[2.0.6] Pagination MOD

Post by **Extensions Robot** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 5:52 am

MOD Name: Pagination MOD
Author: Xore
MOD Description: Alter the pagination link settings

/*
	By default, $begin_end is 3, and $from_middle is 1, so on page 6 in a 12 page view, it will look like this:

	a, d = $begin_end = 3
	b, c = $from_middle = 1

 "begin"        "middle"           "end"
    |              |                 |
    |     a     b  |  c     d        |
    |     |     |  |  |     |        |
    v     v     v  v  v     v        v
    1, 2, 3 ... 5, 6, 7 ... 10, 11, 12

	Change $begin_end and $from_middle to suit your needs appropriately
*/

Pagination works like this:

page 47 of an 86 page long thread

1, 2, 3 ... 46, 47, 48 ... 84, 85, 86

now, if you're on page 47 and trying to skim to a certain page... or are just looking for date ranges... this is really tough because you can only advance one page at a time. pagination mod allows you to customize the pagination.

Wouldn't this be nicer:
1, 2, 3, 4 ... 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50 ... 83, 84, 85, 86

Pagination MOD allows you to do just that!

(or, if you're a sadist, you can do this to your users:
1 ... 47 ... 86

MOD Version: 1.0.0

Download File: pagination_mod.mod
File Size: 5335 Bytes

AbelaJohnB · Post by **AbelaJohnB** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 9:21 am

MOD Validated/Released

Personal Comments:
This is truely one for the sadists out there

Nice job Xore.

superluigisunshine · Post by **superluigisunshine** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 12:12 pm

Some of my users are going to have it rough... MWAHAHAHA!

quentin · Post by **quentin** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 12:53 pm

wow cool, that was one of the worst things for very long threads to have to navigate pages one by one, this was really needed, and is really cool to have now.

Quentin

Xore · Post by **Xore** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 1:48 am

quentin wrote: wow cool, that was one of the worst things for very long threads to have to navigate pages one by one, this was really needed, and is really cool to have now.

Quentin

Exactly why i made it... i just wish i could apply it to phpbb.com so that my cash mod thread is more navigable...

MoLew · Post by **MoLew** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 5:03 am

This mod will come in quite handy, thanks!

kkks · Post by **kkks** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 1:59 am

A very handy mode

Ptirhiik · Post by **Ptirhiik** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 2:08 am

Suggestion of improvement : having a variable length for border and middle, proportional to the number of pages

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Xore · Post by **Xore** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 5:02 am

Ptirhiik - RPGnet-fr wrote: Suggestion of improvement : having a variable length for border and middle, proportional to the number of pages .

good suggestion. the question is, where to draw the line? if a topic has 100 pages, do we make it 5 and 5? if so, what happens if a topic gets up to 500 pages?

perhaps i have $min and $max values for each... but then what kind of expanding function should i use?

-- tough questions... but i do like your idea

-- proportional

maybe a logarithmic function?

any suggestions?

Ptirhiik · Post by **Ptirhiik** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 9:46 am

You can use as formular a direct percentage, and a floor and ceil limits (never less than, never more than). For border, you can use half the percentage, this would be probably the best

. Let's face it : topic with more than 50 pages (2500 replies !) are not the more usual. So I think having 500 pages won't be found in numerous board

. Even for this kind of topic, it won't be so stupid to display 50 page numbers for the middle, but with a ceil control, you can restrict this.

Carpe Diem · Post by **Carpe Diem** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 2:05 pm

Nice mod, thank you!

Haywood Jahelpme · Post by **Haywood Jahelpme** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 9:31 am

Thanks Xore... Another useful little tweak....

Cheers!

gfmorris · Post by **gfmorris** » Tue Nov 11, 2003 9:20 pm

The only suggestion that I might have to improve this is to have it be configurable inside the Admin Panel rather than just through the MOD. Of course, one could always look at the MOD and find the code that would need to be modified, should one ever wish to change the way the code displayed.

GFM

Xore · Post by **Xore** » Tue Nov 11, 2003 9:44 pm

gfmorris wrote: The only suggestion that I might have to improve this is to have it be configurable inside the Admin Panel rather than just through the MOD. Of course, one could always look at the MOD and find the code that would need to be modified, should one ever wish to change the way the code displayed.

GFM

I thought about it, and to be honest, that's the way i normally prefer to go about things, but i didn't want to go through the extra hastle for this simple mod.

perhaps in a later release.

Haywood Jahelpme · Post by **Haywood Jahelpme** » Wed Nov 12, 2003 4:34 am

How would I apply this to forums with tons of threads? It only does topics, right?

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