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Display All Threads You've Started

Post by tig »

I've wanted to be able to see all of the thread's I've created and was frustrated that phpBB did not seem to have a direct way of doing it like vBulletin sites. So I dug into phpBB and discovered how to do it.

You can do it manually, by going to Advanced Search:
  1. Go to Advanced Search
  2. In "Search for Author" enter YOUR mye28 username
  3. Select "First post of topics only" under Search Within
  4. Select "Display results as Topics"
  5. Hit Search
Or, you can just compose a URL and save it as bookmark:

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http://www.mye28.com/search.php?terms=all&sf=firstpost&sr=topics&author=cek
Replace "cek" in the above with your username.

Looks like this:
http://www.mye28.com/search.php?terms=a ... author=cek
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Just created this link in my toolbar and it works nicely. Thanks.
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Post by davintosh »

Nice trick; thanks for sharing! :up:

Browsing through some of the older posts is kind of a blast from the past, on multiple levels with posts like this one: What Was Your Worst Wreck?
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Justin_FL wrote:That is so last month:
http://www.mye28.com/viewtopic.php?t=126270
oops. This is so embarrassing.
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Post by Justin_FL »

Not really, I think the instructions could be helpful for someone that wants to look up threads by a specific user and might not know about the advanced search options.

The method I posted in the linked thread is built into phpbb3 but for some reason there is no link anywhere in the UI. It was a mod I had added for v2 and looks like the code was adapted for v3 out of the box and no programmers decided to update the template...It is a quick HTML change but I've just not had much time.
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Post by tig »

demetk wrote:
Justin_FL wrote:That is so last month:
http://www.mye28.com/viewtopic.php?t=126270
oops. This is so embarrassing.
You know what's funny? I actually already put a bookmark in my toolbar for that. But for some reason didn't think it did what I wanted. Oh well.
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Now, why in the hell would I want to go and do that?
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Post by Blue Shadow »

Have you seen the crap BS posts. And then to limit it to the threads he starts...why would I ever want to go back in time to see that?
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Now in UI:
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