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Zachery

03-30-2004, 10:00 PM

Enjoy!

I dont have any screens for this mod atm, so im sorry

However i did use this style on

www.squareultima.com/forums (http://www.squareultima.com/forums)

:)

If there are any problems let me know

repaste the top part into your forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost to take advantage of collasping.

:)

idwf

03-31-2004, 04:53 PM

your a good old boy! :P ty

EDIT : Maybe you could show us how you added the 'Max/Min' catagory buttons?

Zachery

03-31-2004, 06:23 PM

Ah i forgot to add that back in didnt i? :/

lol ill revamp the tut in a fe w:)

idwf

03-31-2004, 06:29 PM

you might have done....its just i looked brielfy through the code, and missed any bits to add my 'minamize' ;'maxamize' buttons.

++, dont wanna sound too much like a pain, but i notice here that they have managed to apply this to the navbar at the top...do you know how to achieve this? +++, (blatant cheek i know), the 'What's Going On?' and the 'Welcome to the X forums, please sign up' notices arn't included....are they easily achieved?

Thanks again! :)

Tony G

04-01-2004, 10:14 AM

Great, thanks for releasing this! :)

Zachery

04-01-2004, 01:48 PM

updated the name to properly reflect the modifcations :)

Mr. HillBilly

04-06-2004, 03:15 AM

.............

idwf

04-06-2004, 11:09 AM

This hack doesn't even work. Just shows part of an image and 404 error boxes. How lame.

hahaaaa....did you try putting your image locations in there? N00b. it worked 100% first time easy peasy for me. The image boxes just means you didn't put any url, or the url it wrong. idoit. Please dont flame a thread with such negitivity if you are the one at fault!

Zachery

04-06-2004, 03:50 PM

Now Now magik theres no reason to flame him

HostC you need to provide your own images for this, this is just a small tutorial on how to make it work for you :)

idwf

04-06-2004, 08:14 PM

Now Now magik theres no reason to flame him

HostC you need to provide your own images for this, this is just a small tutorial on how to make it work for you :)
spoese your right. sorry for being a bit harsh... :P *hugs*...

aww..i love it when we make up!!!!

Neises

04-06-2004, 09:56 PM

This will be useful, thank you.

The "Style Ported by" link in footer isn't yours I hope. Some brats didn't like being banned looks like.

imported_Sean

04-19-2004, 04:45 AM

one question, I tried installing this modification, but for some reason the spacing does not work, the category images work fine but there is no category spacing. :confused:

Zachery

04-19-2004, 06:14 AM

Then you must have not done a step...

Mike_H

04-19-2004, 12:03 PM

Well the category spacing is also working not here, vbb 301

imported_dirty

04-20-2004, 02:29 AM

I think you must change ( width="$stylevar[outertablewidth]" ) to ( width="100%" )

Mike_H

04-20-2004, 09:13 AM

And in this hack, the allignment is a real f*ck up

Zachery

04-20-2004, 02:51 PM

It all depends Mikey_nl ;)

I will release an alignment mod to fix anyone who is having their problems. altho i really dont like sharing everything i figure out ;)

OGT

04-20-2004, 05:54 PM

altho i really dont like sharing everything i figure out
I don't want to sound like a dick, but thats a kinda crappy attitude. That's the main purpose of these sites, and the community as a whole. Way too many people are trying to make a buck off of halfassed vbulletin services they claim to offer, and the little real help in the communities really seems to be dwindling away.

I think that when you become a staple in these communities, its kinda part of the job description to help when you can, particularly with things that you release. If that is something that you'd rather keep to yourself, then its probably best to do just that, and keep it to yourself, rather than gloat or release half finished products that you have the fixes for but "would rather keep them a secret"(ps, this isn't directed at zachery, but the community and trends lately in general, his post just magnified the situation).

The more people try to split off and do their own thing, the further the point of open source moves away from its goal: to have great working things that many people have input on to make the best product possible. As people start to segregate themselves and their work, fewer and fewer people will be there to form that checks and balances type of QA system that open source coding revolves around.

I for one appreciate all of the effort you and the rest of the coders put into these sites and vbulletin, but I'm not sure how else to portray thatother htan clicking install and offering a candid opinion or aid whenever I can. I am sure lots of others feel the same way as well, so the work isn't going unnoticed.

Zachery

04-20-2004, 07:27 PM

Well as of right now most of the work here is mine and i seem to be the only one realesaing anything as of late. Its not that i dont mind its just i dont like sharing all my trade secretes :)

Im not charing for my services, and im not paid to work here, i do this site purely volentary, yes i do have a business site up, but do you see me advertising it here?

I dont release half finished products, this does EXACTLY what it says it will do, and thats give you the ability to add images at the corners of your forum home and space the categorys.

OGT

04-20-2004, 08:21 PM

Aye Zach, the main jist of my post wasn't aimed at you, though it was in reply to your post. with VB3 Gold, it seems like the majority of the mods to the sites are going to be done through Templates, and it is a real bummer seeing this site being contributed to by just a couple of people, yourself and floris being the main 2 IMO, and a few others who seem to be making a valiant effort at also keeping up the community.

