Hi I have the following code:

<?php if ( bb_forums() ) : ?>



<?php while ( bb_forum() ) : ?>



<div class="box">



<?php if (bb_get_forum_is_category()) : ?>



<h3><a href="<?php forum_link(); ?>"><?php forum_name(); ?></a></h3>



<?php continue; endif; ?>



<ol>



<li class="arrow f_unread">

<a href="<?php forum_link(); ?>">

<strong><?php forum_name(); ?></strong><br />

<?php forum_topics(); ?> Topics / <?php forum_posts(); ?> Replies

</a>

</li>



</ol>



</div>



<?php endwhile; ?>



<?php endif; // bb_forums() ?>

Struggling to get it to work how I want which is basically like this:

for each category do this:

<div class="box">

<h3>CAT</h3>

<ol>

<li>Forum</li>

<li>Forum</li>

</ol>

</div>

so that div should be repeated for each block. if a set of forums has not category, then all of the code would be above would run but just no h3.

so an example might look like this:

<div class="box">

<h3>CAT</h3>

<ol>

<li>Forum</li>

<li>Forum</li>

</ol>

</div>



<div class="box">

<h3>CAT</h3>

<ol>

<li>Forum</li>

<li>Forum</li>

</ol>

</div>



<div class="box">

<ol>

<li>Forum</li>

<li>Forum</li>

<li>Forum</li>

<li>Forum</li>

</ol>

</div>



<div class="box">

<ol>

<li>Forum</li>

<li>Forum</li>

<li>Forum</li>

<li>Forum</li>

</ol>

</div>

can anyone help thanks.

[@gerikg Member 14 years, 8 months ago]

I’m trying the same thing but instead of OL i’m using TABLES. https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/if-forum-is-not-category

Maybe that can help you jumpstart to find the answer.

[@kevinjohngallagher Member 14 years, 8 months ago]

There’s a more fundamental issue here.

Basically, you should ensure that every forum has a parent category. It solves so many issues when building themes and dealing with the loop. I covered this in my “bbPress as phpBB” theme back in 2008. I’ll hunt out the links for you. It was simple, but a bit of a pain.

[@driz Member 14 years, 8 months ago]

Okay changed all forums to have cats, but I need each block of forums with a cat to have this setup:

<div class="box">

<h3>CAT</h3>

<ol>

<li>Forum</li>

<li>Forum</li>

</ol>

</div>

At the moment it’s repeating the div and ol for each forum and not containing the forums within a cat inside just one div and ol.

ALSO

But because I have categories within categories it will become messy nested. So I only want to show top level forums and not the sub-forums/cats within.

[@driz Member 14 years, 8 months ago]

@kevinjohngallagher

I missed read you post earlier. Yeah getting bbPress to display like phpBB would be an awesome starting ground for me. If you could find those files/links that would be much appreciated.

[@driz Member 14 years, 8 months ago]

Okay here is how I want it to work:

<?php if ( bb_forums() ) : ?>



<!-- FOR EACH TOP LEVEL CATEGORY BUILD A DIV WITH A H3 AND OL -->



<?php while ( bb_forum() ) : ?>



<div class="box">



<?php if (bb_get_forum_is_category()) : ?>



<h3><a href="<?php forum_link(); ?>"><?php forum_name(); ?></a></h3>



<?php endif; ?>



<ol>



<!-- FOR EACH FORUM BUILD A LI (only show top level children not children within those) -->



<li class="arrow f_unread">

<a href="<?php forum_link(); ?>">

<strong><?php forum_name(); ?></strong><br />

<?php forum_topics(); ?> Topics / <?php forum_posts(); ?> Replies

</a>

</li>



</ol>



</div>



<?php endwhile; ?>



<?php endif; // bb_forums() ?>

I only want top level cats and forums to show on the front page, clicking on those will show the sub-forums when you view in the individual forums.

Can anyone help?

[@driz Member 14 years, 8 months ago]

From what I can tell it’s gonna require a foreach statement to do what I want.

[@psycheangels Member 14 years, 8 months ago]

maybe this will help ?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/nested-topic-list-code-snippet

[@driz Member 14 years, 8 months ago]

@psycheangels

Looks like some of that code could be useful. I’m not a PHP whizz though. Would you or anyone else be able to help me *rewrite* it to what I am wanting to do above?

Much appreciated.