Forum Home Enhancements - Category separation

Description

With this mod, you can separate each block of categories (containing forums / subforums) with a space.

This mod as created by akex054 for 3.5 for the first initial release and was never released out of vbulletin-fr.org (was totally in French).

Enjoy

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Installation

Time: 1 minute
vB version: 3.8.0 Beta 2 minimum

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Instructions

1. Import the product file. This file contains some code to edit templates cache.
2. Go to "vBulletin Options > vBulletin Options > Categories separation" and configure your settings.

All instructions are given to upgrade like a charm

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FAQ

No FAQ for now (and not needed)

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Copyright

All code present is this mod can't be redistributed or anything else without my consentement.

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Changelog

- 1.0.0 : Initial release. (July 29 2009)

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[Dax IX]

I have one category that contains more categories (sub-categories), and I'm trying to remove the "Forum, Last Post, Threads, Posts" row.

I've tried editing the plugins to eclude that category, but it doesn't seem to work. :\

Here's what I did:

PHP Code:

$vbulletin->templatecache['FORUMHOME'] = preg_replace('/(<!-- main -->\s*?<table class=\\\"tborder\\\" cellpadding=\\\"\$stylevar\[cellpadding\]\\\" cellspacing=\\\"\$stylevar\[cellspacing\]\\\" border=\\\"0\\\" width=\\\"100%\\\" align=\\\"center\\\">\s*?<thead>)/', '\\1', $vbulletin->templatecache['FORUMHOME']);

$vbulletin->templatecache['FORUMHOME'] = preg_replace('/<tr align=\\\"center\\\">\s*?<td class=\\\"thead\\\">&nbsp;<\/td>\s*?<td class=\\\"thead\\\" width=\\\"100%\\\" align=\\\"\$stylevar\[left\]\\\">\$vbphrase\[forum\]<\/td>\s*?<td class=\\\"thead\\\">\$vbphrase\[last_post\]<\/td>\s*?<td class=\\\"thead\\\">\$vbphrase\[threads\]<\/td>\s*?<td class=\\\"thead\\\">\$vbphrase\[posts\]<\/td>\s*?"\\.\(\(\$GLOBALS\[\'vbulletin\'\]->options\[\'showmoderatorcolumn\'\]\) \? \("\s*?<td class=\\\"thead\\\">\$vbphrase\[moderator\]<\/td>\s*?"\) : \(""\)\)\\."\s*?<\/tr>\s*?<\/thead>\s*?\$forumbits/', '$forumbits', $vbulletin->templatecache['FORUMHOME']);

$vbulletin->templatecache['forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost'] = preg_replace('/("\\.\(\(\!\$show\[\'collapsable_forums\'\]\) \? \(\"\s*?<tbody>\s*?\"\) \: \(\"\"\)\)\\.\"\s*?<tr>)/', '<tr>', $vbulletin->templatecache['forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost']);

$vbulletin->templatecache['forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost'] = preg_replace(
            '/("\\.\(\(\!\$show\[\'collapsable_forums\'\]\) \? \(\"\s*?<tbody id=\\\"collapseobj_forumbit_\$forumid\\\" style=\\\"\{\$collapseobj_forumid\}\\\">\s*?\"\) \: \(\"\"\)\)\\."\s*?\$childforumbits\s*?"\\.\(\(\!\$show\[\'collapsable_forums\'\]\) \? \(\"\s*?<\/tbody>\s*?\"\) \: \(\"\"\)\)\\.")/',
            '</thead>
        <tbody id=\"collapseobj_forumbit_$forumid\" style=\"{$collapseobj_forumid}\">
        <if condition=\"$forum[forumid] != 57\">
            <tr align=\"center\">
                  <td class=\"thead\" width=\"{$vbulletin->options[\'catmod_statusicon_width\']}\">&nbsp;</td>
                  <td class=\"thead\" width=\"{$vbulletin->options[\'catmod_forum_width\']}\" align=\"$stylevar[left]\">$vbphrase[forum]</td>
                  <td class=\"thead\" width=\"{$vbulletin->options[\'catmod_lastpostinfo_width\']}\">$vbphrase[last_post]</td>
                  <td class=\"thead\" width=\"{$vbulletin->options[\'catmod_threadcount_width\']}\">$vbphrase[threads]</td>
                  <td class=\"thead\" width=\"{$vbulletin->options[\'catmod_replycount_width\']}\">$vbphrase[posts]</td>
                  ".(($GLOBALS[\'vbulletin\']->options[\'showmoderatorcolumn\']) ? ("
                  <td class=\"thead\" width=\"{$vbulletin->options[\'catmod_moderators_width\']}\">$vbphrase[moderator]</td>
                  ") : (""))."
            </tr>
        </if>
        $childforumbits
        </tbody>', $vbulletin->templatecache['forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost']); 


I added an IF CONDITION in the last section.

Any ideas?

[PHILLYFAN]

love it!

thanks!

[Scout24]

Not used I see no difference

[Jeweetog]

Hi,

I applied this mod, i was wondering how i can adjust the forum width?

Doing this in forumhome template makes only the first category adjusted, everything else stays the same.

[Black Tiger]

Just installed this on a fresh 3.8.6 installation, looks fine, thank you!

[Black Tiger]

However, I need vBAdvanced. And after installing vBA it's not working anymore. So I uninstalled it from my forums.

Is there a way to make this work with vBAdvanced please?

[drsli]

Many thanks for this useful mod!

@Black_Tiger
It works for me perfectly together with my vbadvanced installation.

[Black Tiger]

Maybe you have other columns in vBA then I do. As soon as I disable vBA it works, but with vBA enabled on my forums it doesn't. So it must be vBA.

[Black Tiger]

I have to excuse myself. After you stated this worked with vBA I ran a few times over my settings. My forum is a complete fresh install. There was the standard style with style id 1. Then I created 1 new style. Strangely enough this style did not get style id 2 but style id 4 and my mistake was to fill in id 2.
So now everything is working like a charm. For as much as I can see, including the width of the last post section for example, this is one of the best seperation mods online!
I voted MOTD for this!

[drsli]

I?m glad you got this sorted out!