Alphabetical Sort Default By Forum

[Phillip Phee]

How would one go about setting specific forums to display alphabetically by default? I have some forums in which the vbulleitn standard of the most recent post at the top make sense, but others that are more along the lines of archives, and alphabetical would be the most logical for them.

Many thanks for the help.

[tubedogg]

Would take some hacking.

Please enter your license information in your profile. See the link in my sig for more info. Thanks!

[Phillip Phee]

As requested, customer info has been added to profile. Next, just how much hacking are we talking? I can't afford any degradation in speed or reliability.

Thanks again for your time and assistance.

[Steve Machol]

Phillip,

Your license info didn't take. You need to enter both your vB license and customer password into your user profile.

To find out about the hacking, you really should ask in the Hacks Request forum.

[Phillip Phee]

I redid the username/pass, I will submit a post in the hack forum.

Many thanks...

[Steve Machol]

Yep - it took this time. Thanks!

[Chen]

Couldn't find your thread in the Requests forum, so I guess I'll post this here.

In forumdisplay.php, add this code:

if ($forumid=='9')
  $sortfield='title'; 

right before this:

$sort[$sortfield]='selected'; 

And change 9 to the ID of the forum you'd like to apply this to.

[Phillip Phee]

Muchas Gracias to you FireFly, I'll try it tonight and let you know the turn out.

[Phillip Phee]

FireFly,

If it is not too much to ask, can you tell me how to structure the same type of command for multiple forums? I have about 10 that I would like to apply that on.

Thanks again...

[Chen]

Use this code:

if ($forumid=='9' or $forumid=='10' or $forumid=='14' or $forumid=='3')
  $sortfield='title'; 

Got it?

[Phillip Phee]

Yup, I got it. However I have one last question, is there a way to have it sort A-Z rather than Z-A as it is currently? Or am I doing somthing wrong?

Many Thanks...

[Chen]

Sorry, didn't see your last post until now.

Instead of:

if ($forumid=='9' or $forumid=='10' or $forumid=='14' or $forumid=='3')
  $sortfield='title'; 

Use this:

if ($forumid=='9' or $forumid=='10' or $forumid=='14' or $forumid=='3') {
  $sortfield='title';
  $sqlsortorder='';
  $order['asc']='selected';
} 

I think that should work.

[Phillip Phee]

Thanks again, I am forever in your debt...

[Phillip Phee]

Status Update

Finished the changes this AM, it works like a charm. Thank you again for you help Chen, "big ups" to you...

[edpak]

Thanks FireFly... Been looking for this bit of code for awhile...