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The function is two if's. I could have done it without a function but it's easier to install this way. And an sql query is much slower ;)
Im using multiple cookies because they are deleted in 600secs. I can use one but i chose not to because it require much more cpu.
each solution has it avantages.. you choose to use more cookies, i choose to use one sql query more... I'll look if it's possible do use less cpu.
Bye 
had to hack a bit to make the code works properly; might be not that clean. If you're still interested, please mail me.. 
EDIT: please forget it, the code would be too dirty with forums containing more than one category.
EDIT2: in fact it could easily work, but I should do the sql request every time a page update the last-visited date... so.. on almost every page 
Hi; I realize this topic is over a month old, so apologies if I'm digging up old news.
I'm wondering if there are any new developments on this feature. I've recently switched a forum over to punbb from invision, and only having a single 'mark all forums read' function is a huge step back (Invision marks each individual post read after you read it, plus you can mark an individual forum read). Everything else is great with PunBB, though.
Annyway... I was interested in the hack that Yann came up with earlier in this thread, but I'm wondering if it is in fact a clean, fast solution, or if maybe there are any other solutions that have been developed in the past month.
Thanks for any info you guys have.
Mmm, multiple cookies might be the best cross-platform solution (from the board operator POV) - however you need to consider 2 additional factors:
a) Cookies - The browser will have to send every cookie back that it received in the past 10 minutes - introduces request latency.
b - and a BIG b) HTTP RFCs state that a HTTP Request size is a maximum of 4KBytes in size. Now I'm guessing your cookies are small bytewise in value and smallish in name, but remember you have a 15 character overhead for each cookie.
This means that you can quickly overflow the max request size if you are reading posts or flicking through a forum.
Compounding this issue is that users of Checkpoint Firewall 1 (i.e. big business) default HTTP Request size is 1KB.
In summary, it's the easy way to do it, but will introduce big problems for many users.
Hope this helps.
Clarify - this is HTTP Request _HEADER_
Paul.
I tend to agree with Rickard - the attraction to punbb is that it's meant to be lightweight, fast and simple. You have to draw the line somewhere in terms of features vs efficiency - if you want features, then perhaps phpbb or vbulletin or invision is better suited to your needs...
I've got no problems with the way it works now... (well give or take a few mods)
I do understand the complexity that is introduced when you bring cookies and all of that into the picture.
What about a 'mark forum read' for each individual board? The reason that it is an inconvenience for me now is this:
If I have a lot of new posts to go through, it may take me several minutes to do it. In that time, other users may be posting. If I then go 'mark all forums read', I completely miss the new messages that have been posted in the meantime.
Of course a clean, fast way to make each post appear as read as I go through it would be the best solution, but if I could mark each forum read as I go through it, this kind of scenario would probably happen less often.
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