and put the link in the template?

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Thomas Seifert

Hi Thomas,

I don't remember the exact phrase of the Error message but it said something about a a thing being not defined in common.php somewhere around line 300 if you want I could try to switch back to 5.0.6 to tell you more.

And yes, I enabled it in the admin and put the link in header.php as you suggested.

thanx
pat

can you give an example url?
I've installed in 2 different customer's phorum-installs and everywhere it worked out of the box.

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Thomas Seifert

Hi Thomas,

> can you give an example url?

no it's on my local maschine.

> I've installed in 2 different customer's
> phorum-installs and everywhere it worked out of
> the box.

I'll try again then...

thanx
pat

Hi,

I've got it working now. What was the mistake? Well, I named the folder where the mod-files go into something different than "viewswitch" but it has to be named exactly like that for the mod to work. So, Thomas I suggest, that you include the folder into your zip-file to avoid confusion in the future.

Thank you again, for the mod it's exactly what I was desperatly trying to write in an earlier attempt. With no success of course.

thanx
pat

It IS already compressed with the foldername.
you just have to give the decompressor the right switch to use the foldername as given in zip-archive.

attached is a new version with some more reliable url-generation. previously a reload of the page switched the view also.

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Thomas Seifert

Useful feature. However whenever I RELOAD the page, it flips between threaded and non-threaded that's not desired. Can it be fixed? Thanks.

sounds like you are not using the one from my last post.
that was fixed there.

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Thomas Seifert