[DELETE-ME] Select Form On Posting Page

[AbelaJohnB]

Hello.

I'm after a quick MOD to allow the person submitting a new post to be able to have a <select> box with all the forums (permission based, of course) within the "Post a new topic" page.

I had thought of hacking up the make_jumpbox() function, but it turned into more work than I could handle at the time.

I was hoping someone might already have this, or be willing to MOD it up for me!

Thanks.

[AbelaJohnB]

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[AbelaJohnB]

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[AbelaJohnB]

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[Ptirhiik]

By my side I would prefer using the select forums list used in admin (functions_admin.php), which is closer to what you need : creating for your own function should do the trick.

Point to see :
- doable only in new topic context,
- tpl modifications must include a switch for this field (posting_body.tpl used for privmsg too),
- no major difficulties to overwrite the $forum_id field, if sat enough high in the source. Priorize the $_POST onto the $_GET (should be already the case). The auth checks should remain the phpBB existing ones.

Sumup: the modification shouldn't be to harsh :
- creating a similar function than the one in functions_admin for the forums list,
- adding this function at bottom of the posting.php (at least, after the session init to be able to read the auth)

[AbelaJohnB]

So, anybody up for doing this for me?

[drathbun]

So, anybody up for doing this for me?

I'm confused ... what would be the purpose? Do you want them to be able to change the forum they're posting to during the posting process? So it goes like this...

I click New Topic
I type in all my text
Oops, I see I'm in Forum A and thought I was in B
I select Forum B from the drop-down list and presto, my new topic goes into Forum B instead.

Do I have the right idea?

[AbelaJohnB]

Yep, that's a great example.

[drathbun]

Yep, that's a great example.

John:

Go to the forum where you got my last MOD and check out the new topic posting routine. The cool thing is that the "click to return to forum" gets the right forum too. If you start in forum A and "move" the topic to forum B, when you're done, you get the option to redirect to your post or to forum B, not A.

[AbelaJohnB]

What about user permissions? Does it show (or not show) based upon what permissions the user has?

That's 100% vital to what I need.

[drathbun]

What about user permissions? Does it show (or not show) based upon what permissions the user has?

That's 100% vital to what I need.

Almost. I was testing as Admin, so of course it worked. I'm fixing the user permissions thing now. 8)

[AbelaJohnB]

Having problems with it I see.... I eventually gave up with trying to get it to work on my site.

[drathbun]

Having problems with it I see.... I eventually gave up with trying to get it to work on my site.

Oh, I won't give up.

Check back tomorrow. 8)

[AbelaJohnB]

This request has been filled, topic can be locked/deleted.

[drathbun]

This request has been filled, topic can be locked/deleted.

I'll be posting a link for others to look at soon. It actually came out cool. 8) I like it.