VBulletinTemplates.com should be BOOMING, but it is barely touched. Even with as much traffic that is directed here from vb.org, it's just not picking up IMO.

I think a couple of steps in the right direction are as follows: (and I'm sure as a mod you have little control over these things, but maybe someone will see.)

1. Broken image links on main page just add to the ghosttown effect of the site. It's a small fix that would at least give the impression that there is some sort of administrating body overseeing things.

2. Forum guidelines need to be in a more centralized location, and more attention needs to be paid to these guidelines. I think one of the guidelines or possibly even rules? over at vb.org is to always include a ss and txt. for this site, that is exponentially more important. Someone needs to fix the image uploading so that everyone can post images of their mods. It seems like a lot of VB site owners have ADD or something, and not a week after they get their site setup, mods posted, and whatnot, they have a link to some image on their site instead of posting a jpg, which is kinda just a roundabout way of getting people to visit, which isn't all bad I guess, but they really should be including jpg's uploaded to vBT.

The install button, it's purpose, and perhaps it's recognition should all be made more clear. Currently, I know that on vb.org, when I click install, it gives me updates to the mod that the author posts, and it lets me see a list, but what else does it do? why do the mod authors have to make a point about clicking install? I didn't know about the button here until after several mods were installed, and I am still not sure what exactly it does. I think we as members should be very aware of what installing does, so that the coders dont have to beg us to click the button.

Anyhow, those are justa few things that would help out vBT and the vB community IMO. I think you're doing a great job here, and I really did not intend for my initial post to be focussed on you, but the happenings as a whole. Keep up the good work, and I can't wait til I get familiar enough with vB to offer my own mods and ideas, rather than just helping people out with what others are installing.

Cyberhouse

04-22-2004, 05:24 AM

one question, I tried installing this modification, but for some reason the spacing does not work, the category images work fine but there is no category spacing. :confused:
there's a typo error in the txt file.

in template: forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost

<div style="padding: 5px 5px 5px p5x;"></ div>

Change it to

<div style="padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;"></ div>

note the bold text ;)

Zachery

04-22-2004, 06:30 AM

YEs i know i think someone eslse said it i will update the txt tomorow.

idwf

04-22-2004, 04:34 PM

after installing this, my coloums are all outta line. Can you show me how to align them again please? thank you.

OGT

04-27-2004, 11:50 AM

edit: already noted.

KTBleeding

05-02-2004, 05:19 PM

It all depends Mikey_nl ;)

I will release an alignment mod to fix anyone who is having their problems.;)
Did you release this yet?
Really the only alignment problem I'm having is the "Last post info".
Take a look.

quanvo81

05-04-2004, 04:30 AM

I can't find these code in my ForumHome Template:
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<thead>
<if condition="$show['guest']">

<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>

</if>
<tr align="center">
<td class="thead"> </td>
<td class="thead" width="100%" align="$stylevar[left]">$vbphrase[forum]</td>
<td class="thead" width="175">$vbphrase[last_post]</td>
<td class="thead">$vbphrase[threads]</td>
<td class="thead">$vbphrase[posts]</td>
<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">
<td class="thead">$vbphrase[moderator]</td>
</if>
</tr>
</thead>

I am currently using 3.0.1, is there any way to make category spacing work with 3.0.1?
This is a whole codes from FORUMHOME template I have:

$stylevar[htmldoctype]
<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">
<head>

<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" />
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="-1" />
<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache" />

<title><phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[x_powered_by_vbulletin]</phrase></title>
$headinclude
</head>
<body>
$header
$navbar


<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<thead>
<if condition="$show['guest']">

<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="6"><phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[welcome_to_the_x]</phrase></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="alt1" colspan="6">
<phrase 1="faq.php?$session[sessionurl]" 2="register.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[first_visit_message]</phrase>
</td>
</tr>

</if>
</thead>
</table><br />
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
$forumbits
</table>


<br />
<br />


<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
<td>
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td><img src="kt8cnet/corner_left.gif" alt="" border="0"></td>
<td class="tcat" width="100%" style="text-align: center;">$vbphrase[whats_going_on]</td>
<td><img src="kt8cnet/corner_right.gif" alt="" border="0"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">

<if condition="$show['loggedinusers']">

<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="thead" colspan="2">
<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_activeusers')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_activeusers" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_activeusers].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
<a href="online.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[currently_active_users]</a>: $totalonline (<phrase 1="$numberregistered" 2="$numberguest">$vbphrase[x_members_and_y_guests]</phrase>)
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_activeusers" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_activeusers]">
<tr>
<td class="alt2"><a href="online.php?$session[sessionurl]"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_link.gif" alt="$vbphrase[view_whos_online]" border="0" /></a></td>
<td class="alt1" width="100%">
<div class="smallfont">
<div style="white-space: nowrap"><phrase 1="$recordusers" 2="$recorddate" 3="$recordtime">$vbphrase[most_users_ever_online_was_x_y_at_z]</phrase></div>
<div>$activeusers</div>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>

