UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V6.4 - 6.7 Modifications V6 Mod Ideas 6.5 Content Island Featured Hack

For anyone that is interested I have been able to hack the content islands in such a way that they will, to an extent carry the featured properties of the topics with them.

In the ubb_topic_maint.cgi file, in the stick_topic, and unstick_topic sub functions add the following section of code... taken from the reply file. Add it just after the sticky is added or removed and just before the cache is cleared.

# Update the CI & TAT indexes
&RequireCode("$vars_config{CGIPath}/ubb_lib_ci.cgi");
my @td = &GetThreadData($in{f}, $in{t});
&update_tat($in{f}, $in{t}, @td);
&refresh_recentmeta($in{f}, $in{t}, "000000", "update", @td);
&update_cis($in{f});
&update_cis("ALL");

In the flat file/template directory modify the public_ci_posts.pl

add

# custom
# check if the topic is featured, if so change the background color
if ($topics->{$indie}->[1] =~ /S/){
$vars_style{$alts[0]} = "#FFE8E8";
}
elsif ($topics->{$indie}->[1] =~ /X/){
$vars_style{$alts[0]} = "#CCFFBB";
}
# custom

to the the ci_create_posts_html sub function, just before the $title varible is assigned. This specific code only changes the background of a given cell to red or green, red for featured green for closed. You could do alot like change the font , add a featured icon. But hopefully this will help anyone with that asperation in the future.

welcome to ubbdev, nice code could be cool to add the sticky "!" image or a lock image to Content Island

::claps:: very nice, welcome

As most of the folks here can attest, I'm a bit slow. Do you have an example of what this would look like?

Basically, when a Content Island is pulled in from UBB, the background colour of the table cell will change depending on the topic's status. If it is a featured (sticky) topic, the cell background colour will be #FFE8E8, and if the topic is closed, the cell background color will be #CCFFBB.

Welcome to UBBDev, hb1980, thanks for that tip It'd also be cool to highlight "burning" topics if they're enabled on the UBB this is being installed on...

I thought of a featured icon too, it would be a quit an easy modification to the above code. In the public_ci_posts, just below where you insert the above code look for where the html is constructed.

Notice the $customicon varible....modify the if statement to something like this.

I haven't tested that code but the basic principles are the same, that would place a gif just before the title based on the post status. Burning topics are probably just as easy i simply don't know the flag to look for, for a burning topic.

I guess the thing to do would be to check the number of replies, then check if it equals or beats $vars_display{HotCount} (checking first whether $vars_display{HotIcons} equals ON or OFF)... You could really turn this into a nice little modification

Yeh i guess you could, its just something that urked me for a long time that a topic status didn't communicate onto the island.