Anyone know the theroy behind having a forum show new topics or un-read topics?
The only ways i can think of involve lots of querys, or lots of cookies. Neither of which i want to do.
new topics / un-read topics
Started by Detail, Jan 09 2006 07:20 PM
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Posted 09 January 2006 - 07:31 PM
Best thing I can think of is to set a bit in the database's topic list when you view it, and then mark topics as read depending on that bit. IPB does it a bit different but IPB's implementation is also a big buggy...
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Posted 09 January 2006 - 08:28 PM
IPB uses a combination of cookies/database in 2.0x but uses all database in 2.1x. The upgrade should take care of the bugginess with that.
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Posted 09 January 2006 - 09:16 PM
ImmoMan, so there would be a field called 'ViewedBy' listing all the members of have viewed the topic? Then you'd also need a filed or addition to the first field for when it was viewed. If loads of members view 1 topic, that list might become huge. As it's a single bit of data, you'd have to load it and sort it. Wasteage.
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Posted 09 January 2006 - 09:59 PM
It's not perfect, I know. There are several ways of doing it. Mastermind probably knows more about it than I do cause he's worked with IPB a lot more than I have...
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Posted 09 January 2006 - 10:40 PM
Well the best way to learn is still to see it already done, right?
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Posted 10 January 2006 - 01:27 AM
For this, i just need the basic theroy, i can research the rest myself.
I had a look at IPBs cookie, and it is huge. Not the way forward.
I had a look at IPBs cookie, and it is huge. Not the way forward.
Edited by Detail, 10 January 2006 - 02:50 AM.
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