Thread List From A Specific Node In Pages?

[Divvens]

I want to create a sort of directory for all threads in a particular node.

Maintaining a directory manually is becoming painful, is there anyway I can pull a list of all threads in X Node and display it in alphabetical order (A-Z) on a page node?

 

[Paul B]

It would require a PHP callback at the very least.

 

[Divvens]

It would require a PHP callback at the very least.

Could I be guided as to the process and what the PHP should include? Have never done something as such before.

But I want to learn since it'll sort out a lot of our manual updation.

 

[Divvens]

I found this resource: How to show a forum in a page

I want to know a couple of things:

1. Can I set the default thread organization to alphabetical and what would be the required code
2. Would it be intensive if many threads are shown on the list (say around 150-200)
3. If yes, is there anyway to paginate them.
4. If no, is there any other way to achieve what I want?

 

[Paul B]

Essentially you need to grab all of the threads from the node using a query, remove any due to permissions and authors being ignored, etc.
Then pass the resulting thread list array to the template and loop through it applying the HTML and CSS to display them.

You set the order in the query, so yes you could order it on title.

200 threads on one page shouldn't be an option but you could paginate it.
That would require additional code and queries.

You would likely need to create a small add-on to achieve that.