UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 6 V6 Modifications Archived Mods [6.2] Re_LinkToProfile 1.0

Mod Name / Version - Re_LinkToProfile1.0

Description - This modification adds a Re: User NUMBER with a link to their profile in flat view of Threads 6.2 Also instruction to go one step further and look up the current display name of the person the reply is to.

Working Under - UBB.Threads 6.2

Pre-requisites - none

Author - JoshPet - www.joshuapettit.com

Credits - Jelly_Donut & Leo Laporte from leovilletownsquare.com

Files Altered - showflat.php and showflat.tmpl

Database Altered - none

New Files - none

NOTE: The first part of the Instructions only displays the user NUMBER. This adds more queries and may slow down larger forums.

The SECOND part of the Instructions Adds the display name of the user. This adds EVEN MORE queries and will probably slow down larger forums.

I haven't tested very extensively at how this may slow things down.
I would not recommend this on larger or very active forums.
On a typical showflat page, with 10 posts showing, Part 1 (showing the User number) will add 9 queries. Doing Part 2 to display the name will add 18 more queries. If people are displaying more than 10 posts per page, then there will be more queries.

There may be a better way to do this... but there is not currently a good way to do this. So try it and see if it works for you. Many have asked for it, so I wrote it. I'm not sure if I will run at my site or not. I might give it a try.
If people start complaining of the speed, or the server is acting overloaded, then I'll know this is the first thing to remove.

Oh my! You are the best!!!!!!!! Thank you

Your site is pretty big.... use with caution and make sure it's not too much for your SQL server.

It seems to be doing well on Leoville though.

I just checked, doesn't really seem to cause any noticeable increase, and we have about 90 users online right now. Of course our server is far from maxed out, so it may cause slowdown on lower power machines.

Big sanks. For better compliance for old version change

$postrow[$i]['replytouser'] = " Re: <a href="{$config['phpurl']}/showprofile.php?Cat=$Cat&User=$ReplyToUser" target="_blank">$ReplyToName</a>";

on

$postrow[$i]['replytouser'] = " Re: [<a href="{$config['phpurl']}/showprofile.php?Cat=$Cat&User=$ReplyToUser" target="_blank">$ReplyToName</a>]";

To better classic

$postrow[$i]['replytouser'] = " <font class="small">[Re : <a href="{$config['phpurl']}/showprofile.php?Cat=$Cat&User=$ReplyToUser" target="_blank">$ReplyToName</a>]</font>";

Or better than last ))
$postrow[$i]['Subject'] = $Subject;

$postrow[$i]['replytouser'] = " <font class="small">[<a href="{$config['phpurl']}/showthreaded.php?Cat=$Cat&Board=$Board&Number=$ParentPost&page=$page&view=$view&sb=$sb&o=$o&vc=1" target="_new">re: $ReplyToName</a>]</font>";