"Go To Page" function

2005-02-23 04:17:08 pm

red chamber dream

I was thinking that this forum ought to have a "Go To Page" function when you're viewing a topic. For the rather large topics, with more than fifteen or so pages, it is a hassle to have to click from page to page, for the pages are shown like this:

1, 2, 3.......13, 14, 15

And there is no way to jump immediately to page eight, for example. You'd have to go to page three, then four, then five, and so on until you reach eight. I know this isn't really a big problem now, as the vast majority of topics never reach more than two pages, but as the boards get larger, I think it would be nice to have a space to type the number of page you want to go to.

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nate

2005-02-23 05:13:02 pm

show me a mod that adds this and i'll install it.

Nida

2005-02-23 05:30:23 pm

From long experience on Gaia, I learned to calculate how many posts per page, multiply the number by the page I wanted (minus one - page 1 starts at 0), and copy that into the URL field in the proper place. For instance, the post count is 25 here, so the syntax to go to page 2 would be:

viewtopic.php?t=1841&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=25

Just replace the 25 on the end with [(desired page - 1) * 25].

Of course, your topic number will vary. :P

Random Zelda Person

2005-02-23 05:34:06 pm

Too much work. Rolling Eyes

arkarian

2005-02-23 05:34:57 pm

red chamber dream

Wow, Nida, that's genius. Thanks, it will definitely help me.

tomatobob

2005-02-23 09:10:14 pm

One shall stand, one shall ball.

Nida, you have too much time on your hands... way too much.

Random Zelda Person

2005-02-23 09:15:15 pm

I thought everyone knew about that think Nida uses... I would use it if I did not have an inexplicable fear of ever typing anything into the address bar unless absolutely necessary. :P

tomatobob

2005-02-23 09:22:47 pm

One shall stand, one shall ball.

I could do it, I had an idea of how those numbers affected the topic and page number, I'm just lazy and prefer to click, less typing is good.

DominicanZero

2005-02-24 12:26:38 am

直死の魔眼使い

viewtopic.php?t=1841&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=25

Breakdown:
viewtopic.php? - the actual file.
t=1841 - the number of the topic in the database.
postdays=0 - the number of days the post has been running.
postorder=asc - displacement of posts (ascending or descending).
start=25 - "start at post number 25".

Basically, the postdays and postorder parameters can be completely ignored. As for the other two, the t=[number] says the thread you're browsing, and the start=[number] says the page you're browsing. To calculate this page, just substract one from the page number that you want to see, and multiply that by 25. In other words, for example, checking a thread with start=75 would start on page 4 (4-1=3*25=75).

That's all there is to it.