Reverse Order in viewtopic - default for one ID only.

The Founder · Post by **The Founder** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 1:52 am

In my PHPBB forum (2.06) I have one room (forum ID = 20)

That we generally use as a blogger. They can post their thoughts and people can't reply.

The problem with this is that the posts show up in the normal format, with the oldest post on top. This is perfect for the rest of the forum, however for the blogger the Newist topic should be on the top.

I don't mind hardcoding that forum ID into whatever code I need to do..

Is there any ideas or code that you guys have to do this? It's my understanding it should be a very short bit of code to viewtopic.php

AdamR · Post by **AdamR** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 1:55 am

Check out this MOD:
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=219733

- Adam

The Founder · Post by **The Founder** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 2:01 am

Thanks Adam... I tried that one last night and it didn't work I wound up getting parse errors and I gave up..... I am really looking for something as simple as:

else
{
$post_order = 'desc';
$post_time_order = 'DESC';
}

I just need it to realize that if it's forum ID 20 to do it in

else
{
$post_order = 'asc';
$post_time_order = 'ASC';
}

The Founder · Post by **The Founder** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 2:12 am

I guess I am dreaming about a easier mod (allittle worrried about that beta because it gave me a site full of parse errors)

The Founder · Post by **The Founder** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 2:20 am

does anyone have any ideas on this?

,..............begging...

Drexion · Post by **Drexion** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 2:37 am

This is a quick fix you can try, it pretty much renders the sort buttons in forum 20 useless.
In viewtopic.php,

Right below

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else
{
	$post_order = 'asc';
	$post_time_order = 'ASC';
}

Add

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if ($forum_id == 20)
{
	$post_order = 'desc';
	$post_time_order = 'DESC';
	$post_time_order = "DESC";
}

This should work - I've tested it a bit, but not as much as I would like.
Backup the file before editing it.
edit: fixed code.

The Founder · Post by **The Founder** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 3:51 am

It sort of worked... it did it for all the forums though.. not just 20

Anything else you guys think I can try?

Thanks for helping ...

The Founder · Post by **The Founder** » Sat Sep 11, 2004 4:21 am

Thanks for your help on this. I fixed the code. There was only one = sign so it assigned the variable rather than doing the if - then statement.

It needs two ( == ) in order to make the proper IF Then statement.

Right below

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else 
{ 
   $post_order = 'asc'; 
   $post_time_order = 'ASC'; 
}

Add

Code: Select all


if ($forum_id == 20) 
{ 
   $post_order = 'desc'; 
   $post_time_order = 'DESC'; 
   $post_time_order = "DESC"; 
}

Drexion · Post by **Drexion** » Sat Sep 11, 2004 4:23 am

Dont know how I missed that

Thanks for the heads up.

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