Forum Display Enhancements - Sorky - SubForum List Control

Purpose
This plugin allows extensive control of how SubForums are displayed.

• Use any mix of between 0 and 10 columns
• Different layouts can be used on specified forums
• Change formatting
• Display Thread/Post counts
• Limit the number of SubForums shown (Show More/Less)
• Collapse entire display
• Sort SubForum display order
• plus lots more!

Installation
Import XML file (as product): AdminCP > Plugin System > Manage Products > [Add/Import Product]

Options
To set the options go to: AdminCP > vBulletin Options > Sorky - SubForum List Control

Tips
To get it on the Forum Home page, set...

"vBulletin Options" > "Forum Listings Display Options" > "Depth of Forums - Forum Home" to "1"

For all other forums, set...

"vBulletin Options" > "Forum Listings Display Options" > "Depth of Forums - Forum Display" to "1"

You should also set...

"vBulletin Options" > "Forum Listings Display Options" > "Depth of Sub-Forums" to "1" Note: Setting it higher will also work!

Version Log
For previous versions see 3.7.x or 3.6.x Mods
v1.5.2 - 28th of January, 2009 = official release for 3.8.x (click here for more information)
v1.6.0 - 11th of April, 2009 = Removed (small bug found)
v1.6.1 - 13th of April, 2009 = Remember show/hide state + more (more information here)
v1.6.2 - 27th of April, 2009 = Debug opton + more (more information here)
v1.7.0 - 21st of May, 2009 = New & improved sorting (more information here)
v1.7.1 - 23rd of May, 2009 = alt text for show/hide image (more information here)
v1.7.2 - 17th of June, 2009 = Removed (small change simply combined with another in next version)
v1.7.3 - 17th of June, 2009 = Hide SubForums: prefix & count tool-tip as well as the SubForums (more information here)
v1.7.4 - 23rd of June, 2009 = Hide specific SubForums from the SubForum list (more information here)
v1.8.0 - 17th of August, 2009 = Display of SubForum descriptions (more information here)

Hall Of Fame (Donations - Greatly Appreciated - Thank You)
Fungsten US$25
Budweiser US$20
CreditForum US$25
lazyseller US$30
Alisa Lindsay US$10

Acknowledgement
Thanks (and apologies) to Cybernetec for the ideas & inspiration to generate this Mod.

Keywords
SubForum, SubForums, Sub-Forum, Sub-Forums, Table, List, Grid, Child, Children, Parent

Settings, Demonstration Screenshots, Notes, etc
See v1.5.2 post (click here)

If you like this Mod please click INSTALL.

[Sorky]

Originally Posted by pedroenf

As kindly requested by Sorky, here it is a screen shot of sub forum list in 1, 2 and 5 columns and the alphabetically sorting (in my case only in the 5 columns listing) working well

Thanks for posting that - It shows very nicely how the multiple SubForum columns can be utilized.

I'd also like to take this opportunity to invite other users to share samples of how they have used this Plug-In

[Walter Ronny]

Originally Posted by Sorky

My pleasure & thanks for your appreciation. In the main post you will see a "Support the developer" link



Try this option to change the comma...

vBulletin Options / Sorky03 - SubForum List Control - V1.5.2 / Separator to use between SubForum [original was , ]

Try this option to help with the line wrap...

vBulletin Options / Sorky03 - SubForum List Control - V1.5.2 / Use the full column width for the SubForum table

Try this option to change the SubForum list font, etc...

vBulletin Options / Sorky03 - SubForum List Control - V1.5.2 / SubForum Element (td) formatting

not sure if you understood me, doesnt work, anyway thx. :down:

[Sorky]

Originally Posted by Walter Ronny

not sure if you understood me, doesnt work, anyway thx. :down:

Sorry to hear that - If you want to PM me a URL and access to your test server, I'm more than happy to have a quick look for you.

[briansol]

1.6.1 produces invalid xhtml.

eg

 <div class="smallfont">
<!-- Sorky03 - vvvvv -->
<span id="Sorky03_ShowOrHide_span_xxxx"><strong>Discussion Forums</strong>:
<table width="100%" align="center" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><table width="100%" bgcolor="#fff" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">

a table cannot be contained within a span. the span needs to be closed.

looks like

// Finish the ShowOrHide span
        // --------------------------
        $Sorky03_SubForumShowOrHideFinish_HTML .= "\r\n</span>";

is not working properly.

[Sorky]

Originally Posted by briansol

1.6.1 produces invalid xhtml

Thanks for the clue - for XHTML a table cannot go within a span. I do close the span (so the code you highlighed is not the issue), just the fact that I use a span around the table. I did this as I want the "SubForums:" text AND the table to disappear.

Good news is there is a very easy fix - edit lines 271 and 275 of my product XML file and change "span" to "div" (ignore the ").

I have updated a copy on my machine as a new 1.6.2 version with this change, but as it is so minor and the product actually works (even though it produces XHTML that is technically invalid) I won't publish a formal update at this point in time (unless everyone desperately wants one).

[Alfa1]

You might as well upload it or just add it to 1.6.1. I rather have valid xhtml

[flipstyle]

Hey Sorky Thanks for the update. Its working fine on my site. If anyone would like to see a live example of Sorky's SubForum Control you can check it out on myNGE.com

You can click on any of the main category tabs and you will see a show / hide button.

[Sorky]

Change Log

1. Addition of a debug information option
2. Changed a span to a div to make the plug-in XHTML compliant
3. Other minor coding and commenting adjustments

[flipstyle]

Hey Sorky I just updated to 1.6.2 works great.

About the rss feed I remember I got that one a long time ago somewhere in the template mods section. I found it in my installed mods here is the one I use Rss Feed Icon for boards
I'm actually going to install your Rss Icon since yours is up to date and offers admin controls thanks for letting me know about it.

[Sorky]

Originally Posted by flipstyle

Hey Sorky I just updated to 1.6.2 works great.

About the rss feed I remember I got that one a long time ago somewhere in the template mods section. I found it in my installed mods here is the one I use Rss Feed Icon for boards
I'm actually going to install your Rss Icon since yours is up to date and offers admin controls thanks for letting me know about it.

Yeah - I acknowledged kami as I got the icon from there

Glad you like it :up: