Forum Display Enhancements - This Day In History ~ Changes Daily

This Day in History

Just a Little hack here which you can add to your Forums, Give you a bit of content which changes daily, Should keep your members amused.

You can use this code in a variety of places, If you want it at the top of your forum you can add it to your header like below...



or if you want to be a bit creative you can make a new category and add the code to the discription field, this is great if you want to break up your forum like this...



Content changes daily and your members can read up more about the Day in History directly at the http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ site.

So lets do it......

If you want to add the code to your header, or footer, simply go to your ACP > Style Manager > Your Style

and add this to either the Header or Footer

<DIV ALIGN=CENTER>
<!--This Day in History by TheFreeDictionary.com-->
<div style="width:750px;position:relative;background-color:;padding:4px">
<div style="font:bold 15pt '';color:#000000">This Day in History</div>
<style>
#TodaysHistory {width:100%;border:none;background-color:}
#TodaysHistory H3 {margin-top:0px;font:bold 12pt '';color:#000000}
#TodaysHistory TD {font:normal 10pt '';color:#000000}
#TodaysHistory A {color:#0000FF}
</style>
<script language="javascript"
src="http://img.tfd.com/daily/history-top.js?0"></script>
<div style="font:normal 8pt '';color:#000000">
</div></div>
<!--end of This Day in History-->

If you want to add it within your forum, as a category type of insertion, just go to your ACP >Forums & Moderators > Add New Forum

In the title add : This Day In History

In the discription add the code below..

<DIV ALIGN=CENTER>
<!--This Day in History by TheFreeDictionary.com-->
<div style="width:750px;position:relative;background-color:#FFFFFF">
<div style="font:bold 15pt '';color:#000000"></div>
<style>
#TodaysHistory {width:100%;border:none;background-color:}
#TodaysHistory H3 {margin-top:0px;font:bold 12pt '';color:#000000}
#TodaysHistory TD {font:normal 10pt '';color:#000000}
#TodaysHistory A {color:#0000FF}
</style>
<script language="javascript"
src="http://img.tfd.com/daily/history-top.js?0"></script>
<div style="font:normal 8pt '';color:#000000">
</div></div>
<!--end of This Day in History-->

Remember under Posting options select "NO" to "Act as Forum" This will keep it as a standalone category style.

*****************UPDATE**********************

If you wanted to add this as an insertion after each 1st post you could use the code below (See picture ) This will show it after each 1st post in threads



Just go to your ACP> Style Manager> Your Style> Edit Templates> Forum Display Template> Postbit Template > (then your chosen Positbit ~ either plain postbit or legecy)

Add this code to the very end of your postbit template

<if condition="!$GLOBALS['FIRSTPOSTID']"> 

$spacer_open 
<div style="padding:0px 0px $stylevar[cellpadding]px 0px"> 

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center"> 
<tr> 
    <td class="thead" align="left">This Day in History</td> 
</tr> 
<tr> 
    <td class="alt1" align="center"> 
<!--This Day in History by TheFreeDictionary.com-->
<div style="width:750px;position:relative;background-color:;padding:4px">
<div style="font:bold 15pt '';color:#000000">This Day in History</div>
<style>
#TodaysHistory {width:100%;border:none;background-color:}
#TodaysHistory H3 {margin-top:0px;font:bold 12pt '';color:#000000}
#TodaysHistory TD {font:normal 10pt '';color:#000000}
#TodaysHistory A {color:#0000FF}
</style>
<script language="javascript"
src="http://img.tfd.com/daily/history-top.js?0"></script>
<div style="font:normal 8pt '';color:#000000">
</div>
<!--end of This Day in History-->

</if> 
    </td> 
</tr> 
</table> 

</div> 
$spacer_close 

</if>

if you come up with alternative uses, feel free to share them here

Thats it

Enjoy

[James Argo]

This is verrry nice!!!

However, since my site is music related, I wonder if I can "pull" data from another source like:

http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/

http://datadragon.com/day/

Anyway, it's great mod indeed!

[GSeybold]

Hey James

let me know how that works. I would like to do the same if I can figure it out.

[KevinL]

Originally Posted by James Argo

This is verrry nice!!!

However, since my site is music related, I wonder if I can "pull" data from another source like:

http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/

http://datadragon.com/day/

Anyway, it's great mod indeed!

You could use something like this http://www.newsniche.com/using-javas...isplay-rss.php

Take the RSS feeds from those sites and parse them through that program so they're html and it would be pretty much the same as this.

like here is one for your first link This Daily Music

Sorry to go off topic

[UKBusinessLive]

Just updated with additional code to make it as 2nd post of each thread



Might be useful to use it as a sponsored advert, by adding a text ad to the bottom of the code ??

Enjoy

[James Argo]

Originally Posted by KevinL

You could use something like this http://www.newsniche.com/using-javas...isplay-rss.php

Take the RSS feeds from those sites and parse them through that program so they're html and it would be pretty much the same as this.

like here is one for your first link This Daily Music

Sorry to go off topic

Thank you KevinL

* I clicked installed *

[steve1966]

Thanks, just one thing i had to change the code because it aslo centered the Currently Active Users:

<div align="center"><!--This Day in History by TheFreeDictionary.com-->
<div style="width:750px;position:relative;background-color:;padding:4px">
<div style="font:bold 15pt '';color:#000000">This Day in History</div>
<style>
#TodaysHistory {width:100%;border:none;background-color:}
#TodaysHistory H3 {margin-top:0px;font:bold 12pt '';color:#000000}
#TodaysHistory TD {font:normal 10pt '';color:#000000}
#TodaysHistory A {color:#0000FF}
</style>
<script language="javascript"
src="http://img.tfd.com/daily/history-top.js?0"></script>
<div style="font:normal 8pt '';color:#000000">
</div></div>
<!--end of This Day in History--></div>

[Bio-Con]

This is really cool, Thanks!

[UKBusinessLive]

Originally Posted by Bio-Con

This is really cool, Thanks!

Thanks

[scottny]

Ok I am new to all these adding things to the site but I like this. Is there anyway do you think that it could be changed to do all Disney information.
I run a Disney site and would love it to do "This day in History" for it.

If you think it can and you can walk me through it I would love it.

Thank you,

Scott

[UKBusinessLive]

Originally Posted by scottny

Ok I am new to all these adding things to the site but I like this. Is there anyway do you think that it could be changed to do all Disney information.
I run a Disney site and would love it to do "This day in History" for it.

If you think it can and you can walk me through it I would love it.

Thank you,

Scott

Hi Scottny

Thanks for your idea, however the information comes directly from the http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ site.
I have not control over the content unfortunately