I'm in the process of building a set of forums for my personal site. I've got
them pretty much ready to go but I'm running up against a wall when I try to get
the new messages notification working. I'm looking to do something similar to
the highlight images displayed in the Ultimate Bulletin Board. In that setup,
when you visit the list of individual boards, it has a highlighted image next to
the title of each if the last post date is greater than the last time you
visited. The same holds true to the listings of threads within those boards.
My forum system is setup in a semi-fusebox style, so there's a main default.cfm
from which everything is loaded. This is the code I have in the top of that
file:
<cfcookie name="visitdate" value="#CreateODBCDateTime(Now())#" expires="NEVER">
<cfparam name=session.visitdate default=cookie.visitdate>
This way, the session.visitdate is updated only the first time the user visits
the forums, while the cookie.visitdate is updated every time they navigate
within the forums. This is to make it so they don't loose the highlighted
markers just by browsing into one board and then back out to the main board
listing.
Within the display of the boards, I have this code:
<cfif session.visitdate LT Q_allforums.lastpost>
<img src="/includes/go/images/forums_folder_new.gif" width="11" height="10">
<cfelse>
<img src="/includes/go/images/forums_folder_old.gif" width="11" height="10">
</cfif>
However, all the images always show up as forums_folder_old.gif even if there
are new messages.
Any suggestions? Thank you.
--
Aaron Powell
Web Developer
Healthwell.com - http://www.healthwell.com
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk
To Unsubscribe visit
http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a
message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
