ForumHome Category Spacing [3.7]

[DaPro]

This is a small port from what Floris and Zachery have written on Forum Category Spacing. I hope that some of you will find this bit of information useful. Don't forget to click INSTALL (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/vborg_miscactions.php?do=installhack&threadid=166248) :). Thanks.

Credits:
Floris - http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=110590
Zachery - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=88983

Changelog:

v2.0 (December 27 2007)
========================
- Updated to Support vBulletin 3.7.0 Beta 3

View the 3.8 Version: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=204013
(https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=204013) View the 3.6 Version: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=1048565

[SwollenCranium]

Thanks .. looks clean, great instructions as well.

[Triky]

How's displayed a forum without parents category?

[hgb]

thanks :)

[projectego]

Very cool. Looks great. :)

[KURTZ]

yeah it's correct! :)

but THIS (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=123713) is still running great on my 3.7.0 board ...

[kylek]

Thanks, worked great on a customized style using 3.7.0 Beat 4.

[Ohiosweetheart]

aaaacckkk!! I'm not real sure what could be wrong here, but I'm getting this (see attachment) 2 thead strips!

Any help would be appreciated!

EDIT -

This is showing up in my forumhome page source view -
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<thead>
<tr align="center">
<td class="thead">&nbsp;</td>
<td class="thead" width="100%" align="left">Forum</td>
<td class="thead" width="175">Last Post</td>
<td class="thead">Threads</td>
<td class="thead">Posts</td>
</tr>
</thead><table class="tborder" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="5">
<a style="float:right" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumbit_4')"><img id="collapseimg_forumbit_4" src="http://www.exquisitelyerotic.net/forums/images/exquisitelyerotic/buttons/collapse_tcat.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
<a href="forumdisplay.php?f=4">What's On Your Mind</a>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumbit_4" style="">
<tr align="center">
<td class="thead" width="35">&nbsp;</td>
<td class="thead" align="left">Forum</td>
<td class="thead" width="175">Last Post</td>
<td class="thead" width="65">Threads</td>
<td class="thead" width="65">Posts</td>
</tr>clearly showing two instances of thead strips. It looks like the first one wasn't deleted before it was moved to beneath the tcat strip, thus giving me two of them?

what gives?

[Boofo]

Can you show the edits made in the FORUMHOME_FORUMBIT_LEVEL1_POST and FORUMHOME_FORUMBIT_LEVEL2_POST instead of just replacing the whole thing? On a heavily modified board it would be easier with the template edits. :)

[vBVision]

How can I add adsense betwen forum categories, can you show the exact way how to do so? Thanks:)

[KURTZ]

folks, i use THIS HACK (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=123713) on my board with THESE (http://www.nowhine.net/board/showpost.php?p=8&postcount=1) parameters ... and like you can see all runs perfectly ... :)

[jGas]

thanks..that's working great! ;)

[Snatch]

I have a problem.
Look the "last Post" Tabel. This ist not exactly.

[Guest210212002]

Installed and working. Great tip - thanks man.

http://www.sevenstring.org/chris/fcs_inst.jpg

[KURTZ]

there is a limitation of 18 characters for the thread's title ...

[Ohiosweetheart]

Gotta say, this hack is invaluable to me, in my forum designing.
Thank you again DaPro!

[NeuroLancer]

folks, i use THIS HACK (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=123713) on my board with THESE (http://www.nowhine.net/board/showpost.php?p=8&postcount=1) parameters ... and like you can see all runs perfectly ... :)

That is a 90% improvement, thanks!, its actually usable now :) (i say only 90% because my staff forum is different to every other forum for some reason, but my regular users will never know so its still good ;) )

[rizelim]

thanks

[Ad1tya]

Installed!.. Thanks a lot for this!

[Snatch]

I it possible to make the Tabel with the thread preview bigger?
18 Charakters are so les.

GreeTz
Snatch

[JadedSouls]

It works great for me in Firefox but in IE where the forum statusicons are, the tables are stretched out in many of the forums. I attached an example.

Any idea as to what is causing it?

[Sean James]

Works with 3.7.0?

[Deimos]

Works with 3.7

Thanks muchly

[jmellors]

Thanks, but only one minor prob

www.mashupmb.com

my statusicons are abit messed up in IE, after i installed this. Can anyone help?

[hoof]

It works great for me in Firefox but in IE where the forum statusicons are, the tables are stretched out in many of the forums. I attached an example.

Any idea as to what is causing it?

Thanks, but only one minor prob

www.mashupmb.com

my statusicons are abit messed up in IE, after i installed this. Can anyone help?

Has anyone found a fix for the IE statusicon alignment? I am sure it is right under my nose :)

[jellybaby]

I have the same problem with IE as well.

[hoof]

To fix the statusicon issue look in the instructions and find the FORUMHOME_FORUMBIT_LEVEL1_NOPOST edits:

Find:
<td class="thead" width="35">&nbsp;</td>
and replace the "35" with something big enough to hold your forum_new img. My forum_new img is 50px so I set it at "55" now everything is aligned properly!

[r454duke]

Thank you so much for this! It's exaction what I was looking for. You rock!

[r454duke]

there is a limitation of 18 characters for the thread's title ...

Wait, how to I fix this?

[JohnJ]

Been looking for something like this! Found it :) works great! Thanks!

[Leo Brazil]

Installed but I had some issues.

On forumhome page 100% perfect. But at any sub forums pages the sub forums at bottom page are messed completely but on the top are showed OK.

Any clues ?

Edited: May be it's because I'm using Cyb - Sub-Forum Manager (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=122996). Does some here has both combined and working fine ?

