UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? Expanded on a particular forum - code query

Hi,

I am trying to set one or more forums to display in expanded view by default - overriding the preferences set sitewide and in the user preferences.

So far I have...

in main.inc.php

$config['view_expanded'] = "forum1,forum2,forum8"; //Enter forum keywords separated by a comma


in postlist.php

if (stristr(",{$config['view_expanded']},",",$Board_q,")) {
$view = "expanded";
}

just after we grab the board info.


This works fine, and displays the forum(s) in expanded view - so far so good

However.... If you click on '- collapse' on these forums, then despite &view=collapsed being in the address bar, the forum remains in expanded view.

How can I therefore set this up so that clicking on '- collapse' will override my override for the forum and go into collapsed view.

Once this is working then I will do a similar thing with dateslip.

Thanks.

if (stristr(",{$config['view_expanded']},",",$Board_q,") && empty($view)) {
$view = "expanded";
}

Thanks - however that seesm to revert the display back to collapsed mode

As an example...

http://www.fansfocus.com/forum/postlist.php?Cat=0&Board=conference_south - will show to all in expanded view

http://www.fansfocus.com/forum/postlist.php/Cat/0/Board/Urchins2 is shown in collapsed view to all.

Great

They both also show the correct -collapse or +expand buttons, but only the one on http://www.fansfocus.com/forum/postlist.php/Cat/0/Board/Urchins2 will work.

Maybe it needs a bigger alteration - although even if we made the view part of w3t_Boards, it would still call it into postlist.php at a similar time, so probably still wouldn't work, as after all we are overriding even the choice made by the user, and maybe for this reason the button is also failing, as it ovrrides it each time.


Incidently I also changed

$postrow[$z]['Subject'] = "<img src="{$config['images']}/$specialicon" border="0"> <img src="{$config['images']}/$icon" border="0"> $Subject";

to

$postrow[$z]['Subject'] = "$Subject";

As I couldn't see the point in having extra icons on every row in expanded view before the subject - just seems to clutter the page (unless someone tell's me I mad )

OK....

In postlist.php

##### search for:
// If $view isn't set then it gets set to the default view

#### add below:
$views = $view;


Then use this expression to evaluate whether the view is set to expanded or not

if (stristr(",{$config['view_expanded']},",",$Board_q,") && empty($views)) {
$view = "expanded";
}

Perfect - thank you.

Now to see if I can alter the dateslip to be changeable for both guests as well as members