[Über-Noob] Mark Thread Resolved Thingy [/TheNookie]

TheNookie

Say, can someone point me in the right direction in making such a modification? I tried so often to make something like this, but I just cant figur it out... (talking about a noob) ... help will be greatly appreciated 🙂

Pig

You mean how to mark a thread as resolved? Look at the bottom of the page. You should see:

Show Printable Version | Email this Page | Subscribe to this Thread
Mark Thread Resolved (thread starter only)

TheNookie

Thanks for your reply, Pig (😉)

What I actually mean is this:

"can someone point me in the right direction in making such a modification?"

😉

TheNookie

C'mon, I know you can do it! :rolleyes:

matt_4013

Not entirely sure what it actually does, but I assume it just changes the subject.

So all you'd have to do is, (like they've done here), do an if statement on the view page, such as

if($cleaned_up_input['is_resolved']) {

// Check to make sure it's the correct user trying to do it
// Update the database subject line saying resolved
// Display a message saying "you've resolved it!
// Redirect back to the forum

}

TheNookie

Ah, thanks! 🙂 Kinda hokus-pokus to me, but I will look into it.

Pig

I don't think so. I'd bet dollars-to-donuts that they just modified the database info. That would be the best route.

You would just create a page (or modify an existing one) that passes the user_id of the person who clicked the link, along with the thread's id. Then the page being called would check the user_id to see if it is the same as the thread starter, or if it is a moderator.

If it is not not, then stop the script. If it is, then do a query to get the thread subject, and do a simple addition like:
$new_subject = "[RESOLVED]" . $old_subject;
and run an update.

That would only take a few minutes to code.