</if>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="thead" colspan="2">
<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_stats')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_stats" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_stats].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
<phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[x_statistics]</phrase>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_stats" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_stats]">
<tr>
<td class="alt2"> </td>
<td class="alt1" width="100%">
<div class="smallfont">
<div>$vbphrase[threads]: $totalthreads, $vbphrase[posts]: $totalposts, $vbphrase[members]: $numbermembers</div>
<div><phrase 1="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$newuserid" 2="$newusername">$vbphrase[welcome_to_our_newest_member_x]</phrase></div>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<if condition="$show['birthdays']">

<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="thead" colspan="2">
<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_birthdays')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_birthdays" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_birthdays].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
$vbphrase[todays_birthdays]
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_birthdays" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_birthdays]">
<tr>
<td class="alt2"><a href="calendar.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getday&day=$today&sb=1"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_link.gif" alt="$vbphrase[view_birthdays]" border="0" /></a></td>
<td class="alt1"><div class="smallfont">$birthdays</div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>

</if>
<if condition="$show['upcomingevents']">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="thead" colspan="2">
<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_events')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_events" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_events].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
<if condition="$show['todaysevents']">$vbphrase[todays_events]<else /><phrase 1="$vboptions[showevents]">$vbphrase[upcoming_events_for_the_next_x_days]</phrase></if>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_events" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_events]">
<tr>
<td class="alt2"><a href="calendar.php?$session[sessionurl]"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/calendar_icon.gif" alt="$vbphrase[calendar]" border="0" /></a></td>
<td class="alt1"><div class="smallfont">$upcomingevents</div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</if>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="tfoot" align="center" colspan="6"><div class="smallfont"><strong>
<a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]do=markread">$vbphrase[mark_forums_read]</a>
   
<a href="showgroups.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[view_forum_leaders]</a>
</strong></div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<br />



<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2" border="0" width="100%">
<tr valign="bottom">
<td>
<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr>
<td><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_new.gif" alt="$vbphrase[contains_new_posts]" border="0" /></td>
<td class="smallfont">  $vbphrase[forum_contains_new_posts]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_old.gif" alt="$vbphrase[contains_no_new_posts]" border="0" /></td>
<td class="smallfont">  $vbphrase[forum_contains_no_new_posts]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_old_lock.gif" alt="$vbphrase[a_closed_forum]" border="0" /></td>
<td class="smallfont">  $vbphrase[forum_is_closed_for_posting]</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<if condition="!$show['guest']">

<td align="$stylevar[right]"><a href="login.php?$session[sessionurl]do=logout" onclick="return log_out()"><phrase 1="$bbuserinfo[username]">$vbphrase[log_out_x]</phrase></a></td>

</if>
</tr>
</table>


$footer
</body>
</html>

Please help me, any help will be very appreciated, thanks alot.

Zachery

05-04-2004, 04:43 AM

It looks like youve already modified it

imported_Snowy

05-04-2004, 07:25 PM

Hi guys, i need abit of help. I have the TOP X STATS hack nstalled and who was onlie today. I cant find the parts i need to change to get the cat strips working for these. here is the code.


<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<thead>
<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="3">
<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_statistics')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_statistics" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_tcat$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_statistics].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
Statistics - Top $displayrecords</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_statistics" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_statistics]">
<tr>
<td class="thead" width="23%" align="$stylevar[left]" nowrap>Top Posters</td>
<td class="thead" width="22%" align="$stylevar[left]" nowrap>Newest Members</td>
<td class="thead" width="55%" nowrap>Newest Replies
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="alt2" width="23%" valign="top">
<table>
<tr>
<td class="smallfont" width="100%">Member:</td>
<td class="smallfont" align="right" nowrap>Posts:</td>
</tr>
$stats_posters
</table>
</td>
<td class="alt1" width="22%" valign="top">
<table>
<tr>
<td class="smallfont" width="100%" nowrap>Member:</td>
<td class="smallfont" align="right" nowrap>Posts:</td>
</tr>
$stats_members
</table>
</td>
<td class="alt2" width="55%" valign="top">
<table>
<tr>
<td class="smallfont" width="70%" nowrap>Thread:</td>
<td class="smallfont" width="30%" nowrap>Last Poster:</td>
<td class="smallfont" align="right" nowrap>Views:</td>
<td class="smallfont" align="right" nowrap>Replies:</td>

</tr>
$stats_threads
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<br />
<br />


and


<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<thead>
<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="2">$vbphrase[whats_going_on]</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<if condition="$show['loggedinusers']">

<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="thead" colspan="2">
<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_activeusers')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_activeusers" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_activeusers].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
<a href="online.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[currently_active_users]</a>: $totalonline (<phrase 1="$numberregistered" 2="$numberguest">$vbphrase[x_members_and_y_guests]</phrase>)
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_activeusers" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_activeusers]">
<tr>
<td class="alt2"><a href="online.php?$session[sessionurl]"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/whos_online.gif" alt="$vbphrase[view_whos_online]" border="0" /></a></td>
<td class="alt1" width="100%">
<div class="smallfont">
<div style="white-space: nowrap"><phrase 1="$recordusers" 2="$recorddate" 3="$recordtime">$vbphrase[most_users_ever_online_was_x_y_at_z]</phrase></div>
<div>$activeusers</div>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>

