Right (or left) side bar on forumhome

Desciption: This mod will add a right side bar (or left side bar) or divide the forum home into two columns. One with main forum info and additional ones for whatever info you want to add to. For my hack, the addtional column contains guest message, forum stats, user birthday, upcoming event and 1 custom cell.

Installation time: 5-10 mins
Template mod: 1
- FORUMHOME

Requested by exesko here


If you want to make your custom cell(s) collapsable, REPLACE:

<tbody>
	<tr>
		<td class="thead">
			Your custom cell.
		</td>
	</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody>
	<tr>
		<td class="alt1" width="100%"><div class="smallfont">Some text for your custom cell go here!</div></td>
	</tr>
</tbody>

WITH:

<tbody>
	<tr>
		<td class="thead">
			<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_events')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_events" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_events].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
			Your custom cell.
		</td>
	</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody>
	<tr>
		<td class="alt1" width="100%"><div class="smallfont">Some text for your custom cell go here!</div></td>
	</tr>
</tbody>

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Click install if you use it.

[msimonds]

is anyone still working on this modification

[ch3mical]

Can someone please post a way to make this thing appear on every page, including forum posts, replies, CP, etc..

[cybermomcafe]

Check out this post: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=59781

If you don't want the left sidebar, read thru the whole file before you make changes... you only need to do the rightsidebar template, add the part to the top of the header template and the bit to the bottom of the footer template.

It causes some extra padding around the threads on showthread, I'm searching for a fix now...

Found the fix for the extra space:

in the postbit template:
find

$spacer_open

Replace with:

 <!-- open content container --> 
<if condition="$show['old_explorer']"> 
    <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="$stylevar[outertablewidth]" align="center"><tr><td class="page" style="padding:0px 0px 0px 0px"> 
<else /> 
    <div align="center"> 
        <div class="page" style="width:$stylevar[outerdivwidth]; text-align:$stylevar[left]"> 
            <div style="padding:0px 0px 0px 0px"> 

</if>

[ch3mical]

Thanks for the help! One more thing, how can I divide the cell into 2 columns? Right now I have the user's avatar in one cell, and I want to have some user stats beside that avatar, but in a second column. I tried adding a second column, but it pushed everything in the table into column 1 and column 2, and did not end in cell 1, but rather kept 2 columns down the entire table.

[italks]

i want something like www.ewebtalk.com (Left side bar) the exact things they keep over there.Can anyone help.

I need following to appear on left sidebar on forumhome template.

1.User Control Panel
2.Statistics
3.Latest Posts
4.News ( I will be using w3reports ad code here)
Sponsored By , Partners etc. etc.

Out of which i do need the above three settings.Also when i put the sidebar it doesnt align properly with forums on the left side.What is the way to fix it.I mean to the top alignment should be exact.The bottom alignment depends upon quantity of values we placed in sidebar.I hope i am right in saying that.

[unknowngiver]

hey i m using a different skin and i need help since the coding is a lil bit different can any1 add me on msn at
admin@apkafuture.com

[Ericsson]

I installed it, but on my forumhome its not sitting right. Take a look: http://www.retrotutorials.com/forum/index.php?

Do you know how I can fix it?
Also how can I add a log in box? And ake away the one from the top.
Thanks

[Ericsson]

How can I change the width of the sidebar?
Thanks, can someone reply asap.

[SCRIPT3R]

[vB 3.0.9] installed and working perfectly. it seemed as though there were some slight template data variances; i will have to look more closely tomorrow after a few hours of sleep.

[SCRIPT3R]

[vB 3.0.9]

ok, the difference i'm seeing in one of my styles is the category graphic (category-strip "color fade" graphic) is not appearing on the side categories... although it appears fine in all other styles. any ideas as to why it wouldn't appear in the one style? i added a screenschot of what i'm talking about.

Update:
it appears that <td class="thead"> should be changed to <td class="tcat">; everything appears to working correctly now. any reason why i should keep this portion of the code changed?