Change Style of First Post

This is a rather old hack I did some time ago for someone, but never really released it as a full hack.

Very simple, this hack lets you change the template the first post is using (in either all forums or only one), so it can look differently.
Great for article and review forums.

Before installing the hack, create a new template named "postbit_first" from the current "postbit" template. After you're done, you can edit that template and it will control the first post in the threads.

Everything else you need is in the attached file, have fun!

Chen

[dost]

Originally posted by X-Fan
I was getting that too, but all that's needed is a closing bracket after $pagenumber==1

Thanks for the help but then I start getting this error:

Warning: Missing argument 2 for iif() in ./admin/functions.php on line 569

Warning: Missing argument 3 for iif() in ./admin/functions.php on line 569

Warning: Missing argument 2 for iif() in ./admin/functions.php on line 569

Warning: Missing argument 3 for iif() in ./admin/functions.php on line 569

Warning: Missing argument 2 for iif() in ./admin/functions.php on line 569

Warning: Missing argument 3 for iif() in ./admin/functions.php on line 569

Warning: Missing argument 2 for iif() in ./admin/functions.php on line 569

[X-Fan]

Sorry dost, but I'm no hacker. I just stumbled across that fix by accident and it worked for me.

[SirSteve]

And I got this:

Missing argument 2 for getpostbit() in /usr/www/users/gandalf/starwarsguide.com/forums/admin/functions.php on line 57

Line 57 is this:

function getpostbit($post,$templatename) {

also, my showthread.php has this:

$postbits = getpostbit($post);

(notice no period in front of the equal sign?)

but I still replaced it with:
$postbits .= getpostbit($post,iif($counter==1 and $pagenumber==1, 'postbit_first', 'postbit'));

Using 2.2.2

[SirSteve]

* gentle bump *

leased:

[Admin]

Reinstall the hack SirSteve. Trust me...

[SirSteve]

Originally posted by FireFly
Reinstall the hack SirSteve. Trust me...

I bow down...

I even did it twice last night! I guess one shouldn't do hacks late at night!

Thaks FireFly!

[SirSteve]

Any way to make it not include the other stuff like Forum Jump, Rate Thread, Author text, New Thread/Post Reply and Forum Rules? I basically don't want my News section to look like the forums.

[dost]

Are you sure that this hack is working FireFly?

[SirSteve]

It is working. Look here:
http://www.sirstevesguide.com/forums...&threadid=3963

Now I just need to get rid of all that other "Forum" stuff so it looks more like a News page!

[SirSteve]

Well, now I am getting this error:

Warning: Missing argument 2 for getpostbit() in /usr/www/users/gandalf/starwarsguide.com/forums/admin/functions.php on line 57

Guess what line 57 is?

function getpostbit($post,$templatename) {

However, the hack IS working on the specified forum but this is not one of them!

Help!