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[HowTo] Break posts up from eachother · **Released**: 04-17-2002

[HowTo] Break posts up from eachother?
(but still keep the top/bottom post stick to top/bottom row)

What does this one do?
When you view a thread, it shows the first row, the posts, the last row; all sticking together. What we want is a space between the posts. But not a space between the first row and the first post, the last row and the last post. We only want to make a <br> between each individual post. I was not able to do this with a template modification, so I run crying to FireFly and he thought about it for 2,8sec. and gave me the following code to accomplish my wish. *respect*

Why did you make it?
Because vB didn't came with the option by default. And I think it looks pretty damn cool. After applying it to my board I got fan mail with requests on how to do this. I ignored most of them, and now the requests start on vB.com too. So I decided to publish it here. Please note that I am NOT the author of this little code hack, and that all credits should ofcourse goto FireFly.

Instructions:
Open the original vBulletin file "showthread.php" and find:
(near line 425)
Code:
```
$postbits .= getpostbit($post);
```

Replace that with:

Code:

$postbits .= iif(empty($postbits), '', '<br>').getpostbit($post);

Save the file, upload it again and see if it worked.

Done!

Version?
Tested with vBulletin 2.2.5 (final) and it works just great! (I wouldn't know about older versions for sure, but it is pretty easy to undo, so doesn't hurt to check it out)

Support!
Feel free to click 'Installed' once you got it up and running on your board!

Tweak!
There were threads where users complained about the breaking showing up the page bground color instead of the main table background color. I fixed this on my new style by putting eveything in the header & footer in 1 new main table. Please keep in mind that if you have other designs etc, this might screw it up, but it works here.. so

enjoy
header - at the top add :
<center>
<table bgcolor="{pagebgcolor}" width="{tablewidth}" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td>
footer - at the bottom add :
</td></tr></table></center>
Maybe it helps you too.

The Result
This is how it looks on my web site:

-=dm=- · #12 04-18-2002, 03:46 PM

cool Thanx

but how do I change the color which is shown in the space between posts?

inetd · #13 04-18-2002, 05:46 PM

xiphoid, tell me, how u add "activity, popularity and experience" in postbit. Please!

Austin Dea · #14 04-18-2002, 06:42 PM

Very nice

.

Floris · #15 04-18-2002, 08:02 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by TWTCommish
Why would this need to be anything more than a template change? Couldn't you stick a <br/> tag in the postbit template and get the same effect, roughly?

I explained this in my first post.

Quote:

Originally posted by inetd
xiphoid, tell me, how u add "activity, popularity and experience" in postbit. Please!

That is the Just another level hack.

Quote:

Originally posted by neo
I myself have just done this in a tempate edit, no need to hack.

Explain to me where you added the <br> so both the top & bottom row stick to the first & last post? Because that is exactly why I wanted this, and not just a template change, which is where I was going for first.

Quote:

Originally posted by Remi
This is also good if you have many stylise, you change it only one time

Yep

Quote:

Originally posted by Austin Dea
Very nice .

Thank you, enjoy!

Quote:

Originally posted by -=dm=-
cool Thanx

but how do I change the color which is shown in the space between posts?

It should not display any other colour then the background color of the forum, and not of the <body>. You probably have other hacks applied to your showthread/postbit?

Floris · #16 04-18-2002, 08:12 PM

I do not know who moved this hack from hack-tips to full-release, but thank you :> I was not sure how 'worthy' it would be as a true-hack.

TWTCommish · #17 04-18-2002, 08:12 PM

Hmm. Barely qualifies as a hack, IMO (don't take that the wrong way...I don't mean to be rude), but I suppose it is technically.

-=dm=- · #18 04-18-2002, 08:15 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by -=dm=-
cool Thanx

but how do I change the color which is shown in the space between posts?

screenshot added

Floris · #19 04-18-2002, 08:17 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by TWTCommish
Hmm. Barely qualifies as a hack, IMO (don't take that the wrong way...I don't mean to be rude), but I suppose it is technically.

See my previous post where I say "Thank you for moving it to full-release-as-a-hack".. And it is a code-hack, since it modified the original vBulletin code

Quote:

Originally posted by -=dm=-

screenshot added

Which vB you running? (version wise)

-=dm=- · #20 04-18-2002, 08:26 PM

I have the vB 2.2.4

EDIT EDIT:
ups this screenshot is from my test board and its the version 2.2.5

Floris · #21 04-18-2002, 08:29 PM

I can't really see in the showthread.php code why it would break up a table .. you are only adding a break tag, not a close table and make new one.. Maybe you applied other hacks that involved more tables? (I do wonder why smoothie didn't had any problems then)

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