[RC2] [HowTo] Category in a Box

[Floris]

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[HowTo] Category in a Box


# version
vBulletin 3.0.0 Release Candidate 2

# author
floris (http://www.vBulletin.nl/)

# you can
use this for your own web site
(if you are a licensed vbulletin user)

# you can not
distribute or translate this
(or use it if you are not a licensed vbulletin user)

# credits
ME ME ME

# description
This template modification will learn you how to
split the categories from eachother (as if they were
each in their own box) and also cleans up the forumhome.

# original release thread
http://www.vbulletin.nl/community/showthread.php?t=1745

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[Icheb]

Works perfectly, thank you :) .

[Xanthine]

Thanks, working good

[The Quibbler]

Works wonderfully! Thank you so much! I've been wanting something like this for ages, but before now, none of them have worked for some reason.

[sypher_again]

Very very good work , thanks u very much

[Brad]

Thanks floris, good work as always. :)

[Reimer]

Sweet, that is one hack I was searching for. Good job!

[Tony G]

Nice mod, floris. :)

[MKN]

Is it possible to combine this mod, with the "category images" and the "center category names" mods?

[macshrine]

if you go on my site, www.macshrine.com, at the top you can see these 2 ugly lines, how can i get rid of them? apart from that its a great mod :)

[gmarik]

nice coding!

[imported_LLFan]

Fantastic, simple, understandable, concise. Now of course for me that is a recipe for disaster. =) I installed and everything looks fine but 1 thing, when guest you see the text area above the forums telling you about the FAQs and to register blah blah. But when logged in I see a small box (which appears to be the 1px border of that table) without the text in it.

Any ideas of where I went wrong?

[poolking]

Thanks xiphoid,

Just installed:

www.rwaforums.co.uk/pa2004 (http://www.rwaforums.co.uk/pa2004)

[psico]

tnx a lot dude!
It works perfect on RC4!!!

[Owen]

<a href="http://vxforums.com/" target="_blank">http://vxforums.com/</a>

Not exactly working for me...

Stuff isnt aligned anymore and there is a weird table at the top...

UPDATE: Got it fixed up, made the last post column wider.

[Dan]

*clicks install even know floris already knows he is using it*

[StarBuG]

How can I get the Forum columns aligned?

StarBuG

[ChrisSy]

would love a fix for the forum alignment :)

[imported_Scope]

I got the same aligning problem

[imported_Synicide]

*does the same thing that dan does*

[Tony G]

would love a fix for the forum alignment :)
There's a small mod within Zachery's Forum spacing mod which will fix alignment.

[Smike]

Great !
With little modification it worck in vb 3.0.1

[gldtn]

I just installed this on vB3.06 and got a small error, which was a 1px dot at the top of the forums list when you were logged in.

To fix this do the following;

Open/Edit: FORUMHOME
Find:
[------------------------------------------------]

<thead>

<if condition="$show['guest']">
<!-- guest welcome message -->
<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">6<else />5</if>"><phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[welcome_to_the_x]</phrase></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="alt1" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">6<else />5</if>">
<phrase 1="faq.php?$session[sessionurl]" 2="register.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[first_visit_message]</phrase>
</td>
</tr>
<!-- / guest welcome message -->
</if>

</thead>

[------------------------------------------------]


Replace with:
[------------------------------------------------]

<if condition="$show['guest']">
<thead>
<!-- guest welcome message -->
<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">6<else />5</if>"><phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[welcome_to_the_x]</phrase></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="alt1" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">6<else />5</if>">
<phrase 1="faq.php?$session[sessionurl]" 2="register.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[first_visit_message]</phrase>
</td>
</tr>
<!-- / guest welcome message -->


</thead>
</if>

[------------------------------------------------]


Notice that the "<if condition="$show['guest']">" code got moved above "<thead>" and "</if>" below "</thead>", thus removing the 1px dot that the code left if you were logged in :D

Thanks for the great hack Floris