View all posts, last n days?

[thewitt]

How do I view all posts in the last n days?

I have a number of users who come in and read only a portion of the new messages, clearing their cookie timeout in the process. They then want to read all the messages they have missed - but there does not appear to be any good way to do that.

Is there some way to see all the new posts in a given time window?

-t

[Mike Sullivan]

I don't think there is at this time. Although if you modify this line in search.php:

$datesql=" AND thread.lastpost>=".(time()-24*60*60);

You could have it so it takes variable time "limits":

$dayscount = intval($dayscount);
if (!$dayscount) {
$dayscount = 1;
}
$datesql=" AND thread.lastpost>=".(time()-24*60*60*$dayscount);

[thewitt]

Thanks Ed.

The problem with using the search function though as supplied is you have to provide a search term as well - and it has to meet the minimum length requirements.

It appears that what I really need is a "Show all posts" in a date range function - or something on the search page that allows you to include all posts without either a search term or a username term.

I'll poke around with this one and see what feels right.

-t

[tubedogg]

Take a look at the function that gets all posts from the last 24 hours. That doesn't require a word or username.

[Mike Sullivan]

The only instance of that code is the "getdaily" action, which doesn't need a search word like Kevin said.

[Marc Smith]

Originally posted by tubedogg

Take a look at the function that gets all posts from the last 24 hours. That doesn't require a word or username.

Please explain. I'm here doing a search because most of my users log in from work, get to read a few messages and then have some work to do or get called away for 1 reason or another, and then come back 45 minutes later and - no way to see what posts are new. As was pointed out earlier, the Search feature requires a key word - which several of my users pointed out to me.

I would like some way to be able to ask for all 'new' posts since "...1 day ago, 2 days ago,..." etc.

Even better would be a "Show me all posts I have not yet read from the last 'X' days". Not just NEW posts, but UNREAD posts.

I have seen this as an issue since first setting up WWWBoard in 1996-7. There was the same issue in UltimateBB. The issue is now in my 'User Complaints' box for vBulletin. I have to admit - I myself would really love a feature like that.

I also think that would bring cpu overhead down - maybe not - but instead of people wandering about trying to figure out what's new by dates and such, a streight forward 'Show me what I missed' would be very well received.

Any ideas appreciated.

[Tolitz]

*shrug* I just provide a link to both the "getnew" and "getdaily" at the top of my forums via the forumhome template, and name them "New Posts" and "Latest Topics" respectively ... no hacking involved...

[thewitt]

This doesn't help with the "show me what I have not read" part, but one helpful URL for your forums might be:

http://yourforums/search.php?s=&action=getdaily

This will show you everything posted in the last 24 hours I believe.

-t

[Marc Smith]

Originally posted by thewitt

This doesn't help with the "show me what I have not read" part, but one helpful URL for your forums might be:

http://yourforums/search.php?s=&action=getdaily

This will show you everything posted in the last 24 hours I believe.

-t

I'll put that in tonight. I wasn't aware of that 'action' aspect of search.php I also found this: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...threadid=23338

[Marc Smith]

Anyone know if there is a way to make it so that if someone subscribes to a forum they'll get an e-mail each time someone posts or starts a new thread like a moderator does for that forum?

[thewitt]

Go over to vBulletin.org and look at the hacks. There are a couple different options over there.

-t

[Xube]

I came over to the board this morning to post a question about the View New Posts default link at the top of my boards homepage. What determines what a "new post" is for this link? Is it a post that was made within a certain number of hours ago? Can I change the number of hours (or days) required to qualify as a new post?

I was going to start a new thread about this then I saw some of the info in this thread applied to my situation.


Regarding:

Originally posted by Tolitz
*shrug* I just provide a link to both the "getnew" and "getdaily" at the top of my forums via the forumhome template, and name them "New Posts" and "Latest Topics" respectively ... no hacking involved...

And:

Originally posted by thewitt
This doesn't help with the "show me what I have not read" part, but one
helpful URL for your forums might be:
http://yourforums/search.php?s=&action=getdaily
This will show you everything posted in the last 24 hours I believe.

Could someone here confirm the definition of these 2 links (getnew & getdaily). Does the getdaily link get all posts that have been posted in the last 24 hours REGARDLESS of if the user clicking on the link has visited the board within the last 24 hours?


Also what does the getnew link get? What defines "new" for this link? Thanks for any help about this.

[Marc Smith]

Getnew - As I understand it it is to get a listing of all messages since your last visit. Your last visit time and date is registered in the database. This 'last visit' time and date is updated every time you go through a link and keep doing stuff on the boards.

However - say someone signs on in the AM and only gets to read part of the 'new posts since last visit' and then has to go off and do something. There is a Cookie Timeout time you can define in the general options in the admin control panel. I set mine for 20 minutes. As long as a user does something every 19 minutes the 'New Posts' stay as New Posts.

But the user doesn't get to read all the 'new posts and comes back 3 hours later. The cookie has timed out so Getnew will only fetch messages/posts posted since your last visit - which was 3 hours ago according to the database record.

Getdaily - This fetches a listing of all threads with 'new' posts in all forums from the last 24 hours (literally).

Now - that said, I'm pretty new to vBulletin so these are my assumptions. I'm sure one of the moderators will correct me where I'm wrong and/or explain in more detail. I'm still figuring a lot of this all out myself.

[tubedogg]

Nope, you're right.