What functionality would you like to see added to the BB?

[jakee308]

Of course these may be pipe dreams as there are limits with php as to what can be done.

if possible i'd like to be able to type a page number in a box and go directly to a spot in the middle of a list of topics. the way it is now you have to click through every page.

Don't get me wrong i ain't complaining just speaking out on my druthers.

[Krom]

You can do that by manually typing the page number you want in the address bar.

[jakee308]

Krom

what address bar? where?

[Unix]

The bar where you type the url of a website.

[jakee308]

that means i'd have to know the url page number. i mean the page number.
example:
say a topic has 90 pages. you have "1,2,3,4 ..... 87,88,89,90 next" as choices. to reach say 50 you start with clicking 4 then click next for 46 times to get to 50. i would like to type in a number and jump to that page in the list. is that clearer? maybe i didn't understand what you meant but when i typed the page number 5 in the url address bar, i got a search for meanings of the numeral 5.

[Krom]

The address bar is the space near the top of your browser that shows the address of the current page you have loaded in the browser.

For instance in the PTMC Cafe there are currently 81 pages of topics on the forum (at 40 topics/page).

So the address for page 1 is: phpbb/viewforum.php?f=20


Click to page 2 and the address changes to: phpbb/viewforum.php?f=20&topicdays=0&start=40


Click to page 3 and the address changes to: phpbb/viewforum.php?f=20&topicdays=0&start=80


As you can see only the number at the end of the URL "&start=80" changes, page 2 is 40, page 3 is 80, so page 40 would be 1560:
phpbb/viewforum.php?f=20&topicdays=0&start=1560


So by modifying the number of the "&start=##" part of the URL you can jump directly to a page (just remember that on the DBB there are 40 posts/topics per page, so for instance to jump to page 14, you would take 40 * 13 = 520 so you would put "&start=520" and hit enter, which would jump to page 14. Note that it's 40 * 13 not 40 * 14, multiplying it by 14 would give you 560 which would take you to page 15 not page 14.

[jakee308]

thanks for the explanation. good way to show it to as it makes it easier to see what you mean.

i think i understand now (my head is starting to hurt though)

HOWEVER i still would like a way to jump to any number page i wanted.

btw if anyone wants to know why i would want to see old topics, it is to see what was being talked about before i got here. especially in tech sections. something i have a question about may have already been covered.

[Krom]

One of my AIM contacts also likes when I use the pics he has lovingly titled "stupid noob pics" to explain something since it's much faster and easier then trying to actually explain how to do something with text.

Perhaps someday I'll get real highspeed and use videos instead of pics! :D:D