Ahh thank you - this is a completly different file to the one in the first post!

I'll try this.

/me skips off to bodge the forums...

arrg I'm stupid the readme dated before this post has a misplaced line, (i can only bliam lazyness, copy paste and doing html in notepad ;))

}
dostatesaveXP(itemID,1);

should read

dostatesaveXP(itemID,1);
}

This should fix the save problem.

Please do not use starbug's attachment as it contains this error, I have changed the name and fixed the above error in the attachment on the first post.

You are great!!

This corrected the error!!

(By the way: The code to correct is in the forumhome_expandjscript template at the end! ;))

Thank you so much!

Now everything works fine!!

hehe

So it was good I have "beta" tested the hack ;)

Greetings

StarBuG

hehe,starbug. I really need to work on packaging releases ;)

Steve, I've looked over the hack you have installed change the forumexp function in forumhome_expandjscript to read.

[change included in release]

Done, but the collapse/expand icons don't show up as they should. What now?

Need to set the parent forums as categories--got it!

Should the code look like this then?

As thats whats in the read me and in the text file. I see IE do the update, but it doesn't seem to take effect.

Thanks.

Show up fine for me when I visited your site.. what browser you using?

I got them to show up, but I much prefer the look of parent forums acting as forums, rather than categories. Is there any way to somehow expand/collapse forums? Why were categories chosen to be collapsed, and not forums? Look at my site now . . . THIS is what I want to expand and collapse. It's much prettier, I think.

I love this look, but people complain that they want to see posted-to forums.

jminiman: put the modifications in * forumhome_forumbit_level1_post
insted of * forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost
then (the exact alteration is to add $expandcontract ).

martz: yes that looks correct.

Did that, and no plusses or minuses show up next to parent forums on forums home. Do note that I removed the on/off (check marks) from the parent forum bits on forums home, though I don't think that should matter.

Check out http://discuss.pocketnow.com

Update: just restored everything so the parent forums are showing what they should by default, and still no plusses or minuses.

Still not working for me. :(

http://forums.utassault.net/index.php?s=

Isn't saving the settings, and I have double checked a lot of stuff.

Got it to work, AND I moved the expand/contract images over the left-most cells so it looks a lot tighter.

Check it out: http://discuss.pocketnow.com

You like? ;)

Great hack!

Works great! Check it out:

http://www.sirstevesguide.com/vbportal/forums

Martz: do you have phpmyadmin? to check that it is saving settings in the database.

SirSteve: cool :) and you need to add back the "function dostatesaveXP ()" found in the readme to the template.
It starts on
<!--
function dostatesaveXP (forumID, value) {

all the way down to

}

function forumexp(itemID) {

It's getting irratating that the settings are not saving... Also, I noticed in the status bar there is no "Error" on the page until I click the expand/collapse graphic...

sirsteve, the fix is in my post above.

Or replace forumhome_expandjscript with the attached file. This is only for people with the forum, post etc.. template hack.

I tried the file but same thing. Although the "error" is gone from the status bar but it is still not saving my settings.

sirsteve visited your site it works for me, apart from a minor display glitch which is fixed by adding $fhomeexpandstyle

[change included in release]

hmm.... guess I will clear my cookies and see what happens. Thanks. I added that other part as suggested.

SirSteve: I would recommend you redownload "forumhome_expandjscript2.txt" the version on your site does contain a small error, with out the update the hack may not from work correctly. (as of when I posted this)

Cleared everything and tried it again and now it saved just 1 setting but none of the others. err....

Ok, trying it now. Thanks.

SirSteve: sorry about the previous post but use this attachment. I ment to attach it above :)

If you want to check that it is installed correctly then
http://yoursitehere/updateindex.php?fid=<forumid>&val=0 to expand a collapsed forum and http://yoursitehere/updateindex.php?fid=<forumid>&val=1 to collapse a forum.



[after edit Attachment removed now part of the hack.]

That worked! BUT, when you collapse it, everything collapses correctly with the extra hack that is there (the Forum Posts Threads Last Post Moderator template hack/addition) but when you come back, that Forum Posts Threads Last Post Moderator row is there, but collapsed. I guess you have to see it for yourself to understand. Thanks again!

I guess we are both typing at the same time. :) I will try the above.

Ok, tried the new attachment and it's almost there. See post #65 above.

I see the problem, I'll code up a fix over the evening for you.

After edit.
Code is now part of the hack release.

Thanks. I'll check back tomorrow then. :)

easier than it looked fix is above.

I will package this properly into the zip tomorrow however.

That did it! Very cool and I (we) really appreciate your quick support on this!

:D

The + and - images don't show up so I can't expand or contract it. I know its working though because when I set a forum to be contracted on Admin CP it contracted, I just couldn't open it manually. I am running windows 98 Second Edition and using version 5.50 of MSIE.

net.ba

sounds very much like your missing a template check that
forumhome_expandcontract exists and that
forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost contains "$expandcontract"


Hack has been repackaged to include optional addon.

I'm getting a couple errors with this. :(

The first is in the cx_install - I looked and this looks slightly different from the error reported earlier.


And the second is on my forum home page I get:
This is right above my header banner. :( I haven't messed with the functions.php.


Line 57 of the getbrowser.php is blank, so I deleted it leaving the "?>" as the last line. Reuploaded and reran the cx_install. But still errors. :(

Any help?

Now I'm getting a database error. :(Database error in vBulletin Control Panel 2.2.1:
______________
Invalid SQL: ALTER TABLE forum ADD collapsed SMALLINT DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL
mysql error: Duplicate column name 'collapsed'

mysql error number: 1060

Date: Saturday 12th of January 2002 01:59:01 PM
Script: http://www.simpsonsboard.com/~simpso...all.php?step=2
Referer:
______________

I have the little icons next to the forum descriptions, and if I click on 'expand' the 'collapse' button will appear, but nothing changes other than the picture.

this hack is a little corrupt, I was getting erros on the top saying stuff so I uninstalled the hack

I think I'm with you, Shenlong. I had to uninstall so I could reopen the site. :s

Follow the instructions, it works. Check it out at www.sirstevesguide.com/vbportal/forums

As far as I know, I did follow the instructions, and rechecked them twice. :)

The installation script makes all the important changes on its first run... rerunning it will throw a error. That is not important however, the error mysql error: Duplicate column name 'collapsed' does show that the installer worked.

Now as for the collapse not working check that the javascript contained in "forumhome_expandjscript" has been added to the page and that forumhome_level2_post does contain
<tr id="f$forum[parentid]z$z" $fhomeexpandstyle align="center">
and yes there should be two 'z''s (only in v1.11)