$todayloggedinusers
</if>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="thead" colspan="2">
<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_stats')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_stats" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_stats].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
<phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[x_statistics]</phrase>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_stats" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_stats]">
<tr>
<td class="alt2"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/stats.gif" alt="<phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]">$vbphrase[x_statistics]</phrase>" border="0" /></td>
<td class="alt1" width="100%">
<div class="smallfont">
<div>$vbphrase[threads]: $totalthreads, $vbphrase[posts]: $totalposts, $vbphrase[members]: $numbermembers</div>
<div><phrase 1="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$newuserid" 2="$newusername">$vbphrase[welcome_to_our_newest_member_x]</phrase></div>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<if condition="$show['birthdays']">

<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="thead" colspan="2">
<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_birthdays')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_birthdays" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_birthdays].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
$vbphrase[todays_birthdays]
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_birthdays" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_birthdays]">
<tr>
<td class="alt2"><a href="calendar.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getday&day=$today&sb=1"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/birthday.gif" alt="$vbphrase[view_birthdays]" border="0" /></a></td>
<td class="alt1" width="100%"><div class="smallfont">$birthdays</div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>

</if>
<if condition="$show['upcomingevents']">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="thead" colspan="2">
<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_events')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_events" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_events].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
<if condition="$show['todaysevents']">$vbphrase[todays_events]<else /><phrase 1="$vboptions[showevents]">$vbphrase[upcoming_events_for_the_next_x_days]</phrase></if>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_events" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_events]">
<tr>
<td class="alt2"><a href="calendar.php?$session[sessionurl]"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/calendar.gif" alt="$vbphrase[calendar]" border="0" /></a></td>
<td class="alt1" width="100%"><div class="smallfont">$upcomingevents</div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</if>
</table>
<br />


It would be great if someone can help me out. If you could comment the code so that i can see exactly what you changed it would help me in the future so i know what i am looking for.

THANKS guys.

P.S.

this is the code i used for the cat strips.


<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="width="100%" align="center">
<tr>

<td style="text-align: $stylevar[left]" class="tcat"><img src="images/silver/cat_top_left.gif" alt="" /></td>



<td width="100%" class="tcat" style="background-image: url(images/silver/cat_top_bg.gif); text-align: center;">


<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumbit_$forumid')"><img id="collapseimg_forumbit_$forumid" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_tcat{$collapseimg_forumid}.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
<a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$forum[forumid]">$forum[title]</a></td>


<td style="text-align: $stylevar[right]" class="tcat"><img src="images/silver/cat_top_right.gif" alt="" /></td>
</tr>
</table>

KTBleeding

05-05-2004, 01:03 AM

Did you release this yet?
Really the only alignment problem I'm having is the "Last post info".
Take a look.??????

Zachery

05-05-2004, 02:03 AM

<a href="http://www.vbulletintemplates.com/mods/showthread.php?t=6216" target="_blank">http://www.vbulletintemplates.com/mo...ead.php?t=6216</a>

imported_Snowy

05-05-2004, 02:28 AM

How would i get this to also work for subforums not just forum home ?

imported_Ashkarita

05-05-2004, 02:44 AM

If I want to make a background image, how big do I need to make the background image?

KTBleeding

05-05-2004, 11:33 PM

http://www.vbulletintemplates.com/mods/showthread.php?t=6216
Thank you sir. Looks great on my forums. :)

imported_Snowy

05-08-2004, 01:45 AM

hhmm when i use your code everything is fine up to the point i put the cat image in via the style manages like normal. The catagory strip image then over flows the corner images. Its like the cat bar is still the full lenght of the forum for some reason. Any ideas ?

using 3.0.1.

Elorion

05-22-2004, 12:18 AM

I'd really like to get this working, but when I installed it, it totally messed up my column spacing. If there a way, without having to hardcode the widths like it was previously, to get this working? Can someone post a modified version that will work on a stock conversion of 3.0.0.1? Thanks anyone who helps.

Kairo

05-22-2004, 07:38 AM

Well the category spacing is also working not here, vbb 301

Check out the working Catogory Spacing of chrisvonc:

http://www.vbulletintemplates.com/mods/showthread.php?t=6187&page=3&pp=14

gmarik

05-22-2004, 07:49 AM

It's getting better and better, keep on!

Elorion

05-23-2004, 01:54 AM

I'll post the best way to get this working in just a few mins. Gotta get something made up.

Elorion

05-23-2004, 02:47 AM

Ok here's what I promised and a pic of it in action.

idwf

05-23-2004, 07:20 AM

nice...can you tell me how you got those images on your welcome / navbar bit... + your whats going on box...

than you.

Mr. Brian

06-14-2004, 02:04 AM

Zach, I'd like to apply this to my shoutbox aswell. But I've got no ideal which template should I look for?

shoutbox frame? main?

anyhelp will be much appreciated

rebelsrock06

06-14-2004, 07:41 PM

this is what mine looks like

what is wrong ??

