Hi everyone,
I have run into some problems with trying to create a custom forum menu.. I am new to Drupal so I will try and explain this the best that I can.
What I want to be able to do is to create a block menu to be placed on a sidebar with direct links to multiple forums. and next to the link a statistic that shows how many new posts there have been in say the last 24 hours. Like this for example:
Teaching Forums - 8 New Posts
Party Forums - 6 New Posts
etc.
etc.
I have the forums set up and have tried to setup the block using Views, but have had little luck. So far I have only been able to create a Global:Custom Text with a direct link to the forum, but this isn't connecting to the forum to get the 'new post' information. I have tried to use a filter to select the forum pages, but it never works..
Any ideas? Am I making any sense here..? =P
Thanks!
Comments
which forum you are using?
i have seen your last posts also. wan to know which forum you use depends on that i can give solution.
thanks for replying.. right
thanks for replying..
right now i am using the forums that shipped with drupal along with this theme, you can see the demo here:
http://www.themeshark.com/demo/diver/
i also have these modules installed if it helps:
Admin Menu
Auto Node Title
CCK
Collapsible Block
DD Block
FCK Editor
FileField
Image API
Image Cache
Image Field
JQuery
JS Tools
Thickbox
Token
Views
Thanks for any feedback!
Difficult
I think you're going to have problems doing this in views. What you're asking for is a linked term name along with a sum of the nodes in that term and all the comments on them. You would need to either make a custom field for the view or just do some custom code to begin with.
The query to get the number of new comments in a forum is in Advanced Forum if you need an example. It's a pretty heavy query, though.
Michelle
import this view
$view = new view;
$view->name = 'archive';
$view->description = 'Display a list of months that link to content for that month.';
$view->tag = 'default';
$view->view_php = '';
$view->base_table = 'node';
$view->is_cacheable = FALSE;
$view->api_version = 2;
$view->disabled = FALSE; /* Edit this to true to make a default view disabled initially */
$handler = $view->new_display('default', 'Defaults', 'default');
$handler->override_option('sorts', array(
'created' => array(
'id' => 'created',
'table' => 'node',
'field' => 'created',
'order' => 'DESC',
'granularity' => 'second',
'relationship' => 'none',
),
));
$handler->override_option('arguments', array(
'name' => array(
'default_action' => 'summary desc',
'style_plugin' => 'default_summary',
'style_options' => array(
'count' => 1,
'override' => 0,
'items_per_page' => '25',
),
'wildcard' => 'all',
'wildcard_substitution' => 'All',
'title' => '%1',
'breadcrumb' => '',
'default_argument_type' => 'fixed',
'default_argument' => '',
'validate_type' => 'none',
'validate_fail' => 'not found',
'glossary' => 0,
'limit' => '0',
'case' => 'none',
'path_case' => 'none',
'transform_dash' => 0,
'add_table' => 0,
'require_value' => 0,
'id' => 'name',
'table' => 'term_data',
'field' => 'name',
'validate_user_argument_type' => 'uid',
'validate_user_roles' => array(
'2' => 0,
'3' => 0,
),
'relationship' => 'none',
'default_options_div_prefix' => '',
'default_argument_user' => 0,
'default_argument_fixed' => '',
'default_argument_php' => '',
'validate_argument_node_type' => array(
'blog' => 0,
'aggregation_feed' => 0,
'aggregation_item' => 0,
'image' => 0,
'forum' => 0,
'page' => 0,
'story' => 0,
),
'validate_argument_node_access' => 0,
'validate_argument_nid_type' => 'nid',
'validate_argument_vocabulary' => array(
'3' => 0,
'1' => 0,
'2' => 0,
),
'validate_argument_type' => 'tid',
'validate_argument_transform' => 0,
'validate_user_restrict_roles' => 0,
'image_size' => array(
'_original' => '_original',
'thumbnail' => 'thumbnail',
'preview' => 'preview',
),
'validate_argument_php' => '',
),
));
$handler->override_option('filters', array(
'status' => array(
'id' => 'status',
'table' => 'node',
'field' => 'status',
'operator' => '=',
'value' => 1,
'group' => 0,
'exposed' => FALSE,
'expose' => array(
'operator' => FALSE,
'label' => '',
),
'relationship' => 'none',
),
'type' => array(
'operator' => 'in',
'value' => array(
'forum' => 'forum',
),
'group' => '0',
'exposed' => FALSE,
'expose' => array(
'operator' => FALSE,
'label' => '',
),
'id' => 'type',
'table' => 'node',
'field' => 'type',
'relationship' => 'none',
),
));
$handler->override_option('access', array(
'type' => 'none',
'role' => array(),
'perm' => '',
));
$handler->override_option('cache', array(
'type' => 'none',
));
$handler->override_option('title', 'Monthly archive');
$handler->override_option('use_pager', '1');
$handler->override_option('row_plugin', 'node');
$handler->override_option('row_options', array(
'teaser' => TRUE,
'links' => TRUE,
));
$handler = $view->new_display('page', 'Page', 'page');
$handler->override_option('path', 'archive');
$handler->override_option('menu', array(
'type' => 'none',
'title' => '',
'description' => '',
'weight' => 0,
'name' => 'navigation',
));
$handler->override_option('tab_options', array(
'type' => 'none',
'title' => '',
'description' => '',
'weight' => 0,
));
$handler = $view->new_display('block', 'Block', 'block');
$handler->override_option('block_description', 'Archive list');
$handler->override_option('block_caching', -1);