I want to format the first post differently to the rest in a thread. How do I detect whether the post currently being displayed using “post_text()” is the first one?

Thanks.

[@bobbyh Member 16 years, 7 months ago]

Lookfab, here’s a slight tweak to the default kakumei topic.php theme file that should do what you want:

<ol id="thread" start="<?php echo $list_start; ?>">

<?php $i = 0; ?>

<?php foreach ($posts as $bb_post) : $del_class = post_del_class(); ?>

<li id="post-<?php post_id(); ?>"<?php if ($i == 0) { echo 'class="firstpost"'; } elseif !($i % 2) { echo ('class="alt"'); }?>>

<?php bb_post_template(); ?>

</li>

<?php $i++; ?>

<?php endforeach; ?>

</ol>

You can then style the class “firstpost” using CSS to make it stand out however you want…

I didn’t test this, but I think it should work either by itself or with a tweak or two.

[@lookfab Member 16 years, 7 months ago]

Thanks bobbyh. I think this is what I am doing now, but the problem is that when the thread goes onto a second page, the first post on the second page gets class=”firstpost” too.

Is there any other way to find out programmatically whether a post is the first one in a topic?

[@bobbyh Member 16 years, 7 months ago]

Try this (inserted into the code I had above):

<?php if ( ( $i == 0 ) && ( $page == 1 ) ) { echo 'class="firstpost"'; } elseif !($i % 2) { echo ('class="alt"'); }?>>

[@lookfab Member 16 years, 7 months ago]

Yes, this does the trick. Thanks very much!