A new way to view recent topic posts
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 6:44 pm
The forum has been busy lately, ~very~ busy. I'm not complaining!
I usually keep track fo recent posts by using the list in the left hand menu of every page, but lately that has been getting swamped with new posts. I increased the number of new posts it displays from 10 to 12, but even that hasn't covered all the new activity. I don't want to make the list too long, as it eventually would impinge on the formatting fo the entire site (remember, that list of forumn posts appears on every page on the site!)
So.... time to put my feeble programming skillz to work and create another method of viewing recent posts.
Go to: http://www.mrsharkey.com/forum/recent.php and you will see a forum-display-like listing of the 50 most recent topic posts, with clickable links to the topic, most recent post, user profiles, ect. It's really a lot more like viewing the forums themselves rather than the recent post list, but that's good, because it give you more information.
For now, the page is very plain. My brain is cooked from writing all the necessary code, so it may be a day or two before it has all the embellishments and pretties that the finished page would have. I also need to get a link to the new page in the menu and elsewhere. All in good time.
This new page is somewhat configurable, so if anyone has a suggestion, let me know and I'll try to work it in while I groom the page.
I usually keep track fo recent posts by using the list in the left hand menu of every page, but lately that has been getting swamped with new posts. I increased the number of new posts it displays from 10 to 12, but even that hasn't covered all the new activity. I don't want to make the list too long, as it eventually would impinge on the formatting fo the entire site (remember, that list of forumn posts appears on every page on the site!)
So.... time to put my feeble programming skillz to work and create another method of viewing recent posts.
Go to: http://www.mrsharkey.com/forum/recent.php and you will see a forum-display-like listing of the 50 most recent topic posts, with clickable links to the topic, most recent post, user profiles, ect. It's really a lot more like viewing the forums themselves rather than the recent post list, but that's good, because it give you more information.
For now, the page is very plain. My brain is cooked from writing all the necessary code, so it may be a day or two before it has all the embellishments and pretties that the finished page would have. I also need to get a link to the new page in the menu and elsewhere. All in good time.
This new page is somewhat configurable, so if anyone has a suggestion, let me know and I'll try to work it in while I groom the page.