Arrange Sub-Forums in columns

Better alternatives to this hack:

3.6 plugin version by Cybernetec with more options:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=122996

3.5 plugin version by Atakan KOC: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=118935

CSS/templates version by hpwilhelm:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=91299

Ported from 3.0.x.

What it does
This hack arranges sub-forums on the forum home into 2 columns, makeing large lists of sub-forums more presentable. You can see the before/after in the screenshots attached

Note:
1. You need to enable sub-forum display on the forum home from your vB admin panel
2. This hack is for the forum home page, not forum display.

To enable sub-forums on the forum home page
1. Go to your forum Admin panel
2. Click vBulletin Options
3. Select "Forum Listings Display Options" from the drop down list
4. In "Depth of Sub-Forums" replace 0 with 1

Installation
To install, edit the file includes/functions_forumlist.php

1. Find (there are two slightly different lines, differing by a space, the one in question is around line 552)

PHP Code:

    if (!isset($vbulletin->iforumcache["$parentid"]))
    {
        return $output;
    } 


Place this code below it:

PHP Code:

 $output .= "<table width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\" ><tr valign=\"top\"> ";
      $cols = 0; 


2. Find

PHP Code:

            if (!empty($output))
            {
                $subforum = $splitter["$canpost"] . $subforum;
            }
            if ($depth < $vbulletin->options['subforumdepth'])
            {
                $output .= construct_subforum_bit($forumid, $cancontainthreads, $subforum, $depthmark . '--', $depth + 1);
            }
        }
    }

    return $output;

} 


Replace with

PHP Code:

                        //sub-forum hack
            if ($depth < $vbulletin->options['subforumdepth'])
                        {
                                $cols++;
                                if ($cols==3)
                                        {
                                        $cols = 1;
                                        $output .=  "</tr><tr>";
                                        }

                        $output .= '<td width="50%">' . construct_subforum_bit($forumid, $cancontainthreads, $subforum, $depthmark . '--', $depth + 1) . "</td>";
                        }
        }
    }

        if ($cols ==1) $output.="<td>&nbsp;</td></tr></table>";
    else $output.="</tr></table>";

        return $output;

}
//end hack 


Template modification (optional)
As this hack will list the sub-forums in a table, the font used is not effected by the <div> tag for subforums, which will cause the default font to be used instead of smallfont.

To use smallfont for sub-forum names, edit the "forumhome_subforumbit_post"

Change (this is the whole template)

 <img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/subforum_$forum[statusicon].gif" alt="" /> <a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$forum[forumid]">$forum[title]</a>

To:

 <img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/subforum_$forum[statusicon].gif" alt="" /> <a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$forum[forumid]"><span class="smallfont">$forum[title]</span></a>

And for those who want to edit or remove the "Sub-forum" word, just remove (or edit, if you just want to change it) "<strong>$vbphrase[subforums]</strong>:" from the "forumhome_forumbit_level2_post" template.

handling of sub-forums.

[eXtremeTim]

Good work. I might play with it later.

[alderwazeh]

very nice idea and end product but I didnt found the codes you mentioned in this template ?! May be it is for VB3.0.5 only since I am running 3.0.7 ? I dont know but i wish i could install that hack in any event

[tamarian]

Originally Posted by alderwazeh

very nice idea and end product but I didnt found the codes you mentioned in this template ?! May be it is for VB3.0.5 only since I am running 3.0.7 ? I dont know but i wish i could install that hack in any event

This is for vB 3.5. You can get the 3.0.7 version from here:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=63498

[Erwin]

Good job.

[TCattitude]

Nice!
This is a great mod for vb, any version.
Thanks

[Neutral Singh]

** Aman Clicks Installed **

Excellent !! This will, perhaps, be the first modification in my forums, once the stable vB 3.5.0 is released. This mod should always have been a default option in vBulletin... makes the look of the forum so much professional and presentable.

Kudos, for sharing it first thing up !!

[Snake]

That is sweet. Thank you.

[taffy056]

Hi,

Thanks for sharing this hack One question about it though, how do I get the subforum list to show on 3 lines instead of two?

taffy

[tamarian]

Originally Posted by taffy056

Hi,

Thanks for sharing this hack One question about it though, how do I get the subforum list to show on 3 lines instead of two?

taffy

edit this line:

PHP Code:

if ($cols==3) 


to:

PHP Code:

if ($cols==4)