UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V6.4 - 6.7 Modifications V6 Mod Ideas Pagination

Most busy sites have forums and threads (at least a few) with many many pages... we really need a modification that will make the links more manageable.

Right now we have something like this:

Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 etc etc

We need something similar to:

Page: << < 1 2 3 > >>

or

Page: << < 1 2 3 ... 14 15 > >>

Many forum scripts and other perl scripts have something like this.. it's time for us.

Any idea where to start?

Allen, I don't understand exactly. Do you have a link?

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=91269531db6d18744fad14657a9229f8&threadid=27902

Notice the Pages (10): [ 1 2 3 > >> ]

Sure, click here:

http://www.stand318.com/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=12;t=000170

view that in 800x600 and you'll understand what I mean... the no-wrap on that makes the page stick out way to the right due to there being >45 pages. Doesn't look much better in the forum: http://www.stand318.com/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum;f=12

Those would be much nicer and not ruin layouts if we used some type of pagination like in the first post:

Page: << < 1 2 3 ... 44 45 46 > >>

The double arrows would bring you the beginning or the end and the single arrow would bring you to the prev or next page. Would apply to super long threads and very busy forums.

Oh I gotcha. I like that. I will see what I can come up with.

Hmm, this is going to be just a BIT harder then I thought.

Stupid 404 errors...

[ 10-14-2001: Message edited by: Tech-Ni-Kal ]

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[ 10-14-2001: Message edited by: jordo ]

ubb_lib_posting.cgi:
find:
replace with:

not a clue if it works but you get the idea.

Ok then, looks like jordo got it.

and the things like this :
number&p=1"><<

are really

number&p=1"> & l t ;& l t ;

minus the spaces


[ 10-14-2001: Message edited by: jordo ]

Maybe i will install it when my board gets bigger.

that's all there is to it?

We've talked about this very thing on the beta-testing board for a while now and never made any headways... I'll give it a shot on our test board and see if we break something

Does this also work for the forums that have many pages? Some sites might get a couple hundred new threads easily per week in each forum and the pages really stack up...

it works jordo, but not properly, needs cosmetic touchups.

Jordo, I installed, and it shows 0 and 1. But they are the same thing. I am trying to figure it out. I think it's this line:

$TopicPageTotal .= qq( << );
my $prev_page = $page_number - 1;
$TopicPageTotal .= qq( < );