1.8 Mark thread as unread on post editing

[Kaeden]

Currently, after you read a thread and one edits one's post, there is no way for you to see that something has changed other than specifically visit the thread from time to time.

I suggest that upon post edit the post to be marked as new so that the thread becomes unread. This could also help reducing bumping only for posts.

[effone]

Agreed with the suggestion.

I thought about that and edited the forumdisplay.php (in v.1.6), line no. 1133

Changing this line:

if($thread['lastpost'] > $last_read && $moved[0] != "moved")

to

$query = $db->simple_select("posts", "edittime", "dateline='{$thread['lastpost']}' AND tid='{$thread['tid']}'");
		while($lastedit = $db->fetch_array($query))
		{
			$last_action = $lastedit['edittime'] > $thread['lastpost'] ? $lastedit['edittime'] : $thread['lastpost'];
		}

		if($last_action > $last_read && $moved[0] != "moved")

But too lazy to test the modification. Don't know if anywhere more it is required to be changes :p

[JordanMussi]

But what if it was a large thread, for example /me thread, and it was a post in the middle. How would you know what's changed?

[effone]

Hmm ... need to query all the posts in the thread and get the highest lastedit timestamp then?

[Kaeden]

I guess we could update lastpost on post edit.

[Cedric]

This user has been denied support.

Not very cool feature, might take up loading time.

[HolyPhoenix]

Not very cool feature, might take up loading time.

Only if you write an extra query that checks all of the posts, which is a little ridiculous for what is needed.

The following is a much cleaner faster way:

I guess we could update lastpost on post edit.

[JordanMussi]

That would be more efficient but last post sounds like it is referring to the last post in a thread not the last post to be edited.
Personally I think should be in a plugin, if someone is willing to create one.

[HolyPhoenix]

That would be more efficient but last post sounds like it is referring to the last post in a thread not the last post to be edited.
Personally I think should be in a plugin, if someone is willing to create one.

You know, I think I have changed my mind and agree with you.

[Omar G.]

Read statuses should be deleted from the DB after editing a post in a thread. Similar to what I do in my Bump Thread plugin:

	// Bump a thread
	function bump($args)
	{
		global $db, $plugins;

		$db->update_query('threads', array('lastpostbump' => TIME_NOW), 'tid='.(int)$args['tid']);
		$db->delete_query('forumsread', 'fid=\''.(int)$args['fid'].'\'');
		$db->delete_query('threadsread', 'tid=\''.(int)$args['tid'].'\'');

		$plugins->run_hooks('npbumpthread_bump_thread', $args);
	}