Zachery

06-14-2004, 08:19 PM

Did you add images?

rebelsrock06

06-14-2004, 08:30 PM

that would be the blue part behind the X

rebelsrock06

06-14-2004, 08:33 PM

this thing is just too complicated

Remove the bored on the table in the STyle Manager, add your image if you want it on the bottom also add this to the botton of the forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost

<table width="100%" cellpadding="" cellspacing="" valign="" align"center">
<td style="$stylevar[left]"><img src="images/ford/cat_left.gif"></td>
<td width="100%" background="images/ford/middle.GIF"></td>
<td style="$stylevar[right]"><img src="images/ford/cat_right.gif"></td>
</table>

with your images of course

idwf

06-20-2004, 07:36 AM

ignor this. Sorry. Pood up big style!

phace

06-26-2004, 09:55 AM

Not sure why some of your spacing isn't working. I fixed that p5x; part and mine worked fine. You sure you edited it all correctly? Great mod zach, lots of help and very useful. Don't hide secrets from us, we'd have to go through the hassle of hiring mercenaries to hunt you down, pants you, put toothpaste in your hair, and then force you to tell us through torture of sleep deprevation and staring at ugly women! :)

CyTreX

07-05-2004, 12:41 PM

hi

this mod works fine :)

Now I want to put images on the left and the right side of the category too. So that the categories looks like in a box.

Any ideas what i have to do for this?

imported_kira

07-16-2004, 04:15 PM

Hi! This seems like a great mod, but I'm having trouble getting it to work with my forum due to my use of the "subforums in columns" hack by Xenon. It seems to be the level1 nopost template that's screwing me up. Can anyone help me? Is it possible to have both columned subforums and separated categories?

Here's what my template looks like:

<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions[showmoderatorcolumn]">6<else />5</if>">
<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumbit_$forumid')"><img id="collapseimg_forumbit_$forumid" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_tcat{$collapseimg_forumid}.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
<a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$forum[forumid]">$forum[title]</a>
<if condition="$show['forumdescription']"><div class="smallfont">$forum[description]</div></if>
<if condition="$show['subforums']"><div class="smallfont"><strong>$vbphrase[subforums]</strong>: $forum[subforums]</div></if>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<if condition="$childforumbits">
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumbit_$forumid" style="{$collapseobj_forumid}">
<if condition="$forum['subforumcolumns'] > 1">
<tr>
<td class="alt1" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions[showmoderatorcolumn]">6<else />5</if>">
<table style="border: none; width: 100%;">
$childforumbits
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<else />
$childforumbits
</if>
</tbody>
</if>

imported_kira

07-17-2004, 04:10 PM

Hi again! Is anyone here who might help me?

HaloImpulse

07-18-2004, 01:58 AM

How can i get more space in between the catagories

imported_kira

07-18-2004, 02:14 AM

How can i get more space in between the catagories
Kinda funny that I'm the one responding here, since I'm still trying to get help for my question, LOL! :D But anyway, here goes, I think this will help.

In the edited forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost template, where you added:

<div style="padding: 5px 5px 5px p5x;"></div>

Change the various "5px" references to whatever you want -- if you want more space, make them "10px" or even higher. Play around to see what looks good on your forums.

(And btw, make sure to change the typo* from "p5x" to "5px". This typo was pointed out in this thread early on, so I'm surprised the file hasn't been changed by now.)

Hope I'm right and this helps.

HaloImpulse

07-18-2004, 07:30 PM

do i need to change each one? OR just1 of them.

imported_kira

07-18-2004, 07:35 PM

Might as well change all of 'em. :)

HaloImpulse

07-18-2004, 08:05 PM

yeah, i got it

imported_kira

07-19-2004, 07:05 AM

You're very welcome. Now that I've made myself useful, can someone answer my question pleeeeeeeeeease? I mean, so many people use the "columns on forumhome" hack, and many of these people must use the category spacing mod ... it seems hard to believe that this is some mystery wrapped in an enigma smothered in secret sauce!

I really really have tried to work this out myself, but the conditionals are just messing me up right and left. HELP!

HaloImpulse

07-22-2004, 04:42 PM

This messed up some alignement for me.

Look.

HaloImpulse

08-01-2004, 06:23 AM

:-(. Hook meh up with some alignment!

Zachery

08-01-2004, 07:04 AM

Ill see about releasing a new version as I have taken greater steps to improve this mod but not released it.

croft

08-03-2004, 03:06 PM

I do seam to have a small problem with this mod.
There is an extra table just under the cat images and over the forum. posts. last post.
How do i get rid of it ? It wont disapere when hitting the minimize button ???

Check the screens.

DarknessDivine

08-13-2004, 01:25 PM

My forumhome alignement is also waaaaaaaaay off after this mod...any updates yet Zackery? ;)

Trekkie

08-31-2004, 04:17 PM

please update :)

imported_str8ballin

09-01-2004, 08:58 PM

sorry if this seems dumb , ive had a long day and cant beleive I havent figured this out but.. how the hell do you get the tcat_centre.gif to show up, Im unsure where to put the path to the image in the template like I did wid the tcat left and right.. confused.

