Here's a small mod I've finally got round to converting to BoardMod format. It works on SP1.2, not sure about earlier versions. Move Board allows you to change the category a board is in, using a dropdown box in the usual Edit Boards page. Quite useful and time-saving when re-arranging your boards and categories.

I've tested it a lot on SP1.2 and am confident there are no major problems, but would appreciate any feedback and thoughts, including any sarky comments about my code.

I can't speak for Ronnies Move Board Mod... but I stumbled accross his site a few months ago and came accross his code regarding moving boards. I used much of it in TripodYaBB version, I had to change a bit of it, but it really was made possible because of Ronnies code. To make a long story short... why this feature is not integrated in the base YaBB is beyond me!

The action of moving boards between categories is very often asked about in the YaBB support forum, and this seems so natural to be an included feature.

BTW I also integrated the Create Boards to use the drop down box to select the destination Category for a new board, rather than a Create Board section for each Category. This helps reduce the Edit Boards page greatly.

Glad to see you releasing this mod Ronnie.

Dummy Proof

I'm getting a REALLY weird bug with this...

I have 10 categorys on my forum...

If I want to move a board on say cat 5. I will only get a listing of the first 4 cats in the drop down...

If I want to move a board in cat 8. I will only get a listing of the first 7 cats in teh drop down...

Ideas on a postcard too...

I've been looking at it too, and I KNOW why it does it, but I'll let you fix it

You know you search for the cat the board is in, well you STOP there, you don't go and continue the list...

Future mods? I think that might be a bad idea. Point taken though.

StewartGilray:
I've taken a look at the code, and tested it further on my test board with seven categories and three boards in each, and I'm not getting the problem you described. The dropdown box always lists all the other categories tha board can be moved to,and it moves them fine.

Are you running SP1.2? That is what I'm testing this mod on - I don't know if it works on earlier versions. Also, do you have any other mods installed which modify the .cat files?

If you can tell me exactly what you think the solution to this problem is I might get a better idea of why/what is happening.

I did find one bug though - the chomp line indicated below needs to be added in.

foreach $curcat2 (@categories)
{
	chomp $curcat2;
	if ($curcat2 ne $curcat)
	{
		#get the full category name
		fopen(CATFILE, "$boardsdir/$curcat2.cat");
		$cat_name = <CATFILE>;
		fclose(CATFILE);
		chomp $cat_name;#added

		$yymain .= qq~<option value="$curcat2">$cat_name</option>\n~;
	}
}
 

That fixed an error I was getting.

Dummy Proof: you're right. I wrote this mod so long ago I'd forgotten what some of it was about. That line was catering for an old mod I had which also edited the .ctb files.

I've now cleaned up that little bit so all it does is rewrite the .ctb file with the new categoy ID, plain and simple.

This fix, along with the added chomp line and moving the text to the .lng file, is included in v1.2 which I'm just about to post to the beta board. Feel free to let me know what's wrong with this version!