Go to first new post in topic - from title

cedricthecat · Post by **cedricthecat** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 6:04 pm

I know you can search for New Posts and then, from the resulting list, go to the newest unread post within the topic by clicking the little > arrow to the side of the post title

However, on some forums I have seen that clicking the title itself takes you to the same place (newest post).

This is what I'd like to implement. I've had a look here

http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... &t=2119159

and tried what is advised, but doesn't seem to be doing the trick.

Also tried what is suggested here, but again, no joy..

http://www.flying-bits.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2914

Is there anything else I can try?

Oyabun1 · Post by **Oyabun1** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 9:45 pm

Some information about your board would be useful - version, style used, any modification to the style, actually please fill out the Support Request Template and post it back here to enable us to assist you better.

4_seven · Post by **4_seven** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 11:58 pm

open

styles/prosilver/template/viewforum_body.html

find

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<a href="{topicrow.U_VIEW_TOPIC}" class="topictitle">{topicrow.TOPIC_TITLE}</a>

replace with

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<!-- IF topicrow.S_UNREAD_TOPIC --><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="{topicrow.U_NEWEST_POST}">{topicrow.TOPIC_TITLE}</a><!-- ELSE --><a href="{topicrow.U_VIEW_TOPIC}" class="topictitle">{topicrow.TOPIC_TITLE}</a><!-- ENDIF -->
                <!-- <a href="{topicrow.U_VIEW_TOPIC}" class="topictitle">{topicrow.TOPIC_TITLE}</a> -->

clear all board- and browser-caches

this code is tested

cedricthecat · Post by **cedricthecat** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 10:43 am

Oyabun1 wrote:Some information about your board would be useful - version, style used, any modification to the style, actually please fill out the Support Request Template and post it back here to enable us to assist you better.

Sorry Bill! I did think as I posted that I should be providing a bit more info...

I'm trying 4-seven's solution (as above) but if this doesn't work will be back and will put up the details as requested!

cedricthecat · Post by **cedricthecat** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 10:45 am

4_seven wrote:open

styles/prosilver/template/viewforum_body.html

clear all board- and browser-caches

this code is tested

Thanks for this 4_seven

The only problem I am having now is not being able to see if it works or not, as our ACP doesn't seem to have a control to purge the cache! I am sure I am being thick, but according to here

http://www.phpbb.com/kb/article/purging ... pbb-cache/

There should be a "Under the General tab, a button on the right side of the page that says Purge Cache", but I can't see it!

Post by **KevC** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 10:53 am

It's in the stack of buttons under the stats box in the main window.

Purge the cache (bottom button)

By the way, what happens if people don't want to go to the latest post?
The beauty of the current setup is that you can do either from pretty much the same mouse position.

cedricthecat · Post by **cedricthecat** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 10:54 am

I've now followed the instructions for manually purging. All I need now is for someone to post to a thread with a large number of replies in it, and I can see if it's working!

I will report back!

cedricthecat · Post by **cedricthecat** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 11:03 am

Kevin Clark wrote:It's in the stack of buttons under the stats box in the main window.

Purge the cache (bottom button)

We have:-

Reset most users ever online
Reset board’s start date
Resynchronise statistics Recalculates the total number of posts, topics, users and files.
Resynchronise post counts Only existing posts will be taken into consideration. Pruned posts will not be counted.
Resynchronise dotted topics First unmarks all topics and then correctly marks topics that have seen any activity during the past six months.

Nothing that mentions "purge"....

Kevin Clark wrote:By the way, what happens if people don't want to go to the latest post?
The beauty of the current setup is that you can do either from pretty much the same mouse position.

Yes, good point! Thing is that our forum is a "break-away" from another, broader themed one, and most of the folks that are coming across will be used to "click title to go to newest post"!

Btw, have now purged the cache manually (I think!) and the changes suggested above do not seem to have had any effect...

Post by **KevC** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 11:07 am

cedricthecat wrote:We have:-

Reset most users ever online
Reset board’s start date
Resynchronise statistics Recalculates the total number of posts, topics, users and files.
Resynchronise post counts Only existing posts will be taken into consideration. Pruned posts will not be counted.
Resynchronise dotted topics First unmarks all topics and then correctly marks topics that have seen any activity during the past six months.

Nothing that mentions "purge"....

You should have

Reset most users ever online
Reset board’s start date
Resynchronise statistics
Resynchronise post counts
Resynchronise dotted topics
Purge all sessions
Purge the cache

Possibly the bottom two are only available to founder accounts.

4_seven · Post by **4_seven** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 11:15 am

If no success in finding, what Kevin mentioned, start your FTP Program and delete alle files in folder cache/ except .htaccess and index.htm

4_seven · Post by **4_seven** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 11:20 am

cedricthecat wrote:Btw, have now purged the cache manually (I think!) and the changes suggested above do not seem to have had any effect.

4_seven wrote:this code is tested

first try the manual ftp method to delete the cache. if you have prosilver and cleared all available board-, template-, style-, and browser-caches, it must work

cedricthecat · Post by **cedricthecat** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 2:32 pm

Curious as to where the button is, but, more importantly here, have done the manual purge again and the mod is now working!

However..... (why is there always a "however"?!). Someone has noticed that new topics appearing in sub-forum lists (alongside the arrow) have now changed to a smaller, bold font in the same colour as read topics, whereas before they were in a slightly larger, non-bold orange font. Oddly, if you click on "View new posts", this latter style prevails....

EDIT: And we also seem to have --> at the end of each title now!

Guessing that both of the above are part of the mod? (in red?)

IF topicrow.S_UNREAD_TOPIC --><a style="font-weight: bold


4_seven · Post by **4_seven** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 6:54 pm

The mod is tested and work as intended, for a bit css finetuning make a bit css and it should work.

For this --> just remove that:

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<!-- <a href="{topicrow.U_VIEW_TOPIC}" class="topictitle">{topicrow.TOPIC_TITLE}</a> -->

for me it works without showing a -->.

cedricthecat · Post by **cedricthecat** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 9:16 pm

Cheers!

Any way to stop the topic title text going bold? (and changing colour?)

Thanks!

4_seven · Post by **4_seven** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 9:22 pm

for me it works out of the box. in a genuine phpbb3 prosilver style this is needed, bcs. it looses bold, if not

if you have a wired style or whatever remove that

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style="font-weight: bold;"

for other services i have no time, bcs. i normally have work with more important things.
a bit self-initiative is required. i am no privat for your needs, thank you.