Creating a forum similar to gallery.menalto.com/forum
Last modified: August 26, 2009 - 02:38
I modified the above code to create a forum like http://gallery.menalto.com/forum
Notes
1. Make sure you include the CSS from the previous page http://drupal.org/node/154325 in your style.css file at the bottom.
2. If your forums are not categorized into sub categories then you will perhaps not see much of a change in the main forum page.
template.php
<?php
/**
* This snippet tells Drupal to override the forum_list function
* and load a custom forum_list.tpl.php layout file
* in the theme folder
*/
function phptemplate_forum_list($forums, $parents, $tid) {
return _phptemplate_callback('forum_list', array('forums' => $forums, 'parents' =>$parents, 'tid' =>$tid));
}
?> forum_list.tpl.php
<?php
/**
* This snippet generates the forum_list layout.
* This works with Drupal 4.7 and Drupal 5.x
* For use with a custom forum_list.tpl.php file.
*
*/
global $user; // checks the current user so later the snippet can determine what permissions they have
if ($forums) { // check if there is forums.
$container_flag = 0;
$old_depth = 0;
$subforum_flag = 0;
$child_no = 0;
$parent_new = 0;
$parent_posts = 0;
$parent_topics = 0;
$parent_last = 0;
$parent_id = 0;
// remove the default header because we're going to add it in under each container name
$header = array(t('Forum'), t('Topics'), t('Posts'), t('Last post'));
foreach ($forums as $key=>$forum) { // this is the start of the forum list routine that generates the containers and forum list.
if ($forum->container) {
$description = '<div style="margin-left: '. ($forum->depth * 30) ."px;\">\n";
$description .= ' <div class="name">'. l($forum->name, "forum/$forum->tid/container") ."</div>\n";
if ($forum->description) {
$description .= " <div class=\"description\">$forum->description</div>\n";
}
$description .= "</div>\n";
$rows[] = array(array('data' => $description, 'class' => 'container', 'colspan' => 4));
$container_flag = 1;
}
else {
if ($container_flag == 1)
{
$limit_depth = 2;
}
else
{
$limit_depth = 1;
}
// show only 2 levels
if ($forum->depth <= $limit_depth)
{
// for parent forum
if ($forum->depth < $limit_depth)
{
if ($subforum_flag == 1)
{
$subforum_flag = 0;
}
$forum->old_topics = _forum_topics_unread($forum->tid, $user->uid);
if ($user->uid) {
$new_topics = $forum->num_topics - $forum->old_topics;
}
else {
$new_topics = 0;
}
$description = "<div style=\"margin-left: 0px;\">\n";
$description .= ' <div class="name">'. l($forum->name, "forum/$forum->tid") ."</div>\n";
if ($forum->description) {
$description .= " <div class=\"description\">$forum->description</div>\n";
}
$description .= "</div>\n";
// does not have subforums
$tot_childs = count(taxonomy_get_children($forum->tid));
if ($tot_childs == 0)
{
$rows[] = array(
array('data' => $description, 'class' => 'forum'),
array('data' => $forum->num_topics . ($new_topics ? '<br />'. l(format_plural($new_topics, '1 new', '@count new'), "forum/$forum->tid", NULL, NULL, 'new') : ''), 'class' => 'topics'),
array('data' => $forum->num_posts, 'class' => 'posts'),
array('data' => _forum_format($forum->last_post), 'class' => 'last-reply'));
}
else
{
$subforum_flag = 1;
$parent_new = $new_topics;
$parent_posts = $forum->num_posts;
$parent_topics = $forum->num_topics;
$parent_last = $forum->last_post;
$parent_id = $forum->tid;
}
}
else // sub forum
{
$child_no++;
if ($old_depth == $forum->depth)
{
$description .= ", ";
}
if ($old_depth < $forum->depth)
{
$description .= " <div class=\"subforum\">".t('Subforum').": ";
}
$description .= l($forum->name, "forum/$forum->tid");
if ($child_no == $tot_childs)
{
$description .= "</div>";
$child_no = 0;
$rows[] = array(
array('data' => $description, 'class' => 'forum'),
array('data' => $parent_topics . ($parent_new ? '<br />'. l(format_plural($parent_new, '1 new', '@count new'), "forum/$parent_id", NULL, NULL, 'new') : ''), 'class' => 'topics'),
array('data' => $parent_posts, 'class' => 'posts'),
array('data' => _forum_format($parent_last), 'class' => 'last-reply'));
}
}
$old_depth = $forum->depth;
}
}
}
print theme('table', $header, $rows);
}
?>