Put a Column on the Left Side of Every Forum Page

This little PRODUCT will provide you with a template to put content in a column going down the left side of every forum page.

What you put there is limited only by your imagination.

This can easily be combined with the right column product to have a column on both sides.

To use this with the right column product , change the footer code to:

<!-- Right Column Code  -->
</td>
<td width="160" valign="top" align="left">$rightcolumn</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td></tr>
</table>
<!-- End Right Column Code -->

Changes in 1.1
Some very important changes were made to the header and footer template changes. Please modify your header and footer code to use the new version.

This is now a PRODUCT and not a plugin. Use the product manager to import it. If you are upgrading, copy the contents of your left_column template to notepad BEFORE you install the product. Then, replace the template contents with your backup.

This version now includes sample html in the left_column template. Thanks to iguanairs for that code.

[hydn]

Whenever I load this hack it load SUPER SLOW on IE. Anyway around this?

[peterska2]

You may have some errors in your code if it is running very slowly.

[Thomas P]

I have some glitches in IE7 when using this product, please have a look:

http://www.mcseboard.de/temp/skyscraper.gif

1) Table head of showthread doesn't fit (left side)
2) Right part of a post is cut, no matter if browser is maximized or not

Any ideas?

Gr8 hack btw, I really like it and hopefully the glitches can be fixed easily.

Thanks,
-Tom

[LaCN]

Hi,

I put this column under my navbar, which looks verry well

I also added a few conditionals to have it only show on some forums...

But..
In the leftcolumn template, I removed all code, and added a $variable from a plugin I made.
But it won't show
the plugin includes a php-page which has for example: $var = "test";
the leftcolumn template has: $var

It did show when I used peterska2's show left column on front page hack.
But I deinstaleld that one, and trying to use this one


Why doesn't it show a plugin variable ?



edit, even without the forum-conditionals it doesn't show anywhere, not even on the main page


btw, if someone also wants forum-conditionals, use this:

PHP Code:

<if condition="in_array($forumid, array(2,3,4,5))">
  add ur html here
</if> 


Where 2, 3, 4, etc are forum-id's

[peterska2]

variables will be required to be placed in the hook which is being used for the plugin to generate the template code in order to use them in the template.

[LaCN]

Okay, I tried some area's out, and it works in cache_templates.
I dunno if that's the best one though o_0

I guess I think how it works..
level 1 is the main template. u can use global_start and prolly forum-home stuff here.
level 2 is the template within the template, which I'm in prolly now... and that doesn't work with level 1 hooks...

Is that correct ?

[oroo]

I need to show the category list which stored in database on the sidebar. I tried to write php code in a seperate file and add this php file as a plugin. which is like follows:

php file: forum_leftbar_plugin.php

PHP Code:

<?php
    function display_categories() {
        $sql = "SELECT blablabla FROM blablabla";
        $result = mysql_query($sql);
        while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)) {
            $categoryID = $row[0];
            $title = $row[1];
            print("
                <div class='leftsidebutton'>
                    <a href='#' class='link'>$title</a>
                </div>
            ");
        }
    }
    display_categories();
?>

and this is a plugin which I add into global_start of both Right Column and vBulletin product.

ob_start();
  include(path/to/file/forum_leftbar_plugin.php');
  $forum_leftbar_plugin = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

I actived either one of them at a time, but when I loaded page from ie browser, it gave me this error message: ('null' is null or not an object) And the left bar has been disappeared.

Please help me out here.

[oroo]

Please help!

[oroo]

Please~ Help!

[DannyMilner]

Thanks ;0 Need this