Sub Cats on Forum Home

[Logikos]

As seen here at Zelaron (http://www.zelaron.com/forums/) i would like to add this hack to my site.

If you noticed under there Off-Topic Area there Sub cats show on the Home page. I like the way this looks and cant seem to find it. Anyone know if this was ever released or not? I know that WetWired is a php GOD so it might not be :laugh:

Thanks
-Nem

[filburt1]

What specifically are you referring to on that page?

edit: your sig image is broken.

[Logikos]

OKay, when you click on a forum, it will normally take you to the next page with the sub-forums. I would like the sub-forums to be displayed on the home page. :D

[Logikos]

Anyone. WetWired can you help me out? I really like the way that looks.

[Logikos]

Man you guys really do suck. :P jk
My guess he MAYBE converts to templates into one. Not Sure.

[WetWired]

It really is simple. No php involved.
In your admin CP, goto vBulletin Options.
Click Forums Home Page Options.
For "Depth of Forums" set 3.
Go to the botton and hit update settings.

Okay, so now vB will attempt to display 3 levels of forums on forum home (Catagory, forum, and subforum). Only thing is that it doesn't know what to display for the 3rd level, so it displays nothing. You need to add the templates forumhome_forumbit_level3_post and forumhome_forumbit_level3_nopost to each of the template sets that you want the sub forums displayed on. My personal recomendation is to copy forumdisplay_forumbit_level1_nopost to forumhome_forumbit_level2_nopost, forumdisplay_forumbit_level1_post to forumhome_forumbit_level2_post, forumdisplay_forumbit_level2_nopost to forumhome_forumbit_level3_nopost, and forumdisplay_forumbit_level2_post to forumhome_forumbit_level3_post for a good start.

[Logikos]

wow, sweet man thanks. :D

[Boofo]

Or you could use the query-less hack Xenon created for this. ;)

[WetWired]

Why would you want to use a hack to do something that vB already supports? http://www.zelaron.com/forums/images/smilies/eek13.gif

[Boofo]

Because it's easier and a lot faster to do. And no extra templates. ;)

[Logikos]

Im going to stick with WW's way

I dont know about faster and easier, all you do is add 2 extra templates and copy and past level2 no pst and post in there. How hard can that be?

Thanks WW worked perfectly

[Boofo]

But I think you have extra queries that way and you don't with the way Xenon did it. ;)

[Logikos]

either way i belive your adding a query

[Boofo]

Not with Xenon's. His is a queryless version. That is why I installed it. Whatever works for you and you are happy with is fine. I just wanted to let you know there was another option to look at. ;)

[Logikos]

Thank you but i dont think his hack is what i want. I do appreciate both you and WetWires help.