OK, now that it isn't fresh in my memory I might get something wrong. Basically I had the dateslip feature turned on and had people screaming at me so I went in and did everything very quickly.
What I did was edit the postlist.php program and added a variable in the "Get the user info" area. In the config script if you have an extra field available just call it something relating to this like "Move posts to top?" or something to that effect.
Whatever that extra variable name is, add it to the end of that "Get the user info" query. Mine is like this:
<pre>$user = $userob -> authenticate("$Username","$Password","U_Username, U_Password, U_Display, U_Groups, U_Sort, U_View, U_PostsPer, U_TempRead, U_FlatPosts, U_TimeOffset,U_ActiveThread,U_Extra3");</pre>
As you can see, mine is the U_Extra3 field in the config script.
Then down below in the postlist.php script look for this:
// If dateslip is on, we sort by Last_Post, otherwise we sort by PostedI changed my code to this from what was there:
<pre> $DateSlip = $user[U_Extra3];
if (!$DateSlip) {
$sort_opt = array(
1 => 'B_Subject DESC',
2 => 'B_Subject ASC',
3 => 'B_Username DESC',
4 => 'B_Username ASC',
5 => 'B_Last_Post DESC',
6 => 'B_Last_Post ASC',
7 => 'B_Counter DESC',
8 => 'B_Counter ASC',
9 => 'B_Replies DESC',
10 => 'B_Replies ASC'
);
$sort_by = $sort_opt[$sb];
}
else {
$sort_opt = array(
1 => 'B_Subject DESC',
2 => 'B_Subject ASC',
3 => 'B_Username DESC',
4 => 'B_Username ASC',
5 => 'B_Posted DESC',
6 => 'B_Posted ASC',
7 => 'B_Counter DESC',
8 => 'B_Counter ASC',
9 => 'B_Replies DESC',
10 => 'B_Replies ASC'
);
$sort_by = $sort_opt[$sb];
}</pre>
Now people can go to their profile and enter 'No' or whatever in the field to turn it off. Actually they can type in 'Yes' and it will still turn it off because anything in the text box will make the dataslip feature turn off but in the config script I have it worded as follows:
<pre> $config['extra3'] = "Move Posts To Top? (Enter 'No' or they will)";</pre>
I might not be explaining everything the best but that is the quick and dirty fix until it is a full feature in 5.4 or whatever future version.
