Alternating Colors
 

Ok this is a pretty old 'trick' but I'm bored so here goes.

This is how you can get the effect of switching colors, like posts in vBulletin and such.

At first we initalize $bgcounter to 0, so we know exactly what comes first (first or second color).

Then in the loop, we each time increment $bgcounter by one, so once it's an odd number and once it's even.

And last, inside the loop we check every time wheter $bgcounter is even or odd. This is done using the modulus operator.
If it's even, we get {firstaltcolor} in $bgcolor. Otherwise, we put there {secondaltcolor}.

Then all there's left to do is use $bgcolor in the template, and you will once get the first alternating color, and once the second. :)

thanks finally i can get that working

firefly you a genius I just did what I needed to do in seconds, I even amazed myself ;)

pardon the newbie question, but I just installed purchased and installed vbulletin yesterday and I want to install this hack.

In which module do I install this code?

thanks in advance and pardon my ignorance.

all in all, I got purchased the product and had the forum up and running in about 3 hours...

- jeff

This is not a hack. You file hacks in the Full Releases forum, this just a forum to share small tips with other hackers. :)

thanks

could you maybe give a bit of help on how to implement this please?