Unique Forum Header Including Parent Forums

FireFly told me to post it and its semi based on his code.

it tries to use its own forumid if it doesn't use it then it tries the parent one and so forth and if it doesn't find one then it uses the default one.

open global.php

look for

PHP Code:

eval("\$header .= \"".gettemplate('header')."\";"); 


replace with

PHP Code:

if (substr($PHP_SELF, -strlen('forumdisplay.php')) == 'forumdisplay.php') {
  $forumid = intval($forumid);
  $foruminfo = verifyid('forum',$forumid,1,1);
  $parentlist = explode(",", $foruminfo["parentlist"]);
  $header = '';
  for ($i=0; $i<count($parentlist) and empty($header); $i++) {
    eval("\$header = \"".gettemplate("forumdisplay_header".$parentlist[$i])."\";");
  }
  if($header == '') {
    eval("\$header .= \"".gettemplate('header')."\";");
  }
} else {
  eval("\$header .= \"".gettemplate('header')."\";");
} 


now create a new template called forumdisplay_headerFORUMID where Forumid is the forumid you wish to have the banner for, though this will also affect child forums unless they have their own.

[M.Smith]

Originally posted by PPN
PPN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

should be TAN :P

sounds like a nice hack, im not gonna use it though because i dont like torturing my members with evel banners

[trainer]

Originally posted by PPN
I'd have to make changes to the code in global.php which I will get around to doing sometime today, I have support tickets still to answer and to clean my room :O

a little trick i learned is to put everything under your bed. place will look clean in 2-3 minutes!!!

[Warlord]

Originally posted by PPN
I'd have to make changes to the code in global.php which I will get around to doing sometime today, I have support tickets still to answer and to clean my room :O

Well yeah, that's what I meant, you have to insert showthread.php in the global.php file along with the code you posted as the hack. My problem is, I'm not sure where to put it, every time I try one I keep getting parse errors.

[Warlord]

bump

[trainer]

bump

[Warlord]

THWACK!

[Warlord]

THWACK!!!

[Scott MacVicar]

PHP Code:

if (substr($PHP_SELF, -strlen('forumdisplay.php')) == 'forumdisplay.php' || substr($PHP_SELF, -strlen('showthread.php')) == 'showthread.php') {
  if($forumid == '') {;
    $thread = getthreadinfo($threadid);
    $forumid = $thread['forumid'];
  }
  $foruminfo = getforuminfo($forumid);
  $parentlist = explode(",", $foruminfo["parentlist"]);
  $header = '';
  for ($i=0; $i<count($parentlist) and empty($header); $i++) {
    eval("\$header = \"".gettemplate("forumdisplay_header".$parentlist[$i])."\";");
  }
  if($header == '') {
    eval("\$header .= \"".gettemplate('header')."\";");
  }
} else {
  eval("\$header .= \"".gettemplate('header')."\";");
} 


there you go

[ladyfyre]

PPN, i am gonna have to spank your butt for lying to me!!!!

This isn't quite what i was talking about.....

What i want is this:

1. to be able to create "bannerzones".
2. to be have all forums default to zone1 unless edited.
3. to be able to edit the zone a forum will be in in the "edit forum properties" screen.
4. to be able to create a template for that bannerzone (such as banners_zone1, banners_zone2 etc.)

It really shouldn't be that big of a deal....just have the system look up the bannerzone for the forum when showing a forumview or threadview in that area....kind of like doing a template lookup, only not quite.

This way, the bannerzones could be edited...as well as stacked (So if i have advertisers who run national ads, some running Texas, and some running Houston only, then the banners could be set up so that Houston's bannerzone would look like:

National banners HTML
Texas bannerzone HTML
Houston bannerzone HTML

everytime our ads change, i spend tons of time redoing the headers for each city....and god help me if i actually put in a new hack, because then i have to edit the templates in every city as well.....which is a major pain in the hiney!!!!!

[Warlord]

Originally posted by PPN

PHP Code:

if (substr($PHP_SELF, -strlen('forumdisplay.php')) == 'forumdisplay.php' || substr($PHP_SELF, -strlen('showthread.php')) == 'showthread.php') {
  if($forumid == '') {;
    $thread = getthreadinfo($threadid);
    $forumid = $thread['forumid'];
  }
  $foruminfo = getforuminfo($forumid);
  $parentlist = explode(",", $foruminfo["parentlist"]);
  $header = '';
  for ($i=0; $i<count($parentlist) and empty($header); $i++) {
    eval("\$header = \"".gettemplate("forumdisplay_header".$parentlist[$i])."\";");
  }
  if($header == '') {
    eval("\$header .= \"".gettemplate('header')."\";");
  }
} else {
  eval("\$header .= \"".gettemplate('header')."\";");
} 


there you go

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

GREAT HACK! Been looking for this from day one.