Hey love the look of this, But one problem it seems to be making my tables shift right, and makes them out of line.. see screeny Hope someone can help us out with this here...

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no worries ive sused it now... i think lol

Okay i have a new problem... A screen res problem... my main table width was 782.. if you look on my attached image you can see it was all out of line... well i changed the table width to 90% and it all lined up well.. But it appears fine oon my screen but out of line on a freinds pc with a different screen res... im totally stumped to fix this.

you might want to use an css padding to costumize your forum take look here http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_padding.asp

Ill give it a scout through. thanks

To make them collapsable use this code in your template:

I just added this to my forum (3.6) and it works great with 1 minor exception. When I view a thread (showthread.php) it seems to disalign some of the tables. Anyone know a fix to this problem?

Everything else seems to be working okay.

I posted this in the thread for right column, but I will put it here as well since I don't think everyone is checking both threads (and this is the one I am actually using anyway) ;)

For the width issue, what worked for me was removing

$spacer_close
$spacer_open

wherever it occurred - but only in the templates for the problem areas. For me it showed fine everywhere (even showthreads page) except for the Members list and the Calendar. I removed that from both of those templates and now all is good. Hope this helps someone.


Now the problem I am having, is that I would like the footer (the What's Going on box) to go the full width of the page. I accomplished that with the navbar by using that template instead of the header one, but I'd like to find a fix for the bottom if possible. I think it will look much cleaner that way.

great works well. Does anyone know how to add code to show a poll or latest threads into the left column also?

thanks

is there a simple line i can change to make it on the right?

Is anyone using this with vbadvanced? I'm getting a blank left column on the vbadvanced front page.

thanks for the hack..

few questions though...

first of all, where exactly in the header template would u add the code...?
i added at the very top, above evrything else and then added it in the footer...

it added the right block, though it wasnt possitioned complete to the left as u have it on your screenshot, there was a gap between the block and the left side of the skin..also, i am not using a fixed template so as I added the blocked it streeched the main skin it self to the right adding a scroll bar at the bottom..

also, where would u edit the content of the block
and also, how would u another one right under it?

thanks

I just added it to 3.6.0 too. Likewise, everything looks fine except that in the threadview, it all expands from 1000 pix (my default vb width) to 1160 pix with the left side bar added in. Again, this is only on thread view and the rest of the site doesn't exceed the normal 1000 pix I have it defaulted to...

If anyone know a fix for this, I'd like to know, too

Thanks. -- Rik

Amy, any chance of a full upgrade to VB 3.6 for this lovely hack?

I'm not much of a coder and would like to just install and go! :) lazy, I know, but with a busy board it's dangerous to play when you don't know what you're doing! And it DOES seem there are a few problems.

Rik - check post #367 ;)

GrantHorizons - It works fine for 3.6 :)

Thanks Jennifer! :)

Jennifer:

Your post #367 fixed almost every page. I'm still just having difficulties on viewing threads (which are still too wide). But all other pages seem fine.

Thank you very much. -- Rik

P.S for Anyone: Also, I'm using this mod for Google Adsense ads. They really shouldn't be displayed on all pages (such as thread editing pages). Is there a way with PHP to know what vbulletin page you are on and then using if/then/else determine whether to display the left column or not?

Rik,

Have a look at instructions in this post. They explain how to not have it on the register page. You add more pages by using the same variable and getting the script name from the top of the php file and adding an or to your conditional so you might end up with a conditional like this (well actually you won't but I just picked some pages that I kow the script names of)
Whatever you do don't actually use that conditional as it will not display on your vBAdvanced (if you use it), your forumhome, private messaging, and registration pages. That is just a sample to show how to put more pages into the conditional.

Glad I was actually able to be of some help to someone :)

Anyone have any ideas about how to make the footer (What's Going On) not get pushed over by the column?

Kerry-Anne: Fantastic. Your message #377 solved it for me. Thanks. -- Rik

Thats going to be fun, as it will need some fancy conditional work

(actually not really, but it sounds good lol)

In your footer wrap the edit with Then in your forumhome template above the whats going on box code, add the code normally put in the footer.

