Forum Home Enhancements - Partner Box for Forumhome

I installed several styles to my board and manually had to include a Partner Box to each of them at the end of my FORUMHOME.
Because I am a little bit lazy I thought it is a good idea to write a small product adding the Partner Box for me where I want it, creating templates and phrases.

I have NEVER written a product for vBulletin on my own and I have no idea about php and all this stuff, but I installed many products and spent a few minutes to take a look how other authors solved such things.

Well, I was successful, the product is working fine for me.

Installation:
1. Install product-forumhome_partners.xml
2. Edit forumhome_partner_sites to fit your needs

Hint:
You can place the Box everywhere you want on forumhome by changing a small thing in the product-forumhome_partners.xml file.
Open it with an editor before importing it and search for:

$search_text = '<!-- / icons and login code -->';

Replace <!-- / icons and login code --> with something unique of your FORUMHOME Template, $footer for example.

I am starting to love the new product system making such things so easy

If you like it don't forget to click on INSTALL!

[jluerken]

Originally Posted by Tony_FPM

Hey , I have installed this hack and i really like it. But now i want it above the Who is online box. Can somebody help me with this...

Thanks in advance

Read the hint in my first post to find out how to do this

[Distance]

this is good.. however at this moment or at least at this version.. im not going to install it because i think that its inconvenient having to edit the file to add/change settings.. maybe in a future release adding settings from acp?

Good work on first hack though

[exilera]

Originally Posted by Yorixz

Thanks a lot for this nice addon.

I've made a few changes to it though, in order to make it easier to "nicely" show the affiliates in multiple columns, it's only a template edit so I'll post it here:

<style type="text/css">
.affiliates {
	padding: 0;
	margin:	0;
}
.affiliates li {
	display:inline;
	width:15em;
	float:left;
	padding-left:0.5em;
	padding-right:0.5em;
}
.clear {
	clear:both;
}</style>
<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" class="tborder" width="100%"> 
<tr> 
<td class="tcat"><a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumhome_affiliates')"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_affiliates" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_forumhome_affiliates].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><b><center>$vbphrase[partner_sites]</center></b></td>
</tr>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_affiliates" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_forumhome_affiliates]">
<tr>
<td class="thead"><span class="smallfont"><b><center>Category 1</center></b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td class="alt1">
  	<ul class="affiliates">
	<li>
		<a href="http://leftblank.nl/" target="_blank" title="Demo Link">Demo Link</a>
	</li>
	<li>
		<a href="http://leftblank.nl/" target="_blank" title="Demo Link">Demo Link</a>
	</li>
	<li>
		<a href="http://leftblank.nl/" target="_blank" title="Demo Link">Demo Link</a>
	</li>
	</ul>
	<b class="clear" />
  </td> 
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td class="thead"><span class="smallfont"><b><center>Category 2</center></b></span></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td class="alt1">
  	<ul class="affiliates">
	<li>
		<a href="http://leftblank.nl/" target="_blank" title="Demo Link">Demo Link</a>
	</li>
	<li>
		<a href="http://leftblank.nl/" target="_blank" title="Demo Link">Demo Link</a>
	</li>
	<li>
		<a href="http://leftblank.nl/" target="_blank" title="Demo Link">Demo Link</a>
	</li>
	</ul>
	<b class="clear" />
  </td>
  </tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<br />

You should ofcourse change the demo links to your own, but I guess this should be pretty straightforward.

Edit: Heres (another) example showing the box with multiple links:


Edit2: removed the style-specific CSS.

What template is edited and where to add this code?

[Ducks]

Sorry if I misunderstand, but you could just edit the master template?

[ss20]

Thks nice Mod. Installed

[JompaMP]

Is it possible to get this box on all sides so it is in footer?