In multi-page threads/topics, specifically ones with a large number of pages, is there any way I can navigate to a specific page quickly? For example, take the "Oral" topic in Pictures: Little Angels board:
What if I wanted to navigate from the 16th page without having to click each page up to the 16th? Is there a way to do that by clicking, or must I do a little multiplication and put the corresponding page id number into the URL?
And so on. My question is if there's a way to quickly navigate to a specific page using the navigation option on the site, or must I input the URL number by hand?
The number at the end determines the page number. Each consecutive page corresponds to an increase of 15 in the URL.
You did some smart thinking there, just a little correction: Each page displays 15 posts (replies). The number corresponding to the "start" php GET parameter is actually the post (reply inside the topic)'s ID number, that means, the START number is the ID of the reply inside the topic which will load and display in the top of page (starting the viewtopic.php's internal data grab from LAH's database) followed by the next 14 consecutive iterations inside the same loop building the html of the topic page displayed to you.
This means, you could put "20" as start there, and it'd load the 5th post of the 2nd page at the top of the page followed by the next 14 posts (replies). You see, for the database there's no "page" ID, there are just reply IDs and the topic display pages are built of 15 consecutive posts + links linking to multiples of 15 replies as pages.
Eh, I hope I didn't make it too complicated, but anyway, to answer your question more precisely (now that you hopefully have a little more insight), there's no "page" ID so it might be a little hard navigating to an exact page without doing some basic arithmetic, that is, unless someone develops a chrome/firefox addon/plugin or beg Sat to make it easier.
Yeah, thinking a little more, it could even be implemented with the current system... a little white box where you can type the page number and submit with Enter, upon submit it'd check if it's a valid page number and multiply it by 15 sending it to the php as the START php GET parameter.. Not hard to do, really.
Edit: I didn't have much to do last night so here it's.. an working Chrome/Firefox Goto page number LAH addon.
It adds a small textbox to the side of the page Nav feature, so you can type the page number and submit with Enter.
I made 2 versions, the "professional" one will also add topic-page search directly from the topics listing (viewforum.php). Screenshots below.
Install notes:
1. Install an userscript manager extension for your browser -- Chrome: Tampermonkey, Firefox: Greasemonkey.
2. Choose a version of this script: clean or professional. Click in the "Install" button and confirm any prompts. (if you ever want to switch versions, just install the other one - the previously installed version will be automatically overwritten).
3. You're all set. Just open a LAH page or refresh your currently opened tabs and the script will take effect.
Specifications:
*The "Goto page number" feature will appear in nav only when not all the thread's/forum's pages are being displayed (it means, only topics/forums with "..." in the page nav will have a Goto page number box, i.e. topics with 2-3 pages won't show it as all its pages will be listed and clickable in the page nav).
*The Goto page number search box will only accept numeric values (duh). If there's non-numeric values entered in the box through paste/drag and drop and you press Enter, nothing will happen unless it's a valid numeric value. If you enter a page number higher than the last page of a given topic, the php will return a "post not found" message.
*This addon is working perfectly fine now, but it may stop working if there are changes to the site layout/php code. Most likely to be broken when Sat implements the PhPBB Code 3. But this extension is open source, so you may edit it to suit your needs as well as fixing it if it ever stops working.
*You may report any encountered bug and send them to me for review, as well as suggestions, comments etc.
*I've added 2 Easter Eggs to the code as little extras, you shouldn't have no problem spotting them if you have a minimum of javascript knowledge.
edit: updated install instructions to work with Chrome 35+ and moved the userscripts hosting to userscripts.org
For any reviews/comments/bug reporting, post it in the respective userscript page or contact me through PM.
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Yes, I'm happy with just my Rep on Stack Overflow for now.
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I am liking this script! Thank you for posting it, ult_combo!
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Well, we will experiment with points and whatnot at a later point in time
I personally believe that a rep system is a BAD idea. I would hate to see this great site end up down the same road as another lolicon site that I am a current admin of.
Sure, rep can be a means of thanking the user for his contributions... but it gets abused WAY too much.
Users start whining & begging for rep if they feel they don't get enough or none at all, they start neg repping others for no good reason, other than to say they don't like them. It ends up creating a negative atmosphere.
I know this site used to have a rep system for a brief period some years back, and I was glad to see it was disabled. A rep system doesn't fit here imo. A simple 'thanks' or 'Thank you' is better.
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Do not worry, I said points, not reputation. Precisely why a similar system is currently disabled
on this site, and will not be used. There is no point in encouraging anything negative.
Let us just have fun on LAH instead
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I am happy to hear that. Sorry for any misunderstanding.
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Seeing as LAH is a (relatively) mature site IMO, down-rep'ing for no reason shouldn't happen often. I can't really be positive on any sides as I don't know exactly the inner working of LAH's Democracy addon (disabled) neither your site's, but other mature sites' rep systems work very well with a defined set of rules and privileges - e.g. SO requires you to have 125 rep before you can down-rep others.
But I agree, a thanks button with a thanks-count would be just as good here and generate much less headaches. Glad you're enjoying the script.
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ult_combo: It adds a small textbox ... so you can type the page number and submit with Enter. --> textbox looks ok, but I can't enter any character from the keyboard; when I type e.g. 26 [enter], nothing happens while the box remains completely empty; copy 26, paste and [enter] does work however
I made 2 versions ... --> I only installed the clean one.
*You may report any encountered bug and send them to me for review, as well as suggestions, comments etc.
See yellow remarks. My browserid is Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; nl) Presto/2.10.289 Version/12.00. Perhaps you still have a working copy?
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Don't you feel like upgrading to Opera 12? It should have much better performance and HTML5 support. I'd suggest using Firefox or Chrome which these run perfectly but yeah, I'll test it on my Opera 12 later when I get used to using Opera's developer tools (right now, I don't even know where's the JS console in Opera).
jacxxx:
ult_combo: It adds a small textbox ... so you can type the page number and submit with Enter. --> textbox looks ok, but I can't enter any character from the keyboard; when I type e.g. 26 [enter], nothing happens while the box remains completely empty; copy 26, paste and [enter] does work however
I made 2 versions ... --> I only installed the clean one.
*You may report any encountered bug and send them to me for review, as well as suggestions, comments etc.
See yellow remarks. My browserid is Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; nl) Presto/2.10.289 Version/12.00. Perhaps you still have a working copy?
As commented in my last post, the version works perfectly fine with Firefox and Chrome.
The incompatibility was in Opera's onkeypressevent handling, which makes use of event.keyCode instead of event.charCode for printable chars in the keypress event, contrary to how Firefox behaves (Chrome uses both, hence the old code was compatible with FF and Chrome).
I've added an workaround adding the event.keyCode to the handler function, it should work on Opera now as well. Just download the newer versions in the userscript pages, thanks for the report jacxxx.
*sigh* Thankfully LAH's next official addons will be using jQuery which provides event.which, a normalized cross-browser way to handle user input.
And yes, you can technically only have one of them at a time, as they use the same namespace and are automatically overwritten when you install the other version in FF/Chrome. I've posted 2 versions, because, well, I made the code for the professional version which saves a couple seconds in power users' life, for the cost of a cluttered screen with boxes even inside the topic listings.
If you want to save a couple seconds in your life and want to go directly to a given page in a thread without having to open the thread first, go for the professional.
If you just want the Goto page number feature for the forum and thread pages with a much cleaner and more traditional view of the site, go with the clean.
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