It's not tested, but you shouldn't have any problems.

Kerry-Anne - thanks, I will have to test that out later. But I just wanted to say that you have been super helpful throughout this whole thread!

No prob, just let me know how it works as I'll bookmark it if it works right in case the same question comes up again.

Is there any way i can move the columns under navbar?

thanks.

If i put it in the last of the header, it comes side by the navbar. I want it under the navbar.

I tried doing separate for FORUMHOME, FORUMDISPLAY, etc, but i want it on all the pages and under the navbar.

hi,

how to hide column on specific forums?
for example:
forumdisplay.php?f=101
forumdisplay.php?f=42
forumdisplay.php?f=10

or in specific threads?
like:
showthread.php?t=190187
showthread.php?t=4356
showthread.php?t=87632

thanks!

Has anyone attempted to see if this mod works on vb 3.6.1? I'm using 3.6.0 and it works excellently. But it appears that the vb 3.6.1 upgrade requires many template changes.

As I find this mod more important than the improvements in 3.6.1, I would rather wait to hear from someone else before attempting the changeover.

Any reports yet?

Thanks. -- Rik

Rik, works fine in 3.6.1 :)

Kerry-Anne - i forgot to let you know, that didn't work for me, it shifted things all over. But that's OK, I've gotten used to the footer the way it is. I have a new problem though that I just became aware of since I use IE and it only seems to happen in Firefox.

The line "All times are GMT -5. The time now is 01:06 AM." in the footer gets pushed way over and to the top so that you have to scroll to the right a whole page width. Any idea how to correct that?

I'm looking to add all the "whats going on" blocks to the sidebar, is this possible?
Also why is it in the "showthread.php?" after the second/third post does the layout go back to normal?
example >> http://www.metallifukinca.com/showthread.php?t=3348

Can you tell how to disable this left bar in User CP? I am already using a conditional for disabling it on vbadvanced CMPS Homepage:

Ok for me instead of

<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT!='usercp' || THIS_SCRIPT!='private' || VB_AREA != VBA_PORTAL">

this works only

<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT!='usercp' && THIS_SCRIPT!='private' && VB_AREA != VBA_PORTAL">

Hi, I need to include some php code in this left nav but it won't show up. I tried creating a plugin and then including that in the left nav but that doesn't work either. Can someone please point me in the right direction on this one? Thanks.

Why is it in the "showthread.php?" after the second/third post does the layout go back to normal?


example > http://www.metallifukinca.com/showthread.php?t=3361

I've been searching this thread for the answer but haven't found yet.

This hack works great. However I have a fixed width of 900px (centered) and this hack bumps my content out the length of my left column. I changed the header width and that worked for most of my pages. However the showthread table is still pushed out.

How do I get this to work on the showthread page?

Here's a link to the problem page:

http://www.prenatalyogacenter.com/fo...read.php?t=788

[QUOTE=JenniferK]Rik, works fine in 3.6.1 :)

Jennifer: Thanks. Got it online. -- Rik

I found the fixed width problem here:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=156775

Admin CP -> Styles & Templates -> Style Manager -> ? ? -> spacer_open

Replace the red code:
...with the blue code:

I think this should be added as template change for the iinstall instructions.

That doesnt work for me. It just looks like all my other tables. www.buy-host.com/forums It is the bottom one that is using your code.

How to put the left column on the left of forums only and what's going on and complete footer should be normal and not pushed by the sidebar. Any ideas on that?

That is not possible with this modification as the edits are to the header and footer templates and therefor anything inbetween forms the right column of the two column layout.

This mod works perfectly, except on the showthread.php pages.

It shows the name of the column thats it. works perfectly everywhere else.. any ideas?

thanks

I'm trying to move some of my navbar links to the left column but the template conditionals aren't working.

For example, if I put this:
in my left_column template nothing shows up. I am a member so it should be showing what is between the <if></if> tags, right?

what am i doing wrong?

thanks
eric