That's really weird, but hopefully that will be the solution. If the index_newsbits template has already been changed and is showing as custom though, I don't see why it wouldn't display if that was the case. There's not really an easy way to change them all to custom templates other than editing and saving each one.

Also, by changing the footer template, do you mean you changed the content of the index_footer template to what is in your regular footer template, or that you changed the $index_footer variable to $footer in your index template?

I attached an image in the previous thread ... shows that the templates were installed as default templates...

I changed under the "templates used" to "footer", instead of "index_footer" ...

Plurplanet,
I just checked that template you mentioned above..I don't know what I did, but I had just $username instead of $bbuserinfo[username]...oops
thank you :)
there is something I just noticed also, in the online users ...the clickable user names that are logged in take you to the wrong url....leaving out the forums directory...ex.
http://mysite.com/members.php
instead of http://mysite/forums/members.php

Littlebit - Did you upgrade from v3.0 or 2.0? If I remember correctly, the $username variable was used in versions 2.0 and earlier, but should have been $bbuserinfo[username] in v3.0 and 3.1. It was changed just to remove a small bit of code that wasn't really necessary.
For the logged in users, it sounds like you may have missed a step in the install file, or perhaps the template could have been reverted to it's original. If you'll edit your forumhome_loggedinuser template and add $bburl at the beginning of the code for the link it should fix that right up. :)

Oh man...I must have installed 2.0. thinking it was 3.0...what do you recommend I redo to make sure all works since I did all the upgrade instructions for 3.0 to latest instead of 2.0 to latest like I should have done.... :cross-eyed:
Oh thanks for pointing out the forumhome_loggedinuser template. That was it. 2 my bads...ugg :o

my forum is on this directory

http://www.myfootballforum.com/forum

I want the mYvBindex.php on this directory:

http://www.myfootballforum.com

but when i put it in this directory, none of the pictures show up? They show up on the http://www.myfootballforum.com/forum directory. Wht is this?

The portal file is set to:

// Enter The Full Path To Your Forums Here
chdir('/home/sites/site8/web/forum/');
// No Further Editing Necessary

how come none of the images show up?

Littlebit - From looking at your site, I don't see anything else that doesn't seem to be working properly. However, there were a few templates that were changed from 2.0 to 3.0, so I'm going to attach the readme file from that version which includes a list of all templates that were changed, and how they were changed. You may want to look over that to be sure you won't have any problems in the future. Also, any of your templates that have not been customized will not need to have anything changed as the upgrade file should have overwritten any original templates. Oh, it's also possible that you would have a couple of extra options in the Admin CP (such as News Smilies) since those would not have been removed with the way you upgraded. It really shouldn't affect anything, but if you would like to just highlight all your myvbindex options and paste them here, I can look over them and tell you how to easily get rid of any that aren't used any more. Again, it won't affect the way the script functions, but may help to prevent some confusion later. ;)

mcyates - It looks like you missed a step in the install file. For the images to work properly, you have to change the path to your images for each style. Here are the instructions from the install file:

Next find the Styles section near the bottom left frame in your Admin CP. Click on "Modify" under Styles, then click on the [fonts/colors/etc] link. Near the bottom of this page you will see a section for Image Paths. Set the "Image folder path" and the "Title image path" to the full URL for your images folder inside your forums (ex - /forum/images or http://yoursite.com/forum/images). You must do this for each of your styles, otherwise your images will not show up.

ok thanks for that quick reply, i have sorted the images out. Now the problem is, i'm logged into the portal for the url below:

http://www.myfootballforum.com/forum/myvbindex.php?s=

but not logged into the portal when its out side the forum url:
http://www.myfootballforum.com/index.php (the renamed portal file)

Did you edit your cookie path as instructed in the readme file?