I could put that code into the forum itself, but I don't like to hack up the source if I can avoid it. I tend to blow changes away when I upgrade. Even having the avatars under /img/avatars/ has caused me some trouble Perhaps when there is a proper plugin system I'll turn it into a plugin, but I'm holding off until then.

Maybe a plugin, sounds good

Cool

Was this what you were talking about in the post I quoted?

Have you been thinking about implement  it into the show-recent-posts-page in the forum?

Do you mean like the link "Show recent posts" at the bottom of Index, but with the ability to change how long back in time you want to go?

Funny... I actually whipped this up for a site I maintain:

http://newathens.org/admin/

Look at the bottom, there's a set of drop-down menus that allows you to specify a date range.

Anyway, I think it might be a good idea to add this "show me posts since" feature to the core.

Do you mean like the link "Show recent posts" at the bottom of Index, but with the ability to change how long back in time you want to go?

1.3 will have proper "mark as read" functionality. Yes, I give up

Fantastic to hear that, thanks Rickard! ;-)

Only just found out about this forum script today, set it all up and absoluely love it, but this is the one thing I've got problems with, and lots of others do too, one person even saying "I just clicked on the same post four times accidently" becuase they thought it had a new post, heh. Doesn't say a lot for the intelligence of our forum users, but hey, what ya gonna do? ;-)

Cheers again, fantastic software!

1.3 will have proper "mark as read" functionality. Yes, I give up

Now we need a volunteer to make the PunBB 1.3 mod that restores classic new-message indicator behaviour.

Rickard wrote:

1.3 will have proper "mark as read" functionality. Yes, I give up

So from this we can understand if we bug you enough you will add anything?

Either that or pay me a lot of money

1.3 will have proper "mark as read" functionality. Yes, I give up

So from this we can understand if we bug you enough you will add anything?

1.3 will have proper "mark as read" functionality. Yes, I give up

Awesome, good to hear this.

I'm basically just giving the user a choice to see posts that are new since X date/time. I think that this simple addition to the searching capabilities (search.php) would provide a lot of benefit for users that are requesting a way to mark posts as read when they're read.

Not that I think the javascript idea is a bad one - but I don't want to rely on things that may or may not work with future versions. I also am not interested in radically expanding PunBB's feature set. However, I think that adding this extra small feature will result in less worry about this other, larger, "feature" or change in behavior.

Don't forget about ShawnBrown's PunJS New Posts. It's a drop-in Javascript solution. I don't know if it works with 1.2.5, but I can't see any reason it wouldn't.

Ahh, I didn't see this post when it was new:

Some people at punres have reported that PunJS New Posts doesn't work with the newer versions of PunBB. I want to release an update but I haven't had the time. Miles' mod is better maintained at this point.

A side note:

The script is ran with every page load but it isn't downloaded every time. When you include a .js file with the SCRIPT tag, it's only downloaded once (like a .css file). After that, the server returns a "304 Not Modified" status and the browser uses a locally cached copy. This is partly how GMail gets away with it's 20,000 line/230k+ JavaScript (though they're using IFRAME tricks too).