[HowTo] Break posts up from eachother

[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)
  

  $postbits .= getpostbit($post);

• Replace that with:
  

  $postbits .= iif(empty($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:

[TheSaint-AeD]

Originally posted by heretic
for those that want to spend 5 seconds on it instead of 5 minutes you can just add a <br> at the end of your postbit template


and when you upgrade, it's one less ahck to think about.

Could you post the Code for this in the Thread? I tested the other ones, only the Hack seperated the Posts correctly, all other means produced the same Problems Xiphoid had.

[FleaBag]

Works with 2.2.8. Thanks.

[Floris]

I am happy to hear that

[Xer]

thx xiphoid ..working on 2.2.9

[Dribbles]

working perfectly on 2.2.9 .. thnx

[Silenced Soul]

There wasn't a major point to this hack, if you ask me... just a simple <br/> does the trcik, but, nice thought.

[trickfly]

does this work on 3.6.2 ? please pm me