Hi all

[Sanni]

I only discovered these forums today (got here from vbulletin.org) and thought i would drop into the lounge to say g'day to thank all of you for the helpful ideas and mods

I'm planning on making a few style/ template mods to my forums in the near future and if i manage to acomplish anything that is actually useful/not done before i'll make sure to post them here so that others can possibly use them

In the interim, ive got a few custom VB codes on my boards that some of you might find useful...They arnt template hacks (which is why i havent posted this in the other forums) but I know that my moderators and users enjoy them.

anyway here they are:

[ quote]blah blah [ /quote]

is replaced by:
<p>&nbsp;<p><table width="80%" bgcolor="#707070" align="center" cellpadding="5" style="border-style:ridge;" border="1"><tr><td class='mytable'>{param}</td></tr></table><p>

this gives a bit of a different look and feel to the quote box

[ modedit]porn[ /modedit]

is replaced with:

<font color="yellow"><b><u>Moderator Action:</u> {param} is not permitted on this forum</b></font>


useful for mods/admins. On our boards we tend to edit a user posts with a warning, and we use these mod edit tags so that they stand out and are consistent with one another.

for admins, ive created a VB code that calls an iframe linking to a user id in the admin cp. Its useful for unbanning someone or notifying other mods that a particular user is banned (would only ever use this VB code in the private admin forums).

[ user]6[ /user]

is changed to:

<iframe name="iframe" src="
http://www.yourforums.com/moderator.php?s=&action=useroptions&userid={param} " frameborder=1 width=700 height=300 scrolling=yes resize=yes></iframe>


To use it you will need to know the userid (which can be obtained via clicking on the users profile and looking at the url being displayed)....... doing it this way means it will be very easy to unban the user, or change their details as appropriate

its useful for boards that have a lot of users and moderators where it can sometimes be hard to keep track of banned users.


If you have HTML disabled but still wanted to allow users to post flash sigs etc then you can use the following:

[ swf="http://www.yoursite.com/sig.swf width=234 height=137"][ /swf]

is replaced with:

<embed src={option} type=application/x-shockwave-flash></embed>



Ive also modified the way announcements are displayed on my forums (its detached from the rest of the thread display and in it's own table). If anyone is interested in the code to do this then i would be more then happy to post some install instructions (although i suspect there have already been dozens of threads related on how to do this

If you wanted a visual of how the quote box and announcements are displayed then you can visit the forums at http://www.ozforums.com

Anyway, hope some of you find this useful, and thanks again for all the great tips and help

[Tony G]

Well, useful ideas.

And welcome to vBT, glad you're enjoying it so far.

[Sanni]

yeh its been great so far, always nice to find forums where people are friendly and helpful

[Tony G]

Thats pretty much what we have to be.