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I’m creating a custom forum theme for a client, based on the Developer theme. I’m able to piece together most of what my options are, but it would be helpful if there were a documentation page of all available variables and conditionals, as with the Weblog module. I’ve looked around, but can’t seem to find this - is there any such documentation? (Sorry if I’m being dense, and have just overlooked it somehow.)

Here they are: Wiki Forum Variables
All the best!

Thanks for stepping in, lebisol. David, I suppose that answers your question?

That’s a great help, lebisol, thanks.

Ingmar, that KB article covers the globals, which is very useful. I was also hoping that there might be some documentation of the variables for the specific templates. For instance, I’m working on theme_topics.php right now, and I’m trying to set it up to display the time of the original post and the time of the most recent reply. I know that I have {last_reply} to work with, since it’s there in the template, but I’m not sure if there’s also a variable available for the time of the original post, like {first_reply} or {original_post}... something to that effect.

Is there any documentation for all of those variables, or is digging through the template file the only way to track them down? And should I assume that the variables I find in theme_topics.php in the Default or Developer themes are the only variables available for use in that template?

Thanks for the help.

David,

I was also hoping that there might be some documentation of the variables for the specific templates. For instance, I’m working on theme_topics.php right now, and I’m trying to set it up to display the time of the original post and the time of the most recent reply. I know that I have {last_reply} to work with, since it’s there in the template, but I’m not sure if there’s also a variable available for the time of the original post, like {first_reply} or {original_post}... something to that effect.

I am afraid a list of variables, together with a couple of default templates is all the documentationt that exists in the area at this point.

David,

I am afraid a list of variables, together with a couple of default templates is all the documentationt that exists in the area at this point.

OK, thanks for the reply, Ingmar.

Glad to be of service. I mark that one as “Resolved” for now, feel free to open a new support thread at any time.