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September 30th, 2002, 12:06 AM

zombie

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marking topics "new"

how is this done on this site matt?

i am trying to help the admin of one serbian forum site to make this thing work like it works on this site.

by marking, i mean boldin (or what ever) topics that contain posts that i havent read.

i know it stores last time of my visit into a cookie, or db, but we cant get it to work as good as here...

September 30th, 2002, 01:10 AM

Matt

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RE: marking topics

Just a simple comparision:

if (latestpostime > lastvisittime)
print it bolded out
else
print it normal

the lastvisit is set with a function like so:

php Code:

Original - php Code
function lastvisit() { global $forumsess,$realm,$config,$eflastvisit; if (!session_is_registered("forumsess")) session_register("forumsess"); if ($eflastvisit) $forumsess[$realm][lastvisit] = $eflastvisit; $expire = time() + (606024*365); setcookie("eflastvisit", time(), $expire); if (!$forumsess[$realm][lastvisit]) $forumsess[$realm][lastvisit] = $eflastvisit; }

function lastvisit()
{
    global $forumsess,$realm,$config,$eflastvisit;
    
    if (!session_is_registered("forumsess"))
        session_register("forumsess");
    
    if ($eflastvisit)   
        $forumsess[$realm][lastvisit] = $eflastvisit;
    
    $expire = time() + (60*60*24*365);
    setcookie("eflastvisit", time(), $expire);
 
    if (!$forumsess[$realm][lastvisit]) 
        $forumsess[$realm][lastvisit] = $eflastvisit;
    
}

and every page load (in the index.php) gets this:

php Code:

Original - php Code
if (!$forumsess[$realm][lastvisit]) lastvisit();

 
if (!$forumsess[$realm][lastvisit])
    lastvisit();

September 30th, 2002, 01:46 AM

zombie

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RE: marking topics

wow. i love simple solutions!

this only shows me that even thoe i consider my self to be very smart, and i have a reasonable amount of expiriense, i stil can't asume to know everything, and i am not ashame to admit it ;)

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