Unanswered Discussions

Grahack

Unanswered Discussions

Grahack

Thanks to Wallphone, I eventually fulfilled my own add-on request.

Vaz

Wohoo! I'm first. Yep, it seems to be working fine. It displays all the topics in which I havnt replied. It includes topics that I started and nobody else answered in too.

Tiggr

I'm second! And it works fine: http://www.larp-welt.de/forum/ ! Great Idea! Thank you!

Grahack

I saw it first on the Code Igniter forums, but I guess CI is not the first to have this in its forums.

Simonb

To seo Friendly Urls
Add
RewriteRule ^discussions/unanswered/(.*)$ /discussions/?View=UnansweredDiscussions [QSA,L]
To the .htaccess

Then open up
/path/to/vanilla/extensions/UnansweredDiscussions/default.php

Find :
$Url = GetUrl(
$Configuration,
'index.php', '', '', '', '',
'View=UnansweredDiscussions');

Replace with
$Url = GetUrl(
$Configuration,
'index.php', '', '',
'discussions/unanswered');

And now it should like to the SEO link friendly URL
Hope that helps

Grahack

Thanks to share Simon.

Fyorl

The extension could be modified to test whether Friendly URLs is installed or not in which case it can add the RewriteRule in .htaccess and modify the link accordingly.

Simonb

You would still have to add it to the htaccess manually, Any that's the easiest way at the moment

That would be a cool feature of the plugin

Fyorl

Why do you have to add it to the .htaccess manually?

Simonb

Well you could have the php do it but at this moment this plugin can't.

I am not all that bothed now because its Seo'ed on my forum.

Fyorl

Mhm, I'd be willing to provide the relevant code if anyone thinks it's a worthwhile addition.

Grahack

This extension is like (based on, for one) so many other extensions that adds a kind of filter in the panel. Do they all have the same problem? How do they manage this? Just a thought, maybe there could be a meta htaccess appender extension (kind of dangerous but Fyorl seems to know what he does) to which our extensions could register. What do you think?

Fyorl

As long as everything's setup correctly so that PHP has write access to the .htaccess file and that you make sure you open it with the 'a' command (to append) there should be no problems.

Grahack

Sure, so we just have to wait for your new .htaccess extension !!!

Fyorl

Well, I wasn't going to write an extension, I'll provide a patch for your code though that adds it.

sstawarz

Hmm, this extension is not working for me.

When I enable it. My URL looks like: http://localhost/forum/discussions/?discussions/unanswered

I am using Friendly URLs, and I'm not sure why, but this filter gives me all the discussions even the ones who have comments. Any suggestions?

Simonb

try RewriteRule ^discussions/unanswered/(.*)$ discussions/?View=UnansweredDiscussions [QSA,L]