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Forum Tags / Topic Prefix

Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2013 8:30 am
by Rescator
Forum tags is something I'd love to see.
Does not matter if it's predefined tags only or not.
That way we could tag stuff with tags like these...

OS Tags: Windows, Linux, Mac

Version Tags: 5.11, 5.20

Beta Tags: 5.20 B16, 5.20 B17

Source Tags: Complete, Include, Snippet

Post Tags: Question, Answer

Special Tags: Bug, Fixed

So a topic/post could have the tags...
Windows, 5.20 B16, Question

and a post following that might have
Windows, 5.20 B16, Answer, Snippet


Now tags on their own are meaningless unless you can see or search for them.
I have no idea how much (or little) work it would be to add a tag module to phpBB3
There should be some topic tag mods available. Or they may be called Topic Prefix mods.
A topic prefix mod depending on the implementation might be backwards/forwards compatible it actually makes use of the topic field in the database. Although there is a topic length limitation on the forum that would need to be increased (should be changeable in the forum admin panel someplace).

This is pure speculation, but I would not be surprised if a future phpBB4 release includes tag/topic prefix support in some way.
For phpBB3 there seems to be this one https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/mod/tmm (it includes two mods and by the looks of it one can install just the topic prefix one).