Thanks for your time and effort. It works great!

Just wondering but does this hack apply to sub forums on listed on the main site? I know that it works for Main Forums but it appears in the pictures not to work on subforums to display sub-sub forums on the main page.

Not sure what your asking for, am I to assume your enquiring about if a forum depth greater than 2 is supported on the index?

If so then yes it can work upto N levels deep, where N is the value you set for depth, subject to creating the additional sub level templates.

Does your hack support a forum depth greater than 2 on the index?

Yes, but the additional sub level templates need to be created as they are not included with vb.

Hmm there is a minnor bug in previous zip file.

should be

The zip has been updated accordingly now.

Help!

On server that my forum is, there is php 4.0.6.
Is there any chance to make this hack working on it?
Pliz help me!

If you want to modify the hack to work with 4.0.x change all references of $_GET to $HTTP_GET_VARS in updateindex.php.

I've changed that but still.... there is no sign of those icons + and - next to forum names :((
I've got 2,2,4 and i'll upgrade it... i hope it will work after...

You need to make the template modifications mentioned in the readme.

I get this error when inserting it into the db..

SQL-query: [Edit]

ALTER TABLE forum ADD collapsed SMALLINT DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL
ALTER TABLE user ADD forumviewset varchar(250) NOT NULL default ':'
MySQL said: You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'ALTER TABLE user ADD forumviewset varchar(250) NOT NULL default ':'' at line 2

The automated file thing cX_install.php doesnt work...

The error you've posted looks suspiciously like a phpmyadmin error message, so what is wrong with cx_install.php?

As stated in the readme you can either manually change the database or use cx_install to do it for you.

As for the error you've reported you need to put a semi-colon at the end of the first line.

Working great on 2.2.6. I did notice though in the install guide it mentioned 'add the bits in red', but there were no red bits. Maybe it's just me though. :)

Hi,

it works for me. But if i contract the forums in one category only the category is shown. That is ok, but if i reload the page it is still contracted but now there are also the headlines like Forum, Date, Posts, etc... under the category.?

If i expand it and contract it again it is without that headlines?

How to fix that?
Thanks! :cross-eyed:

That instruction is contained in the "template_option" file which is only to be used when you've modified the display to repeat the "forum, posts... etc" header for each group of forums. Now depending on how you've done that modification the template will be either forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost or forumhome_forumbit_level2_nopost. If you are not using a template mod to repeat the header carrying out the instructions in template_option WILL stop the hack from working correctly.

upps i just edited my post! :-)

The solve the problem you have modify forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost to include the fragment you pasted.

yes but how to do that? can give more details? Thanks!

As mentioned in the template_option instructions...
You also need to have made all of the other changes mentioned in the file.

ok this is my template:

What is wrong?
As i said before: if i ctract it, it is ok and i can only see the category!
but if i reload the page you see the category and this part:

???

<tr id="f$forum[forumid]z" $fhomeexpandstyle align="center">
<td background="{ imagesfolder }/col_backing.gif" width="5%"><smallfont>&nbsp;</smallfont></td>
<td background="{ imagesfolder }/col_backing.gif" width="65%" align="left"><smallfont color="#EEEEFF"><b>Forum</b></smallfont></td>
<td background="{ imagesfolder }/col_backing.gif"><smallfont color="#EEEEFF"><b>Beitr?ge</b></smallfont></td>
<td background="{ imagesfolder }/col_backing.gif"><smallfont color="#EEEEFF"><b>Themen</b></smallfont></td>
<td background="{ imagesfolder }/col_backing.gif" nowrap><smallfont color="#EEEEFF"><b>Letzter Beitrag</b></smallfont></td></tr>


Your missing a $fhomeexpandstyle in there (highlighted), which um should be in the instructions.

aaarrggh, that was it sorry!!!! I read it that much but couldn't find it?
Sorry and thanks for this nice hack!

ok

i have 2 styles

templeats are created in both of them.
it works great in one style while gives (error on page) in the defult style.

error? a javascript error?

You need to make sure $expandcontractscript appears in your "forumhome" template. Details of where it should be are included in the readme.

yes it is.

i am sure of that.

the $expandcontractscript appears in forumhome template for the both styles at the same place.

hmm the "forumhome_expandjscript" template exists in both styles?

If it does could you supply me a url to your forums or attach the output of your index page.

Ok. I am having a little problem with this hack..

I tried installing it on my forums.. and it doesn't show the + or - sign.... I can manually collapse it from the admin panel... but i can't get the + or - image to show in order to click on it. i am running 2.2.6.. the images are in the images folder...

The only thing i can think of is it may be because i have an image as my category backing.. (kind of like these forums) is there any way i can get this to work?

here is the output of my index page.

fixer: your using the javascript contained in "template_option.txt" when you should be using the javascript contained in the main readme :).

69-FLy-gUy: you've modified the "forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost" template as required? refer to the readme to see what modifications are nessesary. As you'll have altered that line it won't look exactly as shown in the readme.

thanks it worked. sorry for wasting your time.

it works so fine now

thanx

thats the error i get, This hack didnt work at all for me, i get that error when i try to add another forum.

This all started when i went thru with the altering templates, the index and /admin/forum.php files to what the readme said then i went to run the installer, it wouldnt do anything just kinda look, id lick install and it would just sit there, id click uninstall and it would just sti there so i added the install stuff manually thu phpmyadmin.

I uninstalled everything and I still cant add forums, any thoughts would be nice thanks

Assuming you are after uninstallation, then the colum count in that query doesn't match you need to remove the last entry, which will read " ,'$collapsed' " in fact the whole before and after for that line is in the readme. Now coming on to the installer which/what version of php are you using and could you clarrify "just sit there"? does it not progress past the first step?

I have vb 2.2.6 and when i searched for if ($forum['cancontainthreads']==1) {
$tempext = '_post';
} else {
$tempext = '_nopost';
} It wasn't found in index.php

sorry, i click on it, it says at the bottom going to step 2, but doesnt do anything. I had to manually enter the sql data, and ive removed them too. The same thing happens when i go to uninstall it.
Thanks

Thanks, i thought i had taken everything out, I removed ",'$collapsed' " from the /admin/forum.php and it worked.

Assuming your index.php is unmodified lines 305 to 309 will contain those lines.

Installer and the hack will fail to work correctly on php older than 4.0.x, PHP 4.1.x or 4.2.x is required for succesful installation.

template_option.txt
What are these setting for?

I have it working, except it won't remember settings?

I have all but one forum catagory to be collapse as standard, tried in IE5.5 NS6.01 Mozilla 0.9.9 Galeon 1.2.0

many thanks

Optional additional code, generally if you don't know what its for you don't need it.

Random guess upload update_index.php to your forums directory.

thanks for reply.

If someone told me what they are for i could make my own mind up?


I have uploaded updateindex.php, this is the one that came in the zip file!!!