[Chris583]

works great on 3.7

[Raptor]

folks, i use THIS HACK (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=123713) on my board with THESE (http://www.nowhine.net/board/showpost.php?p=8&postcount=1) parameters ... and like you can see all runs perfectly ... :)

indeed it does :)

using vb 3.7.1

[ShackMaster]

Is there any reason to upgrade to this if my 3.6 version is working fine with 3.7.2???

Thanks!

[napy8gen]

I have the same problem with leo brazil post no 31 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1533199&postcount=31) It happens without any product or plugin.

the case is like this. when creating many sub forums and put them under category that not visible in forumhome but clickable thru link in forumhome, so this category will open in forumdisplay but still the many forums under it using category spacing from forumhome. This category spacing screw up the footer.

http://www.sultantheme.com/images/tic.gif

[Jasen Hicks]

Thanks!

[Ohiosweetheart]

I use this on my forums (3.7.2) and all custom designs. I love it, and my clients do too.
Thanks DaPro!

[Amazonia8]

Hello mates,

I just installed this in my vBulletin 3.7.2, and its working great, but a little problem i found was in the last of the 4 f?rums i have. It is not "Wrapped" in the style. It is floating at the botton between the "Whats going on" block and the 3rd f?rum.

Check an example here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/ (http://imageshack.us)
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/ (http://g.imageshack.us/g.php?h=110&i=blablablanu9.jpg)

All i can say is: help? :confused::(

[napy8gen]

amazonia8 - you have to put that chit chat and forum teste, subforum teste and a category. create one forum that will act as categoy and put those forum under it

[Leo Brazil]

I just installed this in my vBulletin 3.7.2, and its working great, but a little problem i found was in the last of the 4 f?rums i have. It is not "Wrapped" in the style. It is floating at the botton between the "Whats going on" block and the 3rd f?rum.


I reported this issue here a few pages ago and so far I'm still fighting with this issue trying to find a solution.

amazonia8 - you have to put that chit chat and forum teste, subforum teste and a category. create one forum that will act as categoy and put those forum under it

Amazonia8 is getting this issue at Forumhome and my one is great, I'm facing this only at subforum levels, as a matter of fact not even the first subforum level that's fine, second one and above it's exactly as he reported in his screenshot.

[CAMS]

this working for 3.8?

[obmob]

Still working, just check step 2a, for a vb variable:

<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="tfoot" align="center" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">6<else />5</if>"><div class="smallfont"><strong>
<a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]do=markread" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[mark_forums_read]</a>
<if condition="$vboptions['forumleaders']">&nbsp; &nbsp;
<a href="showgroups.php$session[sessionurl_q]" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[view_forum_leaders]</a></if>
</strong></div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
$template_hook[forumhome_wgo_pos5]
</table>
<br />
<!-- end what's going on box -->

Will test some more and see if there are no issues

[Loget]

Installed working perfectly for me, excellent work!

[jonbaker]

i am having alignment issues. and i tried the code tweak from 35 to 55 and so forth..

this is for the sub forums..

how do i get that first column to be sized properly, also it lists "FORUM" and "LAST POST" how do i kill that???

http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/2538/image1vhk.jpg

or can i add an image there to set the width

[yamahapaul]

Superb! Just what I've been looking for, many thanks :up:

[silurius]

Just added to a vanilla vBulletin site and it works perfectly so far. Thanks!

[RavenXBR]

Installed and running.
Awesome MOD... congratulations.

[farazfaraz]

I have a problem.

[Hell Bomb]

I have a problem.

Please give more information. If you dont give any information how do you expect to get help

[tommyxv]

Just thought I would post this for anyone who updates to 3.8.5....you will get an error when you click on the Mark Forums Read link..... here is the fix:



STEP 2A should now be:

<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="tfoot" align="center" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">6<else />5</if>"><div class="smallfont"><strong>
<a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]do=markread&amp;markreadhash=$bbuserinfo[securitytoken]" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[mark_forums_read]</a>
<if condition="$vboptions['forumleaders']">&nbsp; &nbsp;
<a href="showgroups.php$session[sessionurl_q]" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[view_forum_leaders]</a></if>
</strong></div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<br />
<!-- end what's going on box -->

[Cricistan]

How do i remove the dark blue strip that comes after the last forum in a category?

[BigJohnny]

This is how you fix the last post alignement. However I can't remember which version of this mod I'm running. I think I'm using the 3.7 versions, but my board is 3.8.3, and I have upgraded from 3.8.1 but beyond that I don't remember if I started with 3.8.1 or upgraded from 3.7 as it was a long time ago....as per my postbit I think I upgraded from 3.7.3

in forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost Copy the sizes listed for this table. That should correct the last post tables.


<if condition="$childforumbits">
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumbit_$forumid" style="{$collapseobj_forumid}">
<tr align="center">
<td class="thead" width="35">&nbsp;</td>
<td class="thead" align="$stylevar[left]">$vbphrase[forum]</td>
<td class="thead" width="235">$vbphrase[last_post]</td>
<td class="thead" width="80">$vbphrase[threads]</td>
<td class="thead" width="80">$vbphrase[posts]</td>
<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">
<td class="thead" width="125">$vbphrase[moderator]</td>
</if>
</tr>
$childforumbits

[BigJohnny]

Hello mates,

I just installed this in my vBulletin 3.7.2, and its working great, but a little problem i found was in the last of the 4 f?rums i have. It is not "Wrapped" in the style. It is floating at the botton between the "Whats going on" block and the 3rd f?rum.

Check an example here: http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/1509/blablablanu9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/1509/blablablanu9.3c91671b17.jpg (http://g.imageshack.us/g.php?h=110&i=blablablanu9.jpg)

All i can say is: help? :confused::(

anyone figure out how to fix this?? I'm having the same problem and I want this forum to be a forum with no category, but I can't have it looking like that.