Forums arranged in columns on forumhome

As requested several times, this hack allows you to arrange forums on forumhome in xx columns instead of just one per row as it is in standart vb3. It is a plain port of my 3.0 version you can find here.

Look at the screenshot to know what i mean

The design is changeable in the templates of course


I've tested it, and it should work, but as i don't use it myself, i cannot do a longtime test, so if you find any bugs, report them

Right now, it's just working on forumhome.
I'll add changes for forumdisplay later

[Xenon]

you have to remove the forum/posts/titles under every category hack, that's not a problem with my mod.

[d3fuse]

Are these still visible "sections" still there for the non-column categories? Or removed completely?

[Xenon]

um?

sorry i don't get what you mean?

[d3fuse]

Ok, for the categories that will not be displayed in columns by your hack, will those still show "Forums/Posts/Titles/etc" or will it not be visible anymore with those as well?

[Xenon]

well, you have to use conditions then, to show it there

my hack is written for a plain vb, and you are using another hack, which does not work together with mine correctly.

maybe someone who has installed both hacks can help you further?

[d3fuse]

A condition sounds like the needed thing. How would I detect if it is set to columns or not? I know by default, the # of columns is set to 1. So, how would I go about doing that?

[Xenon]

wll, just use the same condition that i have used already in my hack just add it on another place

<if condition="$forum['subforumcolumns'] > 1">
	<tr>
		<td class="alt1" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions[showmoderatorcolumn]">6<else />5</if>">
<table style="border: none; width: 100%;">
			$childforumbits
</table>
		</td>
	</tr>
<else />
	$childforumbits
</if>

[CoralGeek]

I have the hack running fine with the default vB skin, but when I try to add to to the skin I'm actually uning on the site it's all messed up. I've spent the last hour trying to figure out how to add the template changes in forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost to my template. Can anyone help? Here is a copy of my forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost:

<table width="100%" style="background-image:url($stylevar[imgdir_misc]/cat_back.gif)" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
  <tr>
    <td width="33" height="27" align="left" valign="top"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/cat_top_ls.gif" width="33" height="27" alt=" " border="0" /></td>
     <td width="22" height="27" align="left" valign="top"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/text_ls.gif" width="22" height="27" alt=" " border="0" /></td>
    <td width="50%" class="tcat" style="background-image:url($stylevar[imgdir_misc]/cat_top_text_bk.gif)" align="left">
	
			
			<div align="left" class="smallfont">
			<a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$forum[forumid]"><b>$forum[title]</b></a>
			<if condition="$show['forumdescription']"><div class="smallfont">$forum[description]</div></if>
			<if condition="$show['subforums']"><div class="smallfont"><strong>$vbphrase[subforums]</strong>: $forum[subforums]</div></if>			
			</div>
		
	
	</td>
    <td width="30" height="27" align="left" valign="top"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/cat_top_text_end.gif" width="30" height="27" alt=" " border="0" /></td>
    <td width="50%" height="27" align="left" valign="top"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/cat_back.gif" width="50%" height="27" alt=" " border="0" /></td>
       <td width="10" height="27" align="left" valign="middle"><a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumbit_$forumid')"><img id="collapseimg_forumbit_$forumid" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_tcat{$collapseimg_forumid}.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a></td>

     <td width="20" height="27" align="right" valign="top"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/cat_top_rs.gif" width="20" height="27" alt=" " border="0" /></td>
  </tr>
</table>
        <!-- End top category table setup -->


<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<if condition="$childforumbits">
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumbit_$forumid" style="{$collapseobj_forumid}">
	<tr align="center">
	  <td class="thead">&nbsp;</td>
	  <td class="thead" width="100%" align="$stylevar[left]">$vbphrase[forum]</td>
	  <td class="thead" width="175">$vbphrase[last_post]</td>
	  <td class="thead">$vbphrase[threads]</td>
	  <td class="thead">$vbphrase[posts]</td>
	  <if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">
	  <td class="thead">$vbphrase[moderator]</td>
	  </if>
	</tr>
$childforumbits
</tbody>
</if>
</table>
      <!-- bottom table setup -->
  <div class="ftr_bdr">
    <table width="100%" class="thead" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
      <tr>
        <td width="100%" height="9"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/btm_base.gif"  width="100%" height="9" alt=" " border="0" /></td>
      </tr>
    </table>
    </div>
   <!-- End bottom table setup -->   

     <div class="spacer"></div>

Anyone have any ideas?

[rex_b]

Installed on 3.5.3 and nothing happens.. NOTHING.

This is on plain jane vb here www.tripboards.com

[Xenon]

actually your homepage looks as it should after you have isntalled that mod.

there are columns, so what else should happen???