Forums arranged in columns on forumhome

As requested several times, this hack allows you to arrange forums on forumhome in xx columns instead of just one per row as it is in standart vb3.

Look at the screenshot to know what i mean

The design is changeable in the templates of course

I've tested it, and it should work, but as i don't use it myself, i cannot do a longtime test, so if you find any bugs, report them

You can apply the changes to forumdisplay as well if wanted

[SaN-DeeP]

Not sure why but even i am getting
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare construct_forum_columns() (previously declared in /home/sandeep/public_html/forums/includes/functions_forumlist.php:289) in /home/sandeep/public_html/forums/includes/functions_forumlist.php on line 289

I tried the code thrice now, its all perfect, without mistakes.. Xenon ? can you please help

Regards,

[99SIVTEC]

Did anyone ever get this working on forumdisplay? I have tons of forums and this would make life much easier.

[Xenon]

@Sandy: erm nope, cannot help.

It looks like you have pasted the code into the function file twice, so check out it's there just once.
maybe restart with an unhacked function file and make sure you just past in everything once

[SaN-DeeP]

Originally Posted by Xenon

@Sandy: erm nope, cannot help.

It looks like you have pasted the code into the function file twice, so check out it's there just once.
maybe restart with an unhacked function file and make sure you just past in everything once

Xenon i checked it thrice and now once again.. still aint working and same error.
do you want me to post the contents of forumlist.php file ? in my post under code tags ?

Regards,

[Xenon]

well, don't post it, but send it to
xenon@vbulletin.org and i can take a look at it when i'm back at home

[SaN-DeeP]

Originally Posted by Xenon

@Sandy: erm nope, cannot help.

It looks like you have pasted the code into the function file twice, so check out it's there just once.
maybe restart with an unhacked function file and make sure you just past in everything once

hello xenon you were absolutely right , i posted the function in between other function and hence the error.
however i have now fixed the same and it works perfectly fine on my forums.
http://forums.tech-arena.com

However, i would like to display my forums this way - http://extremetechsupport.org/forum/
Any comments for this ?

Big thanks for this awesome hack

Regards,

[Xenon]

glad to hear

as for your second thing: erm, that's another hack called SUB-forums in columns, i don't remeber who wrote it.

[AWS]

Originally Posted by Xenon

glad to hear

as for your second thing: erm, that's another hack called SUB-forums in columns, i don't remeber who wrote it.

I just installed this. Great hack.
I have one question.
What has to be added to get users browsing to show like it does when this hack is disabled?
I've played around with the code and I can't get it working. It displays thread and post count fine.
Any ideas what I have to change to get users viewing to show up?

[Xenon]

well, i did not add much of the unused code from construct_forum_bits theoreticall if you find that line in my code:

PHP Code:

            $show['forumdescription'] = iif ($forum['description'] != '', true, false); 


and add that below:

PHP Code:

                $children = explode(',', $forum['childlist']);
                foreach($children AS $childid)
                {
                    $forum['browsers'] += iif($inforum["$childid"], $inforum["$childid"], 0);
                } 


you should be able to add the number of browsing users

[AWS]

Originally Posted by Xenon

well, i did not add much of the unused code from construct_forum_bits theoreticall if you find that line in my code:

PHP Code:

            $show['forumdescription'] = iif ($forum['description'] != '', true, false); 


and add that below:

PHP Code:

                $children = explode(',', $forum['childlist']);
                foreach($children AS $childid)
                {
                    $forum['browsers'] += iif($inforum["$childid"], $inforum["$childid"], 0);
                } 


you should be able to add the number of browsing users

I've moved that block of code arround adding it to different places in your code and couldn't get it to work. I tried what you posted and still no work.