Change Style of First Post

This is a rather old hack I did some time ago for someone, but never really released it as a full hack.

Very simple, this hack lets you change the template the first post is using (in either all forums or only one), so it can look differently.
Great for article and review forums.

Before installing the hack, create a new template named "postbit_first" from the current "postbit" template. After you're done, you can edit that template and it will control the first post in the threads.

Everything else you need is in the attached file, have fun!

Chen

[SirSteve]

Originally posted by FireFly
Reinstall the hack SirSteve. Trust me...

I bow down...

I even did it twice last night! I guess one shouldn't do hacks late at night!

Thaks FireFly!

[SirSteve]

Any way to make it not include the other stuff like Forum Jump, Rate Thread, Author text, New Thread/Post Reply and Forum Rules? I basically don't want my News section to look like the forums.

[dost]

Are you sure that this hack is working FireFly?

[SirSteve]

It is working. Look here:
http://www.sirstevesguide.com/forums...&threadid=3963

Now I just need to get rid of all that other "Forum" stuff so it looks more like a News page!

[SirSteve]

Well, now I am getting this error:

Warning: Missing argument 2 for getpostbit() in /usr/www/users/gandalf/starwarsguide.com/forums/admin/functions.php on line 57

Guess what line 57 is?

function getpostbit($post,$templatename) {

However, the hack IS working on the specified forum but this is not one of them!

Help!

[Tim Wheatley]

Problem.

All my old posts are working fine.

But NEW posts made into the specific forum all have an invisible first post??

The post IS still in the database, because you see it at the bottom of the page when you reply...

Any ideas??

New Post with invisible:
http://forum.racesimcentral.com/show...threadid=24433
Old post visible:
http://forum.racesimcentral.com/show...threadid=21590

[Tim Wheatley]

SirSteve

If I remember rightly there's two VERY similar lines in functions.php, one has a . (dot), one doesn't. You're editing the line without a dot. So it's trying to call the script in an area it can't. You have to edit the EXACT line the hack readme tells you to.

(from memory) you edited function getpostbit($post, the readme says to edit function .getpostbit($post - notice a dot?

[Tim Wheatley]

Hmm...! It seems that only the user I've setup in coranto to post news is able to post threads correctly. This is fine and I'll create a sub forum for users to post their news.

[SirSteve]

Well, I can't remember what I edited but no errors since so I'll leave it alone until one pops up. I still want to get rid of other stuff that looks like the forums (Forum Jump, Rate Thread, Author text, New Thread/Post Reply and Forum Rules)!

[Tim Wheatley]

Yuck... Firefly it's still doing this to me:
http://forum.racesimcentral.com/show...threadid=24445

[SirSteve]

Click contract all.

[Admin]

Are you sure you created a new postbit_first template?

[Tim Wheatley]

Hmm... it seems to be working now that people have replied...

[SirSteve]

I guess there is no hope to get the other "Forum" parts (as described in an earlier post) removed from this first page...

[samtha25]

Originally posted by SirSteve
I guess there is no hope to get the other "Forum" parts (as described in an earlier post) removed from this first page...

Can't you just edit the template to remove whatever you don't want?