LOL, Sorry, I tried to explain the best I could!

If you can't see them as a guest, you shouldn't be able to see them as a regular user or anyone else who can't view the forum.

Here is the addon for the Forums menu, as requested by Mr_P.

Firstly edit forum/golbal.php and find:

And add after:
Upload the attached vbimenu.php to your forums directory and remove the functions that you don't want to include in the menu on other pages. I HIGHLY SUGGEST that you DON'T have all the functions displayed, ie Poll, Buddies Login Code etc... this will almost DOUBLE the queries for forum/index.php. Just leave in the functions that you require.

Add the home_menu template that can be found in the zip file.

Don't forget to remove the stuff you won't be using, then lastly edit your header template, in between the following comments:
Add:
Thats it :)

Please let me know what functions you would like to see in the forums menu so I can impliment this properly with the next version.

Cheers NTLDR for feedback.

I have done the global in root
done the home template and added the code in the header

The forum is to the right so that bit works but to the left only the search box is showing and online users is showing with it but its as if no one is on.Nothing else is showing in the left hand panel.

Small gif to show u how i mean

Just an idea which would be cool. As you may know, I run a console gaming website. Now, it would be good if we could replace the avatar on the posts with a custom picture on each news story. So, say if I was doing a story on Xbox, I could put a picture of a xbox there. If I was doing a story on PS2, I could put a picture of one there too. If I was doing a story of a mod chip, I could put a picture of it there... etc etc...

I guess you could maybe put it as an attachment to the post, which automatically is shown on the news page where the avatar currently is.

A good example to what I was thinking would be this: http://www.neowin.net/

It would also be nice if I could select previous images I had used as news stories, so I don't need to upload the same xbox image for like 20 stories which just uses up the database.

Anyway, just something to think about :)

good idea.

I gather the template for the way the posts are shown on there can be altered in some way to make it look like that sort of post.
All in all good hack and one that can be built upon.

sorry i called it in wrong way i was still on the old VBindex php file

switched to this one now and i get this error

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /vbb/vbimenu.php on line 40

Line 40 is this : $buddys=$DB_site->query($sql);

There shoudln't be any errors, the file is working correctly for me (see screenshot). Have you edited it at all?

The simpilest and easilest way of doing this would be to newmove the avatar code from the home_newsbit template and use [img] code to insert the required image for the story at the top.

sounds good :)

Just a quick question. I thought it would be nice if I could have "Last comment was by username" at the bottom of the news posts. Now, what I put in the home_newsbit template was:Now, it will automatically skip down to the last post when you click "comment", and it will link to the person's profile. but i cant work out how to get the person's name up. as you can see, i have insert name here there, it links that text to the person's profile but yeah, i want it to have their name there... lol.

I was looking at the forumdisplay templates where they do it for each thread (i.e. where they have Thread name, Thread Starter, replies number, Views and Last Post). I found they were using $thread[lastposter] to do it, but if i put that right into the vBindex templates it does nothing. so yeah, i was guessing it had something to do with the php file and that i would need to add a line or two to the vbindex.php file or something.

Anyway, keep up the good work :)

Nice suggestion there DWZ :)

In the vbindex.php file add after:

This:
And add $lastposter in your home_newsbit template where you want the username to appear ;)

I may also add this in to the new version.