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Tommy Boy
03-14-2002, 10:00 PM
After installing this hack, you will be able to post a unique introduction for each forum. Sub-forums will show their parent's introduction, unless they have one of their own. This feature is available in ezBoard, so us ezBoard refugees are already familiar with it. ;)

This hack does not add any additional SQL queries to your forum! it was inspired by PPN's hack (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?threadid=36093), which was based on FireFly's code.

Screenshot (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?postid=229698) (thanks to ptbyjason).
ZiRu$
03-15-2002, 02:16 AM
i need a demo
mewgood
03-15-2002, 02:29 AM
ya.
demo or screenshots plz
Vivi Ornitier
03-15-2002, 04:33 AM
indeed, screenshot
Robert9
03-15-2002, 06:23 AM
yeah, a sreenshot would be nice!
Lionel
03-15-2002, 07:35 AM
just put the introduction in the unique header of PPN's hack?
Floris
03-15-2002, 11:21 AM
demo/screenshot?
and your www doesn't work
Tommy Boy
03-15-2002, 01:25 PM
ATTENTION: If you have downloaded the first version of this hack (1.0), please download it again, and apply all the admin/functions.php changes again. The optimization was not complete in the first version.
Originally posted by Lionel
just put the introduction in the unique header of PPN's hack? While this is possible, it will be a bit problematic in cases you want to change something in the header, and want it to reflect all the pages. Instead of just changing the "header" template, you will have to change a number of templates, equal to the number of introductions you have. This hack solves this.

Regarding the screenshot, I prefer not to do it myself. If anyone can install it and provide a screenshot, I'll link to it from the first post. Thanks!
ptbyjason
03-15-2002, 01:59 PM
Screenshot since the update.

Thanks Tommy Boy :)
Vivi Ornitier
03-15-2002, 04:04 PM
nice hack! works perfectly.
kushtiUK
03-15-2002, 05:07 PM
thank, very handy for my forum.
Psychdrone
03-17-2002, 07:58 PM
Hey man I love the hack, but no matter what I do, I have reinstalled this hack about 4 or 5 times, and Just nothing shows up

Help me:(
cessna140
05-17-2002, 04:49 AM
Awesome hack! Just what I was looking for. By the way, I have 2.2.5 and it works as advertised.

How can I change the title "Forum Introduction" to be the actual name of the forum? I tried $forumid but it just returned the number. I also tried $title, $forumtitle without success.

Anyone?

Here is a screenshot:
squawell
05-17-2002, 05:09 AM
/me like this hack and thankz Tommy Boy......
Wolf42
05-17-2002, 07:41 AM
Yupp, very nice hack! :D *clickinginstallbutton*
Smoothie
05-17-2002, 09:22 AM
When you create a new template with the "forumdisplay_introduction_xx", where xx is the ID of the forum, what code is needed inside the new template?
Boofo
05-17-2002, 10:43 AM
cessna140,

Have you tried $forum[title]? :) I'm not sure this will work. Let me know if it does.
Boofo
05-17-2002, 10:57 AM
That is supposed to be $foruminfo[title], sorry about that. :)
cessna140
05-18-2002, 09:29 PM
Originally posted by Boofo
That is supposed to be $foruminfo[title], sorry about that. :)

Hey Boofo,

That worked! Thanks!
Boofo
05-18-2002, 09:41 PM
Thank Firefly, that's his code and how he does it here. :)

But, You're very welcome, anyway. :)
Smoothie
05-20-2002, 04:30 AM
Originally posted by Boofo
That is supposed to be $foruminfo[title], sorry about that. :) Can you tell me where that code is added?
Boofo
05-20-2002, 04:48 AM
Go to your showthread template and add it right above:

</table>
<!-- /breadcrumb, nav links -->
Smoothie
05-20-2002, 05:04 AM
That didn't work for me. :(
Boofo
05-20-2002, 05:14 AM
What do you mean it didn't work for you? Check the following URL out. This is exactly where I have it.

Testing (http://www.bearfacts2.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=22)

Don't pay attention to the disarray on the site. I am still working on it. :)
Smoothie
05-20-2002, 05:18 AM
I checked it out, but aren't you using the Thread Intro hack?
Boofo
05-20-2002, 05:32 AM
Yes. I am, but I remodified it for my board. It is here if you want it:

Install.txt (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=252382#post252382)

Let em know if I can help you with any of it. :)
Smoothie
05-20-2002, 05:38 AM
Hey thanks! i did look at that hack, but the Forum intro hack was the one I really was interested in. I did install this hack, and it works perfectly, except for this one small detail.

