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Flametrooper · Post by **Flametrooper** » November 11th, 2006, 9:01 pm

If something you really really need to find is on, say, Page 34 of a 55-page thread, you have to either start from the beginning and keep clicking "next" or start from the end and keep clicking "previous" to get to it. The little "Go To Page" thing, either below the thread's name in the forum, or at the top of the page when browsing, shows the first few and last few pages, that's all. What I'm proposing is a little dialog at the top that looks like:
_______________________
| Go To Page:[___] [GO] |
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That way, the user types in a page number and clicks "go", and it goes to that page. Simple enough. I know it's been done on other forums.

Any thoughts?

Tomsik · Post by **Tomsik** » November 11th, 2006, 9:19 pm

Yeah, that would be useful.

Post by **Zhukov** » November 11th, 2006, 10:06 pm

Yes please.

Post by **Jetrel** » November 11th, 2006, 10:44 pm

Yes, please.

Post by **Maeglin Dubh** » November 11th, 2006, 11:45 pm

But.... can we really do anything about that?

Post by **SkeletonCrew** » November 12th, 2006, 12:10 am

I doub it's possible

if possible it would be great.
But there's a method I often use, take this thread
http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic. ... sc&start=0
and I want to go to page 5 then I change the url in (the start part)
http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic. ... c&start=60

The forum shows 15 post per page so the the start is (page-1)*15 = 60

Post by **Jetrel** » November 12th, 2006, 1:54 am

PHPBB has a site; on this site are two things of relevance:
1] Lots of mods/plugins, one of which might do what you're asking for.
2] The, possibly-still-in-development phpBB 3.0, contrasted with our 2.x

One of those might give us that feature.

Flametrooper · Post by **Flametrooper** » November 12th, 2006, 3:07 am

Wonder what Sparr thinks. I don't know crap about phpBB, but I could learn it, I suppose...but then he contributed the [map] tag, didn't he? He might be able to figure something out.

Post by **turin** » November 14th, 2006, 2:35 am

You can always edit the URL where it says &start= to equal desired_page_number*15. So, if you want to go to page 15 of a 100 page thread, change it to &start=225.

But I see what you mean, and I agree, it would be a useful mod.

Post by **SkeletonCrew** » November 14th, 2006, 7:33 am

turin wrote:You can always edit the URL where it says &start= to equal desired_page_number*15. So, if you want to go to page 15 of a 100 page thread, change it to &start=225.

But I see what you mean, and I agree, it would be a useful mod.

Turin, like I said before, it's (desired_page_number-1)*15
start=210 takes you to page 15
start=225 takes you to page 16

sparr · Post by **sparr** » November 14th, 2006, 11:37 pm

I don't have a phpbb install to make a mod with currently. I'll keep that in mind for a future quickie.

For now, you can use this bookmarklet:

javascript:N="start="+((C=window.prompt("Jump to which page?", "1")-1)*15); if(C>-1) { R = /start=\d*/; if (R.exec(location.search)) location.search = location.search.replace(R, N); else location.search += "&" + N;} void 0;