External Link

Hi, this is my first vB hack so please be patient

This allows you to use a board as a link (UB2k users know this feature). When you set a board as a link every user who joins the board will be redirected to this url

See it in action: http://foren.letzplay.de (german) the last boards are redirections.

This hack has been tested on vB 2.0.1 and vB 2.0.3 but other users have it running on 2.2.1, too.

Please post questions, inspirations and problems in this thread (not per email or pm). Thank you.

New version 1.1a fixed online

Just fixed that one bug in the install description. No need to upgrade if version 1.1a is already running

New version 1.1a online

Fixed a bug that meaned the hit counter didn't work correctly.

There is an update script and an update manual in the zip.

New version 1.1 online

New features: Hit counter, seperate templates, you can define your own target tag

There is an update script and an update manual in the zip.

Download it here

[hockyfan]

I've gone over the code, and the black box error appears whenever I make the changes to index.php. However, when I make the changes, then the external link forum displays correctly (with the hits counter), when I use the original index.php file, there's no black box, but the external link forum doesn't show the hits.

Currently I have the default index.php file, as I don't want my whole forum looking distorted - you can see the forum through my signature link. If you need to see it with the black box, if you can try and give me a timeframe when it'd be good for you to look at it I'd greatly appreciate it, thank you.



h

[GameCrash]

The problem is that I don't see the link forum there

You could do the following: Copy the contents of template forumhome_forumbit_level1_post to the template forumdisplay_linkbit_level1 and the template forumhome_forumbit_level2_post to forumdisplay_linkbit_level2

If everything works, alter the two linkbit templates to remove the contents you don't need, and everything should work fine...

[hockyfan]

I copied the contents of the forumbit templates into the linkbit ones, replacing everything in the linkbit ones, was that what I was supposed to do? When I upload the changed index.php, I still get the black box.

I just checked, it appears as though I only get the black box with the default skin, with my other skins, everything appears fine and the link forum shows the hits. Any idea how I can fix this?

h

[GameCrash]

Did you do anything different with this style than with the other styles?

[hockyfan]

Originally Posted by GameCrash

Did you do anything different with this style than with the other styles?

Not sure, since I didn't make the skins - if you look now, you can see the black box, and the link forum.



h

[GameCrash]

Well... I see the problem. And I see what this comes from (in the page source). There's a

style="border-style: solid;border-top-width: 0;border-left-width: 1;border-right-width: 1;border-bottom-width: 0;border-color: #000000"

after every </tr> for the table rows. However, I don't have any idea where this comes from - I would say, the only one able to answer this would be the one who made that skin. This is not (at least not directly) caused by my hack as

• That code is nowhere in my templates
• That code is in every row, not just in the one with the links.

Are you able to contact the one who has written the style?

[hockyfan]

I think I could speak to him. Also, why don't the hits show up for that skin? Is it connected?

h

[hockyfan]

After speaking to him he has absolutely no clue how to fix the lines. Therefore, I've unfortunately had to remove the hack. However, is there any way I can add some code to any of my forums files so that at least the external link forum (now done through putting HTML in the forum name) will show dashes of some sort instead of 0 posts?

h

[fixer]

Hi
i think that i found a bug in the install file.
the last part said:
open index.php file and find:

PHP Code:

eval("\$forumbits .= \"".gettemplate("forumhome_forumbit_level$depth$tempext")."\";"); 


and replace it with:

PHP Code:

if ($forum['link']) {
        eval("\$forumbits .= \"".gettemplate("forumdisplay_linkbit_level$depth")."\";");
        } else {
        eval("\$forumbits .= \"".gettemplate("forumdisplay_forumbit_level$depth$tempext")."\";");
        } 


it should be

PHP Code:

if ($forum['link']) {
        eval("\$forumbits .= \"".gettemplate("forumdisplay_linkbit_level$depth")."\";");
        } else {
        eval("\$forumbits .= \"".gettemplate("forumhome_forumbit_level$depth$tempext")."\";");
        } 


i hope this will fix the errors caused by the hack