Collapsable forums on forum home

This hack adds expansion and contraction support to the forum home page (index.php). The current version of this hack has been tested on vBulletin 2.3.2

Only supported browsers gain the ability to expand and collapse forum groups, non supported browsers do not gain anything, but no errors will be displayed.
Each users preference is saved to the database, additionally admins can select which forums are to be collapsed by default.

• Browsers supported
• Netscape6+/Mozilla0.6+
• MS IE5+
• Konqueror
• Opera 7 support is included

• Browsers unsupported
• MS IE4 or earlier
• Netscape 4 or earlier
• Opera (version 6 and earlier)

Note: PHP 4.1.x or 4.2.x is required, PHP 4.0.x is now unsupported.

Instructions inside attachment.
Updated 4:18 PM 1/12/2002
- Packaged Post, Thread template Addon

Updated 7:53 PM 1/11/2002
- corrected installer

Updated 4:23 PM 1/11/2002
- Added DB support
- Added Per forum Collapsed Pref to admin cp

Updated 01/10/02 01:39am.
- Fixed missing line.

Updated 04/06/02 01:30am.
- Version 1.2
- PHP 4.1.x, 4.2.x support with or without register globals off.
- Performance tweeked javascript

Updated 06/06/02 11:20pm.
- Corrected templatecache bug

Updated 06/25/02
- Corrected formatting errors in readme

Updated 09/01/02
- vB 2.2.7 compatiblity statement, updated readme.

Updated 30/08/03
- vB 2.2.x and 2.3.x compatiblity statement, added new automatic testing script.

FAQ
Q: what exactly is Template_Option.txt?
A: Basically that exention was provided as a request to cover sites with the template modification that adds a "header" to each grouping.

Q: How do I show a forum depth greater than 2?
A: Open vB Admin cp set forum depth to your required level. Then create the additional templates. For template examples see https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...465#post250465

Q: Can sub-forums be collapsed?
A: Yes. See the above answer for example templates.

Q: XYZ doesn't work help.
A: Check that all the template changes required have been made, 99% of problems are due to incorrect template alteration. Also use the cx_test.php to automatically check your installation!

[herby]

Magic. Fixed.

Looks like we're all set now. Very nice hack. We have a ton of forums and this makes it much easier for users to navigate.

Thank you very much from the time and effort to help a passing stranger in the night. Keep up the good work.

Herby

[Buddha]

i've installed this hack without any problems at all, and then i installed the 'seperate categories' from the 'design and tweak your frontpage'. it installed fine as well, however now, my collapsed catergories also has the additional tablerow which has forum / posts/ threads/ last post/ moderator.
(see attached image)

would you happen to know what i can do to get rid of this tablerow? i liked it better the other way where you only see the category table.

if you need to see any of the template code, let me know.

thanks.

[dabean]

Originally posted by Buddha
i've installed this hack without any problems at all, and then i installed the 'seperate categories' from the 'design and tweak your frontpage'. it installed fine as well, however now, my collapsed catergories also has the additional tablerow which has forum / posts/ threads/ last post/ moderator.
(see attached image)

would you happen to know what i can do to get rid of this tablerow? i liked it better the other way where you only see the category table.

if you need to see any of the template code, let me know.

thanks.

The "template_option.txt" file included in the main zip contains rough details of the changes you need to make.

[FleaBag]

Removed this from my board. It's a fab hack, I just have no real use for it.

[Buddha]

thanks dabean... will sift through it then.

*edit*
finally got it! lol. thanks for all the help bud! i love this hack btw.

[Sho]

dabean, there's a hack by bira that lets you contract and expand postings in a thread, but it doesn't work with Gecko or Konqueror. Maybe you could help us with your own version?

[N.B.]

Hi !
Thanks for your hack ! It is really neat !
But I have a little problem
The hack itself works fine, so far ... the only problem i have: the user settings are not stored ... so yeah ...
Could you please take a look ?
_http://forum.cdrsoft.cc/temp2

Thanks !

[dabean]

Originally posted by N.B.
Hi !
Thanks for your hack ! It is really neat !
But I have a little problem
The hack itself works fine, so far ... the only problem i have: the user settings are not stored ... so yeah ...
Could you please take a look ?
_http://forum.cdrsoft.cc/temp2

Thanks !

Tested Mozilla 1.1 and IE6 winxp can't replicate on supplied url. Are you waiting a few seconds between each click, whilst the status is updated in the background?

Yes I know this is a pain but until ms fix a few problems with IE there is no way I can offer a reliable "status" message saying when your setting has been saved.

[BetaMax]

I have installed this hack. Great hack I gotta say but I am running into a problem with it.. I have 3 levels of forums. When they are all expanded it looks fine.. but once I collapse all of the 3 deep forums, my 1/2 deep forums lose the cellspacing information on half the table..

For example.. Here is how it looks normally:




and this is how it looks when I collapse the 3 deep forum:



You notice the cellspacing missing? It is like that for any 1/2 deep forums. But once I open a 3 deep forum it looks normal. Is this something with the Hack or did I mess up a template somewhere?

Any help would be appreciated..

phpinfo: v 4.4.2
mysql: v3.23.52

P.S. The forums are running on a local network not accessable to the internet for the time being while we wait for our new web server, so the forums cannot be accessed. If you need template information, please let me know and I will post it.

[BetaMax]

You can disregard my previous post. I restored my default templates and re applied the hack and my other changes.. it seemed to fixed it.