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Advanced Templates: Dynamic Templates Changing according to different conditions
Developer Last Online: Nov 2023
This hack allows you to design dynamic vb templates which change themselves according to different conditions. Thus you can customize your board very powerfully with "intelligent/interactive" templates. It uses the same "conditional concept" just like my Webtemplates and Dynamic Forum Announcements Hack. With conditionals you can program your templates to:
The Hack's Features:
Vbulletin v.3 has been announced to have "conditional" concept in templates, however my hack wasn't inspired by it at all, because I'm using the conditionals in my Webtemplates hack since March 2002 so in fact vb developers might be inspired by me. My Dynamic Forum Announcements hack uses the same concept for forum home announcements too.. (Wait for my other hacks depending on conditionals cause I really like them, they are really powerful and customizable) Performance Issues The hack does NOT add any MYSQL connections. It just process your already retrieved templates in a function to parse the hack conditionals. Thus the performance is IMO quite bearable. However please notice that if a template has a conditional in it, the hack have to parse it before displaying it and technically this parsing is done with PHP's preg_match command which is known as a powerful but slow command. So does it cause any performance problems? In most cases no. But if the conditionals are applied in a very frequently used and/or long template and/or you used too many conditionals in one template AND your traffic or server load is high, this MAY increase your PHP processing time whenever this template is displayed as the hack has to deal with the conditionals everytime this template is called. I suggest applying Teck's Microstat's hack and observe the PHP running time with that hack after you applied a conditional especially in a frequently used template (eg. postbit). If it slows down the display, simply reduce your conditional count in that template or delete the conditional or remove the hack altogether. Personally I dont have any performance problems in my own board related to this hack but just wanted to give my 2 cents anyway especially for high-traffic boards.. If you liked the hack (I guess you will), I strongly suggest checking out my Webtemplates hack which provides exactly the same feature for your NON-VB pages. Also please click INSTALL if you use the hack, thank you.. 09.Sep.2002 Bug Fix: If you installed the hack before 09.Sep.2002 please download the instructions again and reapply step 2, since I made an update for a small bug fix. There was a variable name collision which causes a problem with email validation screen which uses the same variable so I changed my variable's name. If you are downloading the hack now, go ahead.. The code you download is already fixed.. 07.Oct.2002 UPDATE: I updated the hack code, so that people who have enabled template debugging in their Admin CP/vb Settings can also use the hack. Also small modification applied to increase template parsing time. If you installed the hack before my update, you may choose to reinstall (not necessary). If you are a new hack user, the instructions you download is already new version's. Enjoy! Logician \\=^)) Show Your Support
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@ Logician, is there a way to make a condition for Forumhome Moderators?
I want to add the moderators under Forum-description like here on vb.org [moderated by: xxx, xxx, xxx]. But when the forum isn´t moderated the [moderated by: xxx] is gone... is there a way to do this with this hack?? Thanks in advance Kars |
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[[($moderator[userid])]] Moderated by:.... [[/($moderator[userid])]] |
#164
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@ Logician, do you mean i should place this codition in forumhome_forumbit_level2_post with the userids of my moderators? Can you show me a examble, please?
Thanks Kars |
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I tried that one and a few others and could never find one that worked. I ended up having to put code in the index.php to catch it.
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#166
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Code hacking is a better solution in this example anyway since forumhome templates are usually long and frequently called templates. So apply the hack into the code is more performance friendly than applying into the template, especially for large traffic boards.. |
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Thanks Logician!!
I have PM?t Boofo about that!! Kars |
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For you, Sinan, gladly. Quote:
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#169
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Hi Logician,
Thanks for your reply, but omehow I still getting the same error. Quote:
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Ya, last time I used to use notepad. But I've already no longer using notepad but using editplus instead. :bored:
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