UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? Making Posts so replies don't affect the date slip

I keep a Web Log in one of my forums and I keep it so that others may reply. However, when they reply to a log entry it puts that post back at the top of the page. I only want new posts to be at the top of the page. Not just any post with a new reply.

Can this be done?

Thanks.

I ran into the same problem when I was scripting my index page. Take a look at the query that you use to pull those log entries. There should be a line almost at the end of the query that starts with the word ORDER. Change that entire line to this:



That will order the results of the query from the first main post to the last main post (replies won't change the order). You probably have this, or something like it, in your query now:



and every time someone replies to the first post in a thread your log gets out of order...

Isn't that query done in the Postlist.php and if i change that won't that affect all forums?

Sorry, I thought you were running a special script for your log. Yes, changing the query would effect all of your other forums.

You could add a condition in your postlist.php script that checks to see if you are viewing your log forum, and if so change the sort order...

If you want to turn dateslip off in one forum only.... near the top of the postlist.php script (after the get_input functions) I think you can do something like this:

if ($Board == "keyword") {
$config['dateslip'] = 0;
}


Substitute the board's keyword above. I think that'll override it.

Ah, well that's an area i'm not good at yet. I am slowly learning PHP coding but I am not proficient enough to make my own scripts. Just good enough to analyze and break down other ones.

Thanks.

Josh, Awesome that worked! The few posts that were pushed to the top that has some replies to them I had to just go in and modify the B_LAST_POST to be the same date as the B_POSTED. I think that's just because they were modified before I added that hack. New replies now don't affect the order of posts anymore

You da man!

Thanks.

Being able to turn on and off date slipping per forum instead of just site-wide would be a great addition to UBBT 6.5

[]JoshPet said:
If you want to turn dateslip off in one forum only.... near the top of the postlist.php script (after the get_input functions) I think you can do something like this:

if ($Board == "keyword") {
$config['dateslip'] = 0;
}


Substitute the board's keyword above. I think that'll override it. [/]

-you made it easy