Version: 1.00, by JJR512
Developer Last Online: Jun 2006
Version: 2.2.x
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Released: 02-10-2002
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This is a small hack that I wrote several months ago. Originally it was only a template mod, then turned into a hack but remained in the template mods forum at vbulletin.com, so it never made it over here.
Basically, all it does is show both a custom title, selected by the user, and the user's standard title (Junior Member, Member, Moderator, etc.) in posts. It uses a custom profile field that you create through the admin cp to store the custom title.
As I said, it's an older hack by me, and was originally tested on 2.0.3. It still works for me on 2.2.2, though.
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Jakeman, in this hack, you DO add the custom profile field through the admin cp.
What the file modification does it prevents a blank line from showing up on the thread page if a user has not put in a custom title. It's just a simple little routine that checks for a value in $post[fieldX], and if there is one, it assigns the value of $post[fieldX] to $extratitle, and $extratitle is formatted to include a line break. If there is no value in $post[fieldX], a blank string is assigned to $extratitle. When you put $extratitle in the postbit template, you do NOT put a linebreak between it and the next line (which is the standard title); that way, if it's blank, there will be no empty line, but if it's not blank, the variable includes a line break to keep the flow right.
In other words, it's done strictly for appearance.
As I said, originally, this was just a template modification that I pointed out at vbulletin.com. Someone asked me how to surpress the blank line that would show up for users with no custom title, and that's how it evolved into a file modification hack.
glowing isn't compatible accross all browsers and platforms so nya!
and glowing does work with custom fields, i just tested it.
meh, if it was me i would put a statement in my phpinclude instead of editing php files, but that's me, either way works for the spacing thingy. i hate editing php files, i will take templates over file mods any day, even if it adds more overhead to every page
It's my understanding that if a browser does not support glowing, the plain text will still be seen. And as I just said, the main point of it being a hack is not to support glowing; that's just a neat side-effect that was possible, and I showed how to do it. As I just said, the MAIN purpose to this being a hack is so that a blank line does not show up in between the user name and standard title if there is no custom title.
What I mean is this. If this was NOT a hack, a user with no custom title would look like this in the author info area of a message: User1
Registered
While a user WITH a custom title would look like this: User2
Super-Cool Dude
Registered
It's the blank line for User1 in below his name and above his title ("Registered") that someone asked me to make not show up. That's why I had to turn it into a hack, so that now, User1 looks like this: User1
Registered
Originally posted by Jakeman and glowing does work with custom fields, i just tested it.
I'd like to know how your Edit Profile page looks like if you've got an HTML glow in it. With me, it f*cked up the layout of the page... (due to the "-sign in glow codes)
Originally posted by JJR512
Yeah, but there's a reason why vBulletin is made up of a bunch of separate files, rather than all the code being in the phpinclude template.
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Originally posted by Jakeman i will take templates over file mods any day, even if it adds more overhead to every page
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02-13-2002, 03:59 AM
(due to the "-sign in glow codes)
