Alternative Forumhome Lastpost Display

[EWGF]

This tutorial changes the look of the last posted post in the forumhome template. The vertical column for the last posts disappears and a box with the last posted post appears below the forum description. Also see the included screenshot to get a better view of this mod.

History:
Version 1.0: First release.
Version 1.1: Added collapsable boxes.
Version 1.2: Fixed boxes for subforums.
Version 1.3: Fixed scrambled box without forum description, fixed box for no-posts forum, added missing "collapseimg" variable to lastpostby.gif, compatible with vBulletin 3.7.x.
Version 1.31: Small adjustment to the "forumhome_forumbit_level2_post" template.

Support only for people who've marked as installed.

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[bxbigt]

Demo?

[EWGF]

Sorry, I have it only implanted on my testvb at the moment. But the screenshot is animated, so it gives a good impression of how it seems to work.

[Barakat]

works good ........

nice

[Preech]

Never mind, I didn't read the entire first post.

[Meatshield]

Could this be collaped by default?
and if so what edits do i have to make?
Thanks

[glorify]

Does this work well with category view? All the rest in the past haven't worked well at all.

[EWGF]

Could this be collaped by default?
and if so what edits do i have to make?
Thanks
Yes, that is possible. Note that visitors with javascript disabled, can't see the content of the by default collapsed box.

In forumhome_forumbit_level1_post and forumhome_forumbit_level2_post, search for:
<div id="collapseobj_forumhome_lastpostby_$forum[forumid]" class="smallfont" style="padding:6px; margin-top:6px; border: 1px solid #000000; $vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_lastpostby]
Add after:
; display:none


Does this work well with category view? All the rest in the past haven't worked well at all.
It works fine now.

[TCattitude]

For last vBulletin 3.7.0 RC3 this search and remove in forumhome_forumbit_level2_post:
<td class="alt2" nowrap="nowrap">$forum[lastpostinfo]</td>

now is this:
<td class="alt2">$forum[lastpostinfo]</td>

Nice template mod, i like it!

[YLP1]

How do you change the background of the last post info to like alt2 or alt1? Thanks in advance.

[ShadowOne]

anyone to add this to the alternate posts and thread view?

[Hams]

For last vBulletin 3.7.0 RC3 this search and remove in forumhome_forumbit_level2_post:
<td class="alt2" nowrap="nowrap">$forum[lastpostinfo]</td>

now is this:
<td class="alt2">$forum[lastpostinfo]</td>

Nice template mod, i like it!

thanx .. alot

you are best :)

[Raptor]

how to change the style of the dark black border - say to a light gray dotted line ?

and how to change the background color of the last post info ?

Thanks in advance

[EWGF]

how to change the style of the dark black border - say to a light gray dotted line ?

and how to change the background color of the last post info ?

Thanks in advance
Look into the bits

- forumhome_forumbit_level1_post
- forumhome_forumbit_level2_post

<div id="collapseobj_forumhome_lastpostby_$forum[forumid]" class="smallfont" style="padding:6px; margin-top:6px; border: 1px solid #000000; $vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_lastpostby]" align="$stylevar[left]">$forum[lastpostinfo]</div>
Change the border: 1px solid #000000 into border: 1px dotted #555555. For the background; alter the smallfont-class used here, use another class which contains information for a backgroundcolor or just add background-color: pink to the above code.

Though it's more efficient to put it all into one class, instead of calling a class ?nd putting several other attributes after it. Small mistake from me of not doing so, but that's easy to alter. Could work on that, if people rather like that.

How do you change the background of the last post info to like alt2 or alt1? Thanks in advance.
<div id="collapseobj_forumhome_lastpostby_$forum[forumid]" class="smallfont" style="padding:6px; margin-top:6px; border: 1px solid #000000; $vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_lastpostby]" align="$stylevar[left]">$forum[lastpostinfo]</div>
Change the bolded text into class="alt1" or class="alt2".

[sdavis2702]

Looks pretty good I like it. Once someone installs it, please shoot me a link of it. I'd like to see an entire forumhome page using this mod!

[EWGF]

Looks pretty good I like it. Once someone installs it, please shoot me a link of it. I'd like to see an entire forumhome page using this mod!
http://www.digital-forums.com/index.php

[Thomas Dukic]

Hi grate hack ( if i could not muck it up ) But as i just said i think i messed up. I would like to say am completely new to this so bare with me.