Cole2026

09-04-2004, 02:41 AM

The catagorys seem like they have a fixed width because it is pushing my forum out of balance with my logo.

tHe Rk

09-05-2004, 02:26 PM

I just wanted to pop in here and give a shout out on this hack. I couldn't do it when I was in process of getting it to work because we were building a whole theme that we wanted to keep under wraps. But from the one hack we were able to do things we never thought we could.

Things that improved our Look from this hack
#1 We always wanted forum spacing, but could never get it to work right. We now have it and it's fantastic!

#2 Top and Bottom Images is something we ALWAYS wanted, but again had no idea how to do it. They add so much to the forum and you can use them anywhere!

#3 From looking at the code and realizing we could use it anywhere, we redesigned our Postbit using this code, and it's added a whole new level of originality and professionalism to our board.

#4 This code gave us the confidence to really push and figure some new things out. One of those was having links built in onto the forum header, and not only just links, but links that change when being hovered over. And another was the integration in the profile area in the postbit.

This hack ALONE has had the single greatest impact on the look of our board.

You can view the change yourself by going to www.xgplanet.com and using the Quick Style Chooser to switch between the old look and the new look. Its really amazing.

I have also attached some pics of what this has done for our board.

PS - bfoot045's board is CLEARLY inspired by what we have done. I just don't like him copying our style without permission.

tHe Rk

09-05-2004, 02:35 PM

My forumhome alignement is also waaaaaaaaay off after this mod...any updates yet Zackery? ;)

I believe there is some fixes for it, as that's how we got ours to work. It's been a while though, so I don't remember exactly how we fixed it. Read through this thread, and I am sure you will find the fixes or links to the fixes.

Sorry for the double post :eek:

Ymeaga1n

09-05-2004, 04:15 PM

I had problems with my alignment on both the last post and also the image at the beginning, I couldn't figure out how to get them to work til I decided to add width="100%" to the
<td class="thead" width="100%" align="$stylevar[left]">$vbphrase[forum]</td> so as i have it below, all forums are now aligned for me.

<tr align="center">
<td class="thead" width="15"> </td>
<td class="thead" width="100%" align="$stylevar[left]">$vbphrase[forum]</td>
<td class="thead" width="250">$vbphrase[last_post]</td>
<td class="thead" width="40">$vbphrase[threads]</td>
<td class="thead" width="40">$vbphrase[posts]</td>
<if condition="$vboptions[showmoderatorcolumn]">
<td class="thead">$vbphrase[moderator]</td>
</if>
</tr>

Keep in mind you have to have a set width for all the other columns so the 100% from this one doesn't interfere with them. Hope it works for you guys too.

Cole2026

09-05-2004, 06:04 PM

DarknessDivine

09-05-2004, 07:59 PM

RK, I fixed it myself just messing around with things and rewriting things..lol added code here and took code out there and ended up working..I have to say I have learned a ton from this mod though...;)
P.S. Your forum skin looks great!!!

tHe Rk

09-05-2004, 08:41 PM

Dont worry RK, Its just a test skin, I needed to use something with side stuff like that so I could test out this mod. It will change. The top logo will change.

I would like to use the test style I posted above, and was going to ask during opening,(several weeks from now). Ill use my other style if I cannot use the one I have currently. It was made from scratch in photoshop.

There are several things that bother me about the current style your using. First thing is, on your header it says you designed and coded the style. While you may have made it from scratch in Photoshop, you obviously did not design it. The design was a collaboration between myself and my Professional Graphics Technician. He did every bit of the graphic work based on his idea's and a few of mine for the graphic design. We would appreciate if you did not use your current style as it is a clone of our style, in which took a lot of time to design and incorperate. Again we'd appreciate it if you could come up with your original graphics your website. Thanks.

Also, being that your looking to start a site, might I suggest that you come up with something all your own. Our site was criticized early on because we looked to much like another site a lot of us came from. So when we decided to work on this theme we wanted something different from anything anyone had seen before graphically with the colors, header, and graphics.

We wish you the best of luck with your site and hope you can understand our reasoning in wanting you to go another direction graphically. Thanks, and have a nice day.

tHe Rk

09-05-2004, 08:41 PM

gfd

09-07-2004, 11:40 AM

I'm have the same probelm with Croft. As well as the additional problem of wrong widths in one of the columns.

An extra row that appears underneath the thread title, in Firefox and Opera - IEWin does not show it.

I checked the code and it's this:
<thead>
<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions[showmoderatorcolumn]">6<else />5</if>">
</td>
</tr>
</thead>

What exactly does this empty row do? Firefox and Opera do display empty rows unlike IE, and it doesn't look nice when it's empty.

I just deleted this row but I would like to know its purpuse. Please advise.

As far as the problem with the widths, please see the screenshot provided. Firefox displays it correctly, but Opera and IEWin do not.

