Ok once again this seems to be working. I wasn't able to do a lot of testing on my test site because it's not posted to very often. LoL

This modification will allow a registered user to "Mark All Read" all new threads/posts or just one board at a time by clicking on the lighted light bulb. (the yellow one)

The instructions are inside the markallread.6.1.php file. Download the zip and view with your favorite editor, change the affected files and upload them and the markallread.6.1.php script to your threads and/or template directories.

I think that's it. Enjoy

Thank you, it seems to work just fine!

Your Welcome

That's good to hear that it seems to be working elsewhere... lol

I just noticed a glitch on my test site. A few of the forums had every post/reply marked as new in the forum list when they shouldn't have. Clicking on the "Mark All Read" fixed it though. I think I may have a bug or two in the individual marking of the boards. I'll have to look through everything and see what may be the cause.

Cool!
also something else:
on NS4.7/MAc the href javascript: calls do not work.
That means the hack does not get triggered at all,
and will not work.

I like the workaround for it used in the instant-code THREADS, using the call to a fake function x and then a oncick event to the right thing instead.

I'll make them changes for this next release. I still need to make sure I got the individual board clearing correct.

Thank you.
Very much appreciated.
Yes, the individual board clearing didn't work here 100%.
But I am sure this is a matter of days

Hi, I played a little to make your hack language-file aware. Hope I didn't mess up code

In the ubbt_registerednav, I changed your code like this:

code:
  | <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"><!--
 function MarkAllRead(board,title){
	if(board) {
		document.markall.oneboard.value=board;
		if (confirm("{$ubbt_lang['MARKALL_READ2']} "+title+" {$ubbt_lang['MARKALL_READ3']} {$ubbt_lang['MARKALL_READ4']}")) {
			document.markall.submit();
		}
	}
	else {
		if (confirm("{$ubbt_lang['MARKALL_READ1']} {$ubbt_lang['MARKALL_READ4']}")) {
			if (confirm('{$ubbt_lang['MARKALL_READ9']}')) {
				document.markall.submit();
			}
		}
	}
}
// -->
</script> 

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and added code in the Generic language files:

code:
 // Hack MarkAllRead (for Javascript Alerts, so: no " or ' or & ):
$ubbt_lang['MARKALL_READ1'] = "You are about to mark all posts/threads as read.";
$ubbt_lang['MARKALL_READ2'] = "All threads/posts for";
$ubbt_lang['MARKALL_READ3'] = "will be marked as read.";
$ubbt_lang['MARKALL_READ4'] = "\\nThis action can not be reversed! \\n \\nPress OK to continue...";
$ubbt_lang['MARKALL_READ9'] = "R E A L L Y ???\\n\\nReset ALL posts as READ????"; 

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Thanks Carl,

It's a good thing to get the text moved into the language files.

Are you having any problems with the individual board marking? As far as I can tell there shouldn't be. This was just a concern I had while making it. I'm not big on cookies. LoL

Yes, on my board I have cases, where, when I hit the bulb to markread an individual board, All messages are set as NEW (on all boards!) instead.

Could be that something's wrong with my hack implementation (and language file inclusion), and not with your original code. - That's why I am wondering whether anybody else experienced this with the hack too.

Dave, just wanted to say we've been using this for several weeks now on our testboard (only about 10 users), and we haven't had a single problem. It's worked perfectly every time. Thank you!

I attached the post I made to try to explain it to our members. It probably has a lot more detail than most other boards would want, but anyone is free to use it.

Thanks Lisa

It's nice to know that this got a lengthy testing with no problems being evident.

Just installed this one in Threads 6.1 release, button is there, it works, i press OK, but no posts gets set to read.

Gone trought the instructions twice and have done all it ask for...

Does everybody get it to work in 6.1 without trouble?

This hasn't been tested on UBB.threads 6.1 as of yet. The name of the file should never have been 6.1 as it was originally 6.0 but needed fixes to work with UBB.threads 6.0 and once I made the changes I changed the file to 6.1 to reflect the changes.

Has anyone been able to make this one work on their board?

Okay, but this thredsdev forum is running 6.1 and it does work here I think at least

Hope you can figure out what changes thats needed, it's a nice feature

Here we are using "Mark All Read" and not "Mark All or One Read". There didn't seem to be any changes needed for "Mark All Read" as it worked with 6.1 right away.

Dear JustDave, would it be possible to have this for 6.2. I hate not having the option to mark only one forum, marking all many times ok, but far from always...

*hopefully waiting*

Not sure when I can do this but it's been on my list for a while. Perhaps sometime during the week (next week) I can get to this.