Jakeman, in this hack, you DO add the custom profile field through the admin cp.

What the file modification does it prevents a blank line from showing up on the thread page if a user has not put in a custom title. It's just a simple little routine that checks for a value in $post[fieldX], and if there is one, it assigns the value of $post[fieldX] to $extratitle, and $extratitle is formatted to include a line break. If there is no value in $post[fieldX], a blank string is assigned to $extratitle. When you put $extratitle in the postbit template, you do NOT put a linebreak between it and the next line (which is the standard title); that way, if it's blank, there will be no empty line, but if it's not blank, the variable includes a line break to keep the flow right.

In other words, it's done strictly for appearance.

As I said, originally, this was just a template modification that I pointed out at vbulletin.com. Someone asked me how to surpress the blank line that would show up for users with no custom title, and that's how it evolved into a file modification hack.

:)

glowing isn't compatible accross all browsers and platforms so nya! :p

and glowing does work with custom fields, i just tested it.

meh, if it was me i would put a statement in my phpinclude instead of editing php files, but that's me, either way works for the spacing thingy. i hate editing php files, i will take templates over file mods any day, even if it adds more overhead to every page :D

It's my understanding that if a browser does not support glowing, the plain text will still be seen. And as I just said, the main point of it being a hack is not to support glowing; that's just a neat side-effect that was possible, and I showed how to do it. As I just said, the MAIN purpose to this being a hack is so that a blank line does not show up in between the user name and standard title if there is no custom title.

What I mean is this. If this was NOT a hack, a user with no custom title would look like this in the author info area of a message:
User1

Registered

While a user WITH a custom title would look like this:
User2
Super-Cool Dude
Registered

It's the blank line for User1 in below his name and above his title ("Registered") that someone asked me to make not show up. That's why I had to turn it into a hack, so that now, User1 looks like this:
User1
Registered

While User2 continues to look exactly the same.

What kind of statement would you put in your phpinclude template? :confused:

sorry, i'm being a bit of a troll. :(

erm, you can put php code in your phpinclude template. you should be able to set up the condition in there, right?

I'd like to know how your Edit Profile page looks like if you've got an HTML glow in it. With me, it f*cked up the layout of the page... :( (due to the "-sign in glow codes)

Yeah, but there's a reason why vBulletin is made up of a bunch of separate files, rather than all the code being in the phpinclude template.

:D

Of course I remember typing my quote, and I already read your quote...so what's the point? Nothing new to add?

ugh, nOOb. http://130.94.172.202/forum/images/smilies/wtf.gif