Change Style dropdown on ALL of your vB pages :) (hardcoded, no queries)

HACK: Change Style dropdown on ALL of your vB pages (hardcoded, no queries)
BY: KuraFire [www.kurafire.com]
DESCRIPTION: Allows users/guests to change the style on ANY given vB page of yours
DIFFICULTY: Medium
INSTALL-TIME: 10 minutes
STEPS: 9

Demo: www.kurafire.com/thecouch/
Just browse around and try changing the style on various pages

EXTENDED DESCRIPTION:
This hack will put a small drop-down box in your Header template, containing all the styles of your vBulletin forum. This particular version of the hack will not require a query for every pageload to get the different Styles, but it does require you to hardcode your Styles into the global.php file. There is also a version where you don't have to do that, but that will add one query to every page load.

PROS FOR THIS VERSION:
- no query extra for every page load of your vB
- drop down box isn't as wide as with the other version of the hack
CONS FOR THIS VERSION:
- the amount of users using each style is not displayed;
- if you add more styles, you have to hardcode the new ones into your global.php again.

Personally, I use this version, for I don't add styles very often at all (made 6 initial ones and will only add 1 more style somewhere in the coming year or two ), and I like to keep my query count as low as possible on every page load



Install instructions are in the attachment. Enjoy / good luck

[KuraFire]

Today at 12:27 AM Conundrum9 said this in Post #10
I'm not sure if there is a reason fo rit, but I found a problem with the instructions for Step 5.

I found that on installing this on my test board the nc_stylechangebit needed to be changed to header_styleboxbit which is a template the instructions tell you to make in Step 6.

Anyway since I'm still just learning the finer points of php it might just be me, but I thought I should bring it up.

Gleh, you're right.

I updated the attachment in the first post with the instructions, it now has the right template name.

AlexanderT: that query is only to make your new templates be 'global' templates. It's not a necessary step, really, so don't worry. Just make sure to check your hack install to see if you have to adjust the template name (see Conundrum9's post above this one) in the code. :up:

[-Sidekick-]

Does this hack update things like the style postbit hack, like Grog6's?

[Kamui Shirou]

no queries? if i put it one the forumhome, there will be no additional queries?