Add Board to New Topics Table

[Wormopolis]

Browser Tested: IE and FF
placement: Global Footer

This will add board titles to either a new column or below the thread titles on the New Topics Table. variable at top allows the choice.

code:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
//  show board on newest topics list
//  v2.0
//  by Wormopolis - www.wormocodes.com
//  keep header intact

displayStyle='cell';  //column or cell.  cell style puts board name under each thread title
newThreadButton=true; //put a new thread button instead of board name

if (location.href.match(/newestthreads/)) {
 fj=document.getElementById('forumjump');
 for (tds=document.getElementsByTagName('td'), t=0; t<tds.length; t++) {
   if (tds[t].width.match(/4(3|8)%/) && tds[t].className.match(/catbg/) && displayStyle=='column') {
     clntitle=tds[t].cloneNode(true);
     clntitle.firstChild.firstChild.firstChild.innerHTML=(newThreadButton ? '' : 'Board');
     clntitle.width='1%';  clntitle.align='center'; clntitle.colSpan=1;
     tds[t].width=(parseInt(tds[t].width)-1)+"%";
     tds[t].parentNode.insertBefore(clntitle,tds[t--].nextSibling);
     if (document.ammForm) {
       vtabl=document.ammForm.parentNode.parentNode;
       vtabl.rows[0].cells[0].colSpan++;
       vtabl.rows[vtabl.rows.length-1].cells[0].colSpan++;
     } else {
       vtabl=tds[t].parentNode.previousSibling.firstChild.colSpan++;
     }
   }
   if (tds[t].width.match(/4(3|8)%/) && tds[t].className.match(/windowbg/) && tds[t].getElementsByTagName('font')[0]) {
     thr=tds[t].getElementsByTagName('font')[0].getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
     thrb=(thr.href.match(/board=(.*?)($|&)/) ? RegExp.$1 : '');
     for (fjopts=fj.options, o=0; o<fjopts.length; o++) {
       if (fjopts[o].value.match(new RegExp('board='+thrb+'$',''))) {
         fjtitle=fjopts[o].innerHTML.replace(/\-+/,'');
         break;
       }
     }
     if (displayStyle=='column') {
       nfnt=document.createElement('font'); nfnt.size=2;
       nfnt.innerHTML=(newThreadButton ? 'New Thread' : fjtitle);
       nwcl=document.createElement('td');  nwcl.className='windowbg';  nwcl.align='center';  nwcl.width='1%';
       blnk=document.createElement('a');
       blnk.href="/index.cgi?board="+thrb+(newThreadButton ? '&action=post' :'');
       blnk.appendChild(nfnt);  nwcl.appendChild(blnk);
       tds[t].width=(parseInt(tds[t].width)-1)+"%";
       tds[t].parentNode.insertBefore(nwcl,tds[t--].nextSibling);
     } else if (displayStyle=='cell') {
       nfnt=document.createElement('font'); nfnt.size=1;
       nfnt.appendChild(document.createTextNode((newThreadButton ? 'New Thread ' : '')+'in board: '+fjtitle));
       tds[t].appendChild(document.createElement('br'));
       blnk=document.createElement('a');
       blnk.href="/index.cgi?board="+thrb+ '&action=post';
       blnk.appendChild(nfnt);  blnk.title='Create New Thread';
       tds[t].appendChild((newThreadButton ? blnk : nfnt) );
     }
   }
 }
}

// -->
</script>




Preview: using it with column setting on this site

[Wormopolis]

version update 1.01: fixed a colspan issue I just noticed.

[Wormopolis]

version upgrade 2.0: added in "new thread" link as an option

[biancardi]

Will you be doing this for V5? I've asked over at proboards, but i came over here to see if you have any tips on how to do this in V5. This has been very helpful for my board.

[Wormopolis]

Is there a newest topics list? or do you mean the "recent threads" list?

[biancardi]

they call it /threads/recent

I think that new topics was an oxymoron, as they were really recent threads...the url for the old version was index.cgi?action=newestthreads.