Forum Home Enhancements - Cel Forum Sidebar: enable sidebar for IE 6, disable collapsing

You may not even have noticed, but the forum sidebar does not work for IE6 at all in vB4.0.x. This, obviously, is bad for ad revenue, or if you offer important or convenient information there. Second, if you show ads on a per view basis, you may get problems if you allow collapsing: The ad is actually fully loaded, but then hidden from the view of the user.

What does this mod do?

• Lets you choose to disable the collapse feature of the Forum Sidebar.
• Can enable Forum Sidebar for IE 6

How to install it (2 easy steps)?

• Step 1: Do the template edits given below (if you're using TMS, skip this step!)
• Step 2: upload product file

Template edits:

Template FORUMHOME, search for
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    <vb:if condition="$show['sidebar']">
    <script type="text/javascript" src="{vb:stylevar  yuipath}/animation/animation-min.js?v={vb:raw  vboptions.simpleversion}"></script>
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replace with
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    <vb:if condition="$show['sidebar'] AND $show['cel_sidebar']">
    <script type="text/javascript" src="{vb:stylevar  yuipath}/animation/animation-min.js?v={vb:raw  vboptions.simpleversion}"></script>
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Template FORUMHOME, search for
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        <a id="sidebar_button_link" href="#">
            <vb:if condition="$show['sidebarposition'] == 'left'">
            <img id="sidebar_button" src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_misc}/tab-collapsed-left.png" alt="" />
            <vb:else />
            <img id="sidebar_button" src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_misc}/tab-collapsed.png" alt="" />
            </vb:if>
        </a>
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replace with
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<vb:if condition="$show['cel_sidebar']">
        <a id="sidebar_button_link" href="#">
            <vb:if condition="$show['sidebarposition'] == 'left'">
            <img id="sidebar_button" src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_misc}/tab-collapsed-left.png" alt="" />
            <vb:else />
            <img id="sidebar_button" src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_misc}/tab-collapsed.png" alt="" />
            </vb:if>
        </a>
</vb:if>
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Configuration
The two settings for this mod can be found at:
AdminCP->Settings->Options->Forum Sidebar and Block Options
Enable for IE6: yes/no
Allow collapsing: yes/no


Please note:
I do not support any styling or functionality issues the sidebar may have or cause in IE6.

### Don't forget to click install! ###
(No support if you don't)

[derandechser]

Hi,

i always get a white page when this mod is enabed and it says:

Fatal error: Class 'vB_BlockManager' not found in...blabla

What could it be?

Greetings and thanks for this helpful mod,
Peter

[derandechser]

Hi,
anybody a solution for the problem above?

[ampersand83]

Hey,

just open the plugin declaration in your vBulletin installation and insert

PHP Code:

require_once(DIR . '/includes/class_block.php'); 


above

PHP Code:

$blockmanager = vB_BlockManager::create($vbulletin); 


. This loads the missing class and everything works fine again.
I don't know what caused the error but somehow this class must have been loaded at someplace else in a former VB version.

Cheers,

Stefan

[lillylissy]

*post deleted*

[sapgaurav]

My forum is for HTML Help, many user face isseu in html code and post on my forum but my forum convert all html code to live privew data, how we can display html codes in thread.

also i am using rss aggergate to crawl a technical forum rss feed, we crawl rss feed from thre and then store but all html codes converted into live privew

For example i have following code

<a href="#">This is Test</a>

Now in my site this code convert in This is Test and Link to #

I want to display as its html code

[cellarius]

Your question has nothing to do with this modification. Please open your own thread in an appropriate forum.

[setishock]

Will this work in 4.2.3?

[cellarius]

You'll have to try. Most likely will.