I don't want the shout feature on my vbindex! The code already had this included, so I deleted it and now its fine!

Hey NTLDR-
This is the best hack I have installed and I want to thank you for your hard work and time you put forth not only in putting everything together (coding, instructions, revisions, etc.) but also providing such great support (90 pages of it even) for your hack for those who have problems.

I had no issues whatsoever during installation and it is running great and loads just as fast as any of the other pages on my site. Out of all the hacks on my board my members like this one the best...Thanks again!

/me installs

Thanks Huron, its good to know people are still installing the hack :)

hmmm I don't real like reading ALL of these posts...

so here is my question...

I'm trying to make it so that I can have a news forum AND a "Article" forum and have the article thing just like the news thing but on the main page too? is that possible?

(if you don't get what I mean... I just want 2 news things at the main page but one pointing to a different forum)

I have been really playing around with your layout to make it work for me, and, well, I torched the left column. I had what I wanted until I logged out and saw that I had moved some of the "logged in" content into templates that are displayed to both users and guests.

OOOPS. I really don't want to revert back to your original for the left family of templates, so maybe you can help me muddle through?

Left column:

$login has the stuff you should see if you need to login.
$logout has the stuff you should see if you are logged in.
$xxxlinks (not porn, just easy to spot) is a custom template that has some jump menus that should be displayed to all users.

Am I calling the in/out templates incorrectly? The xxxlinks is all that displays right now. I can even make that disappear if I mess with the order of the evaluate statements in the vbindex.php file.





Also, I tried to call in the avatar template to the login and logout templates, but nothing would ever display. Again, it is just my simple ignorance I'm afraid.

HEEEELLLLLLPPPPPPP!

Look at how $logincode is assigned and that will show you how to do $login and $logout correctly.

I added "$logincode" into the left template and almost everything is displaying again. Why is that?

All that still doesn't work is the following code that I put into the logout template:


I tried calling the $avatar, but that didn't help.


Here's what is in the avatar template:

You need to look and see how its done and duplicate it, not add it again in the template.

Man, I am trying to understand... but I don't.

Some strange stuff is going on now.
I inserted some garbage "tracers" into the home_left to get to the bottom of it, and the following stuff:

yielded the following to a logged int user:

Is this normal? I expected the bbb and ccc to be above the home_logout content. Even more surprising to me was that I still got content when I removed the $login and $logout. Apparently, the $logincode actually displays either $login OR $logout. Right?
So, all I should have to do is get the dynamic avatar for the user and insert it into home_logout. I've scrounged around, but can't seem to get that part right. I did get the avatar to show up in the home_left template again, but for formatting reasons, I really need it inside the table that's in home_logout. What's the secret?


Sorry for the hassle. Officially above and beyond the call of duty.

$login and $logout IIRC don't even exist, hence they don't display anything.

I'm a little confused here, do you just want to include the avatar in the home_logout (and/or home_login) template?

For reference, home_logout shows the code for users who are logged in and home_login shows the code for users who are logged out.