Forum Home Enhancements - ForumHome Category Spacing

This is a small port from what Floris and Zachery have written on Forum Category Spacing. I hope that some of you will find this bit of information usefull. Don't forget to click INSTALL . Thanks.

Credits:
Floris - http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=110590
Zachery - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=88983

Changelog:

*Note: I skipped 1.4 because 1.5 just looks better
v1.5 (May 12 2007)
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- Updated to Support vBulletin 3.6.6

v1.3 (Nov 03 2006)
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- Fixed forumhome Guest Message break.
- Fixed lastpost break.

v1.2 (Oct 31 2006)
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- Fixed some random HTML problems.
- Reworked the Last Post Optional Edit
- Should be 3.6.2 compatible

v1.1 (Aug 10 2006)
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- Updated to be XHTML Transitional Valid

v1.0 (Aug 9 2006)
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- Initial port & release

[idwf]

thanks for this. Any chance you guys could point me in the direction of how to add images to the top and bottom of these?

[xman_79]

It is the first time when it's working great.
Thank you .

[GreysAnatomy]

I've installed it and it works great but the last part, the optional one in the forumhome_lastpostby template doesn't seem to work. Whenever people click on the little arrow in order to get to the last post, they get a message 'No Thread specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator.'

I know, I could just leave this but I love the way it looks and thought I'd ask since I have no idea what I'm doing and don't wanna mess up the whole template.

Ah well, I ended up messing around myself and here's the code that managed to fix my problem:

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="175"><tr align="$stylevar[right]">

		<td nowrap="nowrap"><span class="smallfont">

		<a href="showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]goto=newpost&amp;t=$lastpostinfo[lastthreadid]" title="Go to first unread post in thread '$lastpostinfo[lastthread]'"><b>$lastpostinfo[trimthread]</b></a><br />

Poster: <a href="member.php?$session[sessionurl]find=lastposter&amp;f=$lastpostinfo[forumid]">$lastpostinfo[lastposter]</a><br /> 

			$lastpostinfo[lastpostdate]

			<if condition="$vboptions['yestoday'] != 2">

				<span class="time">$lastpostinfo[lastposttime]</span>

			</if>

			</span></td>

		<td nowrap="nowrap">&nbsp;<a href="showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]p=$lastpostinfo[lastpostid]"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/lastpost.gif" alt="$vbphrase[go_to_last_post]" border="0" /></a></td>

	</tr></table>

All I did was changing the link and url of the 'Go to last post' arrow.

[upsetter]

thank you sir, looks awsome... http://forums.boostconcept.com

[Exitilus]

Where would I reduce how much spacing is inbetween ?

[Sean James]

Great hack, and works great on my forumhome http://www.bluepearl-design.com/forums/?styleid=46

but when i view my sub-forums the page messes up http://www.bluepearl-design.com/foru...es/?styleid=46

[Pipe Hitter]

Originally Posted by GreysAnatomy

I've installed it and it works great but the last part, the optional one in the forumhome_lastpostby template doesn't seem to work. Whenever people click on the little arrow in order to get to the last post, they get a message 'No Thread specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator.'


All I did was changing the link and url of the 'Go to last post' arrow.

Had the same problem. Thanks for the fix.

[Exitilus]

Originally Posted by Moonkat

I'm not sure what went wrong. At any rate, I uninstalled this and did Flo's and it worked fine, so I'll go with that one. Thank you for posting this, though, it still helped & I wouldn't have found it otherwise probably.

Same here ... I'm a bit too lazy currently to see where the error in the code is though *lol*

[rasun]

Thank you, but now my Threads, Posts and Moderators collumns are to much expanded through this.
Forum and Last Posts collumn are now to small...

How can I change the column width?

[ssvp]

I'm no expert.. But here's what I did..


LEVEL1_NOPOST - I changed this to 20.

<td class="thead" width="20">&nbsp;</td>

LEVEL2_POST - I change this to 20. basically I added width="20"

<tr align="center">
	<td class="alt2" width="20" align="$stylevar[left]">

Now my Status icons I use fir that width, your icons may be different.. Basically I just did some trial and error.. It solved my various width issues..