Sub Boards

[gandolphxx]

If anybody is curious as to what sub boards might look like and operate you can check them out on my conversion site - just go to http://www.chevyavalanchefanclub.com/cafcna/index.php#5 - the Region IV - South Central board has two levels of sub boards under it.

I have most of the linktrees fixed and the goto lists are working. adds 4 fields to the boards table to minimize impact on the forum - the permissions track with the board. To date I haven't found anything that objects to it - need to try the UltraTopicMover with it.

Things to do:
1. Finish the admin portion as an addition to create/manage boards.
2. Sort out the "last poster issue"
3. Allow permissions to be inherited by default from the parent.

It was an interesting excersize - wish that the code was more consistent in the various modules.

As to when this will be available as a mod, that is difficult to say since I loathe boardmod and the changes to BoardIndex and MessageIndex are tied into many mods such as allowed users, redirects, mouseover, etc

[Coyote]

Cool......

this has been made a mod though:

http://www.yabbse.org/community/index.php?board=158;action=display;threadid=11529

[gandolphxx]

I think that if you look closely you will note that it functions similarly to VB which is what my folks were clamoring for - that is quite different than the referred to mod.

[[Unknown]]

Why in the world did you need to add 4 fields?  I did it with two.  Namely, ID_PARENT and lastUpdated.  Of course, the second one was to make it faster.... but, I can't even imagine what four would be for........

Anyhow, it isn't bad.  Linktree doesn't work for posts (example: http://www.chevyavalanchefanclub.com/cafcna/index.php?board=42;action=display;threadid=12216) but there're always little bugs... you might also want to mess with the layout of the board in search (http://www.chevyavalanchefanclub.com/cafcna/index.php?action=search;advanced=1) and some other things... but that's all extra I suppose.

I would've made this a mod for 1.5.x.... but I just plum chaged to much of the architecture.  I mean, I made all the linktrees standardized so that things wouldn't conflict, etc.... big time changes.

I wonder.... will supermod'd boards be upgradable to 1.6.0...? hmmm...

-[Unknown]

[gandolphxx]

Since I cannot see your code I can't comment on the number of fields you chose or how they worked - I am still refining mine for speed and flexibility - not too shabby for about 8 hours work.

As to the link tree on Display, I deliberately got rid of the extraneous junk - and I also standardized the link tree accross the board.

I am aware of the search case and plan to cleanout some more stuff when I get to it - most of my users use the fast search and never see the checkerboard.

[old dan]

I only used 1 field. Course that's neither here nor there. One question, when there is a new post in a subboard is it reflected in on the parent on boardindex? LIke [Unknown] I list the subboards on the front page. I use a 'new' graphic to designate new posts. But I would suppose just indicating new posts for the parent would work.


I'm not releasing my subboard stuff at all. Several reasons, not the least of which is 1.6 will have them. But more importantly I made a bunch of changes to a lot of stuff and didn't document any of it. (oops) So to try to reverse engineer my own code is more than I really want to do.

I would've made this a mod for 1.5.x.... but I just plum chaged to much of the architecture.  I mean, I made all the linktrees standardized so that things wouldn't conflict, etc.... big time changes.

I wonder.... will supermod'd boards be upgradable to 1.6.0...?

as gandolfxx will attest linktree and a bunch of other stuff really needed to be cleaned up.
And of course supermod'd boards won't be upgradable to 1.6. Like every other version we'll have to redo all our mods..........

[gandolphxx]

Yes, it will reflect at each level and indicated on the BoardIndex - I am sorting all of that out now to make it quick[er] - I have changed the way each level looks also.

as to the fields, I make use of them in the sql to do some things quickly and ordered - saves reconstructing things on the fly - it really helps IMHO.

[[Unknown]]

In my implementation, moderators carry down and last posts carry up.  (somewhat.)

Do note that while you could have 4 or more levels of boards... it's optimized for one level.

-[Unknown]

[gandolphxx]

I carry the moderators. but have a thing about real estate for the user and chose to disable them below the top level - it is an option, the data is all there. I also disable them at the postview level.

I have added info at the board and topic level that carries the info quickly up the tree by piggy backing on updates that were already being performed - seems to help quite nicely on 10000 topic boards.