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Sorry to bring back a month old post but i find it necessary considering this problem seems to be happening everywhere yet its really not being resolved
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Em, perhaps you should have a look at another forums read/unread method to see how its done properly...maybe it could help you to fix CBB...i dont mean that rudely i'm just sayin it wouldnt hurt
Ive tried db and cookie and they both seem to function the same way...The problem with db version seems to arise with the fact that it updates to 2 tables, read_forum and read_posts so in order for your forums AND posts to be both marked read you have to go into both the forum and the posts directly, not just via the "Last Post" link or various other ways of viewing the posts without actually entering the forum first (which is also what happens with the cookie version)...in the db version you need to set the function so that read_forum doesnt update until all read_posts in that forum are read and trigger it to update read_forum after all posts in it are marked read. Im sure the cookie problem could be solved in a similar method considering it has a similar problem, although ive never looked into it.
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phppp wrote:
perhaps I am too silly to find a reasonable manner for cookie-based method.
Em, perhaps you should have a look at another forums read/unread method to see how its done properly...maybe it could help you to fix CBB...i dont mean that rudely i'm just sayin it wouldnt hurt
Ive tried db and cookie and they both seem to function the same way...The problem with db version seems to arise with the fact that it updates to 2 tables, read_forum and read_posts so in order for your forums AND posts to be both marked read you have to go into both the forum and the posts directly, not just via the "Last Post" link or various other ways of viewing the posts without actually entering the forum first (which is also what happens with the cookie version)...in the db version you need to set the function so that read_forum doesnt update until all read_posts in that forum are read and trigger it to update read_forum after all posts in it are marked read. Im sure the cookie problem could be solved in a similar method considering it has a similar problem, although ive never looked into it.