Do you have the forum intro hack installed, or just the thread intro hack?
Boofo
05-20-2002, 06:05 AM
I have just the thread intro hack installed. I am working on a forum intro hack to match the way it is on my board for the thread intro hack. If you are interested in something like that, let me know and I will let you know when I have it done and working. The only real problem I am having right now is with the tables. It is different for the forum display Intro than the thread one. :)
Smoothie
05-20-2002, 06:25 AM
The forum intro hack is easier for us to manage. I'm not really looking to add intro's to threads. Too much work. And yes, that would be cool if you could let me know when you have something. I've added a few forum intro's on my forums, check 'em out. No real content in them yet, just a few lines of text.
Boofo
05-20-2002, 06:36 AM
The thread intros are really easy with the hack I use. If you erase them, they automatically go back to the thread title. So you will always have something there, you just decide what it is. With the new version of the hack, you can now do a mass rename of all of your threads. Like if you wanted to make a board wide announcement for some reason (i.e. Holiday, news or whatever). :)

I will let you know when I have something for the forum intro. It will be like what I have for the thread intro though. I don't want an extra box at the top pf my screen, so that is why I did it this way.
Smoothie
05-20-2002, 08:58 PM
HAs anyone figured out how to get the title of the "Forum Introduction" to read the same as the forum it's posted in?
cessna140
05-20-2002, 09:14 PM
Yes, Boofoo gave me the correct code. This is where I put it and it works great!

In the forumdisplay_introduction template look for:

<td bgcolor="{tableheadbgcolor }". In that block of code, replace <b>Forum Introduction</b> with: <b>$foruminfo[title]</b>

That's all I did, works like it's supposed to. My code block looks like this now. Make sure you remove the spaces before the }.

<td bgcolor="{tableheadbgcolor }" align="center"><largefont><font color="{tableheadtextcolor }"><b>$foruminfo[title] </b></font></largefont></td>
</tr>
<tr>
Smoothie
05-20-2002, 09:32 PM
Hmm, I tried that and it didn't work. Let me try it again.
Smoothie
05-20-2002, 09:35 PM
Excellent! just added that bit of code, and it does indeed display the name correctly.
/me says thank you very much!
Boofo
05-20-2002, 09:49 PM
cessna140,

That's Boofo, not Boofoo (only the wife gets to call me that and only when she's mad). :)
cessna140
05-20-2002, 10:39 PM
Originally posted by Boofo
cessna140,

That's Boofo, not Boofoo (only the wife gets to call me that and only when she's mad). :)

oops! So sorry Boofo! :dead:
Wayne2k1.com
05-21-2002, 11:56 AM
Great dude :D

*install*
Boofo
05-21-2002, 03:24 PM
Just giving you a hard time. :) np

Originally posted by cessna140


oops! So sorry Boofo! :dead:
ZiRu$
05-25-2002, 05:00 AM
nice.....I'll install it
cdcopyworld
05-26-2002, 06:08 AM
has anyone got this to work on VB v2.2.5? i keep getting errors.

cheers
N9ne
05-26-2002, 11:50 AM
EXCELLENT HACK! Just what I wanted/needed! thanks!
Chris M
05-26-2002, 01:32 PM
It does work on vB 2.2.5.

Boofo proved it does...

BTW : Great Hack!

*clicks on Install*

Satan
Chris M
05-26-2002, 03:48 PM
One thing Ive found :

When you are trying to add a Default Message, you cannot use -1...

What should you use?

Satan
FWT
05-26-2002, 03:56 PM
Nice hack!

I am using it here:

http://webmaster-talk.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=10
Smoothie
05-26-2002, 04:07 PM
Originally posted by hellsatan
One thing Ive found :

When you are trying to add a Default Message, you cannot use -1...

What should you use?

Satan Works for me.
Chris M
05-28-2002, 06:13 PM
I know...

It does now...

I missed out a part of the template name, and only realised the next day...

Lol...

Satan
cessna140
06-04-2002, 03:29 PM
Anyone got this working on 2.2.6?
Sadie Frost
07-29-2002, 07:19 PM
I'm having a small problem. I can't seem to change the size of the text. I've changed the forumdislay and forumdisplay_introduction templates with no luck - it still stays the same size.

Any ideas?

:)
Sadie Frost
08-04-2002, 12:52 AM
Another bizarre thing that I noticed, is that I deleted the forum_introduction template, and it still looks exactly the same. So where is it getting the code from? I feel like I'm in the twilight zone lol

Edit: Okay, very weird. It was using the template on another template set...but not the one I was using for that particular style. So I moved the template from the other template set to the one I was using and now it works. Weird.
Dark Shogun
09-16-2002, 06:29 PM
Hack is not working on VBulletin 2.2.7 :(. Can someone help me?

Dark Shogun
mewgood
09-20-2002, 07:02 AM
not working..
Smoothie
10-17-2002, 06:20 AM
I've got it working fine with 2.2.7
cessna140
12-04-2002, 12:27 AM
I've reinstalled this hack on 2.2.8 and the introductions show up on each forum even though I don't have a template created for them. Is something different with 2.2.8? Anyone else experiencing this?

How can I limit the intro's only to forums I create templates for? Maybe I am missing something? Help please!

Thanks!

Logician figured out that if you have "show template names" turned on in the Admin CP, this will cause the blank introductions to show up without templates being created for them.

Thanks for finding the answer Logician!