Any suggestions?

thanks

PS. excellent mod by the way.

imported_Mathiau

09-20-2004, 06:28 AM

okay

what did i do wrong..LOl (messing with now to try and recopy code)

http://fuzzy.phpwebhosting.com/%7Emathiau/vb/index.php?

[UPDATE}

(excuse the n00bness but been a while since i worked with VB.

Okay, got the 2 categories but i got no sapce and i have re-copied the coding 3 times now
- what line specifically tells their to be a space between the categories?

imported_Mathiau

09-21-2004, 04:03 AM

Okay also now after putting in this hack when i change my table size from %100 to anything else -

i end up with

http://fuzzy.phpwebhosting.com/%7Emathiau/vb/index.php?

it only shrinks the forums categories / tables - nothing else........

idwf

09-22-2004, 04:58 PM

urm...i suggest just resetting all the templates you changed to their originals for now...

?? you broke it real good son!

Tony G

09-23-2004, 12:00 AM

I agree with Magik, reset the templates modified and start again if you don't know what you did for it to become like that.

imported_Mathiau

09-23-2004, 04:22 AM

^^ will try that - did it 3 times now and everytime it only shrinks those tables if i put it at%80 table width - :(

Shinobi

09-28-2004, 07:51 PM

Hey im just having a little problem after modifying my templates with your code (btw, nice job on the modification)

For some reason, the bottom image in my code seems to repeat itself. See the image i attached. Do you know whats causing it?? I also attached my
forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost

Cole2026

09-30-2004, 12:59 AM

Just started intergrating my final forum theme, I found out it was a variable problem for mine, it would say for the width of the tables to be the outer table width, when they need to be the inner table width.

Shinobi

09-30-2004, 09:01 PM

argh i figured it out, stupid wrong non 0 cellpadding, thanks tho... *kicks vbulletin*

Rick Sample

09-30-2004, 11:35 PM

lol...My forum home and forum home postbit files are pretty modifed so I hope you guys can take some of my code out and put in this addition to help me out a little :) I tried and it kept making the category title disappear and the image would be about 1 inch above the title.

Here is my coding. Its pretty modified. I had to change a lot of stuff around to get the breaks inbetween my forums Hope some of you can give me a hand :)

Rick Sample

11-01-2004, 11:23 PM

everytime I try it, I can't get the middle part to show. I've tried it on my custom one, then one from complete scratch. http://forums.thephonemall.net/index.php?styleid=6

My categorie stripes are set to:

#000000 url(images/gradients/gradient_tcat.gif) repeat-x top left When I change that color, the color in the midle changes. Any thoughts?

dangonay

11-02-2004, 05:21 AM

Well, this is the first mod I have ever done to VB (I'm running 3.03) and it worked right off the bat. :) I used some colored dummy images so I could tell what's going onscnreen before I make up my final images.

I never bothered to do a thing with the category strips background, but I'm assuming whatever background I put in Style Manager > All Style Options > Category Strips > Background will appear between my left & right images.

I have one question that I didn't find (sorry if it's been posted). The spacing values of 5px 5px 5px 5px stand for, what? Which number puts the pixel spaces where? Is it left, right, top bottom or similar?

-Shocker-

12-31-2004, 05:30 AM

How do I take off the border on the category so when I have category images like I have in the image there isn't that border around it so it makes it look square when really it's rounded.

AV2

02-14-2005, 02:24 AM

im just getting really weird results, I tried everyone else's fixes but no good comes out of it. Anyone have any ideas on what may be wrong? How can I fix it?

Thanks.

starfantazy

02-16-2005, 01:46 AM

it works on vb3.0.6?

Trekkie

02-20-2005, 05:36 PM

works on vb3.0.6 ?

proxx

02-21-2005, 12:17 AM

Could someone answer this please:

Does this mod allow adding images to the MAIN category (the kind of category that doesn't allow posting)?

the main category as you can see in my attachment.

If not, how can this be done?

Tony G

02-21-2005, 02:42 AM

You can do that, but this mod won't do that for you. It depends, if you want 3 images going across (left, middle and right) then the mod will do that for you. If you want one image, and only on the side, then no.

TruthElixirX

02-21-2005, 07:34 PM

What did I screw up? It won't let me add the image to the place it says "Main Category" or is it supposed to?

www.punktek.com/forums

EDIT:: See where those images are showing up (They're just test images..I'm not that bad. :D) I want them to show up on the Main Category and Category 2. They need ot be on either side much like I've seen but somehow I screwed up. Do I need to post my forumhome template coding or? >.<. I can't revert cause I already had some mods made to it.

EDIT 2:: I just completely deleted it. I'm gonig to try re-installig it.

Rich

02-25-2005, 03:30 AM

Hello,
For those that were wondering, this does work on 3.0.7. I just installed it, and the installation went flawless. For those of you that are not seeing the space between the forums, it is a simple fix. There is a typo in the instructions.

In your forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost you are told to place this at the VERY bottom.

