Support for different forum structures (categories)

[Ziga Sancin]

I’ve made a modification to the forum_status_class function, because the current version of bbPress Pencil Unread doesn’t support different forum structures (e.g. forum > topic is supported, but category > forum > topic isn’t – there might be also a use case for category > category > forum > topic, but that case might require a recursive function, which I didn’t implement). Can you provide a review and incorporate the following code into the next release?

function forum_status_class($classes,$forum_id){
    $is_read = $this->has_user_read_forum($forum_id);
    if (!bbp_is_forum_category()) {
        if (!$is_read){
            $classes[]=$this->prefix.'-unread';
        }else{
            $classes[]=$this->prefix.'-read';
        }
    }else{
        $class=$this->prefix.'-read';
        $sub_forums = bbp_forum_get_subforums($forum_id);
        if (!empty($sub_forums)) {
            foreach ($sub_forums as $sub_forum) {
                $is_read_sub_forum = $this->has_user_read_forum($sub_forum->ID);
                if (!$is_read_sub_forum) {
                    $class=$this->prefix.'-unread';
                }
            }
        }
        $classes[]=$class;
    }
    return $classes;
}

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[franzvz]

I just noticed this as well. This helps for sure. Thanks Ziga.

Hopefully there’s an update that takes care of “infinite” sub-forums.

[czentnar]

Thanks for the great code. It worked well in a simple forum. However, it does not work with different forum structures, for example:
forum > forum > forum > topic