forum

You use the forum tqTag to enable a forum. In general, you implement the forum tqTag together with the forumBunch tqTag and the forumCreateBunch tqTag.

forum - Syntax

forum - Parameters

Parameter Name	Type	Mandatory	Strict \| Transitional	Case Sensitive	Description
type	Text	+	S	+	must be forum
name	Text	+	S	+	should be unique tqtag name in the template. no spaces/commas/single quote/double quotes allowed
title	Alpha Numeric	+	S	-	The title of the tqtag. This title will be presented only at the back-end system. no spaces/commas/single quote/double quotes allowed
alternativeTag	Text	+	S	+	Specify a case declared within the alternative tqTag.
alternativeCondition	Text	+	S	+	(optional, if the condition is specified within the alternative tqTag) Indicate a condition for the case that you are specifying. Use one of the values described for this field under alternative, for example, isLoggedIn or isNotLoggedIn.
maxItems	Number	-	S		The max number of forums to display in a page
pageMainForum

forum - Local Variables

Name	Type	Size	Description
addDate	datetime		The datetime the forum was created or last modified. can be formated using 2009-01-09 11:17:59df:[format]!
description	text	65535	Forum Description
forumPageLink	text	~100	Url to forum page
id	number	5	Database forum #
keywords	text	65535	Keywords provided to the forum in the ezadmin3 backend
mainPic	text	1024	Forum main picture
metaDescription	text	65535	Forum's meta description as provided in the ezadmin3 backend
metaTitle	text	200	Forum's meta ttle as provided in the ezadmin3 backend
newBunchLink	text	~100	Url to create a new bunch for this forum
newResponseLink
numBunches	number	5	Number of bunches in the forum
numPosts	number	12	Total number of posts from all forum bunches
sectionID	number	5	Forum's section id
showOrder	number	5	Represent the order number of the forum in the section, this number is not a running number.
title	text	180	Forum's name / title

forum - Examples

Example 1 - basic forum details example

<tqtag name="forum0" type="forum" maxItems="10" title="forum place holder" >
    <div>@title@</div>
    @description@<br />
    Create new bunch<a href="@newBunchLink@" class="addBunchLink">@newBunchCation@</a>
    </div>
</tqtag>

Example 2 - complete forum page with it's bunch

<tqtag name="forum0" type="forum" maxItems="10" title="forum place holder" >
    <div class="rightContent">
    <h2>@mainPic@ <a href="@forumPageLink@" class="linkToForumPage">@title@</a></h2>
    @description@<br />
    <a href="@newBunchLink@" class="addBunchLink">@Create new bunch@</a>
    <table align="center" id="forumTable">
        <tr>
            <th>תגובה אחרונה</th><th>צפיות</th><th>תגובות</th><th>נושא</th>
        </tr>
        <tqtag name="bunch0" type="forumBunch" maxItems="5" title="bunchesInForum" >
        <tr>
            <td>@lastResponseDate@<br />@lastResponseAuthor@</td>
            <td>@numResponses@</td>
            <td align="center">@numViews@</td>
            <td><a href="@link@" class="addBunchLink">@bunchSubject@</a></td>
        </tr>
        </tqtag>
    </table>
    </div>
</tqtag>

forum - tqOptions

Within the forum tqtag you can use the following tqoptions: head, forumNextPage, forumPrevPage, if, lastItemInRow, tail.
Related tqoptions used in other tqtags: isNewBunch.

forum - Templates

The templates below implement this tqTag. After you click a link, use your browser commands to view the page source.

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