Put a Column on the Left Side of Every Forum Page

This little PRODUCT will provide you with a template to put content in a column going down the left side of every forum page.

What you put there is limited only by your imagination.

This can easily be combined with the right column product to have a column on both sides.

To use this with the right column product , change the footer code to:

<!-- Right Column Code  -->
</td>
<td width="160" valign="top" align="left">$rightcolumn</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td></tr>
</table>
<!-- End Right Column Code -->

Changes in 1.1
Some very important changes were made to the header and footer template changes. Please modify your header and footer code to use the new version.

This is now a PRODUCT and not a plugin. Use the product manager to import it. If you are upgrading, copy the contents of your left_column template to notepad BEFORE you install the product. Then, replace the template contents with your backup.

This version now includes sample html in the left_column template. Thanks to iguanairs for that code.

[exilera]

Originally Posted by ExtProof

can someone please post the code to put in my collum template to make it like the one in the screenshot, thanks!!!

I second that. I know where to put the code, but I just don't know what the code should be Would someone be so kind as to provide a template for the code?

Thanks!

[suryoyena]

Hey Boys'n'Girls,

fist I want to say thats a gread mod, because it's so small and helps a lot!


Fist
Have I do all changes and the layout in the xml file?

Second
Please look the picture under my post. There you see a red marked
space.. There's only this space when you read a post. Its on both
sides. Why isn't justified to the border of the Navbar like on the
other pages (e.g. forumhome)?

Third
How can I put into the sidebar "dynamic information" like on this
page: KLICK ?
I mean the "welcome box" and "hottest topics" etc.

Greets,

Chris

[0xid0]

Hello.

I have just installed the plugin and it me is OK, but I have a couple of questions:

- There is some way of reducing the space that exists between the block and the edge of the page? It is that in my web it is too much and I want that it is less, here I leave an apprehension in order that you see it:



- There is some way of putting a block in order that the last messages go out?

[0xid0]

Does other one ask, how I can do in order that it appears in the index, inside the forums but not in the posts?

[raven3d]

thanks for this mod!

on the left/right column.txt file
check this line.

<<table border="0" width="$stylevar[outertablewidth]" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center">

there is an extra <

cheers

[HUMMERh3]

Yes I too have the same problem as 0xid0...there is just too much white space on the left hand side.. I'm using the column for a 160x600 skyscrapper and there is a huge gap. How do I delete the big space??
THANKS

[Snake]

I would like to know that as well.

[peterska2]

@ HUMMERh3 & Aftermath: I changed this by doing the following.

In the header template find

<td width="160" valign="top" align="left">$leftcolumn</td>

and replace with

<td width="170" valign="top" align="center">$leftcolumn</td>

It makes the column margnally wider by 10px and also centralizes it in the space there.

If that doesn't work for you or you want more let me know as I might have changed some other bits too.

[0xid0]

Originally Posted by peterska2

@ HUMMERh3 & Aftermath: I changed this by doing the following.

In the header template find

<td width="160" valign="top" align="left">$leftcolumn</td>

and replace with

<td width="170" valign="top" align="center">$leftcolumn</td>

It makes the column margnally wider by 10px and also centralizes it in the space there.

If that doesn't work for you or you want more let me know as I might have changed some other bits too.

Me do not work, be still equal, help please!!

[0xid0]

Originally Posted by 0xid0

Hello.

I have just installed the plugin and it me is OK, but I have a couple of questions:

- There is some way of reducing the space that exists between the block and the edge of the page? It is that in my web it is too much and I want that it is less, here I leave an apprehension in order that you see it:

That someone helps me with my problem, please!