[welo]

Originally Posted by nighteyes

That's what I want to do too

I did this for a client. It's fairly straightforward:

1. In your ACP add a new template named 'sidebar' or similar (the example I'm using here assumes the template is named this). This is the template containing your stuff going in the sidebar.

To the FORUMHOME template AFTER $navbar add:

<!-- Added table for left sidebar on forumhome -->
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
	<tr>
		<td valign="top">
			<b>Menu</b>
			<hr />
			$sidebar<br />
			<img src="clear.gif" height="1" width="120" alt="" />
		</td>
		<td><img src="clear.gif" height="1" width="2" alt="" /></td>
		<td valign="top">

...then immediately ABOVE <!-- what's going on box --> add:

</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- /Added table for left sidebar on forumhome -->

*Note - If you want the column wider or narrower just adjust the width of the width="120" clear.gif. The width="2" clear.gif adjusts the spacing between the sidebar and main forum display.

3. Open index.php and immediately ABOVE:

eval('$navbar = "' . fetch_template('navbar') . '";');

...add:

/// Hacked in side menu on forumhome
eval('$sidebar = "' . fetch_template('sidebar') . '";');

4. Add whatever you want to the sidebar template.

That should do it .