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• Started 2 years ago by leggo-my-eggo
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Limit one forum to topics started today

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   • leggo-my-eggo
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   • Posted 2 years ago #

   I have a forum called "Today Only" that I would like to show only topics and posts that were made today, so that each day it would be a completely new discussion. I do not want any of my other forums to be affected by this, they will function normally.

   Can anyone think of a way to accomplish this?
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   • leggo-my-eggo
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   • Posted 2 years ago #

   OK, I think I have this one solved. I modified my forum.php file to include this block right before the $topics foreach loop.

   <?php if( $forum_id == '4' ) { // If this is the "Today Only" forum (#4), replace the $topics query
   	$today = date('omd');
   	$today_topics_query = new BB_Query( 'topic',
   		array(
   		'forum_id' => 4,
   		'started' => $today,
   		'order_by' => 'topic_start_time',
   		'topic_status' => 'all',
   		'open' => 'all',
   		'count' => true,
   		'per_page' => 20
   		)
   	);
   	$topics = $today_topics_query->results; // Here's the array of topics the query returned.
   } ?>

   I'll let you know for sure if it works tomorrow. :)
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   • leggo-my-eggo
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   • Posted 2 years ago #

   I found a much more elegant solution by slightly modifying some other code I found here on the forums. I created a plugin like this:

   /* Plugin Name: Filter Today Only Topics */
   
   function filter_today_only_topics($where){
   	$today_only_forums = array ("4"); // The id# of the Today Only forum(s)
   	foreach($today_only_forums as $forum) {
   		$where .= " AND (forum_id != " . $forum . " OR topic_start_time > CURDATE()) ";
   	}
   	return $where;
   }
   
   add_filter( 'get_latest_topics_where', 'filter_today_only_topics');
   add_filter( 'get_latest_posts_where', 'filter_today_only_topics');

   This has the advantage of working in any list of recent posts without modifying the templates. The counts are still wrong in the forum lists, and I can't find a filter that let's me change the query for just those, but I'll just write a template function for that.

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