Forum Introduction
 

After installing this hack, you will be able to post a unique introduction for each forum. Sub-forums will show their parent's introduction, unless they have one of their own. This feature is available in ezBoard, so us ezBoard refugees are already familiar with it. ;)

This hack does not add any additional SQL queries to your forum! it was inspired by PPN's hack, which was based on FireFly's code.

Screenshot (thanks to ptbyjason).

i need a demo

ya.
demo or screenshots plz

indeed, screenshot

yeah, a sreenshot would be nice!

just put the introduction in the unique header of PPN's hack?

demo/screenshot?
and your www doesn't work

ATTENTION: If you have downloaded the first version of this hack (1.0), please download it again, and apply all the admin/functions.php changes again. The optimization was not complete in the first version.
While this is possible, it will be a bit problematic in cases you want to change something in the header, and want it to reflect all the pages. Instead of just changing the "header" template, you will have to change a number of templates, equal to the number of introductions you have. This hack solves this.

Regarding the screenshot, I prefer not to do it myself. If anyone can install it and provide a screenshot, I'll link to it from the first post. Thanks!

Screenshot since the update.

Thanks Tommy Boy :)

nice hack! works perfectly.

thank, very handy for my forum.

Hey man I love the hack, but no matter what I do, I have reinstalled this hack about 4 or 5 times, and Just nothing shows up

Help me:(

Awesome hack! Just what I was looking for. By the way, I have 2.2.5 and it works as advertised.

How can I change the title "Forum Introduction" to be the actual name of the forum? I tried $forumid but it just returned the number. I also tried $title, $forumtitle without success.

Anyone?

Here is a screenshot:

/me like this hack and thankz Tommy Boy......

Yupp, very nice hack! :D *clickinginstallbutton*

When you create a new template with the "forumdisplay_introduction_xx", where xx is the ID of the forum, what code is needed inside the new template?

cessna140,

Have you tried $forum[title]? :) I'm not sure this will work. Let me know if it does.

That is supposed to be $foruminfo[title], sorry about that. :)

Hey Boofo,

That worked! Thanks!

Thank Firefly, that's his code and how he does it here. :)

But, You're very welcome, anyway. :)

Can you tell me where that code is added?

Go to your showthread template and add it right above:

That didn't work for me. :(

What do you mean it didn't work for you? Check the following URL out. This is exactly where I have it.

Testing

Don't pay attention to the disarray on the site. I am still working on it. :)

I checked it out, but aren't you using the Thread Intro hack?

Yes. I am, but I remodified it for my board. It is here if you want it:

Install.txt

Let em know if I can help you with any of it. :)

Hey thanks! i did look at that hack, but the Forum intro hack was the one I really was interested in. I did install this hack, and it works perfectly, except for this one small detail.

Do you have the forum intro hack installed, or just the thread intro hack?

I have just the thread intro hack installed. I am working on a forum intro hack to match the way it is on my board for the thread intro hack. If you are interested in something like that, let me know and I will let you know when I have it done and working. The only real problem I am having right now is with the tables. It is different for the forum display Intro than the thread one. :)

The forum intro hack is easier for us to manage. I'm not really looking to add intro's to threads. Too much work. And yes, that would be cool if you could let me know when you have something. I've added a few forum intro's on my forums, check 'em out. No real content in them yet, just a few lines of text.

The thread intros are really easy with the hack I use. If you erase them, they automatically go back to the thread title. So you will always have something there, you just decide what it is. With the new version of the hack, you can now do a mass rename of all of your threads. Like if you wanted to make a board wide announcement for some reason (i.e. Holiday, news or whatever). :)

I will let you know when I have something for the forum intro. It will be like what I have for the thread intro though. I don't want an extra box at the top pf my screen, so that is why I did it this way.

HAs anyone figured out how to get the title of the "Forum Introduction" to read the same as the forum it's posted in?

Yes, Boofoo gave me the correct code. This is where I put it and it works great!

In the forumdisplay_introduction template look for:

<td bgcolor="{tableheadbgcolor }". In that block of code, replace <b>Forum Introduction</b> with: <b>$foruminfo[title]</b>

That's all I did, works like it's supposed to. My code block looks like this now. Make sure you remove the spaces before the }.

<td bgcolor="{tableheadbgcolor }" align="center"><largefont><font color="{tableheadtextcolor }"><b>$foruminfo[title] </b></font></largefont></td>
</tr>
<tr>

Hmm, I tried that and it didn't work. Let me try it again.

Excellent! just added that bit of code, and it does indeed display the name correctly.
/me says thank you very much!

cessna140,

That's Boofo, not Boofoo (only the wife gets to call me that and only when she's mad). :)

oops! So sorry Boofo! :dead:

Great dude :D

*install*

Just giving you a hard time. :) np

nice.....I'll install it

has anyone got this to work on VB v2.2.5? i keep getting errors.

cheers