<div style="padding: 5px 5px 5px p5x;"></div>

If you look at the numbers, the last 5px is written incorrectly. You should actually add this:

<div style="padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;"></div>

If you have done everything as you were instructed, and make this change that is posted, the spacing will appear.
Also, if you use massive graphics for your top cat., the bottom one might appear not to work. I had this problem. Once I shrunk my cat images down, the bottom and top appeared as they were supposed to.

I would show an example, but I played with this on my test site before I actually install it on my real site.

:Judge:

05-28-2005, 03:07 AM

My collasping images have been pushed into the middle. I have been trying for like 2 or 3 hours just trying to figure it out and I cannot find my issue.

:Judge:

05-30-2005, 02:48 AM

Anyone please :)

:Judge:

05-30-2005, 03:34 AM

slowroastedx

06-15-2005, 12:21 AM

I have some problems with my forum. www.jamaicapromote.com/forum

look at the lower cat image on top and then a lower cat image is missing on the bottom

here is the code

<if condition="$forum[forumid] == 9"> <else />


<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" background="images/jamaica/bottom_slice.gif">
<tr>
<td width="50%" align="left" valign="top"><img src="images/jamaica/bottom_left.gif" alt="left" /></td>
<td width="50%" align="right" valign="top"><img src="images/jamaica/bottom_right.gif" alt="right" /></td>
</tr>
</table>



<br />
</if>


<table class="tborder" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" valign="bottom" align="bottom" background="images/jamaica/body_slice.gif">
<tr>
<td width="" height="25" align="left" valign="top"><img src="images/jamaica/body_left.gif" width="95" height="25" alt="left" /></td>
<td width="100%" valign="top">
<div align="center"> <a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$forum[forumid]"><b>$forum[title]</b></a></div>
<if condition="$show['forumdescription']">
<div class="smallfont">$forum[description]</div>
</if> <if condition="$show['subforums']">
<div class="smallfont"><strong>$vbphrase[subforums]</strong>: $forum[subforums]</div>
</div>
</if> </td>
<td width="" height="25" align="right" valign="top"><img src="images/jamaica/body_right.gif" width="42" height="25" alt="right" /></td>
</tr>
</table>

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<if condition="$childforumbits">
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumbit_$forumid" style="{$collapseobj_forumid}">
<tr align="center">
<td class="thead"> </td>
<td class="thead" width="100%" align="$stylevar[left]">$vbphrase[forum]</td>
<td class="thead" width="200">$vbphrase[last_post]</td>
<td class="thead">$vbphrase[threads]</td>
<td class="thead">$vbphrase[posts]</td>
<if condition="$vboptions[showmoderatorcolumn]">
<td class="thead">$vbphrase[moderator]</td>
</if> </tr>
$childforumbits
</tbody>
</if>

thx

:Judge:

07-05-2005, 11:54 PM

Could someone give me any answers?

BillyFischbach

07-06-2005, 05:31 AM

How do I just do the category spacing thing? only if I use gradients?

G3MM4

07-09-2005, 06:48 PM

Thanks for posting this mod, I've been wondering how to customise the category strips in this way. It's all worked fine, but I keep getting a problem with the background showing up where it shouldn't. The custom category strip is meant to be rounded, but I can still see the background (marked by red circles). Please see attachment. How can I solve this problem?

G3MM4

07-11-2005, 07:47 PM

Bump!

Can anyone help please?

Jacqueline

07-12-2005, 12:46 AM

Jacqueline

07-12-2005, 12:56 AM

My collasping images have been pushed into the middle. I have been trying for like 2 or 3 hours just trying to figure it out and I cannot find my issue.

I believe it gets put just before the graphic for your top right corner. To move it more to the right, you can shrink the size of your corner.

G3MM4

07-13-2005, 03:46 AM

Actually I've found a way of doing it too. Basically, you put your code in as per Zachery's mod instructions, but you don't put an url to the tcat image in the category CSS section in the style manager. Instead, you put the same colour as your page background is. Voila, you now have "transparent" corners. Took me ages to work that out, lol.

idwf

08-23-2006, 08:25 PM

Any updates for 3.6.0 please?!

peterska2

08-24-2006, 11:32 AM

Works fine in 3.5.x and 3.6.x

idwf

08-24-2006, 04:48 PM

actually, i think you'll find it doesn't and jake bunce would agree with me. However, as your mod, i spose your right..hmmm

peterska2

08-24-2006, 04:54 PM

In what way is it not working? It works perfectly for me.

There is a typo in the very last line of the instructions where there is a p5x which should be 5px but thats it.

Can you provide a link to where it is not working?

trickfly

01-17-2007, 10:45 PM

Has anyone got any screenshots of this hack, the live demo site does not work!

please PM me

Phantasmagoric

02-10-2009, 09:47 PM

Zachery, is it possible to have an update of this to work with 3.8.1 please?

vithorius

02-16-2009, 08:36 AM

Has anyone got any screenshots of this hack, the live demo site does not work!

I would like to ask for the same! :eek:

Thank you very much! :up:

Phantasmagoric

02-21-2009, 09:02 AM

Zachery, is it possible to have an update of this to work with 3.8.1 please?

Don't worry yourself, I figured it out myself.