All was good untill i could not find the

Search and remove:

----------

<td class="alt2" nowrap="nowrap">$forum[lastpostinfo]</td>

----------

Here is a copy of my forumhome_forumbit_level2_post where i think i went wrong:

<tr align="center">
<td class="alt2"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/$forum[imageprefix]forum_$forum[statusicon].gif" alt="" border="0" id="forum_statusicon_$forum[forumid]" /></td>
<td class="alt1Active" align="$stylevar[left]" id="f$forum[forumid]">
<div>
<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_lastpostby_$forum[forumid]')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_lastpostby_$forum[forumid]" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_lastpostby].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
<a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$forum[forumid]"><strong>$forum[title]</strong></a>
<if condition="$show['browsers']"><span class="smallfont">(<phrase 1="$forum[browsers]">$vbphrase[x_viewing]</phrase>)</span></if>
</div>
<if condition="$show['forumdescription']"><div class="smallfont">$forum[description]</div></if>
<div id="collapseobj_forumhome_lastpostby_$forum[forumid]" class="smallfont" style="padding:6px; margin-top:6px; border: 1px solid #000000; $vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_lastpostby]" align="$stylevar[left]">$forum[lastpostinfo]</div>
<if condition="$show['forumsubscription']"><div class="smallfont"><strong><a href="subscription.php?$session[sessionurl]do=removesubscription&amp;f=$forum[forumid]" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[unsubscribe_from_this_forum]</a></strong></div></if>
<if condition="$show['subforums']"><div class="smallfont" style="margin-top:$stylevar[cellpadding]px"><strong>$vbphrase[subforums]</strong>: $forum[subforums]</div></if>
</td>
<td class="alt2">$forum[lastpostinfo]</td>
<td class="alt1">$forum[threadcount]</td>
<td class="alt2">$forum[replycount]</td>
<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">
<td class="alt1"><div class="smallfont">$forum[moderators]&nbsp;</div></td>
</if>
</tr>
$childforumbits


I rely can not see where i went wrong. So if someone could please show me where i went wrong or what i should put in there to make it correct.

My forum is here (http://www.korruptkillerz.co.uk) if you do have a look the welcome section is correct as it is just displaying the number of threads

http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb4/RESISTANCEPB/KorruptKillerzForum-PoweredbyvBu-2.png

But the rest of the forum is still displaying this :

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/06/5.png

[EWGF]

They removed the "nowrap" in the latest version, forgot to edit the .txt file. So just look for the:
<td class="alt2">$forum[lastpostinfo]</td>

So it should look like this:
<tr align="center">
<td class="alt2"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/$forum[imageprefix]forum_$forum[statusicon].gif" alt="" border="0" id="forum_statusicon_$forum[forumid]" /></td>
<td class="alt1Active" align="$stylevar[left]" id="f$forum[forumid]">
<div>
<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_lastpostby_$forum[forumid]')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_lastpostby_$forum[forumid]" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_lastpostby].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
<a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$forum[forumid]"><strong>$forum[title]</strong></a>
<if condition="$show['browsers']"><span class="smallfont">(<phrase 1="$forum[browsers]">$vbphrase[x_viewing]</phrase>)</span></if>
</div>
<if condition="$show['forumdescription']"><div class="smallfont">$forum[description]</div></if>
<div id="collapseobj_forumhome_lastpostby_$forum[forumid]" class="smallfont" style="padding:6px; margin-top:6px; border: 1px solid #000000; $vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_lastpostby]" align="$stylevar[left]">$forum[lastpostinfo]</div>
<if condition="$show['forumsubscription']"><div class="smallfont"><strong><a href="subscription.php?$session[sessionurl]do=removesubscription&amp;f=$forum[forumid]" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[unsubscribe_from_this_forum]</a></strong></div></if>
<if condition="$show['subforums']"><div class="smallfont" style="margin-top:$stylevar[cellpadding]px"><strong>$vbphrase[subforums]</strong>: $forum[subforums]</div></if>
</td>
<td class="alt1">$forum[threadcount]</td>
<td class="alt2">$forum[replycount]</td>
<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">
<td class="alt1"><div class="smallfont">$forum[moderators]&nbsp;</div></td>
</if>
</tr>
$childforumbits

[Thomas Dukic]

Thanks so much for your help !! All sorted now.

[glorify]

Changed the code a tad, but looks great here (http://www.glorifythepast.com/forums/index.php).