Change Style Drop-Down

This is exactly what you see here, on this board's main page.
It allows you to easily change the style you are using.
Please note that it does not update your user profile as well, it simply sets a cookie, and until it expires you will see the style you selected.
Anyhow, download the attached .txt file and do what it says.

Scroll down to a post by me if you'd like the hack to update the user setting in the database!
The attached version does NOT do that!

Have fun and happy holidays!

[Jakeman]

i just pmed you too. but i'll post instructions here as well.

a couple things:

1. the mods that the hack has you add into index.php... instead add those to global.php just above the part where it sets the phpinclude, header, and footer templates. in my 2.2.1 global.php it looks like this:

$header='';
$footer='';

// parse PHP include ##################
eval(gettemplate('phpinclude',0,0));

// parse css, header & footer ##################
eval("\$headinclude = \"".gettemplate('headinclude')."\";");
eval("\$header .= \"".gettemplate('header')."\";");
eval("\$footer .= \"".gettemplate('footer')."\";");

add the index.php mods just above this section.

2. the templates: in your header use this instead of what the insturctions say to use in your forumhome templates:

<select name="styleid" onchange="window.location=('index.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&changestyle='+this.options[this.selectedIndex].value)">
<option>Select Style...</option>
$dropdownbits
</select>

and in your forumhome_dropdownbit use this instead of what the instructions say:

<option value="$thisstyle[styleid]">$thisstyle[title] ($thisstyle[count] users)</option>

that should do it.

[TaP]

this is impossible i cannot get all the styles showing up... and when i do they cannot select them

[pHAZE_1]

um it didnt work for me. www.hiphoptechnicz.com/forums i did everything right i think, but only the drop shows up, not the styles????

[Lorddraco98]

I seem to be having a problem. I followed all the install steps(I tried both the version that updates user's CP and the one that doesn't, but I get the drop down menu to show on my forum home, but it lists no styles. It's just blank. I have currently 3 user selectable styles so something should show up. Also, how can I get that box(when it does show my styles) to align itself to the left side?

[pHAZE_1]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by pHAZE_1
um it didnt work for me. www.hiphoptechnicz.com/forums i did everything right i think, but only the drop shows up, not the styles????

[Lorddraco98]

phaze_1 what did you do wrong? mine don't show up maybe you can help me!

[pHAZE_1]

AIM= XXGHOZTLYXX

[Lorddraco98]

can anyone else offer some help? I made sure I did all the code correctly. and I placed the new template and the stuff in index.php as well as as the edit in the forum home template. Still nothing shows up in my drop down box, and it's about 1 inch wide. I do have styles that users can select because they are avalable in the user CP under the change styles menu. Also, once I get the styles to show up, how to I get it to center to the left because I want it right under the login area in my welcome panel!

[E]

I have 5 styles on my board. It shows 4 of them. I had a style, which I deleted, which was id#5. I got another one which is id#6. The #6 will not show up. I have went over it all day, and cant figure out what is wrong. I have went over the templates several times. Can someone help?
Thanks in advance,
E

[Cynthia Blue]

Just installed this hack.. it's working great! Thanks!

YIKES! I just noticed though.. I use PHPPortals, and there was an option to turn the left menu on and off.. and it is gone. I must have typed over it with the hack. Anyone know the code I can put it back in with? Maybe a variable or so...

Thanks.