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On PUNBB you can only have:
CATGORY - Forum
But could you make this:
CATGORY - Forum - Sub-Forum - (Maybe More Sub Forums)
???
Could you give an example of when you may need this?
I think it would be pretty messy TBH - isn't a "sub forum" just a new topic
Cat Games
SubCat PC
Forum RPG
Forum Action
SubCat Mac
Forum RPG
Forum Action
SubCat Console
Forum RPG
Forum ActionSomething like that?
PunBB does not support subforums. You can only have one level of forums.
Kennel wrote:
PunBB does not support subforums. You can only have one level of forums.
Do you hade any future support for that in mind?
Honestly, no :)
Oh 
I was hoping you would because i find them very useful.
Oh and RNilsson that example is perfect 
If I can come up with a simple and effective way of implementing subforums, I will consider it, I have yet to see a good implementation though.
in a devforum I made, I had a 'referrer forum' in every forum (that was the 'owner' of the forum), that pointed to another forum, unless it was in the 'root' then it pointed to 0 ... so my index.php was infact using the same code as viewforum, with the only exception it used 0 as forum when it searched for forums, instead of the current forum you were in ... so it's probably not that hard to have it functional ... but perhaps the way punbb uses forums now makes it hard to change ...
Yeah, that's the way it's usually implemented, but it's not very effecient. You run into trouble when you want to select more than one level of forums in a single query. E.g. creating the "Jump to" drop down menu.
true, but on the other hand, those is possible to generate when the forums is added/removed ... so one just fetch one textstring from database for this ... instead of generating them every time one enters a page...
I don't think i personally have any use for sub-forums, but i know that such a feature can be usefull in other situations like on community-sites, review-sites etc.
Frank H wrote:
true, but on the other hand, those is possible to generate when the forums is added/removed ... so one just fetch one textstring from database for this ... instead of generating them every time one enters a page...
A good idea. However, that was just an example. What happens on the front page when/if you want to display more than one level of forums? There you want to display stuff like number of topics and posts, so a caching solution like the one you suggested for the "Jump to" isn't really doable.
I've been thinking about having some form of identifier column for every forum. You could then order by this identifier column. The column would look something like this for the different forums RNisson sugguested:
Cat Games
SubCat PC 1
Forum RPG 1.1
Forum Action 1.1
SubCat Mac 2
Forum RPG 2.1
Forum Action 2.1
SubCat Console 3
Forum RPG 3.1
Forum Action 3.2true ... indexing is probably good
hmm... so does this mean there may be some kind of Sub Foruming on PUNBB ???
Well, maybe. Not in 1.1 though.
1.1 is coming soon i suppose?
http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=2467
Kennel wrote:
Only 7 more points to do....
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