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[boomzilla]

So I started playing around with this tonight. I found this:

filter:post.getPosts

...and I thought, "Sweet! That looks like exactly what I want." And indeed it would work well, until I realized that it only gets the page chunk that would normally be displayed. So...it's not really that useful.

The process of displaying the posts in a topic goes something like this:

1. Get the post ids (pids).
2. Cut that list down to the window of posts to actually be sent.
3. Get the post data.
4. Filter out as required (mostly deleted posts)
5. Call the filter hook above.

Some of that order might be a bit wrong, but the important bit is that the data (which you'd need in order to know which user posted what) happens after slicing the big list.

So I don't see a way this could be done with a plugin and doing it in the core is going to require significant redesign. It would probably require storing separately a user's posts for each topic (i.e., a record with the user and topic in the key and the post ids as the value) in order to not be the worst of the worst performance wise.

[Tsaukpaetra]

@boomzilla said in Filter topic by user:

significant redesign

While you're doing that, can you introduce attributes that show which post IDs were made in reply to the post?

[error]

Can it also cure cancer, solve worldwide hunger, and prevent Hitler from rising to power?

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[ben_lubar]

@boomzilla said in Filter topic by user:

in order to not be the worst of the worst performance wise

Wait, are you saying users will make topics with more than 10 posts?

[asdf]

*cough* relational database *cough*

[Arantor]

@asdf said in Filter topic by user:

*cough* relational database *cough*

damn you, you beat me to it.

[coderpatsy]

@Arantor said in Filter topic by user:

@asdf said in Filter topic by user:

*cough* relational database *cough*

damn you, you beat me to it.

We were all thinking it at least.

[Tsaukpaetra]

@coderpatsy said in Filter topic by user:

@Arantor said in Filter topic by user:

@asdf said in Filter topic by user:

*cough* relational database *cough*

damn you, you beat me to it.

We were all thinking it at least.

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